Dropsafe

Just back from Minibar London – it was nice, I wish there had been more speakers, but the guy from Moo.com was amusing, as was the chap from the company beginning with “Z” who were doing something about search for real-estate/lettings and other things… er, yeah, well I was at the back and the audio

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Via Bart. Too silly not to watch. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1770138

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Surprisingly sound… The TUC is advising companies that the outright banning of such sites in the workplace may be something of an “overreaction.” Instead, the group said, it’s much better to focus on setting up formal policies for acceptable use of such sites in the workplace.

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How a techie company *should* explain when it goofs up: Dreamhost: It All Falls Down Via Jim.

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I just got IM’ed by Simon Phipps who was making a transparent attempt to plug the latest (if awkwardly titled) posting on his Sun Blog – but that’s OK, because it’s a fairly cool thing 🙂 – although I believe the actual goal is best described on the relevant Sun Wiki page: Purpose: The goal

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I have a 2.5Tb Solaris (nv71x) box, and the five disks which create the primary pool are joined together in RAID-Z. On that pool I have created five filesystems: default – just a vanilla filesystemcopies-2 – set copies=2 for data dittoblockscopies-3 – copies=3compress-gzip – use gzip compressioncompress-lzjb – use lzjb compression …and I have exported

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I love Windows. I love the way you can boot it to do something small but urgent, having not booted for several weeks, and it will chug, chunder, whiz and chime, repeatedly demanding to be rebooted whilst achieving precisely nothing for you. So many flashing lights! So many resonant bongs! It’s like a flower that

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On Geoff Arnold‘s Facebook Page – and I am in good company… 🙂

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I seem to remember Eric having an interest in Astronomy, so I am not surprised by this happening. I look forwards to trying it out.

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Dear Mr Muffett, Transport for London has published the third series of its Local Cycling Guides. The new series is made up of 14 individual guides, with 4,000km of routes covering the whole of London, with Guide 1 covering central London. Each Guide shows up-to-date routes for cycling in your local area, all of which

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…shame about the song; well actually it’s an OK song (heh) but the video is superb; and it is just about worth waiting until about the end. I can’t help but think it’s the sort of thing Gondry would have had a hand in making. Via

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“The trouble with cycle commuting is you end up at work!” (from the Tasmanian Bicycle Council)

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