• Twitter Updates for 2011-08-26

    RT @barticasun RT @Lord_Sugar Steve Jobs steps down from Apple due to health issues. Great visionary. Stay well Steve #industrylegend # @wendyg @timesjoanna Good morning both! You'll meet at #44con but I'd like to introduce you & propose that WG present at #hhldn Hence. 🙂 # @newsbrooke Obviously same goes for Yfrog, Flickr, Instagram and

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  • Sex, Lies and Instant Messenger (slides from #HHldn)

    Because of my presentation style the slides are only half of the story, but these are my SL&IM slides as presented at Joanna Geary’s London Hacks & Hackers on 24 August 2011. Upcoming presentations of this talk – back to back with “Why Cybersecurity is Rubbish” – include: Oxford BCS – 22 Sep 2011 Portsmouth

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-25

    @mikkohypponen @JackGavigan casus belli. Reason for starting a fight / war. "cause [reason or excuse for] belligerence" # @tomviner Slides will go up on dropsafe.crypticide.com tomorrow. Sleep now. Many thanks @timesjoanna for organising. Night night. # Upcoming "Sex, Lies & Instant Messaging" + "Why Cybersecurity is Rubbish" = Sep: Oxford BCS; Oct: Portsmouth Skeptics #hhldn

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-24

    @timesjoanna More like "Things not to do when having an affair" #sexliesandinstantmessenger #hhldn #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-23

    . @surevine is a deeply cool place to work. There are not merely other unicyclists, but also other astronomers, and coffee fiends; geek++ # @chris_bloke Yes, @richardloxley does, I believe. # @heidigoseek Did they mention corkscrews ? # @DrJennyWoods that's scary # @BelindaBG well done you, and only 15 minutes after me. #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-22

    #tweetdeck on android is very broken. If you don't read it often enough, backlog of unread tweets makes it choke # Just had a really good experience with "Footprint Cars" http://t.co/IGriHGX for taxi services in the Farnborough/Fleet area 01252 844844 # I am really rather pleased with this photo: http://t.co/beS3fEJ # Caspar Bowden's birthday –

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-19

    @chrisgerhard So if the kids fly the coop, there is more room for bicycles ? # My friend @donna_williams : "Getting off ya tits – my experience with mastectomy" http://t.co/KjvMNJt #epic #perspective # @chrisgerhard At least it's not over 9000 🙂 # abj v nz natevyl erzvaqrq bs shpxjvg sevraqf jub jnagrq gb fgbc gjb

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-18

    What's the Linux eqvt of IP Strict Destination Multihoming? If multihomed machine recvs packet for interface A on interface B, it's dropped? # @jemimah_knight It does look a bit swish. If you want the standalone observatory pretty videos: http://t.co/R8koihU # /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter # thank you everyone 🙂 # @hal_pomeranz Oh, bother. So hybridise it with ipchains

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-17

    RT @lauraanngill: Reading: Home to a social media crackdown? via @bbctech http://ow.ly/649P8 # excellent piece by @BBCRoryCJ # Dunno what I've been missing, but with piles of greengages, strawberries, yoghourt, sweet peppers & corn on the cob, I've found it. # @jemimah_knight Sure, Astronomy sounds sexy until it's 3am, there's nothing to eat but Mars

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-16

    Apparently when the British (English?) travel abroad, they take #ukriots with them: http://t.co/eF6po7P #sad # .@ashward123 I hope so – it would make me marginally depressed about humanity, re: "troublemakers appeared to be mainly Italian and French" # I now have Gingerbread on my S2. Shouldn't i have Gtalk video? # @DrJennyWoods you need a

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-15

    Re-watching the 1979 #TinkerTailorSoldierSpy before the upcoming movie abridges it to death. # @DrJennyWoods It's fun – did it a few weeks ago. Also hit the London Review Of Books cafe for cake. Really. # @DrJennyWoods LRB = favoured pitstop. They don't do Flat White as a matter of policy, but aside from that the

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-14

    Surbiton, where the rest of the world lives. # @lauraanngill If you're posting straight afterwards, by my estimate it lasted 16 hours? # 2001: "My God! It's full of steers!" #favouriteMovieAsACowboyMovie # Star Wars Ep IV – A New Hope: [no modifications necessary] #favouriteMovieAsACowboyMovie # Epic Must Read http://t.co/CVZF5PP #python #twitter #satire #ukriots @tom_watson #

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