Dropsafe

[www.thedailywtf.com] Josh Breckman worked for a company that landed a contract to develop a content management system for a fairly large government website. Much of the project involved developing a content management system so that employees would be able to build and maintain the ever-changing content for their site. Because they already had an existing

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This is the method I used: [aplawrence.com]

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[www.martinconquest.com] “Our recent launch of The Conquest is the culmination of a three-year dream to provide mobility to disabled former motorcyclists and disabled aspiring motorcyclists. “The Conquest is based on the BMW R-Series motorcycle and is the first mass-produced high performance tricycle available in the UK that can be driven from a wheelchair. The Conquest’s

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Cybercommies! In our Laptops! [news.bbc.co.uk] A US agency is calling for an official probe into Chinese computer firm Lenovo’s contract to supply 15,000 computers to the US State Department. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) said it feared the PCs could be fitted with bugging devices to spy on the US government. Lenovo,

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A little theory of mine: Margaret Thatcher won the election of 4th May 1979 (JD 2443998) Margaret Thatcher resigned on 22nd November 1990 (JD 2448218) Margaret Thatcher was in power for 4220 days. Tony Blair won the election of 2nd May 1997 (JD 2450571) Hypothesis: Tony Blair wants to beat Thatcher’s record. ergo: Tony Blair

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If some links are broken over the next few days, please don’t be surprised; I am shuffling some files around.

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[news.bbc.co.uk] An anonymous blog by a young woman in war-torn Iraq has been longlisted for BBC Four’s Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Baghdad Burning, a first-hand account written under the pseudonym Riverbend, is one of 19 books in contention.

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The year: 2006 “To avoid falling victim, Microsoft urged users to avoid websites they did not trust and to refrain from opening attachments on e-mail messages from unknown senders.” <bwahahahahahahaha> <giggle> <snurf> <hahahaha> “in this day and age, what on earth are they thinking? why do people put up with this sort of nonsense? when

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…so there’s a flyer through my door saying: WHICH DO YOU FIND MORE OFFENSIVE? A cartoon of Muhammad with a bomb for a turban, or… Muslim demonstrators calling for terrorist attacks on Europe and the ‘extermination’ of non-Muslims. Blah, blah, blah, British National Party, blah blah Winston Churchill blah blah, blah huge gulf between the

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Sad. [www.usatoday.com]

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So I opened the toolshed yesterday, took everythig out, sorted it and trashed the unnecessary stuff that had been hanging around for far too long, washed-out the shed and put everything back. In the process I opened one small, grubby, otherwise unremarkable cardboard box, and therein rediscovered a selection of books – most of which

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[www.whitehouse.org]

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