Dropsafe

Toasted almond croissant at #farnham maison blanc – fab! # @cdmackay Odd – my Plymouth is a screwtop. Will need to do more research 🙂 # Xtracycle longbike 20.2 mile loop to #Farnham with a pitstop at Maison Blanc. Av 11, Max 41 mph. Must do this more often. # Now: Hartley Wintney festival –…

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Talk of hosepipe bans, so have linked all my rainwater butts in series, in prep for this afternoon's expected downpour … # What happens when you ride in the bike lanes in NYC – http://t.co/aG2tO78 # this must have hurt to shoot… # @ramtopsrac @Kneewax What up the brightness (or leave it on Auto) and…

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How do I get to be an extra in a Kevin Bacon movie? Seriously? # @DPRamone Alas the archetype evil British hacker is a grumpy middle-aged curmudgeon, lacking social graces… wait, what? # New: current state of the #xtracycle longbike – june 2011 http://bit.ly/k06SsJ # RT@shortblue The AB of Canterbury who sits in the House…

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current state of the #xtracycle longbike – june 2011, a set on Flickr. pictures and description of the current state of my longbike, on flickr…

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Just had a presentation from http://www.lifelites.org/ – very worthy charity supplying tech hardware to childrens' hospices. # @TheRealSpaf what on earth is going on? # @Cyber__Security you know i once sysadmined a machine designed to be grenade-proof at 12 feet. Beat that 😛 # @TheRealSpaf best wishes dude. Btdt, it sucks. # Spent the evening…

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So 1 in 4 of American hackers are Feds – sorry "Ph3Dz" – so, Defcon is going to be _really_ interesting this year… # @matthewhughes i love mine. Cheap. Works. Goes beep. # @williamheath welcome to teh cyber. # @evanpro I'd be interested in how that works, because to me it's multiplying the threat model.…

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@PatriarchyBurp I agree, just look at Cosmo # @nellis10 How fast _should_ they grow up, then? # The best Twitter Search for #BaileyReview or #BaileyReport is actually "Reg Bailey" due to the insufficiently obvious hashtag choice # For anyone wh hasn't yet looked, Reg Bailey is apparently on Twitter at @MUChiefExec #baileyreview @#baileyreport # ……

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@nicksdjohnson decaf ?!? # The first third of the plot of "Office Space" nearly comes true: http://bbc.in/m8V6qP # @GeekChickUK Should yield a google search, the first page or two mostly being organisational responses in PDF form. # @darrenmoffat It's sorta under the battery lip, i don't think you'd ever get it out with battery installed;…

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#baileyreview by @mothersunion – seeking state-mandated censorship, because parents are lazy http://bbc.in/iqjWH1 # Wait: @BBCr4today #NadineDorries says there are 1.4 (1.8?) references to sex before the watershed. Benny Hill would beat that in each show. # @JamesFirth The @MothersUnion has been canvassing parents for evidence supporting their #baileyreview proposition, but dissent not so much #…

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If you… replace “cyberspace” by “telephoneworld” replace “cyber” by “telephone” …then the Cabinet Office position on cyber security, reads: The risks from telephoneworld (including the internet, wider telecommunications networks and computer systems) have been identified by the Government as a high priority risk. The UK is facing an ongoing, persistent threat from other states, terrorists…

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"In the event that the battery pack is swallowed, consult a doctor immediately." # RT @kurtsauer: Better safe than Sony. # ha ha # Sun Microsystems Business Card Box – interlocked 8-cube, no glue, staples or other fixings http://twitpic.com/569owt # Aha! The Galaxy S2 has "an external microSD card slot that can support up to…

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Am having moderate success installing #VirtualBox on a thumbdrive raw partition; updating Ubuntu & creating a swapfile. Will post later. # Amazing how pricey "back to school" can be 🙂 # Techhub http://t.co/HXCh0vm # Wanted: an XMPP client to unify Google talk and Facebook chat and other jabber svcs, for android. #

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