Dropsafe

my colleague simon just returned from a trip to boston massachusetts; being of a dirty turn of mind he remembered particularly the voiceover during a television advert for a drug which (with the help of google) we can reproduce below: [www.cialis.com] Cialis is not for everyone. […] The most common side effects with Cialis were

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…surrounded by a sepia glow. [news.bbc.co.uk]

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If I take action to sue people – preferably some large corporate target – for defamation when they send me an auto-email of the form: You sent me a virus W32.FooBar, here’s a copy of it, and please virus-scan your computer. …would it scare the Americans of this world into not sending this sort of

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Interesting clipping found on [lawandpolitics.blogspot.com] The Third Punic War–A Distant Echo of the Attack on Iraq  Pinpointing the causes of any war is notoriously difficult. But often one can find that at least part of the impetus involves a touch of the irrational–inexplicable human urges, personal obsessions, private hatreds. These undercurrents can lead politicians to

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This article [www.wired.com] explains why a colleague asked me whether I knew of the term dogging – which I did not, being a geek in the traditional sense – and it seems that the meme has now morphed into toothing, anonymous sex arranged by bluetooth phones. It might be going on in the UK, but

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There’s an advert at [www.astromart.com] to sell Clyde Tombaugh’s amateur telescopes; I’d love to visit it, but I’d never buy it even if I had the money. I much prefer the trend for lighterweight, modern mountings (if the Dobsonian can be called modern) – compare: 16″ f/10 circa 1960: [www.astromart.com] 16″ f/3.5 circa 2002 [home.planet.nl]

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…presumably the theory goes that He is a spamfilter for another deity, that became sentient and then coredumped the universe? [education.guardian.co.uk]

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the summary from mefi says it all: [www.metafilter.com] Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, the five planets visible to the naked eye, can all be seen simultaneously after sunset over the next few weeks. Viewing details. The next opportunity will be in 2036. linking to: [www.space.com] …and which explains why at 2230h last night I

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Incidentally, I felt there was another good reason to go motorbiking in bad weather. My thinking was: To learn how to ride in bad weather that may surprise you out on a tour, it may possibly be a good idea to try riding in it when it won’t surprise you at all. I first encountered

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I was unexpectedly descended upon by old friend Jon Care yesterday evening, which was a pleasant surprise; we swapped notes, sipped beer or tea (respectively, for he was driving) and generally caught up. Having had an eventful week (fraught with geekiness) it was nice to just socialise. Crashed out 2330, up 0630 as is my

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[www.consulentiprivacy.it] Il convegno che ha riscosso maggior successo stato quello di apertura, mercoled 11 febbraio, con ospite d onore Alec Muffett ex hacker pizzicato dalla polizia e adesso guru internazionale della sicurezza informatica – dal titolo Sicurezza informatica: nuove tendenze, tecnologie tradizionali . Ma per comprendere il successo di Infosecurity Italia basta leggere i titoli

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I thought MS-Hating-Linux was meant to be mythical propaganda, propagated by OSS loonies, and that actually we are all reasonable people? Big Day Out at Microsoft Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending A Developer’s Introduction to .NET at Microsoft’s “campus” near Reading. I’m sure they were all lovely people, but the attendees were a

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