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New: From Japanese toilets to Digital debris to Micropayments http://t.co/CICiq4ij # Hartley Wintney News: Last night's Dilly Lane Police action was "Pursuit of an escaped defendant", affected residents told #hartleywintney # Local man says "We were used to police helicopters in #Medway but moved here because there's no crime" #hartleywintney # In other news: 4x

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Occasionally I am tasked with explaining why personal information is valuable – and inspired by a toilet article on BoingBoing I ran into this quote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilets_in_Japan However, historically, pit toilets were more common, as they were easier to build and allowed the reuse of the feces as fertilizer[14]—very important in a country where Buddhism and

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Leftovers Risotto – rather odd, but satisfying. Includes bratwurst. # @mjj122 rural northeast hampshire # The more I read #cybersecurity strategy docs / about the risks facing our #CNI the more I am put in mind of #Y2K compliance # I have just found out what time it is by following @big_ben_clock # There's a

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@bulletford Nope – missed a chunk of the latter talk – will try a different approach next time. # @ppolstra Maybe you can redeem the word 🙂 # Some of my fellow ex-#Sun developers will recognise these problems, and some of the solutions http://t.co/JecXEEBm HT @shortblue #fixed # RT: Why #Cybersecurity Is Rubbish (slides from

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How to confuse a European houseguest: Give them a block of ordinary, hard cheese Give them an ordinary, sharp knife This keeps happening. Four times now. It’s got to the point where I keep two cheese slicers / kaasschaaf / ostehøvel / rabot à fromage handy, for when – cheese in one hand, knife in

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@1Password Help! I logged into a webpage & saved it, but somehow it's stuck under "Generated Passwords" not "Logins" & I can't click on it # From Surevine's CEO ( @shortblue ) – I think some of my fellow ex-#Sun developers will recognise these problems, and some of the solutions # @1Password Ok. So there's

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Has anyone using #OSX #Lion Mail.app to access #GMail had problems where GMail folders/labels turn up empty, or not at all? # @kelvin_alpha Turns out the issue was with GMail inboxes being named "Inbox" clashing with Mail.app's internals. Quick rename. #gmail #OSX #

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@siodaNMRC 1) generic name for some dessert types, overlapping with 2) savoury or sweet dishes prep'd by steaming or dunked in boiling water # @siodaNMRC Check out: Steak&Kidney Pudding, Bread&Butter Pudding, Queen's Pudding, Black Pudding, Sticky Toffee Pudding, Suet Pudding (type) # I swear, #southwesttrains carriages are designed to be faraday cages. # @sheldon_kent Indulge

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Idea: set up a committee to research and publish a British Standard for secret handshakes. Subclasses: freemasons, rotarians, scouts… # http://t.co/dgBC7Gtz The court ruled that information could not be […] stolen within the Theft Act # I don't understand #Graphviz on OSX; the downloaded .app (2.28) provides an Attributes pane and a basic DOT viewer?

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Winchfield Station Bicycle Story http://t.co/ZqoKQw6X #

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@lauraanngill I think it' fabulous – a logical consequence of liberation, freedom and fun; anyone who'd call it eg: corrupt, would worry me. # @andymclernan Alas. You missed Ford Prefect, too… #

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