Dropsafe

Well, James Gosling [today.java.net] says that he now has a RSS aggregator that talks, so the opportunity to make it swear at him is too good to miss. Pee! Po! Belly! Bum! Drawers!

doing now: watching a documentary about indira gandhi just ate: a poptart. just done: set up the dehumidifier in the kitchen, to try and finally extract the last of the water from a wahing-machine overflow last week. just decided: to see and photograph the following artworks before 30th june: [www.cubittartists.org.uk] [www.headington.org.uk] [tuned-in.org]

Feds Delay Airliner Flight After Psychic’s Vision — Nothing Suspicious Found On Board [www.theneworleanschannel.com]

a supremely self-indulgent bit of apple fandom: [homepage.mac.com]

Interesting, although their URL naming scheme leaves something to be desired; I wonder if this is heartfelt, since it seems to run counter to the time-tested assertions about E-petitions on sites like [www.faxyourmp.co.uk] [www.number-10.gov.uk] 10 Downing Street accepts electronic petitions and you can find e-petitions with more than 300 genuine signatures listed on this page.…

old news: [www.motorcyclenews.com] but i cannot help but wonder whether the people at the BMF actually twigged to the idea of recruiting him as poster-boy in the campaign against banning of mechanically propelled vehicles on rights-of-way: [www.bmf.co.uk] [www.muddystuff.co.uk] [www.laragb.org]

Well this one just plain humdinger moral-maze stumps me – I don’t dispute the issues at stake are both important and sensitive, but there just seems so much potential for litigation in this story: [www.post-gazette.com] Like: Is this potentially a conflict with free-speech legislation? Come to that, is she of an age where she is…

There’s some quite interesting commentary going on at [www.livejournal.com] which I should really work out some way to integrate back into the main blog. Hmmm…

[www.userfriendly.org]

From what I gather, it’s actually a remarkably sane and balanced film, lacking in hysteria of biker-lunatics. This could be something to do with the growing realisation that a lot (most?) bikers nowadays are in the 40+ age bracket, with disposable income and having disposed of the kids. [news.bbc.co.uk]

I get quite a lot of virus-spawned junk mail of the form: Your Message has been Quarantined. Mail [this robot] back with the passcode [foo] in order to unlock your mail and pass it to the recipient. …and it strikes me that this is just the same old 3-way handshake in TCP. Well, maybe not…

things i have found or revisited today: oddly plausible again [chak.org] “our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over.” i’ve been doing this via cronjob for years [www.google.com] Google Web Alerts are sent by email when there is new information on the web matching the search you specify. Some handy uses of…