Dropsafe

From what I gather, it’s actually a remarkably sane and balanced film, lacking in hysteria of biker-lunatics. This could be something to do with the growing realisation that a lot (most?) bikers nowadays are in the 40+ age bracket, with disposable income and having disposed of the kids. [news.bbc.co.uk]

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I get quite a lot of virus-spawned junk mail of the form: Your Message has been Quarantined. Mail [this robot] back with the passcode [foo] in order to unlock your mail and pass it to the recipient. …and it strikes me that this is just the same old 3-way handshake in TCP. Well, maybe not

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things i have found or revisited today: oddly plausible again [chak.org] “our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over.” i’ve been doing this via cronjob for years [www.google.com] Google Web Alerts are sent by email when there is new information on the web matching the search you specify. Some handy uses of

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I was listening to Evanescence‘s album Fallen, and was suddenly struck that some of Amy Lee‘s vocals sounded to me extraordinarily like a slightly less hippy-trippy Julianne Regan in a sort of All About Eve meets Nu-Metal way. I admit that there’s not much point to this observation, but I make it nonetheless…

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sad. [news.bbc.co.uk] and peter ustinov, too. i find these things tend to come in threes, and the theme seems to be raconteurs; i wonder who’s next?

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This is something in Oxford that i’ve always wanted to go see, but not yet managed: …and as the history of the shark recounts, there have been many attempts by local authorities to do away with the shark, and the matter finally went to the highest ranks of the then-Government for decision – the findings

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Yep; i first heard about it a few days ago, but have now encountered it… Referrer Spam Some crawler at 211.152.14.98 just walked my entire Blog comment tree (I suspect that it knows about blosxom) and my non-web-accessible logfile shows that it is trying to poison the referrer field with pr0n URLs, in the hope

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…to all folk joining us from [www.geoffarnold.com] 😎 “time for bed, said zebedee…”

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well, the lj-archive material is restored – you find the oddest things from over three years of blogging, eg: this.

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more at [www.crypticide.com]

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i like this sort of project; the main website is slashdotted to death at the moment, but the goals reflect a combination of technology and artful pointlessness that i appreciate… [www.wired.com] [www.confluence.org] — When Alex Jarrett packed up his GPS navigator and trekked to a bog near his New Hampshire vacation spot eight years ago,

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links i want to archive: two dr-z400s reviews [www.4strokes.com] [www.4strokes.com] pc cases implemented in lego [members.cox.net] official: “we don’t need no education”: [news.bbc.co.uk] new market for ebay? [news.bbc.co.uk] buckyballs kill fish? [slashdot.org] x10 inspires republicans: [slashdot.org]

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