Dropsafe

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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20 inch icicles Originally uploaded by alecmuffett On winchfield station guttering

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Att Originally uploaded by alecmuffett from the overflowing guttering

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just exported / deleted all my RSS feeds from GoogleReader; it's faster to tidy them in NetNewsWire. Will put them back in a couple of weeks # "Steve Jobs: How to live before you die" http://bit.ly/8fXLlA – worth listening to. # After a revelation at Christmas, I am experimenting with iVox speech synth voices for…

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I was just looking at a *.wordpress.com blog, and noticed that there is no ATOM feed linked from it. The more I work on stuff like feed-generation for the Mine, the more I reinforce my longstanding prejudice that it doesn’t really matter how data is encoded so long as the mechanism is fit for purpose;…

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