Dropsafe

Up at 0700 today for my constitutional bicycle ride; it gets easier and becomes more routine with every day – sweats, helmet, gloves, water, hi-viz belt, key, door, bike, go – although today I was also equipped with carrots to tempt the local horse population into wickedness, or at very lease huffing at me happily.

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any former PICK hackers out there? [www.sciencedaily.com]

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I have about 500 quid to blow on a shiny new film camera. I am looking at Canon and Nikon, the former being a family tradition, and the latter a new preference. The model under strongest consideration is the Nikon F80, which is a clear contender unlike the hordes of Canon body/lens options that are

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from [www.anecdotage.com] In the 1930 World Cup semi-final in Uruguay, Argentina scored a disputed goal against the United States. Shouting abuse at the referee, the American trainer dashed out to tend to an injured player. The crowd of 80,000 roared with approval as he ran on to the pitch, threw down his medical bag, broke

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What is it with this vogue for comedians presenting one or more entire series of science, history or technology programmes on TV? I suspect that Billy Connolly started the trend some time long ago, and now we have: Tony (“Baldrick”) Robinson – archaeology Terry (“Python”) Jones – crusader history Robbie (“Hagrid”) Coltrane – big machines

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1) After reading about it elsewhere (Geoff’s Blog?) I am immensely happy to have found Penn and Teller: Bullshit! on the new FoxFX Channel – a happy stumbling-across because generally I don’t watch that channel. 2) On the other hand, I am deeply amused to find: http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/ Sorry We at Showtime Online express our apologies;

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hip-hop meets 1978: [www.the-streets.co.uk] streaming: rtsp://rm.warnermusic.com/uk/the_streets/StreetSc.rm

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The Reith Lectures are considered to be one of the pinnacles of British broadcasting achievement, an annual event with a long history [www.bbc.co.uk] of erudite presentation from big names in academia (and real life too). This year’s lecturer is Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Activist and Author – and I mention him especially because he

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Fun little interactive flash animation, very retro a-la Macintosh 1988. http://www.trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy/

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If you’re a Neil Gaiman fan, and can listen to RealAudio, then drop everything and go to [www.scifi.com] for an interesting twist on the story of, well, you’ll work it out…

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Some may remember my posting [www.crypticide.com] where I noted the sweep of a crawler over my webspace; today I find: a156028.upc-a.chello.nl — Sun Apr 18 09:59:30 2004 ip: 62.163.156.28:1188 mtd: GET /cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2004/03/29/ hst: www.crypticide.com ref: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22211.152.14.98%22&hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=60&sa=N fwd: via: ua: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 …someone looking for that same webserver, a coldcaller who

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Searches that have landed here… index_no.html?&q=%22bluetooth%20sniffer%22%20&start=40&num=10&lr=&filter= query=LAYBY+DOGGING&first=91&last=100 search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=XT660+%2B2004+review&btnG=Search&meta= search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=new+r1200gs+oil+leak+march&btnG=Search&meta= search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=review+xt660 search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%2B%22bluetooth+sniffer%22+%2Bmacos&btnG=Search search?num=20&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22I%27m+updating+my+address+book%22+Virus&lr=lang_de%7Clang_en%7Clang_nl search?q=%22Come+morning,+we+will+be+over-run,+with+high+casualties%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 search?q=%22julianne+regan%22+depression&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 search?q=alec+muffett+blog&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 search?q=channel4+advert+swear+words&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=20&sa=N search?q=linux%20dropsafe&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gw search?q=r1200gs+advert&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta= translate_c?hl=fr&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcrack%26hl%3Dfr%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8

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