alecm
alecm
@alecm@alecmuffett.com
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  • i am going to try and live this week, using Safari exclusively as a browser. let’s see if it works.

  • buying aluminium from baco

    Baco (the British Aluminum Corporation) are most notorious for making aluminium foil used in cooking; I found that they are also a retail aluminium stockholder with a branch nearby, in Reading. After casting around for a company to manufacture a luggage rack for my DRZ-400S – and finding prices in the 350+ Euro range –…

  • sometimes my company still surprises me

    [news.com.com]

  • ever wanted a full-size robot motorbike?

    [www.ghostriderrobot.com] – an autonomous motorcycle.

  • Fun for Kids from the NSA!

    Clipping from IRC: 17:51 <brand> [www.nsa.gov] 17:52 <brand> I don’t know whether to be amused or aghast. 17:59 <alecm> it has a cat. 17:59 <alecm> i like cats. 17:59 <alecm> “your tax dollars at work”

  • the mao of pooh

    [www.voiceoftheturtle.org] One fine morning in One Hundred Acre Wood, Pooh went to visit Piglet. He was feeling a little peckish, and thought that he and Piglet might be able to rustle up a little something together. He walked over to Piglet’s house, and knocked on the door, but there was no reply. On the door…

  • for those with realplayer

    a simple idea, stretched to marvellous extremes rtsp://real1.cissme.com/bgroup/video/xl/lemon/ifxls156dvd-01_rvh.rm linked indirectly from [www.airside.co.uk]

  • panther upgrade

    well i blew-away my jaguar partition last night; a complete reinstall, and it’s worked rather well. aside from a minor but repairable goof in copying my files back from the archive harddisk, everything has gone well, and is rather faster (it was not hype) although the machine runs warmer as a result. tip: when backing-up…

  • not really work safe…

    I really wonder sometimes why I don’t just give up and accept that the computer security industry that I once loved, that I researched, and in a small way helped blossom… That that industry has now gone mass market – in a rather tongue-in-cheek way and we who were there in the early years are…

  • this is the sort of arty thing some of my friends like, as do i

    [www.phototag.org] PhotoTag is a small photography project and an ad hoc community formed through through the chance wanderings of transient disposable cameras. Periodically, a series of disposable cameras are labeled and released into the wild with instructions for unwary PhotoTaggers to take one picture and pass the camera on. Postage and a return address are…

  • conflicted

    bother. there is a transit of venus – one of those rarely-in-a-lifetime events – on june the 8th, 2004 [sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov] [sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov] there is a company motorbike rally in switzerland, starting june 10th, to which i have an open invite. is it really sane for me to me to try and get from one to the…

  • amazing what you find on the net

    my cousin, the actor [www.villiersandhudson.co.uk]