Dropsafe

pretty. [www.josephholmes.com] – trees, landscapes, colour, water.

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[news.bbc.co.uk] Home Secretary Charles Clarke is resisting calls to quit over the release of 1,023 foreign prisoners. 1023 people? I’ll bet I’m not the only one who first thought “They must have just lost a page, somewhere. Fencepost error or something.”.

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[motoring.independent.co.uk] The earth-mover marque is attempting to break the diesel land speed record. John Simister reports on a very British project The land speed record. Fastest human on earth. Glory and pride and a lot of danger. Currently it stands at a supersonic 763mph, set in 1997 by a virtual jet aeroplane with no wings

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[biz.yahoo.com] SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW – News) announced today that its board of directors has appointed Jonathan Schwartz as the Company’s chief executive officer. The appointment is the result of Sun’s on-going succession planning process and is effective immediately. Schwartz, 40, succeeds Scott McNealy, 51, who will continue

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From www.sun.com/software/solaris/howtoguides/s10securityhowto.jsp :- Sun Employee Blogs: Alec Muffat – www.crypticide.com/dropsafe It’s a nice resource, though. 😎

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Today has been my 38th birthday. I bought a circular saw from B&Q. I will use it to help make a 100 megapixel digital camera. I also bought some solar-powered lamps. Apparently they will work in the dark.

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Neil, Neil, what are you doing? [www.myspace.com] 🙂

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[en.wikipedia.org] An article in Business 2.0 magazine revealed that “Tom’s Diner” was also used by Karlheinz Brandenburg to develop the audio compression scheme known as MP3 at what is now the Fraunhofer Society. He recalled: I was ready to fine-tune my compression algorithm…somewhere down the corridor, a radio was playing “Tom’s Diner”. I was electrified.

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Well it’s no Grey Album, but ThePartyParty is one of the best, funniest, and most disturbing albums I’ve ever heard. It’s an electronica/hip-hop mashup that sounds like it was partly soundtracked on a Nintendo, ripping lyrics and influences from Led Zep, The Who, Grandmaster Flash, Lennon, Eminem, U2 and a bunch of others, rewriting them

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I just heard Alan Howarth [en.wikipedia.org] on Radio4’s “Today In Parliament” ranting about the dangers of cyclists running red lights and saying he wants to propose all cycles to have license plates a-la cars and motorcycles (“and you don’t hear anyone complaing about that!”) to bring a degree of accountability to the urban cyclists who

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[education.independent.co.uk] A leading creationist who claims to use science to prove the Bible’s version of how the Earth was made begins a controversial tour of Britain today. John Mackay, an Australian geologist who believes he has uncovered fossil evidence which dismisses evolution and proves that Noah’s flood really did happen will speak at several state

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[news.independent.co.uk] Oven gloves are off as Bourdain attacks British chefs Nigella Lawson is not a real chef, Jamie Oliver fulfils the role of a non-threatening rock star and Rick Stein has the appeal of a homely dad to grown-ups moping about lonely city apartments. […] In The Nasty Bits, a collection of his recent journalism,

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