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CEC 2007 Day 1: 2nd breakout – IT-Futurology by Alec Muffet
Quote: IT changes the life, it changes processes, it changes business. Interestingly the way the presentation has to be staged, it showed how huge the possibilites are in everybody´s hand. Alec wasn´t able to make it to Las Vegas out of private reasons. Thus he had prerecord it, send to Las Vegas to a colleague
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Muffett lived a life full of cannibals and councils
Muffett lived a life full of cannibals and councils By Mike Pryce IT’S my considerable regret that I never got round to sitting down with Dr David Muffett. It’s too late now, because he’s dead. He died last week in hospital aged 88 and Worcestershire has lost another of its most colourful characters. No doubt
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Bart forwarded me: Five years ago, I embarked on an expedition for which I was too unfit and unprepared. My circumstances at the time were not conducive to success, yet I stepped boldly forward anyway. I made it as far as the third base camp, approximately halfway to the ultimate goal. The journey so far
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Wanted: Fix for “iTunes has stopped updating this podcast because…”
So I keep getting an exclamation mark next to a bunch of my podcast feeds, and when you hover over it, it tells you: iTunes has stopped updating this podcast because you haven’t listened to any episodes for two weeks …or somesuch. If you try googling it, you will find other people who are equally
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Radiohead Album Price Tag: ‘It’s Up to You’
NYT Blogs How much would you pay for the next Radiohead album, “In Rainbow� This is not a trick question: Your answer will be as binding as a dictator’s edict. “IT’S UP TO YOU,†the rock band’s site informs customers pre-ordering the digital download, which will be available Oct. 10. Doubters get a second assurance:
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Skype disrupted my hotel Internet : Get a nicer Hotel?
Adriana passed me this link by Dan York, CISSP: http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2007/09/how-using-skype.html I’m staying at the Best Western and did so largely because they advertised free high-speed Internet (they were also cheaper than others). First annoyance was discovering that I was too far away from their APs to use wireless, but since I had an ethernet cable
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David Joseph Mead Muffett, 1919-2007
A short note to let you all know that my father died this morning, in hospital in Redditch, shortly after midnight. He had been in and out of hospital since a fall in January which broke his hip, with complications from infections, distress and – most recently – a gastric ulcer for which he eventually
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MediaDefender & P2P
I’ll cut straight to the money quote from this fantastic Ars Technica article: The cold war being waged between MediaDefender and P2P copyright infringers is rife with mutual deception, but one fact shines through all of the layers of obfuscation: MediaDefender consistently underestimates the ingenuity, resourcefulness, and dedication of its adversaries. In this case, it
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i can haz geology?
http://community.livejournal.com/geology/201605.html
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So this is the state of New Orleans, still?
View Larger Map …according to Google Maps, it is. Zoom in and pan around to the right of the water…
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Metallica is a Gay Band (apparently)
This is just tragic: http://lovegodsway.org/GayBands One of the most dangerous ways homosexuality invades family life is through popular music. Parents should keep careful watch over their children’s listening habits, especially in this Internet Age of MP3 piracy. Bands to watch out for: Go check out the list of Gay Bands, and then the Safe Bands
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Leaked Family Guy Star Wars Scene Shows Slight Computer Knowledge
From Rob Diamond: Leaked Family Guy Star Wars Scene Shows Slight Computer Knowledge There’s at least one guy on Family Guy that’s used a computer in the last five years, as evidenced by this sneak-peek R2-D2 scene from the new season’s first episode airing this Sunday. It’s a nice clip both to entertain you for