Dropsafe

today i received: Hi Alec, How’s things? I’ve started a blog, and comment today on your patch comments on crypticide. [emergentchaos.homeport.org] (It’s not clear to me if trackbacks would tell you about this.) …to which I can only respond: trackbacks, maybe not, because I loathe their complexity and thus do not support them — but

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I would like to wholeheartedly affirm that music-sharing increases the amount of music that you actually buy. I am comfortably certain that I am not the only person whose CD-purchasing has skyrocketed since browsing other peoples’ playlists on iTunes – otherwise I would probably never have even heard of some of the bands whose work

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…and it’s 60% full already. A side effect of having 300+ CDs, I suppose. 😎

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Here’s amusement – a Wintel-using colleague just mailed out the following: I mentioned to this to a few people earlier last week. Do NOT feel obliged to install the recently released Win dows XP Service Pack 2 (for Home Edition only, Professional Edition released on the 25th August). The BBC have this article on their

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My colleague Simon Phipps writes: [www.webmink.net] The Reg relays an AP report on how Senator Ted Kennedy was prevented from flying by the unaccountable and uncorrectable No Fly List that’s operated over in the US. I can’t decide what the worst aspect of this is: that a famous US senator should be banned, that it

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I’ll start: Mill Hill East.

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This is fabulous: [www.crummy.com] OK, this one takes some explaining. Almost 10 years ago Newt Gingrich wrote an article for his PAC that contained big lists of positive and negative buzzwords for use in political discussion. The point, as is usually the case in politics, was to put attitudes directly into people’s heads by piggybacking

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[www.lingula.org.uk] [www.livejournal.com] [found.pale.org] [found.pale.org] more links in updates, as conditions warrant. Update: Jim’s put a pile of good piccies at http://www.pale.org/photos/Cropredy2004/ – and in one of his captions asks why it is that I tend to look straight into the camera when people are taking photos of me. Answer: I learned from personal observation that

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testing 1 2 3 … Just back from Cropredy Folk Festival – details to follow in another posting. In the meantime, I am now onto my second wheel of Godminster Organic Cheddar [www.godminster.co.uk] – cracking stuff, double-waxed, and the first waxed cheddar I’ve encountered which has not appeared to have “sweated” at any point in

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Spotted by my mate, Bart… [news.bbc.co.uk] Schroeder visits father’s grave German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has started a two-day visit to Romania and Bulgaria with a visit to the grave of his father. Mr Schroeder never knew his father, Fritz Schroeder, a soldier who died fighting in Romania in 1944. […] Local farmer Ion Valean, 73,

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I’ve worked in Sun Professional Services EMEA for my longest contiguous period of my employment inside Sun; I moved from SunLabs into SunPS back in, what, late98 / early99 ? Basically about half of my career at Sun. Prior to that I was in Systems Administration, then the Network Security Group (internal net.cops), then Network

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What’s On Your Plate(R) with Willie Munchright [www.mcdonalds.com] I am sure there’s an applicable eposide of South Park.

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