Dropsafe

well i am here in san jose. wheeeeeeeeeee… i am in the hotel, having been out for sushi with colleagues, plus a vendor who was a nice chap, even if we did have fun trying to cram into his saab 9000 aero with integral boat-mast and boom running the length of the car from trunk/boot

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well i am here in san jose. wheeeeeeeeeee… i am in the hotel, having been out for sushi with brad and jason and a chap from nortel/alteon who i had not met before, but who was a nice chap, even if we did have fun trying to cram into his saab 9000 aero with integral

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For those who are interested, I will be at Santa Clara campus, for most of next week, and will be staying at the Hyatt in San Jose. For fellow attendees: it appears that people are arranging all manner of official dinners and stuff for the Technology Leadership Council which I am visiting next week. I

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this is a test of a slightly cleaned-up suite of blog scripts… two people have prodded me so-far, saying that they want to start-up blogs of their own, so it is almost inevitable that they’ll want to have a go with my code, sometime…

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hooray.

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this is the current state of the GMP restaurant; three hundred people huddled in one end, watching TV, leaving the rest vacant: almost bizzarely, the audience is more than 60% female by my count – this is not meant as a commentary upon women being bizzare for watching football, but instead (my hypothesis) a result

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Remember http://onestop.sfbay/security/weblog-2002-05.shtml#20020520203234 ? See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_2030000/2030722.stm

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http://www.brunching.com/features/diagrams.html

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Hmmm… where did I leave my 4.1.1 install CD? Here’s an interesting way to secure an Internet-connected computer against intruders: Make sure the operating system and software it runs are so old that current hacking tools won’t work on it. This was suggested by Brian Aker, one of the programmers who works on Linux.com, NewsForge,

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apparently some 20% of the british population are at home to watch the world-cup match of england vs: argentina.

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i woke up at 0200 this morning, with my foot in agony; i am hoping that it is not actually secretly broken, and that this is all part and parcel of the getting worse before it gets better thing that my doctor told me about.

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re: my reference to the elan valley in this entry – i find there is quite a nice website: http://www.elanvalley.org.uk/ …and of course elan valley.

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