Dropsafe

I spent Monday and Tuesday spent in Fulda, Germany with Sun’s CMT sales team, at the Sun Partner University; wonderful to meet the team there, lotsa fun and chat. Video of my presentation should be forthcoming so long as I can fix the audio.

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Nokia Fix Originally uploaded by alecmuffett On a recent trip the power cable frayed internally and broke, so I broke it properly (very important) and then did a temporary splice so I could charge the phone… It got me home.

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Dark May Be King, but Milk Chocolate Makes a Move – New York Times Now, some chocolatiers are fighting back, with expensive, suave “dark milk” chocolates that reinvent milk chocolate by increasing its cacao content, reducing its sweetness and carefully refining it to give it the snap and velvet of dark. (tags: chocolate food) Skalnaté

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IMG_6035 Originally uploaded by alecmuffett …okay, so it’s from one of Sun’s Blackbox machines, but try convincing me that the designer didn’t have that in mind…

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Sad. Back in 1983-ish, I had to save up my pocket money so that I could cycle to WH Smith, where over the course of a few months they located (on microfiche) and ordered my three volumes of Burnham’s Celestial Handbook. The British astronomical scene knew almost nothing of Burnham, the canon on this side

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A little project that I am helping out with in my spare time, creating a new way for people to share information with companies, vendors and friends but shorn of all the federated-knowledge-based-identity-crypto-bullshit. Power to the Persons redux Technical outline: the feeds-based VRM concept is for you to be able to manage, manipulate and share

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Laureen tries to pay a bill – a lesson in customer care done wrong and right… ElementalMom » Paying a Late Bill Seven minutes after that, Mitch in Collections picks up the phone. Desperate, I blurt out “I really, really, just want to give someone my money. That’s all I want to do. I have

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Regards this and this, how long do you think it will be before the police start publicly calling for the freedom to impound cameras, license video recording rights, counter-sue for invasion of privacy, and similar ? If it’s not happened already, it will, soon.

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5 things you need to know about laptop searches at U.S. borders “We think people should know that they basically are leaving their right to privacy at the door when they cross the U.S. border. There is no assumption of privacy [at a port of entry].” Susan Gurley, executive director of the Association of Corporate

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An obituary worth reading. Marie Smith | Economist.com BEYOND the town of Cordova, on Prince William Sound in south-eastern Alaska, the Copper River delta branches out in silt and swamp into the gulf. Marie Smith, growing up there, knew there was a particular word in Eyak, her language, for the silky, gummy mud that squished

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The Glory, Bliss and How-to of Screen Scraping for RSS – ReadWriteWeb Damn, this is cool. Take regularly-updating web pages and provide a RSS feed for them via scraping… (tags: blogging dataportability xml web2.0 video Dapper scraping) What’s Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008 – ReadWriteWeb Read up! This is what other

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yeah yeah… Originally uploaded by alecmuffett Progress!

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