alecm
alecm
@alecm@alecmuffett.com
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  • 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…

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  • 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.

  • desert island discs

    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?

  • RFID Considered Harmful

    [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…