Dropsafe

…is how they can maintain such perspectives in the face of evidence like the 2TB SD-card. The future of computing is neither in the cloud, nor is it in the desktop / laptop / pocketop / phone; it’s somewhere in between, in fluid platforms that migrate around the web, trailing behind their owner like a

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Just a few quick notes: G+ is heavily centralised and from Google; a Mine would be run by the user, on their own platform. G+ is dependent upon Google logins for relationship management; that’s not bad, but it goes with the ‘centralised’ turf. G+ is a webby experience, not feeds-based. That’s actually very cool, and

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Had the opportunity to try a #CycleSuperhighway (CS8) over the week, from Clapham Junction to Chelsea. Surprised. Very good experience. # listening to #girltalk "all day" http://illegal-art.net/allday/ #mashup # Google+ seems to have gone berserk and is telling me that someone has added me. About 50 times, so far. # @peterhoneyman #cynic #

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@s_j_champion Woot ! # RT @LifelitesCares @alecmuffett our social media superhero. Thanks very much for your help. # Woot! Most welcome! #

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@evarley Looks like the WP Green Ink page got deleted, but more at http://t.co/Ya8G6Tk http://t.co/Yf26x22 #

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Five years ago I started down a road that taught me a lot about people and friends. Thank you everybody, xx. http://t.co/Pz0Gly4 # @shaver 10am flight to Europe = 60..90m checkin; to USA = 120..180m checkin; Trafalgar->LHR = 1hour. If possible do not take a black cab. # @shaver Limo/private hire cab = pseudorandom RTT.

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New #Skype for #Android keeps "Reconnecting" each time there's a network glitch. Spin spin spin spin spin spin spin little skype icon… # Is it me or has there been much #Skype burpage this morning? Friends complaining of messages going astray, buggy new clients… # @lauraanngill Very wheel of death. # @caalie Alas not, sorry…

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New: On partitioning your home and work life… http://bit.ly/kpV2Oj # Watching Paxman be ever so slightly flabbergasted, & @caitlinmoran be somewhat unaware of "Rule 34" – HT: @belledejour_uk #epic # @lauraanngill the joy of iframes etc… A little corner of a distant webpage that will be forever facebook. Th… (cont) http://deck.ly/~ciNDU # This is what

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Regarding Google+ a friend wrote: I’m considering using G+ as the social network for my professional life and Facebook as the social network for my family life. Any views on how well that will work? I have strong opinions on this / upon the proposition that there are separable home and work lives, but rather

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RT @neilhimself: Wonderful NYT op-ed about the relevance of Grimm's Fairy Tales. And all I can say is, yes. This. http://nyti.ms/l02rl0 # Reading about Viktor Mayer-Schönberger http://bit.ly/iyiqDt foolishness! There's no right to be forgotten, there are not "too many memories" # Timber greenhouse foundations now cross-nailed to floor using 70cm x 12mm rebar "nails" ;

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In so many ways I am one of the godless scum of Gower Street – from 1985 I studied pure astronomy at UCL and became familiar on a weekly if not daily basis with the waxwork fizzog of Jeremy Bentham, upright in a glass-fronted cabinet for all the students to see, his desiccated and actual

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@jdthndr grill and dress with chili jam. #

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