Dropsafe

Having seen it for the first time today, hands-up anyone else who wondered whether The Incredibles was scripted by someone who was aiming to produce the Disney version of Watchmen It happens. After all, [www.imdb.com] was based on the moderately savage [www.imdb.com] (ignore the latter’s frothy IMDB review and try [www.amctv.com]) – so I suspect…

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Lesson for all those who do long distance touring: “The great thing about hotel buffet breakfasts is that you can make yourself a packed lunch.” I must remember to pack some tupperware.

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All my bike articles are now being syndicated at [www.whybike.com] – cool!

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[www.securityfocus.com] “forkbomb it” I’ll admit that I thought his statement was pretty funny. How did this guy expect to bring down a Linux machine by fork bombing it as a non-root user? Not being as intimately familiar with the various Linux distributions as I am with the three BSDs, I figured that I’d have a…

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Fainting Goat Videos. I kid you not. Via [improbable.typepad.com]

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Tim Bray posted It’s Not Dangerous (with a subsequent redux) while “Tom Reynolds” posted How To Blog And Not Lose Your Job; they are all interesting postings, and I shall follow-up with my views, later.

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I would be really interested to give one of these a go: [www.motorcycle-blog.com] We first covered a diesel powered KLR back in May of last year, with a story about F1 Engineering’s military spec bike that was designed to win government, armed forces and law enforcement contracts. Now, it turns out that the bike recently…

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[www.timesonline.co.uk] MOTORCYCLISTS will soon be able to weave their biking magic across more of the road if a promised government review gives them permission to ride in bus lanes. The Department for Transport’s current advice, published in 1997, recommends that local authorities do not allow bikers into bus lanes, reports Local Transport Today (March 3),…

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IBM Mouse Helps People with Shaky Hands [www.primidi.com]

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I always used to think that fingerprint-based login would be a good idea, but then that was in the days that computing resource was the important thing to protect, rather than user identity and privacy… [www.chinatechnews.com] Fingerprint Identification Technology To Be Adopted At Internet Cafes Fang Chunming, head of the Anhui Provincial Youth League, has…

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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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