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Who, reading this, will be attending the 2004 (and probably final) Cropredy Folk Festival?

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Absolutely pukka, honest-to-God truth: on more than one occasion in my disreputable past, usually over a considerable amount of alcohol, I and my friends have sometimes speculated what Thunderbirds would have been like, had it been made by Americans. By “Thunderbirds”, we didn’t mean the current, much-hyped movie; instead we meant the original, Gerry Anderson

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Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman have completed their 20,000 mile oddesy from London to New York on BMW R1150GS bikes [news.bbc.co.uk] [news.yahoo.com] [story.news.yahoo.com] – and a book and documentary will be forthcoming this autumn. I think it’s great. I don’t think it’s stupendous, but I think it’ll provide some great, positive media coverage of biking.

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A quick weekend review – feeling the need to blow some fresh air through my mind, I kitted-up the bike and set off for Aberystwyth on Saturday morning; the round trip is some 400 miles, and provided a marvellous opportunity to shake-down the DRZ after it’s recent 4000-at-6000 mile service. Route? For those who know

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Worth a visit, if you travel. 😎 [www.thomasscott.net]

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…and i’ve seen a few, i can tell you; alas I will not be at USENIX Security this year, but Casper will be (to the best of my knowledge) so make sure to say hi to him. He also has groupies. [www.sun.com]

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Because I am a highly-ranked site for my security (etc) content, I appear to be the #1 hit for the string Department of Vague which people have been pumping into Google. Hence my hitrate has skyrocketed. So, to clarify: I like that page. I linked to it. However I did not create it. I cannot

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via Slashdot, [news.com.com] RFID tags become hacker target LAS VEGAS–Privacy advocates may not be the only people taking issue with the current crop of radio-frequency identification tags–merchants will likely have problems with a lack of security as well, a German technology consultant said Wednesday. Low-cost RFID tags–many which are smaller than a nickel and cost

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Due to time constraints, I am going to have to split this week’s crypitcide posting into two parts – I have a lot going on at work, and this weekend likewise, so I will cut down to the meat of the matter and then dress it up with some finesse in the next few days.

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So I sit down in the reading area outside my VP’s office, and I pick up a copy of: InformationAge Advisory Series ENTERPRISE SECURITY Sponsored By (CA) Computer Associates …a 50-page magazine pullout that discusses Understanding, Implementing and Managing Core Technologies. I flip to the back, to the Security Speak glossary, and scanning the page

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Breaking News! See it while you can! [www.theregister.co.uk] The Cabinet Office has demanded that the author of the Preparing for Emergencies parody site, remove it from the Net immediately, and not put it up again in another guise. The government launched an advertising and leafleting campaign yesterday, advising us all of what to do in

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I can’t put my finger on it, but something about this picture strongly puts me in mind of Malcolm McDowell: [blogs.sun.com]

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