Dropsafe

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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So I listened to What The Papers Say which pointed me to Terry Eagleton’s latest effort: What would prevent most of us from doing so is the nausea which wells to the throat at the thought of this disgustingly elitist outfit. British universities, plundered of resources by the bankers and financiers they educated, are not…

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