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i am still vastly amused by adsl, like someone who has got a motorcycle having previously had a pedalbike. 28 kilobytes/second upload. 58 kilobytes/second download. now: that’s nothing compared to some of the hardware i have at my disposal at work – but it means i can work at home, no longer ph33r my phone…

it’s bizzare, but suzi has finally learned how to meow. after 11 years. mostly to this date she’s made a sort of hoarse “mew”, but now she can fully vocalise. when i open a can of catfood.

so i was listening to desert island discs on radio4 on sunday morning, and nick hornby wants to take an iPod with him to a desert island. 10,000 songs. kinda defeats the point, wouldn’t you say?

[www.out-law.com] Retail giant Tesco is using RFID technology in its Cambridge store. The electronic tags are being tested on Gillette razor blades and send a message to a CCTV camera whenever a customer picks up a packet. But a Labour MP fears for our privacy and wants new regulations for the technology. A radio frequency…

so i got up at 0500h to keep an appointment to meet a friend in london; kitted up and was out on the bike by 0600h and (permitting for a fuel stop and getting lost in richmond, looking for the a3) i got to tower bridge to see david blaine dangling in the selfsame glass…

one of the unexpected upsides of going to the security ambassadors earlier this month, was meeting ulrich and discovering that for the past 10 years, a group of bikers from my company have been meeting up for an annual run through the alps: [www.suntour.ch] i am not sure whether my next bike will be “up”…

Interesting AP article at [www.securityfocus.com] AtStake fires executive over Microsoft criticism By Ted Bridis, The Associated Press Sep 25 2003 1:29PM The chief technology officer for a technology firm that works closely with Microsoft Corp. lost his job after he helped write a study critical of the insecurity of Microsoft software. Daniel E. Geer Jr.,…

Take a small denomination copper coin – a US or UK penny does fine for this circumstance. Hold it at the furthest arm’s length that you possibly can, stretch really far, and imagine it polished-up to a bright, vomitous pink colour, the fleshy pink of a common “Band Aid” or other surgical item. Imagine the…

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