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@darrenmoffat just think of the oppty yr missing to insert Javascript into your emails, so you can marquee your .sig block 🙂 in reply to darrenmoffat # gimp robin is not magnetoreceptive: http://bit.ly/9Txp5p # @pauljakma i read it that if the mask covers the right eye, they lose magnetosense? in reply to pauljakma # @ramtopsrac…

@r4today sneaky wording for #DAB switchover, Gov't can use iPlayer internet "digital" listening minutes to justify FM switchoff at 50% limit # @r4today "FM will always be available for local" / 2015 FM switchoff target date set by #DAB industry # Anybody know how to find out how many 6Music listeners were Sky/iPlayer, vs #DAB…

Dropsafe: Science is the Art of the Demonstrable http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4183 # You have to be a coder to see why this is very very funny… or horrific. I'm going with the former, though. http://bit.ly/bAU1Zy # "But journalists don't make errors – they check their sources!" http://www.butireaditinthepaper.co.uk/2010/07/06/aol-in-huge-fail/ # @spufidoo quoi? in reply to spufidoo # After 12…

Sometime back in 1996 I was in a lovely cafe in Palo Alto, having breakfast with Diffie; Whit slid a stapled printout of an academic paper across the table, and asked me what I thought of it. The paper was: “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity”. I remember the scene quite…

Dropsafe: My friend Bridget discovers the new, anti-competitive approach to schooling http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4176 # "I cannot claim to have seen the final picture – these things are no longer claimable on parliamentary expenses" http://bit.ly/9csi52 # Just so you know, this is how someone is condemned to be stoned to death in the present day: http://bit.ly/bUoOBb #…

…almost exactly 4 years ago (to the hour) I was being MRI’d and having a drainage pipe forced into my chest cavity. Nowadays I’m going to the gym 4 times a week and doing up the house. Thank you everyone, I appreciate everything you’ve done to help. Being alive is great. 🙂

Quote: (From instant messenger) I’m just talking to one of [my team of] editors. Her daughter (Bridget!!), has just been to sports day. Apparently none of them win these days – they all get a sticker for taking part! Isn’t that odd? Odd? Oh yes. What really surprises me is that examinations haven’t been banned,…

Listening to @r4today about Turkey trying to extort Google into registering and paying taxes in Turkey, who have blocked them. Oops. # Herriard Sawmills order for sawn, planed, seasoned oak 3 weeks ago; result is unusable, warped, not straight cut; cancel, no bookcase today. # Dropsafe: (Badly) Sawed and Planed Oak Timber from Herriard Sawmills,…

$ du -skh Pictures/iPhoto\ Library/Originals/ Pictures/iPhoto\ Library/iPod\ Photo\ Cache/ 58G Pictures/iPhoto Library/Originals/ 18G Pictures/iPhoto Library/iPod Photo Cache/ So the cache for the iPod – which I am not using – takes up an extra 31% of storage? Some mistake…

More than 3 weeks ago my builder placed an order through Travis Perkins, for seasoned, planed and finished oak to build into a fitted bookcase in my stairwell. The idea was to get it sawn, leave it three weeks for shrinkage to take place, and then have it finished for interior planking. He rejected the…

Dropsafe: Review: Kate Ray's Web3.0 video on #SemanticWeb interesting, but needs work http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4161 # Dropsafe: Yet more on the #SouthernElectric Direct-Debit Racket http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4170 #

Michael Jennings recites: Yesterday, however, I received my latest electricity bill. It stated that my account was £110 in debit, and that therefore my payments were to be increased from £40 to £58 a month in future to make up for this. I was puzzled by this, as my previous bill had shown the account…