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Garden photography

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Test test test, etc. The sky is blue, the sun warm; time to plant some more seeds, I feel…

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"Not in my name?" Guadrian: #TalkTalk #039;s refusal to cooperate [with blocks] reflect growing resistance to the #debill http://bit.ly/dbAGVk # I'm pretty sure the kids don't see their art in the same way as the painter, but still, it's great: http://themonsterengine.com/artwork # The British Internet is filled with Traffic Containing Pirated Intellectual Property (TCP/IP) –…

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After watching BBC Parliament for the past three days, I can only surmise the following: The British Internet is filled with Traffic Containing Pirated Intellectual Property (TCP/IP) We must all write to our MPs to have it banned immediately! Banning TCP-IP from the British Internet would be a strong statement for this Government to make,…

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On March 30th I mailed the BBC Trust thusly: Hello, I’m reading a Wired Magazine article, specifically the paragraph stating: “The Trust has today written to the BBC Executive to advise them that we will be carrying out an assessment of their plans to deliver content via dedicated smartphone applications. The Trust’s decision follows representations…

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Dropsafe: how to cook the perfect soft-boiled duck egg http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/3917 # "well-hung parliament" – argh. http://bit.ly/8Zucg7 # Damn – JourneyCheck website for SouthWestTrains seems to have been killed – that was … essential to preserve sanity! # #opendis … okay, but would be better if all the panelists were here … http://twitpic.com/1e3k0x # I get…

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Good morning #debill ! This is probably a good time to point folk to http://www.torproject.org/ – popular, free tool for internet anonymity # @kevinmarks irony: "This video contains content from Fremantle International, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds" in reply to kevinmarks # Amusing. #Yahoo #Upcoming is barfing because it thinks…

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I wrote about a new method for improving OSX performance by means of a dedicated swap partition done right – there’s a bunch of misinformation out there on the net, but I’ve tried to avoid repeating the mistakes made elsewhere – and… people requested an update. So… I now admin two machines that use this…

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… a ubuntu VPS, mysql, php, django, three wordpress instances and a mine, is that it drives out of one any notion of what one was actually going to blog about. piffle. perhaps some wine will help.

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if you can see this, blogging has resumed and hopefully everything is semi-integrated once more. but there are changes under the hood, so to speak. all will be revealed, soonish. 🙂

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@ceri long time since i've been "that" alec muffett except to people of a certain age 🙂 in reply to ceri # #Facebook caved over #CEOP http://bit.ly/9cnAmE – expect election crowing from Home Secretary # @williamheath so in what way is a face-saving middle-ground – enabling the Govt to crow about a groundless success –…

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