Dropsafe

@SouthLondonGN hope so in reply to SouthLondonGN # HTC Dream/G1 has been rooted, and #CyanogenMod 6.0.0rc1 installed (FroYo-ish) – so far pretty good. # Tip for #android users – if you have an app you really like, download the APK to keep it, else the market could delist it forever… 🙁 # HUGELY FAIL http://bit.ly/9829U7

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tl;dr: The BBC have provided ultra-minimal flash-based iPlayer with reduced functionality on the latest Android 2.2 upwards, whilst simultaneously killing “beebPlayer” – a free app that provided (better) functionality on Android versions 1.5 upwards. All folk stuck on older (2.1 and below) Android systems will never have iPlayer again. My context I love the BBC

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Belgian courts refuse to force 2 biggest ISPs to block #ThePirateBay at behest of Copyright-Piracy Pressure Group http://bit.ly/dhp65w # @ramtopsrac Precisely for which end result are you praying? I'd like to know maybe which side to back… in reply to ramtopsrac # @ramtopsrac So you've no opinion, & you fear that there might be an

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@darrenmoffat just think of the oppty yr missing to insert Javascript into your emails, so you can marquee your .sig block 🙂 in reply to darrenmoffat # gimp robin is not magnetoreceptive: http://bit.ly/9Txp5p # @pauljakma i read it that if the mask covers the right eye, they lose magnetosense? in reply to pauljakma # @ramtopsrac

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@r4today sneaky wording for #DAB switchover, Gov't can use iPlayer internet "digital" listening minutes to justify FM switchoff at 50% limit # @r4today "FM will always be available for local" / 2015 FM switchoff target date set by #DAB industry # Anybody know how to find out how many 6Music listeners were Sky/iPlayer, vs #DAB

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Dropsafe: Science is the Art of the Demonstrable http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4183 # You have to be a coder to see why this is very very funny… or horrific. I'm going with the former, though. http://bit.ly/bAU1Zy # "But journalists don't make errors – they check their sources!" http://www.butireaditinthepaper.co.uk/2010/07/06/aol-in-huge-fail/ # @spufidoo quoi? in reply to spufidoo # After 12

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Sometime back in 1996 I was in a lovely cafe in Palo Alto, having breakfast with Diffie; Whit slid a stapled printout of an academic paper across the table, and asked me what I thought of it. The paper was: “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity”. I remember the scene quite

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Dropsafe: My friend Bridget discovers the new, anti-competitive approach to schooling http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4176 # "I cannot claim to have seen the final picture – these things are no longer claimable on parliamentary expenses" http://bit.ly/9csi52 # Just so you know, this is how someone is condemned to be stoned to death in the present day: http://bit.ly/bUoOBb #

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…almost exactly 4 years ago (to the hour) I was being MRI’d and having a drainage pipe forced into my chest cavity. Nowadays I’m going to the gym 4 times a week and doing up the house. Thank you everyone, I appreciate everything you’ve done to help. Being alive is great. 🙂

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Quote: (From instant messenger) I’m just talking to one of [my team of] editors. Her daughter (Bridget!!), has just been to sports day. Apparently none of them win these days – they all get a sticker for taking part! Isn’t that odd? Odd? Oh yes. What really surprises me is that examinations haven’t been banned,

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Listening to @r4today about Turkey trying to extort Google into registering and paying taxes in Turkey, who have blocked them. Oops. # Herriard Sawmills order for sawn, planed, seasoned oak 3 weeks ago; result is unusable, warped, not straight cut; cancel, no bookcase today. # Dropsafe: (Badly) Sawed and Planed Oak Timber from Herriard Sawmills,

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$ du -skh Pictures/iPhoto\ Library/Originals/ Pictures/iPhoto\ Library/iPod\ Photo\ Cache/ 58G Pictures/iPhoto Library/Originals/ 18G Pictures/iPhoto Library/iPod Photo Cache/ So the cache for the iPod – which I am not using – takes up an extra 31% of storage? Some mistake…

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