Dropsafe

A lot of my colleagues – myself included – use AIM and the like (Yahoo, MSN Messenger, …) to keep in touch during work hours. I am a recent arrival to AOL Instant Messenger, but have subscribed due to the gravity of the service. This reflects that many of my colleagues believe that AIM is

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[www.cs.huji.ac.il] Colorization is a computer-assisted process of adding color to a monochrome image or movie. The process typically involves segmenting images into regions and tracking these regions across image sequences. Neither of these tasks can be performed reliably in practice; consequently, colorization requires considerable user intervention and remains a tedious, time-consuming, and expensive task. In

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[news.bbc.co.uk] Tony Blair’s anti-terror measures are due to go back before MPs, after peers again voted to amend the bill. Lords insisted that a time limit or “sunset clause” should be added to the bill, which allows control orders to be imposed on terror suspects. The Lords also demanded a higher burden of proof before

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It doesn’t seem to suck. I am impressed. Trailer, below. From: Robert Diamond “The Office” on NBC [www.rresults.com]

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If this is accurate, I will have very high hopes – this could be a line as-delivered-by Tom Baker… [found.pale.org] Quote from the new Doctor Who: “If you’re an alien, how come you sound like you’re from the North?” “Lots of planets have a North” …that said, one of the writers is Steven Moffat, he

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My presentation got a short review by Geoff: Grids for Financial Services – Alec Muffett: Intensely, relentlessly, and amusingly pragmatic and iconoclastic. But you knew that. That’s nice. Possibly as nice as his comment from November 2002: I find your blog bizarrely compelling. This disturbs me. …although I do wonder whether a synthesis of bizzare,

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…and associated networking and socialising. More at [www.crypticide.com] Whilst we’re on the topic, isn’t this the least tactful manufacture of bag with which to be walking through airport security?

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So: Rob and I were in San Francisco, getting a little early shopping in before our corporate conference kicked-off, first and foremost trying to buy most of the contents of the local branch of REI; I had raided the luggage department, the camping stoves, and frisbee section; Rob had purchased for his wife a dehydrated

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My mate Grum mailed me thusly: Knowing your pechant for strange hobbies and pastimes, this story had you written all over it! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4311821.stm …really, I have no idea where I’d find a pole that would support me, nor any place to stand one. If you think this sounds silly or sad, consider that in certain

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an amusing take on design: [www.viceversa.com] – link from Bart.

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How on earth did I manage to miss this webiste with this picture last October?

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