Dropsafe

From an e-mail to an American colleague: >I pray you were no where near the bombings? I was in mid-France at the time; we didn’t have time to encounter local comment. I am told that the Italians cannot comprehend why the British were not beating their breasts, wailing in public and rending garments in the

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I wonder if “woo” means in Norwegian much what it does in English – Viking influences and all… [www.crypticide.com]

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Received this, this morning: From: (address.elided)@aol.com Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:10:01 EDT Subject: Regarding Your Artwork I am requesting the use of your photo entitled 660h-bridge.jpg for album artwork on my band’s cd. If this is alright, I will give a copyright notice on the cd’s. Thank you so much for your time. Andy

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1 bike, 24 days, 6100 miles, 7 countries, and 1 speeding ticket. postings to follow over the next few days. for now: laundry and bed.

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Quoth Geoff Arnold: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers? Um… “No.” Famously so. Alas. Next?

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I’ve now started adding Technorati/other tags to selected postings – the syntax I am using appears to be correct: …but to date I have no records of any referrals (“referrerals”? 😎) to the (admittedly small) number of target postings, but then it just struck me: Personally I never can be arsed to regularly go look

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My reading for the next few weeks: Just Law by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC – the strapline for which goes: Acute, questioning, humane and passionately concerned for justice, Baroness Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal circles in Britain today. She is a Chair of the British Council, Chair of the

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Regarding [www.theregister.co.uk] – communications from a churchgoing IT-focused friend of mine: Message received: Congratulations! “E-mail is one of the most important IT services we provide at the Holy See – enabling our internal communication, facilitating correspondence between our consulates, and aiding our worldwide evangelization efforts,” said Sister Judith Zoebelein of the Internet Office at the

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[news.bbc.co.uk] As mobile phones get more sophisticated, is a PIN or password sufficient to keep them from prying eyes? Help is at hand or, more specifically, on your fingertips. … “There are more and more cases of computers being stolen with critical data,” says Alan Kramer of UPEK, one of the companies developing the technology.

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The BBC story: The Big Brother beauty contest Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder but a new website has taken networking to Darwinian extremes by banning ugly people. Beautifulpeople.net is an online club which admits only the most beautiful people – through a vicious selection process. Applicants enter a profile and picture,

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Dixon of Dock Green would have loved this: bolshy woman with suspended license is pulled over, refuses to get out of her car, and so the officer zaps her with 50,000 volts. Video: [www.palmbeachpost.com] (disturbing scenes, loud audio) Draw your own conclusions.

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