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People still send letters – but they send even more e-mail; I strongly believe that skills of “word processing” and the “formal letter” will further decline, and that the employees of the future will at school no longer be taught the difference between “Yours sincerely” and “Yours faithfully”, but instead the difference between “Reply” and

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France & Italy want to re-establish border controls "when necessary"? Goodbye Schengen… http://bit.ly/2VlbYc # @wrwalke Agreed, although it's not the rudest song on YouTube by far… # @e3i5 Tell me that's not your thesis ? # @wrwalke Wanna learn ASL ? http://bit.ly/hiJZju # @e3i5 "You should do it in the cloud, something reliable like EC2"

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Google's "define:word" functionality seems to have died. Is it intentional? eg: http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Afig # @geoffarnold Quite bizzare – I just reset safari and it still fails. Not a cookie issue. Maybe "they" are proxying me and broke it for me? # Google dictionary lookup is broken (for me?) http://twitpic.com/4p9uh7 # @chrisgerhard @geoffarnold One can't help but

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@roomcandygames Yes, but that's nothing like the variety, colour and multi-sensual surround experience of the real thing. 😛 # Morning educational fascinating reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Heeled_Jack # For anyone fretting about iPhones & location-monitoring, this old post may offer a simple solution http://goo.gl/C30fH http://goo.gl/pnjGD # You've gotta ask whether this is a Guinness viral marketing campaign, or

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@stevelord very cute! I'll check first whether Synergy is running native rather than X on the OSX machine, which would seem to be simpler… # @k4thybrown What would be required? # Many in Oxford is giving SPARCstation LX and SPARCclassic X free to good homes. DM me if interested in links. # I think that

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@Beaker Your point's pretty clear. I just think it's wrong. # Watching "Whicker's War" to make sense of Anzio after reading http://goo.gl/fwhkL -my father was part of http://goo.gl/jbMbJ (Br.X.I on map) # Am looking for a modern, supported version of x2x for OSX – software kvm re-sharing mouse & kbd only, via network – any

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@glynwintle @runasand @timesjoanna Well that's one of my favourite topics, and am well-versed. Shall we meet up? DM me with contact detail.. # @Beaker Proactive defence against cloud-computing-criticism, much? "#Cloudcomputing is more resilient than hardware" #eatwords #yesiknow # @Beaker "…and if the gods smite us it's because we haven't prayed hard enough." #inotherwords # @Beaker

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#BSidesLondon – TRACK 3 IS NOW OPEN – BOOKING SHEET UPSTAIRS, COME BOOK A SLOT AND TALK ABOUT ANYTHING. 30 MINS MAX. # #BSidesLondon – TRACK 3: Glyn Wintle on Open Rights Group, the British EFF – and Electronic Voting # #BSidesLondon Track 3 – Hearing how electronic voting nearly lost the SNP the Scottish

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Think my next phone should be the Samsung Galaxy S2 – dual core, out soon, good spec. Any downsides, folks? http://bit.ly/gUKAna # #Tesla motors apparently have never heard about The Streisand Effect http://bit.ly/gfsNmw #TopGear # That's another 16 bags of rubble lined up for disposal, and probably another 20 or so to go. Need new

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it's _so_ strange revisiting code i wrote 20 years ago and thinking "OMG WTF WAS I THINKING?" # @geografikaa Noooo – that's a new one on me, thanks! And, scary. # foreach my $bucket (keys %{$$belgium{"scores"}}, keys %{$$other{"scores"}}) { … } #beauty #perl # TIL: 167 exabytes was 1/3rd of the estimated total internet network

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@ryanlrussell once and store it. the maths are quite fun – i will try to remember to blog it. # @ryanlrussell you can chuck a lot of it away if you're willing to do a few tens of millions of trial encryptions. # @ryanlrussell if yr lookup svc can do 3,000,000 cps per host &

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pancakes for breakfast #boredwithporridge # @tomboa we seem to have spawned a slight meme # turn up the volume: not your average kitten – http://youtu.be/R1Sn18dfsOA # want: http://bit.ly/fvzVg5 # is your flange lonely? http://bit.ly/g8wmUZ # @nmeth park it offshore and use it as a data centre # Argh – http://on.wsj.com/gp2nvI – US Govt wants industry

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