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Stingray (?) In Emeryville Marina Originally uploaded by alecmuffett I was shooting pix of the Egret (see other photos) when Adriana noticed this ray in the water, moving at speed; I got off a single shot before it vanished into the murk. The image cleaned-up well. The ray was about 18″ across.

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Want. Billion-pixel panoramas — from your own camera – Times Online The Gigapan allows people to take pictures which are more than a gigapixel – or 1,000 megapixels – in size, effectively turning a single photograph into a panoramic experience, around which the viewer can navigate on a computer. Yet the actual camera used is

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CA Anti-Spyware 2008 (aka: Pestpatrol) is not quite correct about CrackLib: http://www.pestpatrol.com/zks/pestinfo/c/cracklib_2_7.asp Clot Factor: Cracklib 2.7: 1 The “Clot Factor” is a measure of how much a pest “gums up” a machine by adding registry entries, files, and directories. As more objects are placed in a machine, manual removal becomes more difficult and more error-prone.

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One of the things I hate about jetlag: waking up at 0438h when you get home. One of the things I love about jetlag: waking up at 0438h when you get home. Damn it is – or was – early; having just got back from the SF Bay Area for the third time in 3

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spufidoo: Quote of the week: “Our Catholic speed dating event has been cancelled because a lot of the men had to pull out at the last minute.”

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This is fun. Jim Hughes and Jeff Bonwick, wrecking live disks on stage. Scroll to the bottom of the page, play the video, and push the slider over to the 18:00 minute mark.

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I always wondered how long it would be before folks started to whine. The obvious question is: why are they complaining about the cyclists when they could be complaining about getting a bigger train. Trains are not a fixed resource. If there is demand, there should also be supply. It’s funny also how the guy

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Having enjoyed the grand success that is Terminal 5’s baggage handling system and mentioning this to Jim he in turn pointed me to “The Travelling Cryptographer’s Problem“:    (by James Birkett and Gaven Watson, (best rump presentation award) at EuroCrypt 2008)

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Another place to visit… Tunnel becomes Banksy art exhibit A disused road tunnel in south London has been turned into a giant exhibition space by graffiti artist Banksy. Murals in the Bristol artist’s famous stencil style appear with work by 29 other artists in a half-mile stretch of the tunnel in Leake Street, Waterloo. Images

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I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but I was thinking it over and have come up with a list of my issues regarding a US movie adapation of Edge of Darkness – feel free to add to it in the comments: Bob Peck is Dead: OK, that’s a bit unfair, but the man did “grief” like nobody

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Dear Alex, I was drunk and bored, so I mowed your lawn. I hope you like it. Charlie (next door) …on a note in the letterbox when I got home. Tidy job too – clippings and everything.

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