Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

  • Twitter Updates for 2009-10-18

    @jimfinnis http://bit.ly/4v5TYq #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-10-16

    oy veh> Free Delivery on All Amazon.co.uk Orders This Christmas # @jimfinnis http://bit.ly/GIRfO – Ron "Typewriter" Mingo #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-10-15

    @nmeth Best wishes! I know what you're going through – http://is.gd/4jDRL http://is.gd/4jE1w – it sucks, but life is far better afterward in reply to nmeth # re: http://is.gd/4jEeG – in theory http:/path/file.ext should go to localhost, no? # Thought for the day: Swarfega should release men's cosmetics. # @nmeth The hairy one only IM's me

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-10-14

    That's another vat of "random vegetable soup". No need to think about food tomorrow. 🙂 # #carterruck #trafigura – greatest similie ever: http://bit.ly/Aj4Iu # @LaureenH nah, cheated with some swiss stuff. in reply to LaureenH #

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  • Trafigura debacle highlights inobvious URL-shortener problem #stopshortening

    It’s not that bit.ly, tinyurl, tr.im or is.gd are *dying* you understand… although some people have reported that. The issue is that with the Trafigura and Carter-Ruck debacle generating multiple tweets per second, it shows up an issue which otherwise stays below the radar of annoyance: WHEN URL-SHORTENERS ARE USED EVERYWHERE IN A DISCUSSION, YOU

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-10-13

    latest cut of Mac #chromium has a buggy transparent bookmark toolbar. Oh, poop. # There are perhaps few things in the world more therapeutic than a sledgehammer and a brick wall. In fact, I can't think of any… # #Grauniad gagged from reporting *Parliament proceedings* due to legal gag; Do plaintiffs believe nobody will find

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-10-12

    Gotta love that safe, secure, reliable cloud storage. http://is.gd/4euxb via @adriana872 and @webmink # http://www.oracle.com could really use the Sun firewall-and-web-hosting team. "An error occurred while processing your directive" or whatnot… # What the world needs is an open-source mainframe emulator? http://bit.ly/ia2hi # How not to run a knowledge-worker-based company: http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2009-10-11/ #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-10-10

    DIY Party Political Speeches: http://www.speechbreaker.co.uk/ # one thing about #themineproject that I'm very proud of: we're re-establishing that Open Source is something you "make", not "vend" #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-10-09

    Many cryppies will know Hal Finney http://finney.org/~hal/ — but *everyone* who is human should read http://is.gd/44HAm <— READ THIS # @mroesch have you left the UK now? It's gone sunny all of a sudden… 🙂 in reply to mroesch # This is too true, was experiencing it the other day: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/usenet/ – Google is letting

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-10-07

    if you led a committee that created a syndication format for blog posts, people might think you're a social media expert :-> 😛 # @glynmoody PaulLeyland told me old programmer maxim: "Provide for Zero, One, or an Infinite Number of any resource" – it still holds. in reply to glynmoody # @doctorow might wanna add

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-10-06

    @mroesch gosh marty, you're as famous as steve jobs 🙂 in reply to mroesch # @mroesch The usual solution is to find a pub 🙂 in reply to mroesch # Advice wanted: seeking SIM-only PAYG contract for cellphone for @bbart when he's visiting UK. Ideally no expiry on minutes. Suggestions? # @wrwalke if coming to

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-10-05

    just got Chill Pill speakers on recommendation of @webmink; not hifi but v.nice. http://bit.ly/w0AhJ # just had moo.com print me a bunch of "ex libris" stickers; may help reduce the outflow of books that i forget about. # If you were born and raised at a computer technical conference, which conference would you choose? USENIX?

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