Dropsafe

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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from [www.thememoryhole.org] On 10 February 2004, Microsoft released a new “Critical Update” with the following description: SUMMARY: A critical update is available to remove unacceptable symbols from the Bookshelf Symbol 7 font that is included with Microsoft Office 2003. The Bookshelf Symbol 7 font is contained in the Bssym7.ttf file. I was very curious as

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I am deeply impressed with http://www.screwfix.com. I placed an order via the Web for a bunch of stuff – pursuant to building a motorbike luggage rack, mockup at [crypticide.com] – and I placed the order at 2115hrs. I received an e-mail at 0421 the next morning, confirming pack and dispatch. Man, the exercise of self-restraint

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i was just listening to [www.radiovoxpopuli.org] for a bit; i find it both arty and amusing, although when it ran across the following: [r2.succe.com] …it went a bit berserk, for obvious reasons.

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Hopefully this one will not have the lj-cut thingy of which Tess complained and which I thought I had removed… This is actually dead good fun, and educational too. I am getting to grips with CSS and all sorts of other technologies that I should have been playing with for the past few years, but

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Well – says he carefully, in consideration of this being the punchline of a really good shaggy dog story – this is a trifle bizzare… Like all good obsessive-compulsive neurotics with a new toy, I decided to feed the word Dropsafe into Google this morning, having taken the site live two days ago and having

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The weather is horrible; the Australian colleague to whom I was chatting yesterday told me: Whenever someone tells me they’re going to the UK, I ask them what kind of camera they have, and how fast the shutter-speed is, because they’ll need a good one in order to catch the sunshine. …which is a little

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I received this when I work up this morning; I believe that is commendably fast work. 😎 Subject: RE: Suggest a Change to the Websense URL Database Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:16:43 -0800 From: “Websense DB Update” <databasechange@websense.com> Hello, Thank you for writing to Websense. The sites you submitted have been reviewed and the

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it’s nice to know that they’re not being classified as terrorist threats; that said, they do seem to be colourcoding the threats: [neo.jpl.nasa.gov]

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