Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

  • Twitter Updates for 2009-09-26

    Chap just got off train with a "Southwest Trains" branded Brompton. Are they in a staff scheme, or what? # The Economist audio edition is now available as a proper podcast. Wheeeeeeee! # Mostly gave up on spotify after a threshold of too many artists I enjoy not being listed. Not used in weeks. #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-09-24

    If you are a Demon Internet user, eek! See @stewarttownsend in reply to stewarttownsend # Demon splurges details of 3,600 customers in billing email http://bit.ly/jaOIG # @bittenbyte cute, if chunky. 🙂 in reply to bittenbyte # methinks @dsearls has been mentioning #themineproject again, twitter followers have picked up 🙂 # #adium performance seems to suffer

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  • Expert challenges UFO hacker’s $700k bill | 22 Sep 2009 | ComputerWeekly.com

    via Expert challenges UFO hacker’s $700k bill | 22 Sep 2009 | ComputerWeekly.com. The US inflated the $700,000 bill for damages it slapped on UFO hacker Gary McKinnon by stuffing it with costs incurred for patching the gaping holes the hacker had exposed in its computer security, according to a document filed with the Supreme

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-09-23

    cream cheese, lovage, salami and diced pickled peppers… not bad #experimental #sandwich # followed by stem ginger ice cream affogato # Excellently dada Google AppEngine RFE: http://bit.ly/vdhWk (everybody 'star' this!) # another day of django, python, google app engine & templates; fun, though i think i need a haircut else i'll look totally code-warrior #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-09-22

    #skype message sound alerts aren't working properly for some time now; when IM has focus, the first bleep in an exchange makes no noise? # Someone at Ofcom has finally worked out that the Web renders them irrelevant, so they react as usual: http://is.gd/3wAOD via @glynmoody # Dell hoping to fill the Sun gap? http://bit.ly/nuicg

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  • @adriana872’s best non-caff tea evar

    Something I learned from Adriana at the weekend: take 1 stick of lemongrass, dice it into small chunks and steep in a teapot with boiling water for 5 minutes. Yields excellent, fragrant tea, a great pick-me-up; the lemongrass may seem a tad expensive but you can refill the pot many times (like, even a day

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-09-21

    Chromium on OSX is becoming surprisingly usable: http://bit.ly/bNmXk # Troy Kennedy Martin obit (mp3) http://is.gd/3weH3 – via @markborkowski and de-reffed from iTunes #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-09-19

    Read this #BofA #BankOfAmerica disaster story http://is.gd/3pWXc – note final paragraphs… # http://is.gd/3pWXc California has criminalized attorneys taking payment towards helping loan-modification, inhibits access to legal advice #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-09-18

    how one project deals with code submission requirements / licensing : http://bit.ly/1pQyvE # #GoogleFriendConnect munges my icon to add a google logo. This rather defeats the point of the QR-code. #fail #google # cat taking a improvised shower http://bit.ly/QagwG – love it. must be warm water? # Britain's postal-code database online at Wikileaks; waiting for

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-09-17

    @mathiasbaert scissors. you win. in reply to mathiasbaert # this makes me feel that the FCC do not know the difference between "indecent" and "obscene" : http://is.gd/3lDje # @bensummers cf: my Enterprise-grade HA-coffee with diverse routes to 2 separate machines plus a manual backup with grinder and oil burner. in reply to bensummers # An

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-09-16

    eel ploot bo coop oncor oon fwah. mehrd. # @dlacher try a computer. hamburgers lack decent MPEG codecs. in reply to dlacher # snorcl: ENOPURPLE http://bit.ly/OCvos # The French National Assembly has passed a draft law that would allow illegal downloaders to be thrown off the net http://is.gd/3jqOI # @bbart got soaked walking back from

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  • Best put-down of the day…

    Ivan Krstić What you’re proposing amounts to a great deal of complex and complicated cryptography. If it were implemented tomorrow, it would take years for the most serious of implementation errors to get weeded out, and some years thereafter for proper interoperability in corner cases. In the meantime, mobile device makers would track you down

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