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I’ve just put down a £500 deposit on a new Skoda 1.9ltr TDI Hatchback. Should be delivered in mid-July. Cruise control, climate control, traction control, ABS, parking sensors, CD changer… enough topys to keep me happy. …and enough money left over to buy a BMW R1150GS

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…my first-ever self-owned 4-wheeled vehicle. Skoda Octavia 1.9 TDI Hatchback Saloon, plus the usual toys and one or two extras. Should be delivered in mid July. Yay!

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The plaintain was an interesting experiment; split lengthways, chopped into 2″ lengths, fried in butter and doused in a heavy vanilla-sugar caramel syrup. The taste is slightly nutty, slightly bananaish, and slightly floury – rather like a sweet potato. I think I need to cook the plaintain more comprehensively, so it’s a little softer, but

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Well, let’s see if this works. I got out of work about 6:45pm; this is astonishing. It’s surprisingly rare that I get out of the office before 8pm nowadays. Not sure why this is so, probably the preponderance of talking to Americans and really late-night Europeans on SWAN IRC. Got home, grilled trout on goats-cheese-encrusted

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Just testing a new bit of functionality. Hope this works. It looks like i am going to be in the Bay Area for the Technical Leadership Conference in San Jose’s Hyatt Hotel, arriving on Monday 10th June and leaving on Thursday 13th (eek!) I would stay slightly longer, but to do so would lock me

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Technology buffs have cracked music publishing giant Sony Music’s elaborate disc copy-protection technology with a decidedly low-tech method: scribbling around the rim of a disk with a felt-tip marker. Internet newsgroups have been circulating news of the discovery for the past week, and in typical newsgroup style, users have pilloried Sony for using “high-tech” copy

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By John Cox, Network World, 05/20/02 Security issues are consuming network executives’ thoughts, although not necessarily dictating their spending priorities, according to the ninth annual Network World 500 survey. Securing the corporate network, improving disaster-recovery systems and building VPNs accounted for three of the top five most important issues among network executives interviewed. Security-related issues

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From Slashdot… It was recently reported in eWeek that “A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. He later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed.” (Emphasis

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Culled from and/or contributed to http://www.ntk.net/ Morwenstowe NSA Listening Station http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?x=220507&y=112750&scale=25000&rt=overlay.htm Menwith Hill NSA Listening Station http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?x=420500&y=457000&scale=25000&rt=overlay.htm Chicksands DF station http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?x=510500&y=239500&scale=25000&rt=overlay.htm Aldermaston Nuclear Weapons Establishment http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?x=460000&y=164000&scale=50000&rt=overlay.htm Fylingdales AEW Station http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?x=486500&y=497000&scale=25000&rt=overlay.htm …aren’t WWW mapping websites, wonderful?

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From the latest Crypto-Gram – http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html Fun with Fingerprint Readers Tsutomu Matsumoto, a Japanese cryptographer, recently decided to look at biometric fingerprint devices. These are security systems that attempt to identify people based on their fingerprint. For years the companies selling these devices have claimed that they are very secure, and that it is almost

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Business leaders are offered advice on protecting themselves from cyberattack, as the UK government is urged to take a more active lead in IT security Security experts have warned that e-security is dangerously poor in the UK, with most British firms failing to give enough attention to managing information risks. The Information Assurance Advisory Council

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I have been all three of these in the past 4 days. The thursday works BBQ went fine; at the drop of a hat it got moved back two hours, so I went to the supermarket and blew 200 quid on ingredients; got home, whizzed up a cherry-tomato and caper salad, baked spuds, green salad,

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