Dropsafe

Independent If the sudden outbreak of warm weather has persuaded you to dig out your bike from the back of the garage – or even to invest in a new machine – have you thought about security? Incidents of bike theft have increased by almost 10 per cent a year over the past five years,

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=IdPI50E0Zdo

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I have a colleague – Chris the mad cyclist – who reads DropSafe via BlogLines. He tells me that viewing the RSS feed via BlogLines does not resolve the relative URLs in the links so that they link through to www.crypticide.com. Could someone test this for me please? Here is a direct link: direct Here

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Technology linked to depression, and RF gives you cancer. This one should run for a while, get out your tin hats, boys and girls. Independent Electronic smog Invisible “smog”, created by the electricity that powers our civilisation, is giving children cancer, causing miscarriages and suicides and making some people allergic to modern life, new scientific

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For reasons that I shaln’t explain here, this musical has been a cult hit amongst some of the security geeks inside Sun for the past few months. Details Seat pricesUp to 27 June 2006: Mon to Fri eves and all mats: £30.00 to £10.00 Saturday evenings: £35.00 to £15.00From 28 June 2006: Mon to Thurs

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So I was riding back from visiting friends in Preston and pulled into Sandbach Services for a rest stop; I pulled up under a petrol station awning, stripped-off my lid, and swigged some water. Some distance behind me I heard a honk, and saw a bus heading for the HGV park-up area, being gesticulated-at by

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If it’s raining today, and you’ld rather be out on the road: http://www.dustydavis.com/ Best line: “Camping in the rain in Minnesota. Bringing all this stuff into the tent is what earned me an introduction to a bear the next night.” …and… http://theadventuresofboz.blogspot.com/ Boz does South America. The whole thing’s worth reading.

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I’m eating my refrigerator. Tonight for dinner I had elicoidali pasta in a fish pesto prepared from bottarga di tonno (pulverised tuna roe) and lemon olive oil, with caperberries and roasted black olives, dressed with flakes of a British pecorino-like cheese which name I forget, but may have had something to do with the name

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I must be doing something right if they’re attacking me: …the two graphs are not quite to the same scale, but the story is plain enough: I came under some sort of botnet attack from March 24th which lasted three weeks, and it’s kudos to my provider that I didn’t notice any downtime or indeed

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I suspect weather kept the crowds away. I swear they’re missing an opportunity, they should just erect a slide down into the Cherwell and charge a quid for it. Market forces and all that. The students would appreciate it. Independent Students leapt from Magdalen Bridge in Oxford to celebrate May Morning yesterday, despite police attempts

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Independent All plans for new housebuilding have been frozen over a massive area of the Home Counties to protect three species of rare birds in the most remarkable clash yet between environment and development in Britain. Concerns about the welfare of the nightjar, the woodlark and the Dartford warbler have halted schemes for building thousands

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