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New: How to update Emacs on OSX to GNU Emacs 23.3.1 with almost zero pain http://bit.ly/jStrKu # yay – i have written my first chrome extension, and it works. tweak a couple of usability things and then publish. # javascript is weird: it's so familiar, and then so very very _not_ # WTF: Google want

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Available from http://www.crypticide.com/alecm/chrome/bangthrubookmarks/. As the description says: BangThruBookmarks What it’s for… In the mornings, with my breakfast, I like to read webcomics, news and geeksites; I used to have just a folder-full of links which I could Open All In Tabs and then go make coffee, come back and close the tabs one-by-one until my

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1) Go to http://emacsformacosx.com/ and download Emacs 23.3; install it. 2) For commandline use in Terminal, create the following script in your ~/bin or somewhere at the top of your $PATH: $ more bin/emacs #!/bin/sh EMACS_APP=/Applications/Emacs.app # <- UPDATE THIS IF NEEDED EMACS=$EMACS_APP/Contents/MacOS/Emacs export EMACS exec $EMACS “$@” exit 1 3) Run it as normal.

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@His_Grace inefficacy ? you mean that people taking the pill undergo further procedures and/or carry to full term ? # One for the @surevine team http://yfrog.com/gy23mlwj # £3.90 for a pint of Directors ? # Village-wide power cut # For thee third time this week, no I am not Canadian. Sigh. #

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British student puts British website on British servers, links to 3rd-party filesharing sites? Extradite to USA! http://tgr.ph/iIiKyL # RT @beng: See, I'm not crazy. Chrome 12 de-obfuscates javascript. http://bit.ly/kQxPzR # woo! fantastic! #fulldisclosure & better #security # @shortblue I don't think it's exactly what they do, but they might have insight: http://raffle.it/ # @chrisridd Yes,

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For anyone else who didn't get the #pennyarcade strip this morning: http://bit.ly/lPuc5T # http://bit.ly/kLSMu6 "NYPD Officer Stopped Cyclist For Wearing Skirt" – you can be "ticketed" for acts which are clearly not illegal in NYC? # There's a lot of reasons for outrage, but I'm most horrified at the concept of ticketing people at whim:

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#xkcd gnuinfo bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah <thud> # @bubbva practical aids: 1) tweetdeck 2) twitter lists 3) HAPPY BIRTHDAY (for 30 minutes from now!) # @dgwbirch if they have an uprising of any sort the government will know about it real quick. # @lizhenry does "outlier" also include "more competent than average" ? 🙂 # Someone please tell

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this can go wrong in so many ways… http://bit.ly/kEyiLe # longbike: 18.8 miles, av 10.4 mph, max 43.0 mph. Much happier now. # HELP: Some years ago an agency intercepted someone's SMTP traffic (MITM proxy) & was discovered when it started generating bounces? Remind? # @gravelkeeper someone at his service provider (or similar) level, or

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Absolutely fascinating http://bo.st/ly8mOO – But the unstated message is that a lot of our bureaucracy is truly pointless timewasting # It appears the only way to pause / stop #Tweetdeck on Android from syncing is to delete its databases? That'd be bad, plz fix, @AndroidDeck # @timcaynes Nah – I mean "switch it off during

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To work in IT security you must be a realist. Alas not everyone is… # New: Terry Eagleton. A horrible man? http://bit.ly/mSNCJL # New: A New Role for Muffett: Surevine http://bit.ly/lAUc3q #

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For general distribution: I have taken on a major new commitment, a role at Surevine as Security Officer and Consultant; Surevine are a UK company who… well, let me just quote: Surevine design, build and deliver secure Social intranet, extranet and Internet solutions for UK Central Government, other public sector organisations and the commercial sector.

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