Dropsafe

via @wikileaks: do you get your Internet access via satellite? There’s a backdoor so you can be watched: http://is.gd/PiBT # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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A few weeks ago I participated in a Westminster eForum Seminar (PDF) on Behavioural Targeting, Social Networking and the Challenges of Online Privacy. I’m honour bound not to talk about the content of the meeting other than to note that I found the Phorm folk to be even more comprehensively slimy than I imagined, and

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Humphries just said a minister was up for a “bollocking” on the Today programme. Ah, the magic of Radio 4… # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Evening. Garden. Water. Clear. Bonfire. Rake. Sweat. Skewer. Toast marshmallows. Sweetness. Beer. Small pile ash. Mortality. Hmm. Good day. # yay new hampshire. # I wondered what stopped Caitlin doing #rocketboom but then I went to http://www.hitviews.com and was sickened by #CHEEZINESS ref: http://is.gd/NRLv # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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1) cannot upgrade to 2009_06 due to bug http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1530 2) therefore uninstall “slim” packages, as apparently advised (or, at least, not advised against) by colleague 3) try to uninstall slim packages 4) cannot uninstall slim packages due to dependency 5) uninstall -r slim packages 6) cannot uninstall -r slim packages, inadequate permissions 7) pfexec uninstall

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“Package 126 of 1635” … #opensolaris update is *so* *slooooow* … # re: @alexhutton that’s tragic; mgt can’t cope with fine granularity and it is hard to defend in the face of “are we secure, or not?” in reply to alexhutton # #opensolaris upgrade failed: “KeyError: ‘user name not found: jack’” – bad omen, esp

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Tanqueray < Bombay Sapphire < Hendrick’s Gordon’s has too little character to feature in the above list. [Testing may not have been continuous]

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Harrogate has the Bomb – RT @bbart : Beware of North Yorkshire… http://bit.ly/JDJ3H # neighbours just gave me 6 new potatoes, dug straight from garden; v.lovely, & that’s dinner sorted, + lamb/coriander burgers + glass of red # just had mail from #twitter, about @planrecruiter wanting to follow me; URL was a hex cookie. Are

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More Smooth Newt Originally uploaded by alecmuffett Found her under a pile of leaves being cleared out, and moved her to the compost heap, where there should be many bugs and easily accessible water.

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Female Smooth Newt Originally uploaded by alecmuffett Found her under a pile of leaves being cleared out, and moved her to the compost heap, where there should be many bugs and easily accessible water.

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it is me or is the #virtualbox download site asking me for my e-mail addresses and promising to send me a white paper, and /nada/? (OSX) # Ah, have understood. If you fill-in the whitepaper request, or do anything other than click X to dismiss it, no #virtualbox download. # (firefox, OSX) # #i #wonder

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