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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-04
Does anyone understand the rules for trains to stop, unscheduled, at Clapham Junction. It seems haphazard…. # @DrunkenBungle totally. There must be some pattern to it, glad I don’t need it, but also deeply peeving in reply to DrunkenBungle # @bbart I would like that expln but it is too rational to be correct; also
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IF YOU ARE BEING RIF’D FROM SUN UK, PLEASE ADD TO THIS TODO LIST / CHECKLIST / POST
I’ve had a request: Please send your checklist as it now stands of things to do to prepare for redundancy. I know you’ve already done some of the stuff on there and that there are things to add which will be specific to me, but I’d be grateful! But alas most of it has been
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-03
@darrenmoffat howso? in reply to darrenmoffat # whacked my head on window surround trying to rescue terrarium cover that had just blown off. #notmyday # Someone else had their #iTunes account hacked, #Apple punt blame. Who will publish Apple’s lax web security? http://is.gd/1lt5X # #Apple #iTunes identity theft background: http://is.gd/1lt8w and (longer) http://is.gd/1ltkR # Weird:
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when hackers talked in even parity and were 40 columns wide
Gosh, this takes me back: Message # 00661 **Hacker’s section** From: JONATHAN BARBER To: ALL Subject:EUCLID Date: 6/3/86 Fob all of you who want an easy hack heres how to get onto the EUCLID computer.First di!l up’ JANET gn 01 831 6181 for 1200/75 or try 01 388 2333.Type PAD and RETURN as soon as
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Why, in the future, everyone will be blogging (again), and it’s not just what Winer said.
Winer writes: I predict a return to blogging as people discover the power of being able to finish a thought, and to link to another site without going through an intermediary. Once again people will discover the power of Small Pieces, Loosely Joined. …and I think I agree that people will return to blogging —
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The Mine! Project – Google Tech Talk Videos #themineproject #vrm
The presentations that Adriana and I did for The Mine! Project’s Google Tech Talk at the Google Campus earlier this year are now posted on the blog; I apologise that the audio on the first video is not original and had to be re-recorded, this was due to hardware issues* on the day. In the
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New Book: The New School of Information Security
Another book arrived for the input stack this morning: “The New School of Information Security” by Adam Shostack (hi, Adam) and Andy Stewart. First impressions: for the price I paid, I was thinking it would be somewhat larger – sort of “Security Engineering, Second Edition”-size. Instead it’s closer to a “this slim volume…” size. It
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-02
wisley royal horticultural society # history of abermud: http://bit.ly/19jNGw # prrrt?! http://www.flickr.com/photos/keet0m/3215137675/ #
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Radio revolution will leave listeners in silence
The Times overcooks the eco-argument slightly – the growth in datacentres is inevitable as work expand to fit the computation power available – but there is an undeniable fact in the power tradeoffs at the consumer end: I have a small transistor radio in the bathroom (no mains power in the bathroom) and it consumes
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step 1 towards more blogging
Spend an hour sorting out all your blog-posting bookmarks into a single bookmark-toolbar folder, so with one click you are set up to post everywhere.
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Twitter Updates for 2009-06-30
Testing g1 http://twitgoo.com/zu2x #
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Kid Swaps iPod For Sony Walkman, Gets A Culture Shock
Kid Swaps iPod For Sony Walkman, Gets A Culture Shock Must read, Will Laugh. Best quote: It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but