Dropsafe

Old: Jamie Zawinski: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. New: Alec Muffett: All social network status-updates are moribund until they are replaced by a Twitter plugin. Then they become irrelevant. Goodbye, LinkedIn – I may never have to log

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Hollywood rebooting reboots. I blame Windows: http://bit.ly/4y5YOz # New blog post: how to think clearly about terrorism, terrorists and bombs http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/3740 # Cycle decisions: CarraDry City Folder Brompton Bag, or #Brompton 'C' Bag. Decisions, decisions; currently have S-bag: http://bit.ly/6RnWPB # computer recumbent bike by steve roberts http://bit.ly/6hECfs – i remember a documentary about this years

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Hollywood rebooting reboots. I blame Windows: http://bit.ly/4y5YOz # New blog post: how to think clearly about terrorism, terrorists and bombs http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/3740 # Cycle decisions: CarraDry City Folder Brompton Bag, or #Brompton 'C' Bag. Decisions, decisions; currently have S-bag: http://bit.ly/6RnWPB # computer recumbent bike by steve roberts http://bit.ly/6hECfs – i remember a documentary about this years

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I am still reading around this before shooting my mouth off, but on its own what Glyn’s annotated displays breathtaking ministerial lack-of-understanding of how technology works; the media industry lobbyists have been doing too good a job – apparently having an open Wifi network puts you at risk of child porn? Yes I can see

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Occasionally someone will somehow mistake me for Bruce Schneier and assume that because I have a deep understanding of computer, host and network security, that somehow I can extemporise a lecture about terrorism and the government response to it. The thing is: unlike Bruce I don’t make a habit of talking about this shit, so

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Do you remember back when Firefox was *fast*? just took 2m to boot on a moderately loaded machine. Argh. # @pfuetz alas vanilla OSX. only 5..6 extensions too. in reply to pfuetz # #Fleshmob Berlin Airport: naked protest against xray backscatter / strip-search bodyscanner machines. YouTube http://bit.ly/8tnqSB #

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@ChrisGerhard that sort of thinking without user consideration leads to XML in reply to ChrisGerhard #

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@Suw may i suggest a stainless steel dog bowl from any supermarket – tends to be a lot harder to tip. 🙂 in reply to Suw # @dme remember "ps auxwwe"? Is a long line for some reason now considered untenable? in reply to dme # @dme otherwise consider the more verbose forms of "zpool

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Educashun isn’t working unless ur a caturday fan Originally uploaded by alecmuffett I haz edumacation. Learnz me bookz.

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Station car park Originally uploaded by alecmuffett

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Brompton in snow Originally uploaded by alecmuffett

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