alecm
alecm
@alecm@alecmuffett.com
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  • so far on the “today” pogramme:

    a man (who wants to give everyone a national identity card and make them pay for the privilege, due to his inability to deal with asylum seekers) tells us that the laws he passed last time to evict nuisance neighbours (who presumably all live in rented accomodation) and keep homeless people and prostitutes off the…

  • eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil

    evil and insidiously clever: spams that look exactly like real, well-balanced, sensible and personal e-mails, and thereby cut straight through spam filters. as jeff morgan would say: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil! Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:15:10 +0100 From: Robert <r.seviour@virgin.net> Subject: Reply-to: Robert <steve.weiss@virgin.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.1 required=4.6 tests=SUBJ_REMOVE version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) During…

  • Question For The DIY Brigade

    What’s a good, reasonably inexpensive, hobbyist route to get into welding? Target: from wheelbarrow repair to garden furniture/gate making, plus creating pannier racks for bicycles and motorcycles from steel tubing.

  • How big is $87 Billion?

    Amusingly stolen from [found.pale.org] [www.crunchweb.net]

  • amusing, interesting article on content-sweeping technologies

    worksafe: [www.dansdata.com] – link courtesy of james

  • other good ones

    http://bash.org/?55804 http://bash.org/?6060 http://bash.org/?10846 http://bash.org/?120398 http://bash.org/?10924

  • marvellous timewaster

    bash.org “stupid things said on IRC” quote server [bash.org] example output: <erno> hm. I’ve lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can’t figure out where in my apartment it is. …and… <rsb> i saw a very disturbing thing this morning <wjr> oh? <rsb> a dirty bum <rsb> he…

  • stolen source code = delay?

    can anyone please explain to me how – aside fom police investigation getting in the way – theft of sourcecode can delay development? [news.bbc.co.uk]

  • i have always suspected that something like this was afoot

    [www.joyoftech.com]

  • adsl

    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…

  • suzi

    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.