Dropsafe

Morning: bread in toaster, push lever down. Phut goes main house trip switch. Damn, I really liked my old toaster… # Just harvested 7 heads of elephant garlic, including about 30 corms that should keep me in plants for ages; Just like http://bit.ly/brWnjb # Am dimly worried about a 787 that's flying over my house…

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Motorola android phones commit suicide if you try to mod them: http://bit.ly/cL0ogC # The tragic truth for advertising is that it now takes something on the scale of yesterday's @OldSpice campaign to get me to pay attention. # In short: the longer you stay in school, the more tax you'll pay when working. What strategy…

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Has anyone else been experiencing Google StreetView not launching when you drag the yellow man onto the map? # @Tony_1976 just overflew HW. in reply to Tony_1976 # #farn10 B52 just overflew hartley wintney course NW # Dropsafe: NEWS: BBC served with FOIA request re: killing Beebplayer, iPlayer anticompetitiveness http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4233 # @ian_magic_gray So you question…

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The debacle that I wrote-up a few days ago is now hotting up: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/beebplayer#incoming-99637 Tom Adams 12 July 2010 Dear British Broadcasting Corporation, Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like a copy of the following documents: 1. All correspondence with Dave Johnson in relation to beebPlayer, an Android application for accessing iPlayer content.…

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Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/7/95061-youre-doing-it-wrong/fulltext # @adriana872 Yes, but you wouldn't take a spoon into the toilet. 🙂 in reply to adriana872 # Introduction to Web3.0 – somehow I find this apt. http://twitpic.com/24w2sy # Dropsafe: Reflections on Time http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4230 # @pauljakma By HTML do you mean "Non-flash and available…

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http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/07/is-time-disappearing-from-the-universe-radical-theory-says-yes.html The team’s proposal, published in the journal Physical Review D, dismisses dark energy as fiction. Instead, Senovilla says, the appearance of acceleration is caused by time itself gradually slowing down, like a clock with a run-down battery. “We do not say that the expansion of the universe itself is an illusion,” he explains. “What…

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@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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