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Grauniad The sky at night over Sir Patrick Moore’s Sussex garden was a pinkish-grey slab of damp blotting paper. The promised meteor shower may well have been streaking across the heavens, thick as hailstones, but once again the main event had evaded the cameras of the oldest television science series in the world. Instead, Chris

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Reading the attached, I’d expect the tabloid press to come up with a rant like: This country needs a law so that criminals who try and hide their activity behind walls of cryptography can be prosecuted for not handing over the key to incriminate themselves! …but, wait, there already is one. Does the Government not

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Geoff’s Blog My Flickr Geoff’s Mum’s Front Room The latter is the sort of wall to which I aspire… his photos from the trip are well worth a browse, even for the sunrises alone.

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Gartner. Gotta love ’em. I don’t expect unbounded growth, but they are looking at the wrong metrics. They’re staring at the finger, not at what the finger points. (Via) BBC News The blogging phenomenon is set to peak in 2007, according to technology predictions by analysts Gartner. The analysts said that during the middle of

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My colleague Tim Caynes writes the strangest blog entries of anyone I know. After a while, you can actually read them and understand what he’s talking about.

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Jim puts it thusly: There was a story on the BBC on Friday (it’s still there) about the Bishop of Southwark apparently being mugged. Terribly sad, I thought. But this morning, the Torygraph reports the event rather differently – …later, after witnesses told an entirely different story of apparently drink-related behaviour, the 66-year-old prelate admitted

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smartmobs ADAMANT has a post called Weighing the Web. It is a long post, well worth reading if you are into facts and figures flavored with some fun. Some calculations I liked are: Last year’s power bill for the global internet was just $3 per capita- a bargain even by third world standards. A statistically

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In another place, Charlie asked: I’m afraid that suet is a home-made thing. Luckily, that’s one of the things I learned to make when I was learning to be a butcher, along with real live lard. But wtf is a steak and kidney pudding? …which pressed me to write this explanation, now blogged with enhancements:

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An essay by Dave Walker. If you deploy Solaris – or even if you don’t – and are thinking about IDS, go read.

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I wonder – will this be satire, or anti-blogging propaganda? BBC Ticketing Recorded for Training Purposes is a new sketch show about modern communication and media nonsense. Created by a multi- award winning team, whose credits include The Now Show, Dead Ringers, Think the Unthinkable and The Sunday Format, it is a showcase for new

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Interesting that it is Lotus Ventura; does that mean it’s sold as a Lotus Notes bundle? Elias Torres I know I have been very quiet the past month or so but not because I didn’t have anything to say on the contrary lots of stuff is going in my personal life and work at IBM.

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This evening’s IM conversation with Brad in Chicago. Trés manly. brad: Ping? alec: pong brad: Brain glitch. I thought I was pinging a different tab. alec: bwahahahaha alec: am not on swan, am perl hacking, am drunk brad: Fun. brad: Remember: Don’t drink and root. alec: sudo is my drinking buddy alec: enormous G&T with

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