Dropsafe

I meant to write up a pile of stuff last week, but have failed to do so, and thus will try and get it all down, now. As I compose this, today is (still) Thursday. This day last week, I switched off the ADSL (gods! only had it one day and am switching it off!)

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The NBC Version of “Coupling” has a promo at http://www.nbc.com/nbc/Primetime_Preview/comedy/Coupling.shtml – if anyone can mail me the terminal URL for the RealMedia or WinMP 300k video clip, I’d e greatly obliges as the webredirector does not seem to like my Mac… Rumour has it, {Je,Geo}ff’s not so scarey… 8-(

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OK, so I have been hacking on the net in various forms since 1986 – for those who can’t do math that’s longer than some of you have been alive, some 17+ years. And, tonight for the first time, I have Internet at home like the billions of Johnnie-come-latelies that the rest of you are.

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[www.westcoastsurf.co.uk]

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[rcgallery.net]

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…and finally started using a spreadsheet. analysis: it’s faster to prototype in than my previous solution (“awk”) – but not siginificantly more powerful in the space which I use it.

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today has been an exercise in spam reduction – it’s been quiet because the entire united states is on vacation this week, so i decided to write a spam-pattern-matcher and wire it into procmail to do more intelligent filtering of my inbox. that occupied a merry two hours. now what? weekend before last was the

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[www.tes.co.uk]

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At the height of the gale, the harbourmaster radioed a coastguard on the spot and asked him to estimate the wind speed. He replied that he was sorry, but he didn’t have a gauge. However, if it was any help, the wind had just blown his Land Rover off the cliff. — Aberdeen Evening Express

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Off to see The Polyphonic Spree and Mull Historical Society next week, and am getting Cropredy sorted out early, this year. Trying not to mess it up like last year…

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[www.sloth.org]

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well it’s been dull. at the drop of a hat, i wanted to travel to land’s end, the southwesterly corner of britain, and marvellously close to a selection of SIGINT locations to add to my collection. considered going down on saturday, but hadn’t planned this trip well enough to raise my confidence above threshold, so

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