• Twitter Updates for 2011-11-12

    TIL that Upper Slaughter is a "doubly thankful" village with no casualties in WW1 or WW2 – and so has no war memorial http://t.co/p7cuPVob # …rather puts in context the number of villages which _do_ have War Memorials… # Pandemonium at Hartley Wintney WI – they've changed the layout of the tables! http://t.co/uDYEHttu # .@ramtopsrac

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-11-11

    EC2 has just opened up in US West (Oregon) Region – insert Oregon Trail jokes here. # If you use #Oystercard here's a retrospective on what you paying via that little plastic tap: http://t.co/c0qNL6Xu #lrt #tube #fascinating # Am purging #Growl from all my machines; fed up of clicking on popups & losing focus, won't

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  • SENSS Bruce: There once was a time I was a Java programmer…

    …and I was a good one, too, patching up a bunch of gaping holes in JDK 1.4: /** * This class kludges around the RMI serialization limit of 64Kb in * DataOutputStream.java by breaking long strings into palatable * chunks. * * @author Alec Muffett * @version 1.23, 00/10/18 * @since Bruce1.0 */ public final

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-11-10

    @CraigOverend I missed the shift to Flash which delays things a bit, but I use BT kbd on my 32Gb S2 sometimes to do documents on Dropbox 🙂 # @DaveHill As a cyclist BBs scare me; as a human I find them ugly in a stark utilitarian way. I prefer the doubledeckers. #transportofdelight # RT

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-11-09

    Ruby experiences a "someone goofed deploying the crypto" bug http://t.co/OUYWDotL – join the line behind debian, netscape… HT @glynwintle # @bensummers not making them is to be praised more highly # Grauniad's @DaveHill describes move away from #bendybus as "pointless" http://t.co/Yi5ofAJQ – he can't have read http://t.co/LlJyNxw3 ? # so i was wondering why i

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-11-08

    @simonw as mentioned at #djugl you might find @RealTimeWWII interesting # RT @Raytheon_Jobs: WANTED: "Cyber" Warriors. Are you ready to "hack" some "code"? http://t.co/wnkjIbA9 #cybersecurity #hacking # #MyQuotes # @DrJennyWoods Rum. #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-11-07

    On #UnreliableEvidence last night, an allusion to a judge ordering a barrister arrested may refer to Gerald Butler? http://t.co/g1p7nVmu #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-11-06

    Waitrose doing Havana Club 3yo rum for £14ish "intro price" # @glenngillen @mrchrisadams snopes: http://t.co/PwDegmeH #Marines # it's november 5th and the countryside smells of smoke and gunpowder,. as the citizens perhaps remind politicians of their opinions of them. # @killerswan Shhhhhh…. no need to let on to the pols. Keep them on their toes.

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-11-05

    @mananatomorrow @simonw as mentioned… http://t.co/LqI9sLgf #bcl9 # #movabletype soooooooooo sloooooooooooooowwwwww….. # New: "NetApp, Sophos join list of tech being used by Syrian state snoopers" http://t.co/3Vwroi8e : #Security #syria @ComputerworldUK # @hvcco I'll pass you to @e3i5 to answer that one. 🙂 # Small number of tweets about #Sophos and #Utimaco (and #NetApp – but quite

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-11-04

    Switch on #inourtime hear familiar voice talking about the moon – Ian Crawford, formerly a postgrad while @ UCL 🙂 http://t.co/PudEjYzq # practical safecracking research at @privacyint : http://t.co/pUcz7A18 # #Sophos owner of #Utimaco offers no direct comment re: latter's use in #Syria "crackdown" http://t.co/888iMdIz # More on #Utimaco http://t.co/m3buyQhj # @privacyint It's long haul.

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-11-02

    ROSS ANDERSON IS FULL OF WIN @BBCr4today #LondonCyber # New: "#LondonCyber: our very own Star Trek conference" http://t.co/milC4mLq : #Security @ComputerworldUK # .@DaveLevy RT @AlecMuffett: ROSS ANDERSON IS FULL OF WIN @BBCr4today < What? #LondonCyber # THIS IS WIN -> http://t.co/6G10Kit0 # @arranrp Can't really say. All the standard holes apply, plus those common/special to

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  • “#LondonCyber: our very own Star Trek conference” (at Computerworld)

    “#LondonCyber: our very own Star Trek conference” #LondonCyber: our very own Star Trek conference Billions and billions… shields to maximum until it’s all over So the FCO’s London Conference on Cyberspace is here – and on Twitter – and you cannot have missed yesterday’s press trailers: BBC …read more, or comment at Unscrewing Security

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