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SED #9: Intelligent Environments Europe Limited

This is a real gem. Brucie Bonus: the company's domain is IE.com. _____________________________________________________________________ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This communication represents the originator's personal views and opinions, which do not necessarily reflect those [...]

To Three or Not to Three?

That is very much the question, as WordPress 3 finally gets its first point update to 3.1. Are there any significant benefits over the 2.9 branch? Interested to hear any and all viewpoints, along with any upgrade horror stories. (Incidentally if you came here because you thought this might be about me considering moving to [...]

The decreasing usefulnesss of blocklists?

My current job involves music and copyright to a fair extent. Ironically whilst I used to be a chronic downloader in my teens, these days not only do I enforce copyrights online, I also buy more music than ever. However, I'm still healthily paranoid :> and I run Peerblock on every machine I touch, including work [...]

Noted in passing...

Amongst many other channels I idle in #twitter. This compact expression of anguish from earlier amused me: [07:06.55] * `Assassin (~blank@71-8-56-51.dhcp.leds.al.charter.com) has joined #twitter [07:07.12] <`Assassin> PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE TWITTER GO AWAY [07:07.22] <`Assassin> It keeps following me all over the internet. [07:07.39] <`Assassin> I can't browse without it hassling me to follow it. [...]

Good news everyone!

After almost ripping a velcro pad off one of my new gloves, I decided to fix them. But oh no, to do that I must sew! (and of course men are almost universally bad at this, unless they're tailors or actually paid attention in Home Ec. Neither applies to me.) However, YouTube awaits! The last time [...]