Dropsafe

Clipping from an e-mail I just sent. I’m mildly miffed, but these things happen, and I had a good ride getting to Wales. I did 150 miles on the A44 en-route to Rhyader on my DR-Z400S at the weekend. I broke down. As darkness fell. In the wet fog. On a mountainside. Not wanting to…

<davew> Right, nearly time to shove off <davew> An amusing thought to leave you with <davew> The word “must” appears only once in ISO 17799, on page 33 <davew> In a section which is headed as something “which should be given careful consideration” <davew> With that, goodnight all 🙂

[www.dirtriderexpo.co.uk] dear oh dear oh dear, my poor poor credit card…

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So I was driving to work on the A30 today, doing a comfy 60mph on a stretch of dual-carriageway near my village, when I noticed a blockage in the road 1/2 mile ahead of me. A lorry had stopped and two or three cars behind it, hazard lights flashing. It was then I noticed the…

http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/digital.html some of this stuff is just plain scarey, especially the photographs of people.

I find the notion that the US Government might be leaning upon net-based media outlets to remove inconvenient material – or worse that the fourth and fifth estates are exhibiting self-censorship, pandering / caving-in utterly to the supposed prejudices of their readership – to be both darkly amusing, and frightening. At least hardcopy needs to…

[www.no-pain-no-gain.com] …and the rest of the website.

Went with friends to the local town tonight to go see Matrix Revolutions; weather is definitely getting more wintery over here, closing in, but after parking I met up with Grim, Holly, Nobby, Steve, and eventually Jon and Violette at the Yellow River Cafe, a slightly upmarket a-la carte chinese restaurant on the Reading riverfront.…

[16:45] <james> oh this will amuse you [16:45] <james> first there is “am i hot or not” [16:45] <james> then “rate my rack” [16:45] <james> now [16:45] <james> [www.ratemynetworkdiagram.com]

Taking advantage of late-night phone cheapness, i am downloading the supposed 4255 emails (probably closer to 8000) that have accrued on my old Dircon account since going ADSL. The return to modem usage is almost nostalgic, especially since the built-in one in the iBook works nicely, and with “smap” compiled as a SMTP receiver there…