Dropsafe

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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…is that sometimes you get presents in the mail. O”Reilly Associates have just sent me a copy of their new Network Security Assessment book by Chris McNab, a security-d00d that I know from the 2600-meets in London, amongst other places… I’ll let you know what I think. Alas my input-stack for books is rather deep…

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I am still getting more hits on the password-cracker FAQ than on the blog, but am maybe getting an extra thousand hits in the fortnight to date. Interestingly the Livejournal syndication is up to 13 people, which is not bad, although there appears to be no way to look them up except by happenstance/comment. Interesting…

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This is being blogged everywhere, but it’s still good… [www.tompaine.com] Here then, in Silicon Valley terms, is a review of the Bush administration’s year in Iraq: Saddam Hussein poses an ‘imminent threat’ to the American people. Version 1.0 – Saddam Hussein is an imminent threat Version 1.01 – Saddam Hussein is a gathering threat Version…

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