Dropsafe

An 0630 alarm clock — and today I’ve reconfigured my home network, rebuilt my old G4 iMac, made bread, disassembled a pile of stuff to sell on Ebay, finished porting a blog from Typepad (vile) to WordPress (less vile) , encrypted a 200Gb volume, done a load of laundry, mowed the lawn, weedkilled a border,

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Hilarious – even, I suspect, for my God-Squaddy friends… 10 things I hate about Commandments via Charlie from Colorado.

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Via Joerg came this link to Adam Leventhal, regarding Sun’s Open-Sourced “DTrace” software, and Linux, and what happens when some in the Linux community runs headlong into some desirable technology which is not apparently “ritually clean” enough for them to adopt: Last week at OSCON someone set up a whiteboard with the heading “Tools We

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So I was chatting with a friend about a little electronics project I have in mind, and (after a fairly dense overview of what I have in mind) he asks for a picture [1] showing how things would fit together… I could make the sketch on a piece of paper and then go hunt for

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At http://www.flickr.com/photos/alecmuffett/sets/72157601188592717/

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From mini-AIR; he who writes the book, makes the rules… Investigators Sally Shelton passes on news from investigator Robin Leech, who passes on news from an entomologists’ discussion: “Neil Evenhuis described a new species of bee fly (Bombyliidae) from the US Southwest. It is named Phthiria relativitae, n.sp. pronounced Theory O’ Relativity.” Dr. Evenhuis is

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That sounds like R2D2 on his wedding night – Hamish Blake on abc‘s Spicks and Specks, describing the sound of the Theremin

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I don’t even wear a watch, and I still think these look cool… http://www.chiefmag.com/issues/4/profiles/Haruo-Suekichi/ Yes, right, yes… so I didn’t sell a single one, and my master told me, well, if you don’t sell them, you won’t make any money, so find some way to sell them. So I went to a flea market with

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Warning: insane kitty cuteness ahead: Lynn Voedisch, journalist, author, and wife of friend and colleague Dr Brad Blumenthal, has been writing-up their efforts to capture some of the stray feral kittens in their neighborhood: If the Xanga photo editor will let me, I will show you the kittens who are in our backyard. BTW, they

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Simon kindly lent me his expertise and we assembled my new AMD Solaris box; the final configuration for those of you who are interested in such things, was: 2.1GHz dual-core AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 @ 45W Zalman CP9500 CPU Cooler Thermaltake Toughpower 1000W PSU Thermaltake Armor (full-tower with side fan) 4x1Gb Corsair Dominator DDR2 non-ECC

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…is not a mouthful of novocaine, but I suspect that what it protected me from is worth it.

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So I was driving home from London at 0700h this morning, and missed/overshot my exit on the Motorway, and had to get off at Hook; it’s a good thing I did because otherwise I might have driven into this “hole in the road drama” !!! Quoth: Village road collapses THERE has been a hole-in-the-road drama

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