Dropsafe

Normally riding home on the trike is a breeze; 99% of people are pleased to see you, wave, grin, kids point and you can read their lips going “I want one of those”… …and then you run into the remaining 1%. Around 1915h (ie: within the past 60 minutes) I was coming home along the

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IMG_4179 Originally uploaded by alecmuffett …is full of this thing; a Eurofighter practicing for the Farnborough Airshow. See the whole picture set.

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The question is in the subject line. Which, and why?

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ReiserFS fading into obscurity as maker leads cops to corpse ReiserFS is an open source software project and can be continued by other contributors even though its creator will soon be incarcerated and his company, called Namesys, has collapsed. Our postmortem analysis of the ReiserFS mailing list, however, seems to indicate that the project is

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I have written before about the ease of AppleID theft and about how people keep trying to do it to me (and they still keep trying; the last attempt was only a few weeks ago). Now it appears someone else is suffering and actually wrote about it. Apple, when will you please fix this? Apple

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Amazing how they all mount up. I think this is an exhaustive list. alpinestars – tech8 motorbike bootsaltberg – heavy walking bootaltberg heavy walking shoesaltberg – light walking shoesclarks – ats sandalclarks – black leather dress loafersclarks – brown suede leather loafersconverse – chucks hi-topconverse – chucks low-topdewalt – steel toe cap trainersm&s – flipflopsm&s

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Yes really. Karin mailed me the link… Find Jobs in at JobServe. Jobs Much like football, beer is a funny old game. But unlike football, there s a science behind it. Our client is one of the leaders in Professional Beer Tasting. They ve even won Queen’s awards for their work, and are currently looking

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A few years ago I started packing for business travel using a checklist, so that I at least had the option of considering all the things I should have packed, before actually departing. I’ve posted the list in the sidebar of this blog and welcome suggestions and additions to it; there’s a fairly obvious geek

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UPDATE: Tuesday 8th July 2030 UK time – video seems ok? Extraordinary weekend; saturday was spent at OpenTech because Ben Laurie invited me to be on his “Ben Laurie and Friends talk Security” panel session; so I can say truthfully that I have done a gig on-stage at ULU… There are friends of mine who

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Funny, I was going to start this blog post with a specific phrase, but El Reg beat me to it… Google’s Street View spycar clocked in London It’s time to lock up your daughters, and here’s why: The roving spycar of Google’s Street View has been spotted prowling the mean streets of London…

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Epic fail. BBC NEWS Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. The ruling comes as part of Google’s legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement. Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called the ruling a “set-back

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Is it me, or can one really not use a “Saved Search” pseudo-folder, to mark a bunch of messages as “read”? I have to re-type the search manually, select all, and then right-click to get “Mark > As Read”. If you try that in a Saved Search, the results are undetermined, or nothing happens.

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