Dropsafe

What’s happening at home today – remedial work to fix someone else’s appaling DIY from 10+ years ago. Quick plug here for John Bird – marvellous new builder in the Farnham area, just setting up on his own.

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I was walking down Tottenham Court Road last saturday, near Goodge St Station, and ran across an Anonymous protest against the “Church” of Scientology on the opposite side of the road – the place where (back in the 80s) Whalemeat and I went, to mess with their heads by subjecting ourselves to “audit”. (The results

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bloody hell – enormous gust of wind just blew half a dozen tiles off my roof ridge, and took out my guttering on route. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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“What will you miss about newspapers?” – “Free Kitty Litter” http://tinyurl.com/7xpwkk # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Presumably this is what comes of changing your backdrop every minute using a shellscript, and not logging out for a couple of days. Do the GNOME people care?

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This is the future of so many of my friends, but the stuff this guy listens to is distinctly *old* regardless of genre: tinyurl.com/97lec9 # A method for massively cutting UPDATE/HTTP-PUT methods in complex Rest APIs – http://tinyurl.com/7eytun # Out of context quote of the day: “I suspect my yeast has an eating disorder.” http://tinyurl.com/8rkrrr

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I was listening to the radio the other day – may have been the Today programme, I can’t remember – and there was a discussion regarding Florence Nightingale, brought about by some new biography or somesuch. I was only half-listening, but my attention was nailed when one of the speakers, presumably the one brought in

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The Mine! project » A method for massively cutting UPDATE/HTTP-PUT methods in complex Rest APIs – a simple thought which saved me a lot of CGI coding pain.

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if only my lawn was emo … http://tinyurl.com/7ntod8 # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Via acb, if you ever wanted the lowdown on what a useless PoS platform Windows is, in terms of what it lets the programmer get away with and the (in)security it provides, you really need to read this – though I must admit the use of scheme is pretty cool; I bet he was talking

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Argh the pain, make it stop! RT @adriana872 http://doncrowley.blogspot.com/2009/01/microsoft-stop-hating-us.html # This is a very good^H^H^H^H bad idea RT @Beaker: The Bacon Explosion: http://tinyurl.com/a5pvvq # Playing with Zones + ZFS/OpenSolaris – made an all-defaults zone, has very minimal root filesystem; How do I get it to inherit/add Apache? # RT: @bbart “This content requires flash” =

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