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Writer's Block: National Pi Day
thousands of them, but not the right ones.
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My submission on the video surveillance bill
Submission on the Video Camera Surveillance (Temporary Measures) Bill
To: The Justice and Electoral Committee
Submission:
I oppose the intent of this bill because:
1. A purpose of this bill is to retrospectively enable the use of video camera surveillance footage that was illegally obtained and is thus inadmissible (unless justified for a serious ( Read more... ) -
Oh dear
The Register used to be a good publication, with a pleasing level of cynicism that befitted being British.
Unfortunately, it's recently descended into climate change denial and tendentious nuclear boosterism "look, if people aren't vomiting from radiation poisoning in the streets of Tokyo, then the reactor is working as designed"Now, their level ( Read more... ) -
Sex Pistols lyrics, with hyperlinks
They played this song on the radio this morning, it is apparently the anniversary of its being banned by the BBC. To celebrate, here are the lyrics with hyperlinks to what they are on about:
God save the Sex Pistols they're a bunch of wholesome blokes
They just like wearing filthy clothes and swapping filthy jokes
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Tips for new players
IE8 will ignore your session cookies under some or all of the following circumstances:
- the privacy settings have been adjusted, or left as default
- the cookie is in a redirect
- you are redirecting with a 302 rather than a 303 (possible red herring)
- you haven't sent a magic incantation header of the form:
"P3P","CP=\"IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA ( Read more... ) -
Brisbane to Broome
Long distance routing, running locally (as in offline on the device, not on a server) on an Android:
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New software
As some of you might now I've been toiling away at a software project for the last nine months or so.
It's now at the stage of actually bearing fruit.
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New 'puter
Hello lazyweb!
I'm going to tack together a new computer shortly, mostly to run a Linux/Ruby/Rails/PostgreSQL stack as a test/staging server.
I've got an MSI965M motherboard (thank you Thomas!) and am thinking of adding the following:
- 2 x Transcend JetRAM JM800QLU-2G, 1x2GB, DDR2-800, PC2-6400, CL5, DIMM
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Alternative 10 Principles
(If I posted this on kiwiburnexcomlive, would they throw me off for snarking?)
1. Radical Exclusion.
Anyone can be a part of Kiwiburn, apart from those who have been banned. Should the event hit space limits, however, priority will be given to core participants. They are the important people, not you dreamy artists.
2. Reward.
Kiwiburn is devoted to ( Read more... )
