Dropsafe

I’ll try to put this in the simplest terms: The GoogleChrome team have unilaterally taken the user-interface decision to remove “http://” from the beginning of http-only URLs, leaving “https://” and “ftp://” and so forth in place, but for HTTP replacing it instead with a pretty blue-planet-earth-icon The result has been a wave of geek techie

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Hey, great – everyone can walk around in dust masks, and the #DailyMail can rave about TheDustMaskMenace, mugging grannies in the street # @chrisgerhard http://www.seat61.com/ <- train planning for people who want to keep their sanity in reply to chrisgerhard # @chrisgerhard Ferry to Barcelona, Barcelona França stn at 21:05, Paris Gare d'Austerlitz at 09:01next

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I have friends who are stuck in Majorca (bad) and New Jersey (worse) so I’m more that sympathetic to the downsides… …but really, if you live in SouthEast England: step away from your computer, go outside, find an open space and look up. For probably the first time in your life, and perhaps the last,

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ok – so the tag for the ash is #ashtag … ha ha ha. # via @ketan – this is actually quite fascinating: http://twitpic.com/1fxp2z – Election Debate Wordle # dear #virgin #virginatlantic, Why is the volcano status on the homepage of your website? Why is it not splashed on http://bit.ly/bdH5Jk ? # #virginatlantic passenger information

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If you live in Gordon Road, Weber, North Island, NZ, you are directly opposite Calle de Bustamante, Madrid, Spain: Go make an earth sandwich. Check it for yourself, or experiment.

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flightradar24 part 2, originally uploaded by alecmuffett. We’re all going to heaven lads, waaaaaaaaaayyyyy……

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FlightRadar24.com Originally uploaded by alecmuffett …as demonstrated…

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I think what will happen is pretty simple: It doesn’t matter how many people think “Nick Clegg won”, what will happen is that most people will go to the polling booth, see the voting card, see Nick Clegg’s (or whomever’s) name is not on it… then after this (what a kernel engineer would call a)

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Ash probably explains the muck i've been washing off my car for the past few days; i was thinking "early pollen" but… http://bit.ly/blcyqZ # The only issue with the Ethopian fresh drip coffee that I make in my SwissGold filter is: more than one per day might kill me. # This is the school I

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Laurie Taylor writes about my old school – Sacred Heart College, on the Worcester Road, in Droitwich. I’d say his article likely a fair reflection of reality; even in the 80s there were a few priests (and some sixth formers) whom the other kids told you to keep away from; but there were also enough

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@geoffarnold 40 years from now to watch Neil Hannon perform National Express ? in reply to geoffarnold # @geoffarnold that's kinda the whole point – if you can go to gigs at that age, you're doing well in reply to geoffarnold # reading logfiles… # Glass of Barbera D'Asti red, garden-fresh lettuce wrap with balsamic,

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Dropsafe: For everyone who hated the Twitter-posts on my blog… http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/3937 # time for spelt french toast! # if you are ex-Sun or former-Sun & know what "security-interest" was, @bubbva has created security-interest-alumni list, ping me for details. # .@r4today "sat on… with rules and _beaurocracy_" – we are ruled / oppressed by beautiful people?

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