Dropsafe

I have a white ceramic flowerpot in my kitchen, fitted-out with a wooden T-bar that converts it into a “knock-bin” for coffee grounds and other organic, compostable waste. It was filled with a few days’ worth of waste – the tag ends of some lettuce, a bit of banana skin (etc) when I noticed a

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Simply put: the problem with reusable passwords as a form of authentication is that there are too few of them. This goes for all sorts of passwords in the modern day, not just Unix passwords; I find the latter particularly egregios for reasons that I will explain another time, but for the moment let’s speak

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Neat photo hardware hack; harder to do in metric Britain where you can’t easily source 1/4″ 20tpi Whitworth bolts anymore (unless you know a good ironmonger) but good, nonetheless. [www.jakeludington.com]

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My friends Jim and Catrin are engaged! [found.pale.org] “My, it was only a mere 16 years ago that he and I were getting drunk under tables, hacking computers and behaving like utter students…”

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Andrew mentions this Register-Article which he deftly summarises: UK “accelerated learning” company recently did a survey of the contents of MP3 players owned by various types of IT professionals and found relationships between career niches and musical tastes. Microsoft weenies, apparently, are into shiny mainstream pop like Britney Spears and Dido, penguinheads are into “electro”

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one of these days, maryam abacha (sic) really is going to get an e-mail account; at which point nobody is going to believe her…

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So I was in Slough yesterday, getting the motorbike’s 4000mi service, when these two beautiful Indian women walked into the shop, wearing full makeup, salwar kameez dresses and flowing scarves, strappy sandals, lots of gold jewelery and peals of bangles. One then picked-up a broom, the other a mop, they systematically cleaned the floor of

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I have been getting a very large number of hits for the string bad taste in mouth (and variations of that) ever since i posted an article with that title to the blog. Almost bizzarely this one does not seem to be an accidental pr0n conflict – compare and contrast to the thousands of hits

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[www.nasa.gov]

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I last week obtained a couple of giant puffball mushrooms, one for a friend and the other for cooking. The puffball has a rich, mushroomy smell, especially for the first couple of hours after picking; my example was about 9 inches in diameter, near-spherical, pinching down to a neck that socketed into the ground. Rather

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so i get this bizzare e-mail, a fragment of which reads: There’s been discussion since last November 2003, that the Bush regime would try to declare martial law in the USA to keep the November 2004 elections from occurring because the globalists, who run the multi-national corporations supporting Bush’s world domination agenda, are worried Bush

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i really wonder whether i need bother seeing the movie, now. [playlist.yahoo.com]

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