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Dunning-Kruger effect The Dunning-Kruger effect is the phenomenon wherein people who have little knowledge (or skill) tend to think that they know more (or have more skill) than they do, while others who have much more knowledge tend to think that they know less. Dunning and Kruger were awarded a 2000 Ig Nobel prize for

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The last 4 or 5 years have seen me work on several projects in Sun, less and less directly focused upon security architecture, design and evangelism of the sort I really enjoy. That’s changing – as of this week I have a new role, and once again will be back at the security coalface with

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Yay! Moo just announced they’re doing business cards. £10.99 for 50, it looks like.

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 “And some people wondered, ‘What does it really mean to play something as slow as possible? Couldn’t it always be a little slower?’ They finally decided that you could play until the instrument stopped working. They figured that a new organ would last for 639 years, so they decided you could play this piece so

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The Cycle Trailer in Ghana Barriers to adoption of cycle trailers in Ghana; the details are fascinating, something so simple can be messed-up by not thinking clearly enough and not asking the right questions…

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Wheel life: A guide to Britain’s new bike tribes – Green Living, Environment – The Independent A series of portraits… (tags: bicycle news)

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Amazing Atoms (from PBS‘ Nova Science Now), a scientifically more accurate depiction of atoms.

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The title says it mostly: I just wiped my MBA and started the reinstall, and by dropping GarageBand, iWeb, Language Translations and a bunch of Printer Drivers, I recovered 5.5Gb of storage for other purposes… and I kept iPhoto, iDVD, and a handful of other things. Some of that stuff is just bloat. Next: restore

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…contribute to an early demise.While it’s a saying I’ve uttered more than once I’ve ignored its “wisdom” and have started getting up early and going for an hour’s walk before breakfast. If there’s wisdom in the title’s saying then so be it – there’s beauty to be seen in the early mornings:    Hazely Heath    

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Lesson 1: start from the back  The end of the alphabet is a good place to start (…) 

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Lots of people are raving about the MD5/GPU password hashing implementation at the moment; to me it’s old news (anyone remember attempts to run DES on the Amiga A500’s bit blitter?) but just for amusement’s sake I decided to see what Sun’s new Victoria Falls hardware could do in the password cracking space. Cutting to

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I just received this chummy invitation to a e-mail address that I hardly use any more, from someone I was sure I would have remembered: Check out my Facebook profile I set up a Facebook profile where I can post my pictures, videos and events and I want to add you as a friend so

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