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YAY! The mass media have picked up on the Cumulophile self-love fest! http://is.gd/29zvN – the end is in sight, we can all get back to "IT" # …but the press are far more accurate than bloggers, surely? http://is.gd/2a4T5 via http://is.gd/2a4RV #

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Does anyone have much experience of the Vodafone (Huawei?) USB Wireless Broadband on Mac OS X ? Dimly remember reports of flakiness… # Cool Tool Of The Day: EtherPad. http://etherpad.com/alecmuffett – though back in my day the word meant something entirely different… #

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@davewiner now it's on Twitter and Qik, and nobody cares, especially the media… in reply to davewiner # RT @albertwhite RT: @bbusschots: The more stoires like this I read the more I fear for the future of the iPhone – http://url.ie/26db # Oh god @stephenfry has discovered a new way to arouse the censorious …

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The way things stand it seems quite likely that 31 August will be my last day as a Sun Microsystems employee. I’ll have been at Sun for 10.25 years. I circled the globe three times, crossed the Atlantic quite a bit more, met more than a few lovely and/or fascinating people, and worked on (and

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Note to criminal community: don't plant a fake ATM as a security convention. Especially DEFCON. http://is.gd/20yOL # Isn't it odd how so many headline-grabbing "weakness in <cryptosystem>" are based on using it other than intended / specified / documented ? # Sudanese Woman faces flogging / 40 lashes + fine for "indecently" wearing long trousers

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So I wrote this about a colleague who asked me for a recommendation without providing much context for his request: [NAME] is a bizzare [NATIONAL] with a firm grasp of security and how it should be implemented. He drinks like a fish and should not be approached without alcohol or food. Beware [NAME] at times

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Today's (sunday's) Dilbert is _so_ familiar. http://is.gd/1Z3wI # your morning weirdness, for winnie-the-pooh fans: http://community.livejournal.com/randompictures/7167460.html # someone please tell me if this is fake: http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt64/abcdefghijkimmi/95fccd4a.jpg ? #

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http://twitpic.com/c8rbp – Local sign # Woo. Mac.com / me.com – pretty CAPTCHAs # Saved £190 by moving my car insurance from Admiral to Direct Line. Wondering why I didn't do it last year… # Somehow a friend visiting me at lunch, picked up my phone. Have to collect it tomorrow morning. Bugger. #

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I remember the first one of these coming out; now they are at *73* — sigh — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That's_What_I_Call_Music! # Seems Twitter has a problem with URLs containing apostrophes. After all this time ? # some geek at google has a sense of humour: http://bit.ly/weRLE # this appears to be valerie bubb? http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinarozger/3769219201/ #

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The Muffett family’s Groundnut Chop has been a tradition for as long as I can remember, and the tradition goes back way before I was born. For several years I have intended to pull the recipe details together and post them – yet have never gotten around to it; however I am cooking one of

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One reason I am glad I did not get a #iPhone: http://is.gd/1SJNG # ZX Spectrum vs: BBC Micro to become BBC Comedy Drama – and where is Alan Sugar's AMSTRAD in all this? http://is.gd/1U3Vx #

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print ".".join(x for x in itertools.chain(["a%s"%i for i in [1,2,3]],["b%s"%i for i in [4,5,6]],["c%s"%i for i in [7,8,9]])) # time for beer #

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