Dropsafe

Dave IM’ed me earlier today, telling me to get an earful of what he’s heard on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme at some obscene hour of the morning. It’s available for RealAudio playback (start at the 23:45 mark) and Matthew Yeomans Director of Custom Communication tells us many things about why companies need to…

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From Fark: Item: Vermont citizens contemplating seccession due to an overly controlling federal government. If only they could find some other states with similar issues, and form an organization. A Confederacy, if you will. (link) Comment: Independent Vermont can join with independent Quebec to form the Syrupean Union. via Bart.

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BBC News “Talking” CCTV cameras that tell off people dropping litter or committing anti-social behaviour are to be extended to 20 areas across England. They are already used in Middlesbrough where people seen misbehaving can be told to stop via a loudspeaker, controlled by control centre staff. About £500,000 will be spent adding speaker facilities…

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Click To Play After my reasonably successful trike video I bounced it off the recumbent blog and Alan Barnard got back to me saying that a shorter version might be more palatable to the blogging public at large. So here is is, at 4m07s. 🙂

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…get a silly answer. Google Maps route from New York to Dublin. See step 23. via Bart.

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So it was a nice evening last night, and inspired by Chris Gerhard’s recent video effort I decided to hand-hold my Canon IXUS 900ti and see how far I could get homewards before I filled my 2Gb SD card. All the way through the woods, and over the tank range, in turned out. As an…

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Once a month I get together with my colleagues for an ad-hoc chat and lunch about anything and everything that takes our fancy; I love these occasions not just because of the geek content we discuss but also because of the observations and gossip that they bring. A few weeks ago, the conversation went a…

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In case you missed it, me and some other folk in the Sun security community are trying something a little bit different. Security has always been a problematic topic for a corporation to discuss, except in the narrow sense of products that do some small security thing. You know what I mean – virus scanning,…

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Flickr user? Old Skool Flickr user who’s been with them for a long time? This morning, then, you’ll probably have been faced with a big glaring ugly splash screen like this: The people at Flickr probably have heard this, but in case not: boys, that’s a big oops. It’s bossy, ugly, and offers no value…

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Further to my thoughts about how to measure the growth of your readership, I hacked up a bit of perl which went sniffing for instances of %d reader(s) or %d subscriber(s) amongst my Apache logs, and boiled down the results. /dropsafe/index.rss 46 readers via Feedfetcher-Google /dropsafe/index.rss 38 readers via Bloglines/3.1 /dropsafe/index.rss 8 readers via NewsGatorOnline/2.0…

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Cathy Seipp – a blogger and writer – is gravely ill in hospital and will soon die of complications of cancer; she may have died overnight. Yet when I was seeking for an update I found some twit has registered cathyseipp dot com – I’m not hyperlinking to it, type it into the browser bar…

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Jim found a gem: “Give us a pencil. And a couple of those tees. And a Topic. No, not a Milky Way you arse, a Topic! All fecund in its nuttiness.” http://youtube.com/watch?v=p856CfM64w8 I’ve never got on with Joyce. Can’t be arsed to maintain a grip amongst the verbiage. I suspect Tim Caynes will love it,…

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