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Reading http://bit.ly/d4GU8p and thinking that maybe this evening I'll install NetHack. Or maybe Moria/Angbad? First time in 20 years? # Ikea. 6 basic red wine glasses for £2.03. Mmmm. # Android SDK 27Mb – iPhone SDK 4.2Gb for the latest free-beer version # @fodwyer xcode_3.2.6_and_ios_sdk_4.3.dmg – You have to register on the dev site, but

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Twitter search observation: if I tweet about #foo and then tweet #foo #bar, later #bar only tweets appear in searches for #foo Linkage? # @chrisgerhard I'm hearing this hyped, but no info as it's not released yet: http://goo.gl/hNTim # New: Has anyone proposed an (IETF?) standard API for submitting a link to a URL shortener?

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No, seriously. I have no idea if somesuch already exists, but until we see the end of …/seo_friendly_links_that_use_techniques_deprecated_years_ago_42692317.html?track=twitter …we will still be using URL shorteners. Which I hate. Thus I believe there should be as many URL shorteners as possible, ideally one-per-user. Have we got an API to drive such a thing yet, or should

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good morning world! # # this is the day the maillists send you paaaaaass-words # omg plntxt psswrd rmndrs # today's Joy Of Tech is quite apt: http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/ # @quentynblog Have found the Helvetica one, there are others? # There's something hypnotic about #spomb http://www.spomb.com/Spomb/Home.html # .@dracos You're welcome; the Traintimes website is fab when

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#bcs Meeting the Cyber Challenges of 2012 #bcscyber # @shortblue ISO9000 (etc) #bcscyber12 # jay abbott of pwc talking about https://cybersecuritychallenge.org.uk/ #bcs #bcscyber12 # Nigel Titley @vache_qui_rit talking IPv6, IANA and ICANN #bcscyber12 #bcs # "You have a cryptographic failure, and then the terrorists take advantage of it and then there's a bomb…" # "If

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A quick plug for http://m.traintimes.org.uk/ by @dracos – if you want to check train timetables from a phone, it's practically perfect # Looking for opinions on Cloud.com and its Cloud OS – apparently its #CloudStack is "IaaS and Downloadable and Open Source" #cloudcomputing # @bensummers I lean towards event-based OTP because time is potentially more

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work is rather fun, so far 🙂 # @ramtopsrac Very pleasant day visiting http://www.oneis.co.uk/ and very impressed with their technology. #

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Amazon introduces "Dedicated Instance" Cloud. Isn't that just hosting, but with an extra layer of indirection? http://bit.ly/geJ1RF # "Podcasts and Videos for the bored Security Geek" @computerworlduk #unscrewingsecurity #security http://goo.gl/cI8qi # @mappingbabel So it's hosting plus Amazon added value ? And you can dev on EC2 and then host without modification ? # Japan Earthquake:

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Here’s an example URL: scheme://host.domain.tld/path/file.ext This matches most of the URLs that you will ever encounter on the Web; don’t nitpick it too much – there can be hanging directories, portnumbers, user:password@host… additions and even full-blown URIs, but overall it’s a pretty good example. But there’s an open problem – the URL syntax does a

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going round the house trying to remember where there may be clocks left unshifted to summer time # #VirtualBox crashes #Ubuntu guest on OSX – the linux image idles, sleeps, and the VM crashes on wakeup # I've heard it pointed out twice today: "Real" anarchists would be happy to see an end to state

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Can someone plz tell me if they now do Ethernet over the same cable as HDMI audio/video, & if "Ethernet HDMI" cables are distinct from HDMI? # HDMI http://bit.ly/9AIWm8 sounds like HDMI ethernet is a standard; same cost rules should apply, though. # RT @EFF: Microsoft denies intentionally blocking HTTPS; secure Hotmail onceagain available in

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