• Twitter Updates for 2011-10-22

    Bulk-deleting all my #GoogleReader subscriptions before they end up in #GooglePlus and become impossible to manage ; Hello #NetNewsWire # Hopefully will not be as bad as that, but I don't need to take the risk # @chrisgerhard @ramtopsrac GR is getting a "facelift" ; I stopped using it because of the social stuff, for…

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  • “Username: Google ; Password: 2bon2btitq” (at Computerworld)

    “Username: Google ; Password: 2bon2btitq” Username: Google ; Password: 2bon2btitq Passwords are hip again; but can we please just get past the “word” aspect? Google are (in partnership with Citizens Advice Bureau) running a campaign about how to stay safe online, and to this end adverts are appearing in London tube trains explaining how to…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-21

    If you are going to be using the M3 tonight, check out @HantsPolRoads for details. #M3DieselSpill esp northbound M3, Jct 7-5 # Howto switch off window-opening animation in #Lion : http://t.co/LXC5DsDw (last paragraph) # Warmth. http://t.co/dClKKxvA # Pleasant evening: tending fire, cleaning house, making popcorn, sipping a snifter of fine gin, & reminiscing. Little cogitation…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-20

    "Where's the Steve Jobs of IT security?" http://t.co/Vko03g3w – Answer: We don't need one. We need everything else to not suck, instead. # @mroesch I take the point, but for security no single platform should ever become dominant due to monoculture effect. # @mroesch I know where to get some very very very good chocolate……

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-19

    "The elephant seal was around two metres tall and can weigh more than 6,600 pounds" http://t.co/BooGAMpZ spot the #bogus #number #precision #

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  • Unit testing 🙂

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049735/Extrovert-seal-got-way-preening-penguins.html ‘Each time he looked more and more surprised to see us there because I don’t think he was used to seeing humans.’ The elephant seal was around two metres tall and can weigh more than 6,600 pounds. 6,600lbs? That’s a suspiciously precise number. I wonder… http://www.google.co.uk/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=6600lb+in+kg 6600 pounds = 2 993.70964 kilograms Ah, right.…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-18

    I have not yet had to install a winch for my bookcase: http://t.co/dzMux1jj # So far I got up at 0610, emptied the bread oven, got breakfast, two coffees, split wood, stoked the fire, wrote an article… now for work. # @darrenmoffat I may need two breakfasts by the end of the day. # New:…

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  • “Amazon, Google, the Platform and Security” (at Computerworld)

    “Amazon, Google, the Platform and Security” Amazon, Google, the Platform and Security An Ex-Amazonian Googler’s justifiable hostility towards Security A few days ago Steve Yegge posted a rant to his Google+ account with the intention that it would stay Google-internal. Oops. You can read the rant – now replicated all over the net, for instance…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-17

    Preacher on R4 arguing that children murdered in the reoccupation of Canaan in the Bible must have had happy deaths, going to eternal life # Somehow I can't find sympathy with the idea that sane people, or young children too young to be indoctrinated, are ever happy to be murdered # @ramtopsgrum http://t.co/k42JSxRA from the…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-16

    New: Hartley Wintney Pub Rum-tasting Notes http://t.co/Oe518ROc # Anybody want to try the 1983 MacPaint on a Mac emulator? http://t.co/b45jcWqo – see http://t.co/9VX2tGqF for via http://t.co/gbkIFPRz # In the UK [2008 stats] you are in the bottom 99% if you earn less than £149,000. Bottom 95% earn less than £61,500 http://t.co/gVGeBgC9 # I am the…

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  • Fireplace Fun – Concrete Explosions and Delight!

    So a couple of weeks ago I had my chimneys swept and I have been looking forward to recommissioning my living-room fireplace ever since – but with a new twist. The sweep – smashing guy, very knowledgable – essentially told me that I was doing my wood fireplace wrong, using a coal-fire style basket with…

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  • Hartley Wintney Pub Rum-tasting Notes

    So far: Waggon & Horses Most shots £2.20 1) Mount Gay Eclipse amber. slight medicinal nose. light “nyquil” scent. star anise (or similar) rather strong. pleasant but do not buy. 2) Sailor Jerry pale tea colour. slight candy nose. light taste to start, builds on tongue to (?) demerara sugar. slightly sweet like creme brulee…

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