Dropsafe

Today I discover my passport missing somewhere in the house. Do I a) waste a day finding it, b) eschew thoughts of travel until it turns up? # Dropsafe: How baked trout proves that my cat is a finite-state machine http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4100 # @lskrockiCheck the Wikipedia page – it has a full analysis 🙂 # @lskrocki

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– Rachel supplies me with a huge frozen trout steak, basically the entire dorsal midsection of a 5 to 6lb fish. – Defrost – Wash, pat dry with paper towel – Large sheet of foil, two lemon wedges as “chocks”, place fish on wedges, more lemon and 3 sprigs fresh thyme inside fish; add salt,

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Google Tasks / Todo now appears as part of google calendar. I might start using it, now… # Adrian Lamo 'shops' Bradley Manning who may have helped Assange's Wikileaks; This should be interesting: http://bit.ly/dp2GtV #security # A fountain of blackened pots are namecalling somewhat newly tarnished kettles … #security # I have never been a

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@webmink @DalaiLama Doesn't bode well for some FLOSS advocates whom I've met. # A less commonly seen image of Jesus preaching the "sermon on the mount" http://bit.ly/b0V8or # Go outside, find some nice grass, and walk around barefoot on it for a while. # Have received a "Who blocked me on facebook" invite from a

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An extract: [This] is the godless view of death. It’s an end, not a transition. It deserves all the sorrow the living bring to it, and the absurd attempts of the believers to soften it with lies are a contemptible disservice to the life that is over. Don’t be shy about saying it, either; the

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penny arcade, on the money: http://bit.ly/9Bvf40 # Have chainsawed tree stumps. Probably need to sharpen or replace chain, now. Drinking homemade mint tea with honey. # not a good evening to spend in the garden – the maybugs are out http://bit.ly/inmTQ # #IBM System Storage Solutions Handbook is part of what North Korea provides to

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@bubbva will pick you up one, just in case… 🙂 in reply to bubbva # several days away, purging unread crap from mbox and getting back to normal… # Dropsafe: Atholl Brose – Oh My God It's So Yummy! (recipe included) http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4092 #

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This evening I made Atholl Brose – and, oh my god this is good stuff; forget drinks like Bailey’s and all that artificial crap, this blows them away. The recipe is on the Wikipedia page, but to paraphrase: The oatmeal brose is prepared by steeping a volume of porridge oats overnight in three times as

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Friend's Reith Lecture Crit: "Tuned in to R4 this morning. I believe I just heard the Astronomer Royal use the word leveraged. As a verb." # I'm flying through my bottle of #Marmite XO way faster than usual; I hope they keep making the stuff … # While we're on food, a quick plug for

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.@chris_bloke is there any other way to live, other than with the consequences of one's actions? One can remediate, but never undo… # @jennyshaw works for me – http://search.twitter.com/advanced in reply to jennyshaw #

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Listening to Climate Change campaigners on Radio 4, saying that democracy needs to be suspended to protect us from ourselves # Wow – climate change advocate talking about the need for "dozens" of new nuclear power stations, and that people won't like them being built # Hearing praise heaped upon Chinese government for their low-carbon

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If #DavidLaws has a #spouse and can't claim housing expenses, does that mean cohabiting folk may claim upcoming married-couple tax breaks? # @ruskin147 I suspect that-freed of the daily newspaper cycle drag-that's how it is now. No more waiting for comment. #internettime #yeahbaby in reply to ruskin147 # Topless rockstar pic unlikely to be hacked/posted

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