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December 2012

1. 31 DecFLASH: Romans wore Socks with Sandals
2. 31 Dec2012: The year Irish newspapers tried to destroy the web – McGarr Solicitors – Dublin
3. 30 DecIt’s technical leadership like this which demonstrates how the NSA is at the forefront of Cybersecurity
4. 30 DecI sometimes wonder whether we could use Quantum Entanglement to make Voodoo Dolls …
5. 30 DecIf you get a GEIL / Golden Eye / Ben Dover / BDP file-sharing letter, you need to read this:
6. 30 DecYAY: “Android X server « my20percent” # X-Windows On Android. Phones are becoming Workstations are becoming Servers.
7. 29 DecDoodles Lead to New Jersey Student’s Arrest # Science, Art, Learning = The New Witchcraft /ht @marshray
8. 29 DecEventually a tech reporter notices the fracas and chimes in to tell us the whole Infosec community is a bunch of jerks
9. 29 DecCool way to put out a boat fire – FIRE FIGHTING WIN! – YouTube
10. 29 DecThe effect of nuclear explosions on commercially packaged beverages
11. 29 DecUnfriendly skies for many a traveling musician # Hacking the TSA processes for the sake of your Cello
12. 29 DecNYC mayor pins crime rate spike on iPhone, iPad theft # Curious, I would put the blame for crime upon the criminals
13. 27 Dec“If your state is into guilt-by-association you might want to cite a few jerks in your phonebook” /ht @ioerror
14. 27 DecIP and Censorship | The Occupied Times /ht @jimkillock @openrightsgroup
15. 27 DecA Snippet of Morris Dancing – YouTube
16. 27 DecThe Birth of Suburbia
17. 26 DecYateley Morris Men – Mummers’ Play, Boxing Day 2012 – YouTube
18. 26 DecAmazon.co.uk: Customer Reviews: Barrettine Methylated Spirit 500ml /ht @mjj122
19. 25 DecA very merry, very digital Christmas Eve
20. 24 DecBLAKE2 – simpler, smaller, fast as MD5 # epic, but DO NOT USE THIS AS A PASSWORD HASH :-) /ht @zooko @solardiz
21. 24 Dec“Zero Dark Thirty” not good enough to justify torture fantasies – Boing Boing # Which is also why I am dubious about Skyfall
22. 24 DecLPs are killing MP3s are killing CDs killed DAT is killing Cassettes are killing LPs killed 78s killed scores; yet somehow “Music” survives
23. 24 DecInformation security = IE, AV and patching? Argh… /ht @guardian @secunia #bah #humbug
24. 24 DecFascinating backplot of the Soil Association, they of the #Organic food mark; #strangebedfellows #fascists #occupy #occupythefarm #politics
25. 24 DecMarriage will not protect your privacy…
26. 23 DecSo I wrote a Sudoku solver but … #firstworldprogrammerproblems
27. 22 DecHyperemesis gravidarum is from the Greek hyper, meaning excessive, and emesis, meaning vomiting…
28. 21 DecCourt of Appeal allows Golden Eye appeal # 1) Get downloader details 2) Send demands 3) ??? 4) PROFIT!!!
29. 21 DecDoes anyone buy iPods any more? #iTax
30. 21 DecHow to ‘close comments’ on old WordPress posts without manual intervention for each posting
31. 20 DecSurevine Christmas Party: Dinner at The Cabinet War Rooms /ht @surevine
32. 18 DecWhere does ‘The North’ begin?
33. 17 DecOn “Data Compression Using Long Common Strings”, McIlroy & Bentley
34. 17 Dec“The DeWitt Clause” – #Oracle, really? Is this latter bit true?
35. 17 DecBill Cheswick re: On Doing #Security Work For The Government
36. 15 DecCure Yourself of Female Weakness with Sharum’s Vegetable Tonic!
37. 15 DecCool Pythagorean Theorem Demo – Imgur
38. 14 DecWhat it looks like inside Amazon.
39. 14 DecAlash Ensemble with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, 12.12.08 #tuva
40. 14 DecResidential Data Feeds, Inc. # Bill Cheswick Home Automation #MUSTREAD (+ includes @stephenfry) /ht @wcheswick
41. 14 DecPierre Curie has an entry in the 1922 Larousse Universel Encyclopaedia. Marie Curie does not.
42. 14 DecThe World of Larousse Universel
43. 13 DecBtrFS Hash Collision Attack – one for @darrenmoffat to compare? #ZFS #Solaris #Security
44. 13 DecInside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
45. 12 Dec“What is this if not proof that the political class should not be allowed within a mile of regulating the press?”
46. 11 DecNote to self: EXT4 Filesystem with MySQL on Ubuntu under VirtualBox is toxic; use ‘nobarrier’ mount option
47. 11 Dec#Cybersecurity Quote of the Week: “If we can defend the model train set [we can] defend the real thing”
48. 10 DecBluetooth-Sniffing Highway Traffic Monitors Vulnerable to MITM Attack | The Security Ledger
49. 9 DecPatrick Moore was the uncle of Alan Moore?
50. 9 DecEat, Fry, Love: A Cautionary Remix – YouTube # William Shatner Fried Turkey Autotune #yesreally
51. 8 DecCheezburger : Cat ‘Hamster’ Wheel – YouTube #MUSTWATCH
52. 8 DecBike, camera, inaction! # When a Barrister on a Bike pursues a driver through the Courts
53. 8 DecIt’s not wrong to avoid tax | David Giampaolo and Geoffrey Wood # slightly astonished to find this in the Grauniad
54. 8 DecPortal’s physics engine rebuilt in 25KB—on a graphing calculator | Ars Technica # EPIC
55. 8 Dec“I have a cloud. You have a botnet. They have a cyberwarfare capability” – best @arashiyama quote evar
56. 8 DecHow to stop Terrorism: Jobs, Marriage and Kids. /ht @thegrugq
57. 8 Deca seasoned infosec veteran and a newcomer to the industry – Infosec Reactions # comedy is recognition
58. 8 DecBBC Media Centre: Belle de Jour’s History Of Anon # Radio4, 31 Dec..4 Jan #privacy #anonymity /ht @bmagnanti @openrightsgroup
59. 7 DecSpotify’s Bold New Transition from Streaming Music Service to Music Platform | Music Industry Blog
60. 7 DecSo #TechHub is / was quite literally a Bomb Site
61. 7 DecThe government “is no doubt ruing the day” it decided to scrap ID cards
62. 6 DecLeaked: ITU’s secret Internet surveillance standard discussion draft – Boing Boing # oh, this is too much
63. 5 DecWhat happens when responsible disclosure fails? | #FreedomToTinker #FullDisclosure #security
64. 5 DecUK ISPs Block Access To The Legal Pirate Bay Project | TechWeekEurope UK
65. 5 DecYou remember those three-wheel pedal-trikes you had when you were four? Now they look like this:
66. 5 Dec#HITB2012KUL @TheGrugq: OPSEC: Because Jail is for wuftpd # Good advice; much of this also applies to business & device theft
67. 5 DecBramble Bank Cricket Match: The Strangest in the World | Amusing Planet
68. 5 DecI HAZ SNOW
69. 3 DecThe obscure threat to the internet you need to know about – Index on Censorship
70. 3 DecBBC Westminster Hour Coverage of #CCDP / Theresa May in The Sun
71. 2 DecBay Area Souvenir # From Before The Dot.COM Boom
72. 2 DecData Centers As Art
73. 1 DecAn Analysis of a Fake Vodafone Bill PDF File # fascinating PDF trojan #mustread

November 2012

1. 30 NovPenny Arcade touches on “Parental Controls” #openrightsgroup
2. 29 NovMusic industry group BPI demands pirate proxy closure # Just wait until they find out about #torproject and duplicate trackers
3. 29 NovSometimes the NHS does work as advertised
4. 29 NovVIM Adventures: an online game based on VIM’s keyboard shortcuts
5. 29 NovGreat – now I’m worried that #CCDP / #CDB is going to get horse-traded against #Leveson …
6. 29 NovBBC News – New York City celebrates day without violent crime / why is London not partying?
7. 28 NovVisiting Chez Gravier
8. 28 NovVisiting Geneva
9. 28 NovMaking an impact…
10. 28 NovRelative Milibands on Twitter
11. 28 NovDoesn’t anyone else find it odd that the Met can describe covert operation sex as “almost inevitable”? It’s not the sex aspect…
12. 28 NovUsing Google Image Search to prick and deflate the #DailyMail’s obsession with Diana / Kate stories
13. 27 NovWere you hacking on X.25 JANET prior to the introduction of the Computer Misuse Act 1990?
14. 27 NovThey Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside | Danger Room | Wired.com
15. 27 NovAberMUD in 1989
16. 26 NovArticle
17. 25 NovThe slurs on McAlpine were quickly retracted – but # god forbid that libel payouts become rational
18. 22 NovThe Energy Generated from A Single Orange: A Citric Acid Battery by Caleb Charland | Colossal
19. 22 NovHipster? Cyclist? Shoreditch? Faintly ‘county’? You’ll want #Trotify # Wonder if they’ll do a Boris Bike adapter?
20. 21 NovMicrosoft has failed | SemiAccurate # compelling and plausible from my experience
21. 21 NovShit Just Got Real
22. 21 NovSolar Designer on SunMD5 and MD5Crypt
23. 21 NovMD5crypt Password Hashing Algorithm is no longer considered safe by author /ht @bsdphk
24. 21 NovRegrettably @Mat Honan is Entirely Wrong about “Killing Passwords” /cc @Wired
25. 21 NovA note from Solar Designer (@solardiz) re: SunMD5
26. 20 NovHacker Faces Jail for Accessing Public URLs That Revealed AT&T iPad User Emails w/ Possible Chilling Effects for Online Freedom | MIT Technology Review
27. 20 NovRegulators, Password Hashing & Crypto considered as a Branding Exercise: #bcrypt #security /cc @schneierblog @glynwintle
28. 20 NovI have several friends to whom this would apply … #caturday
29. 20 NovThe @NYTOnIt account is hilarious. Shame the Times can’t take a joke | Jeff Jarvis #dearieme
30. 20 NovWhy The Hell Did No-one Tell Me About SequelPro Two Months Ago ?
31. 20 NovSomehow I just made the most extraordinary hot chocolate…
32. 19 NovInstall VNC to provide a graphical front-end to Ubuntu Server – Precise, Lucid, Karmic, Jaunty and Intrepid
33. 18 NovThe Almost-Complete Mercury Music Prize Awards 1992-2012, as Spotify Playlists
34. 17 NovDiscovery of the Day: Phone Touchscreen + Alcohol Wipe = Better Performance
35. 17 NovNanny State: State Nanny David Cameron ‘orders new curbs on internet porn’ – Telegraph
36. 16 NovBBC News: Play about Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing coincides with centenary celebrations # THIS
37. 16 NovGraham Williams reviewing the Windwrap WGX Fairing on an ICE Trike recumbent
38. 15 NovRich politically-connected man to sue anyone who discussed false gossip pertaining to him in a public forum
39. 14 Novyou will want the hypnotically voiced hexaflexagon soft tortilla with guacamole #MUSTWATCH
40. 14 NovG-Cloud and CloudStore: if you are a geek these words will not mean what you think they mean
41. 14 NovPractical Retrocomputing
42. 14 Novyou will want a tractor
43. 14 NovNow That’s What I Call Gerrymandering! | Mother Jones
44. 14 NovRIP, Kevin O’Donnell, Jr – “ORA:CLE” and why you should read this book
45. 14 NovHuawei’s “functional-requirement” approach to cryptography finally gets airtime
46. 14 Nov“Skype vulnerability allowing hijacking of any account if you know just the email address” – password reset vulnerability reported in the wild
47. 14 Novbcrypt’s [password] length limit is 72, not 55 #security
48. 14 NovThe solution to password guessability is this…
49. 13 NovMI6: Truth in Advertising.
50. 13 NovFacebook Launches ‘Couples’ Pages So Users Can Chart Their Relationship # 1000 INTERNETZ FOR THE 1ST DIVORCE
51. 13 Nov“the fairly strong password she used … was crackable by brute force alone” # wait what?
52. 12 NovHot Chocolate with Pine Nuts and Pepper
53. 12 NovArrested for poppy burning? Beware the tyranny of decency | Ally Fogg | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
54. 12 Novtoday has been mired in unicode…
55. 12 NovUp @ 0530? Make a basic pancake batter and…
56. 12 NovThought For Today
57. 9 NovPerspectives: I’ve always said that Anti-Malware is a weird industry and that …
58. 8 NovThe Contents of the Nine-Foot Stairwell Bookcase
59. 6 NovTrumpeter Landfrey’s Charge of the Light Brigade : Recording of a veteran of the Charge of the Light Brigade
60. 6 NovI benefited today from a dose of #AwesomeScience; let me share it with you:
61. 6 NovMacroblogging. Nearly a year’s worth of results of mostly-blogging-not-tweeting & readership growth
62. 6 NovPaul Bernal: Internet Anonymity: A Very British Dilemma
63. 6 Novleftovers: celeriac and bean gratin
64. 5 NovWe Take Security Seriously :: More VMware secret source splattered across internet • The Register
65. 5 Nov#foodporn – Making Better Celeriac Mash
66. 5 NovThis Is Why Spelling Out Your Email Address On Twitter Is Pointless
67. 5 NovApple is *literally* – not just figuratively – taking the piss out of the UK judicial system #ViewTheSource #SoSuMi
68. 3 NovGuest Post: Internet Companies and the Balancing of Free Speech Interests | Harvard Law and Policy Review
69. 3 NovDeleting Online Content, China’s Get-Rich-Quick Business # one for the “Right To Be Forgotten” brigade
70. 2 Nov#Cyber Duck And Cover /ht @flyingmonkeyair @fcwnow @AmberInsideDOD
71. 2 Novla diagonale du fou: Singularity Chess
72. 2 NovSUBJECT: WikiLeaks – Mishandling of Classified Information
73. 2 NovNARA Leaks WikiLeaks Citations # We can do better than #cryptome! #waf #bypass #censorship #wikileaks
74. 2 NovThe global war on free speech – Telegraph #MUSTREAD especially for the Conservative-inclined such as @ukhomeoffice
75. 2 NovPopular sites with Apache server-status enabled | Sucuri Blog # See what other people are browsing
76. 2 Novdecybered version: “Gary McGraw: “Proactive defense prudent alternative to cyberwarfare” /ht @mikko @cigital
77. 2 NovThe best place to study real-world “cyber” security in the UK is Cambridge. Now look at this list: #cybersecurity
78. 2 Nov#Oracle and the SPARC T5 processor: Larry seems to have actually paid attention #vindicated
79. 2 NovBritish Cybersalary Clippings

October 2012

1. 31 OctOLPC makes self-taught strides forward in Ethiopia # GOOD READ /ht @mjj122
2. 31 OctORG London October Podcast: Dominique Lazanski on “Should the UN take over the Internet” /cc @openrightsgroup
3. 31 OctUnified theory of Cthulhu # includes white paper on gravitational distortions and madness ; HT @jimfinnis
4. 30 OctBBC News – Cold Calling: The victim who fought back – and won # #PPI scams beware
5. 30 OctVertical Video Syndrome – A PSA – YouTube # MUSTWATCH
6. 30 OctHey @labeledsecurity @bendls – remember this? I’ll award 10 internetz to anyone else who can work out what it does :-)
7. 29 OctRoyal Society journals open access # Going to be JSTOR & @aaronsw all over again, but British? HT @geoffarnold @openrightsgroup
8. 29 OctTIL Encryption systems are (or were) *heavy* – really heavy. Must have been all those One-Time Pads.
9. 29 OctRethinking the Computer at 80 – NYTimes.com #PGN # MUST READ FOR ALL SECURITY GEEKS /ht @fanf
10. 29 OctCops outraged after NYU class requires students to plot a terrorist attack | Fox News #fairandbalanced
11. 29 OctTsunamis on Lake Geneva: Lake monsters | The Economist
12. 29 OctWhy making a call-centre worker say “poopsy-poo” will strengthen your security » The Privacy Surgeon # HT @owenblacker
13. 28 OctThe first nuclear-propelled manmade object in space?
14. 28 OctThis is what the 3D Inspection of www.whitehouse.gov/cybersecurity looks like
15. 28 OctOh My God How Did I Not Hear About Firefox 3D Page Inspector Until Now?
16. 28 OctDear @Tweetdeck, please can we have an option for a one-click “Clear” widget like this?
17. 27 Octdecyber-tools – tools to aid translation of cybersecurity hype to plain english – Google Project Hosting # source code FTW
18. 27 OctDecyber – An extension for Google Chrome. Removes most Cybersecurity hype with a single click.
19. 27 OctVideo: Cycle without lights in Amsterdam and the Cycle-Light Fairy may visit you…
20. 26 Oct[exim-announce] Exim 4.80.1 Security Release # Laudable speed, clarity and process for handling a vulnerability.
21. 26 OctCan someone please explain to me where this new “trigger warning” meme has come from?
22. 26 OctBeing wary of handing over personal details to websites isn’t ‘outrageous’ | @JoannaGeary | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk #CabinetOffice
23. 26 OctAndy Smith of the #CabinetOffice is a Epic Fucking #Security Hero – #socialmedia #cyberbullying #dailyfail
24. 24 OctNew DSL modem / Vigor 120 – 18.23Mbps down, 1.00Mbps up
25. 24 OctHow to make a security geek feel very old: #Factorisation, #DKIM and @DrZacharyHarris
26. 24 OctBatch-saving multiple HTML / Web Pages to PDF
27. 23 OctBBC News – More piracy sites faced with blocking as BPI contacts UK ISPs HT @openrightsgroup
28. 23 OctWe are ready: Bringing Somalia’s recovery online # and the UK Government worries about “digital divides”
29. 23 OctBBC News – Somali pirates caught by message in a bottle – #really ?
30. 23 OctThe maths that made Voyager possible #MUSTREAD #MUSTTV
31. 23 OctCoE Weddings: You can’t be gay but you can be nouveau-riche chavs /ht @Theosthinktank
32. 21 OctASTRONOMY IN THE PUB – #AstroPub /ht @jimanning @gammidgy #puballthethings #sitp
33. 21 OctIn mug, 2tsp pure cocoa, 2tsp caramel syrup, Angostura bitters, fresh-ground black pepper. Add frothed hot milk.
34. 21 OctShami Chakrabarti on #Marr covers Phone-Sucking, #CCDP & #SnoopersCharter in the paper review
35. 21 OctTop Facebook executive Joanna Shields resigns to head up London’s Tech City – Telegraph
36. 21 OctRowan Atkinson’s speech at Reform Section 5 Parliamentary reception – YouTube # MUSTWATCH
37. 20 Oct“Scottish” Voices, on Devolution and Independence, on Reddit
38. 20 OctSurprised at Antinous, moderator of #BoingBoing forums, coming down as pro-censorship
39. 20 OctHalloween? Go as Jesus. Kinda.
40. 19 OctObservations on translating #cybersecurity documents into English
41. 19 OctBBC News – Readers’ best passive-aggressive wi-fi names
42. 19 OctHartley Wintney: not only old people made from tweed & pocket lint who are waiting to die, but also: Tory Lingerie.
43. 19 Octsecurityreactions.tumblr.com is great but it’s not as good as the real thing /ht @glynwintle @sec_reactions
44. 19 OctRowan Atkinson: we must be allowed to insult each other – Telegraph
45. 19 Octdecyber: “The National Security Agency has the most advanced capabilities for illegal hacking and defense in the world”
46. 19 OctNonsense paper accepted by mathematics journal – /ht @geoffarnold
47. 19 Oct#decyber 2.0 – Cybersecurity Hype-removal and Translation, now enhanced and with bookmarklet!
48. 18 Octdecyber: taking the fear out of cybersecurity – http://bit.ly/decyber
49. 18 OctThis is what happens when you elide ‘cyber’ from Military / Government vocabulary /ht @andrewsmhay
50. 18 OctSo @BarneyMachenRec at @harvey_nash wants to hire expertise!
51. 17 OctBodyform viral video provides the world with an explanation for Colin Firth – #bodyform #sexism /ht @caitlinmoran
52. 14 OctI had no idea the #FedEx #Furniture Guy had been DMCA’ed into oblivion…
53. 14 OctAs Inflation Rages In Iran, Bitcoin Software Not Available – Forbes
54. 14 OctNewsflash: NSA says that absolute security models exist. Oh, wait, that was in 1998. /ht @Cryptomeorg
55. 14 Oct“Marketing fuels the world. It is as American as apple pie…” #donottrack #privacy
56. 13 OctBaz Luhrmann – Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen # This Deserves a Reboot
57. 13 Oct“Parks and Rec” Quote
58. 13 Oct#bicymple video # ah, much better
59. 13 OctThe #bicymple. The bicycle, simplified. # essentially a two-wheel unicycle. Not yet convinced its real.
60. 13 OctWomen of the Future, 1902
61. 12 OctJapanese cubesat to flash Earth with Morse message • The Register
62. 12 OctCan’t re-add Twitter to my LinkedIn profile without giving LinkedIn privileges to read/write #notgonnahappen
63. 12 OctFreedomBuddy – Gitorious # this looks splendid in a bunch of ways.
64. 12 OctThe Internet is an Oral Tradition, and Harvey Weinstein does not understand poetry
65. 12 OctJust tried playing Velvet Underground on top of Lemon Jelly. It doesn’t work but was hysterically funny
66. 12 OctIn case you’ve ever needed an onomatopoeia / sound for Blocking someone on #Twitter, one exists:
67. 12 OctIs #SoftwareWydawnictwo related to #Hakin9 ? #leeches and #parasites, oh my!
68. 12 OctDropping #TwitterTools from WordPress for a while
69. 12 Oct“Log” by Graham Fitkin; Piano Circus on Spotify # Heard this on R3 wednesday night, thought it Epic
70. 11 OctTwitter Updates for 2012-10-11
71. 10 OctTwitter Updates for 2012-10-10
72. 9 OctSometimes I suspect the authorities believe that locking up a geek in a room with a computer is some kind of punishment
73. 9 OctFinal #SnoopersCharter comment of the night goes to Skype:
74. 9 Oct#SnoopersCharter & Money: “If you want to spend £2 billion of public money, improve MLAT!”
75. 9 Oct#SnoopersCharter – costs, “perfect security” and Skype’s opinion
76. 9 Oct#SnoopersCharter & how it could be pointless and yet make law enforcement less effective
77. 9 OctThe moment that the #SnoopersCharter review committee calls the HomeOffice out for scaremongering the industry
78. 9 Oct#SnoopersCharter vs: Skype
79. 9 Oct#SnoopersCharter and the Restraint upon Innovation
80. 9 Oct#SnoopersCharter and the Mobile Networks: Could the Gov’t just snoop those?
81. 9 Oct#SnoopersCharter vs: Twitter
82. 9 Oct#SnoopersCharter vs: #TorProject
83. 9 Oct#SnoopersCharter vs: PATRIOT Act
84. 9 OctSplit-Brain #SnoopersCharter #CCDP
85. 9 OctFacebook and Twitter providing epic insight and quotes re: #SnoopersCharter
86. 9 OctCommunications Data Bill Committee – Oral evidence from private sessions #ccdp
87. 9 OctTwitter Updates for 2012-10-09
88. 8 Oct#Wikipedia Article Imitates #BBC Website # This must be the correct way round, yeah?
89. 8 Oct44ton truck v Motorway lane hogger – YouTube # Exceedingly rude commentary, caution for language especially Americans.
90. 8 OctWe Take Security Seriously :: Hack temporarily turns WoW towns into piles of corpses | Ars Technica
91. 8 OctVietnamese refugee’s last-ditch bid to save his beloved pet sheep ‘Baa’ | Herald Sun
92. 8 Oct“That’s no Planetary Nebula!”
93. 8 OctTwitter Updates for 2012-10-08
94. 7 OctCrack gets a bit-part in “#Underground, The Julian Assange Story” /cc @alexwilliams282
95. 7 Oct“Shoot the driver of this vehicle without question. R$100,000 Reward.”
96. 7 OctLittle bits of Crack history keep popping up…
97. 7 OctMandy Patinkin: 25 Years After ‘The Princess Bride,’ He’s Not Tired Of That Line : Monkey See : NPR # excellent read
98. 7 OctSunday? Bored? Here’s #Defra trying to superinjunct & threaten a US website apparently regarding #badgers #sitp
99. 7 OctTwitter Updates for 2012-10-07
100. 6 OctIn case you haven’t been keeping up with the #Hakin9 #NMap hoax this week, you REALLY need to read
101. 6 OctHow to simultaneously oppress people & screw up your e-economy: #Iran blocks MP3, MP4, AVI, SWF files /HT @small_media
102. 6 OctGovernment won’t fund ploughshare research, so instead we adapt the swords # #hackerspace #darpa
103. 6 OctPHP, the web’s most popular programming language, is coming to mobile # one for @glynwintle HT @jimfinnis
104. 6 OctHow SQLite Is Tested
105. 6 Octidentity theft as mind-reading
106. 6 OctI know Adele is a great vocalist but I can’t work out what a “Skyfawww” is? #skyfall
107. 6 OctHow can they write this and not say “Voight-Kampff” ? #captcha #security
108. 6 OctTo Encourage Biking, Cities Forget About Helmets – NYTimes.com
109. 6 OctTwitter Updates for 2012-10-06
110. 5 OctEtymology of Entomology: “Blue Arsed Fly”
111. 5 OctWear heels?
112. 5 OctPSY Gangnam Style Seoul Concert for Fans – YouTube # This must have been LOUD, the scale is HUGE
113. 5 OctDances with Manatees – #ohthehugemanatee again
114. 5 Oct“Nominet: a website, by any other name, would be more secure?”
115. 5 OctSteve Jobs Memorial Video up on www.apple.com
116. 5 OctGBP 1.39 (/ltr) * 3.79 (litres per USgal) * 1.62 (USD/GBP) = $8.53/gal for Gasoline in the UK
117. 5 OctTwitter Updates for 2012-10-05
118. 4 OctHartley Wintney Gossip Roundup: Costa Coffee, The Lamb, The High Street and more
119. 4 OctMicrosoft LYNCH – the future of instant messenger #microsoftlynch
120. 4 OctOn the pain of #Python programming on #OSX with #MySQL – #humour #true
121. 4 OctTHIS IMAGE LICENSE HAS EXPIRED
122. 4 OctApple iOS Maps Flyover: The Art Installation Built into the iPhone 5 – YouTube # explains everything
123. 4 OctTwitter Updates for 2012-10-04
124. 3 Oct‘All-you-can-eat’ diners banned # at least they weren’t called plebs
125. 3 OctTwitter Updates for 2012-10-03
126. 2 OctTeen vigil at Hobsbawm house #dailymash
127. 2 OctBBC News – What happened when MPs took a maths exam
128. 2 OctFor anyone who’s never made a #Hexaflexagon – let alone a #Hexahexaflexagon
129. 2 OctLinux founder Linus Torvalds delivers a smackdown like no other | Attendly
130. 2 OctTent – the decentralized social web # This sounds so familiar – big up on this! We need more efforts like this!
131. 2 OctCIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs | Onion News Network
132. 2 OctTwitter Updates for 2012-10-02
133. 1 OctLawyer::QC says that Police, Others are monitoring Social Media to track Activists #Independent #Cryptoparty
134. 1 OctIf you ever need to keep a cat away from your laptop for 3+ hours, get one of these
135. 1 Oct“Why does iTunes 10.7 try to contact the domain bogusapple.com?” /ht @glynwintle
136. 1 OctIntroducing Comet ISON # Can I call dibs on end-of-the-world disaster-scenario tabloid headlines now?
137. 1 OctTwitter Updates for 2012-10-01

September 2012

1. 30 SepTip for better G&Ts: Making Huge, Clear, Slow-Melting Ice Cubes
2. 30 SepSweet Potato, Lemongrass and Bacon Soup
3. 30 SepOn Hate Speech
4. 30 SepObservations of @cryptopartylond / #cryptoparty
5. 30 SepSmall child at Woking station has a plastic roaring dinosaur on a stick, so disproving existence of God
6. 30 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-30
7. 29 SepFunniest political thing I’ve read in ages: “Will The Labour Party Entirely Abolish Ethical Investing?” #unintendedconsequences
8. 29 SepBBC Headline Writers ‘incapable’ of making or endorsing definitive statements
9. 29 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-29
10. 28 SepPedestrians Killed By: Car=256 HGV=61 Bus=34 Motorbike=18 Other=11 Cycle=2
11. 28 SepAll Fair Use And No License Fees Makes Room 237 An Interesting Test Case | Techdirt
12. 28 SepNick Clegg Q&A on #CCDP | starts well but rapidly goes to pot #libdems #snooperscharter /ht @markpack
13. 28 Sep‘Gerontas Pastitsios’ Pastafarian Facebook Page Leads To Blasphemy Arrest In Greece # if (legit) then {incredible}
14. 28 SepSimple, interactive graphic from #EFF showing the benefits of combining SSL and Tor for anonymity /ht @kaepora #MUSTPLAY
15. 28 SepAm depressed that the Ubuntu12 UI’s default assumption is that people still use wordprocessors.
16. 28 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-28
17. 27 SepSamuel L. Jackson’s Wake The Fuck Up Ad – YouTube # maybe the #LibDems can hire Samuel L Jackson? #MUSTWATCH
18. 27 SepDalek Relaxation Tape – YouTube
19. 27 SepA question for all my #LGBT friends
20. 27 SepWhy didn’t I buy Urquell instead? a.k.a. “Plzenský Prazdroj” At least it has character. Beck’s is the PG Tips of lager
21. 27 SepBeck’s. It may be reinheitsgebot-compliant but by gods it’s a boring beer.
22. 27 SepReading about “The Satanic Verses” and the “Death of a Princess” controversies / which I was a bit young to appreciate first time round
23. 27 SepTo use the SHUTDOWN.COM command procedure, log in to the SYSTEM account, enter the following command …
24. 27 Sep#403Forbidden – Iranian Censorship Exhibition at @small_media
25. 27 SepEverywhere
26. 27 SepMet @willowbl00 last night, I think @markRbowyer will like her iPad
27. 27 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-27
28. 26 SepTorvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks # Were he the Queen folk would be saying “Linus Torvalds is unelected and should not comment publicly…”
29. 26 SepWeather warning: A rough beast has arisen and slouches towards Bethlehem to be born …
30. 26 SepRupert Murdoch backs down in war with ‘parasite’ Google – Telegraph # and the whole Internet screams #itoldyouso
31. 26 SepI have begun to report every gas/electric meter reader who turns up on the doorstep as a potential fraudster
32. 26 Sep“Don’t be the first to be an asshole” – content-based addressing on the web /ht @bloggerheads #WestSkep #Shicklegate
33. 26 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-26
34. 25 SepCognitive dissonance
35. 25 SepIntroducing “British Economic Time” aka “Sunrise Time” – the ultimate #astronomy geek timezone /ht @fanf
36. 25 SepEven World of Warcraft is tracking you! # Steganography in Virtual Reality
37. 25 SepGoogle and Gmail censored in Iran
38. 25 SepWould you trust Government legislation drafted by people who blog Twitter chat as a PDF? #CleanIT
39. 25 SepTraynor’s Eye: Meeting A Troll…
40. 25 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-25
41. 24 SepFrancis Davey: Commentary on the History of Marriage /ht @fjmd1
42. 24 SepCryptocat 2 Public Beta Released « Cryptocat Development Blog # epic, well done @kaepora /cc @cryptocatapp
43. 24 SepOn @BBCR4Today I heard Edith Hall of @kingsclassics argue that Policemen are too ill-educated to use the word #pleb
44. 24 SepA Response to the Government Equalities Office Consultation – Equal Civil Marriage – from the Church of England
45. 24 SepCitrulu: “Hosted, human-friendly, continuous front-end tests for your live websites” #testing #musthaveaplay
46. 24 SepWhat You See From Space – English Russia # pretty
47. 24 SepSo @davidleigh3 thinks that the #Guardian should be publicly funded by broadband tax; I wonder what @newsbrooke thinks?
48. 24 SepFor all journalists / anyone reading @MishaGlenny’s Guardian article on Iran and Cybersecurity, a lesson:
49. 24 SepRuna A. Sandvik explains what Tor Project is and how it is used – YouTube
50. 24 Sepbeehive.govt.nz – Prime Minister requests inquiry [into illegal #Megaupload wiretap] # sorry, what?
51. 24 SepNasty new Facebook phishing method flying around as a Twitter DM /ht @wazzer_bt #tweetsocials #bbp2
52. 24 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-24
53. 23 SepWatch “Instructograph Morse Code Trainer Demo – 1947” on YouTube
54. 23 SepAccording to calculator: £5 10s in 1923 = £245 today
55. 23 SepThe GECoPhone Crystal Set # “would have cost £5 10s in 1923, of which 7s 6d (6.8%) was a royalty paid to the BBC”
56. 23 SepInstagrams from a Geek BBQ, /ht @joannageary @petermacrobert # includes sharpies and morse telegraphy
57. 23 SepCardboard Sculptures by Bartek Elsner | UR Design Magazine # excellent
58. 23 SepThe Deep Sea Mystery Circle – a love story | Spoon & Tamago
59. 21 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-21
60. 20 Sep“Whelan was so drunk on Lambrini” #isthispossible ? #cantbegood
61. 20 Sepwhat-would-british-roads-look-like-if-we-treated-them-the-same-way-we-do-our-cycle-lanes ?
62. 20 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-20
63. 20 SepRupert Bear mauls farmer to death defending Bill Badger from cull | NewsBiscuit
64. 19 SepWoman who destroyed #EcceHomo fresco in DIY restoration is considering “author rights” #tragicomic /ht @openrightsgroup
65. 19 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-19
66. 18 SepTEDxHousesofParliament videos all up on YouTube …
67. 18 SepYou’d think that the #NewYorker would know when to use “ensure”
68. 18 SepYes, yes, kill the cute kitten because it’s not racially pure and takes up space #makesperfectsense
69. 18 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-18
70. 18 SepAustralia. Gay. Church. Chemical Castration. # Really, you shouldn’t be able to combine these words.
71. 17 SepMayhem and death with just one click – World Politics – World – The Independent #missingthepoint
72. 16 Sep“Liesbeth” / “Not Liesbeth” – one wonders why iPhoto could not tell the difference in the first place?
73. 16 SepBack to three espresso machines Chez Muffett /ht @shortblue @surevine
74. 15 SepBBC News – Europe hits old internet address limits # Wow, Europe has not collapsed
75. 15 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-15
76. 14 Sep“[Hadopi] replied via email messages he could no longer receive” /cc @openrightsgroup
77. 14 SepLondon – CryptoParty – Sat 29th Sept, Google Campus, Shoreditch # learn about cryptography & tools, free
78. 14 SepDanish Championships 2012 in Rabbit Hopping – The winners – YouTube # Fabulous, unless you’re Australian
79. 14 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-14
80. 13 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-13
81. 11 SepExperience the Iranian Internet in central London – Boing Boing # For #RDGGEEK tonight
82. 11 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-11
83. 10 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-10
84. 9 SepArtificial Lava
85. 9 SepThreatening to shoot someone for farting is bad, but is it “terroristic” ?
86. 9 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-09
87. 8 SepWatch “RAP NEWS 15: Big Brother is WWWatching You” on YouTube
88. 8 SepUNetbootin on Mac OS X # fix to create a BackTrack5 USB stick to boot elsewhere
89. 8 SepGermany pushes for an end to massive fines for hijacked Wi-Fi | ZDNet /fao @openrightsgroup @bbw1984 @coadec
90. 8 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-08
91. 7 SepIt’s quite bizarre …
92. 7 SepInternet ‘snooper’s charter’ could jeopardise national security, ISPs warn – Telegraph # At last industry comes out swinging
93. 7 SepPortuguese men-of-war sightings on Cornish beaches # Arr! No, wait, this is bad: Lethal collectivist jellyfish.
94. 7 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-07
95. 6 SepWow: @CompassionUK’s Statement of Faith. Deserves sharing:
96. 6 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-06
97. 5 SepUPEK Fingerprint Readers: a Huge Security Hole | Advanced Password Cracking – Insight
98. 5 SepNCFTA no longer eschews PII ? /cc @kashhill @kimzetter
99. 5 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-05
100. 4 SepRadio 4 PM Porn Blocking Interview
101. 4 Sep“Hackers Release 1 Million Apple Device IDs Allegedly Stolen From FBI Laptop” #itmustbetuesday
102. 4 SepHartley Wintney WI Market / Country Market – Documentary on YouTube!
103. 4 SepMUSTREAD How copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards | #NeilGaiman #DrWho #Worldcon – Can we call Censorbots “Daleks”?
104. 4 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-04
105. 3 SepBest fiscally racist joke evar …
106. 3 SepSo @compassionuk consider the following jobs to be leadership positions? #faith #law #sitp /cc @RDFRS_UK
107. 3 Sep3G Google Nexus 7 inbound • Reg Hardware
108. 3 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-03
109. 3 SepUniversity IT blunder sparks hacking fears | The Oxford Student # “we were cyberattacked! oops, we weren’t!” #essay
110. 2 SepRoast Pheasant with Fufu Dumplings and Cherry Jus
111. 2 SepNetflix vs: Spotify. Cancelling the former, subscribing to the latter; so this is why I am leaving #Netflix
112. 2 Sep2x pheasants pot-roasting – house smells lovely. Will post pictures later.
113. 2 SepWhen #BoingBoing commenters make a mistake on UK inheritance laws, there is no redress.
114. 2 SepBBC News – Northumberlandia: The naked lady of Cramlington
115. 2 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-02
116. 1 SepWhat happens when you add a backdoor to WordPress, and submit a GitHub pull request… : reddit netsec
117. 1 SepClampdown on debit and credit cards going ahead # Can this include auto-adding “discretionary” service like @salvationjaneUK does?
118. 1 SepLet’s not mince words: Criminals in Saudi Arabia have their hands *cut* *off*, not vacuously “removed” #BBCNews
119. 1 SepTwitter Updates for 2012-09-01

August 2012

1. 31 AugCan “Faith” legally be part of a job specification in the UK? I think not… /ht @putt1ck /cc @compassionuk #sitp
2. 31 AugQ: What’s the least-hassle-yet-least-disastrous way to dispose of about 1/2pt of rancid deep fry oil?
3. 31 Aug“The rest of the world is already fucked, so #CCDP won’t impact business too badly” #HomeOffice Impact Assessment #NowhereToRun
4. 31 AugWelcome to the new
5. 31 AugApple granted patent for location-based camera phone disabling – Boing Boing
6. 31 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-31
7. 30 AugDaily #Telegraph Usability Fuckwittage Part 2 – on a Nexus 7
8. 30 AugDaily #Telegraph Usability Fuckwittage Part 1 – on a Nexus 7
9. 30 AugInternet Voting Systems in a Nutshell #taylorswift #4chan
10. 30 Aug“Zahra Bahrami betrayed by chat-room conversations” # some places, using social media with bad security will lead to your death #CCDP
11. 30 AugWe should amend the Communications Data Bill immediately, @julianhuppert can you add this plz ->
12. 30 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-30
13. 29 AugTree Foliage – zoomed but best size
14. 29 AugWANTED: Tree Identification, Fungus Identification, Winchfield Station
15. 29 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-29
16. 28 AugDoes anyone need prior art for a Network Intrusion Detection System Patent?
17. 28 AugDr Who shoves BitTorrent in the Tardis • The Register /cc @openrightsgroup @coadec
18. 28 AugThe privacy of our medical records is being sold off #RossAnderson # At the Guardian and at LightBlueTouchpaper
19. 28 AugFacespook: Russian spies order $1mln software to influence social networks
20. 28 AugRaspberry Pi Robots in Reading! #raspberrypi #rdggeek
21. 28 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-28
22. 27 AugBBC News – Voice of Sesame Street Count von Count dies aged 78
23. 27 Aug“What an astonishing admission of its own irrelevance for a newspaper to make.”
24. 27 AugLeading ‘Ethical’ TV Show BitTorrent Tracker Shut Down By FACT | TorrentFreak /cc @openrightsgroup
25. 27 AugIf you like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, go listen to this and buy the album #Lido /cc @darrenhayman
26. 27 AugQOTD: cyberwar == involuntary remote system administration
27. 27 Aug“Cyber Situational Awareness: We want the benefit of hindsight & we want it now!” # How Cyberpeople Think
28. 27 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-27
29. 26 AugThe Finnish approach to Sauna
30. 26 AugGangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea’s Music Video Sensation – Max Fisher – The Atlantic #MUSTWATCH
31. 26 AugIt’s an Austrian Wine Dispenser – well done Superelf!
32. 26 AugYet more interesting reading on the #Lendink fiasco
33. 26 AugDigital rights activists set up in Manchester – MULE # #ORGManchester – Meeting 28 August, 7pm /cc @openrightsgroup
34. 26 AugCardoons in the Garden
35. 26 AugYellow Pages? Why?
36. 26 AugCan anyone identify this Curious Booze Contraption?
37. 26 AugHomemade Apricot and Flat-Peach Pudding, with Vanilla Sugar Syrup
38. 26 AugThe Witch Hunt of E-books #lendink #publishing #copyright #sharing #kindle #incaseyoumissedit
39. 26 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-26
40. 25 AugLance Armstrong doping campaign exposes USADA’s hypocrisy # Even if I had the ability, I wouldn’t bother.
41. 25 Aug“It’s regrettable, but many companies out there are less than 40% geek …” # business blogging innovate or die
42. 25 AugElbow with the BBC Concert Orchestra Performing The seldom seen kid – Full Concert – YouTube
43. 25 AugThe Waggon and Horses in Hartley Wintney is staggeringly close to being The Moon Under Water
44. 25 Aug“It was like ‘CSI,’ but it was real.”
45. 25 AugRe: Pixar, and my first 3D movie experience
46. 25 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-25
47. 24 AugGeek Love: An Anthology of Full Frontal Nerdity by Shanna Germain — Kickstarter # Currently $3,700 of $8,000
48. 24 AugComparing Pixar’s “Brave” to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
49. 24 AugExcitement! Have booked to go see my first 3D Movie!
50. 24 AugNexus home button and spacebar on keyboard. – Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com
51. 24 Aug“The real scandal would be if you went all the way to Las Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way” #GuessWho #MyOpinion
52. 24 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-24
53. 23 AugAnd the crypto talk of the year award goes to… #mustread #reddit
54. 23 AugToday’s #Dilbert – #SECURITY MUST READ
55. 23 AugFinal: Evidence submitted to Committee re: the Draft Communications Data Bill #CCDP
56. 23 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-23
57. 23 AugRevised (Final?) Draft of Muffett response to #CCDP / Communications Data Bill! Will post in morning. Comments?
58. 22 AugWhere Identity meets Humanity
59. 22 AugSandia Robotic Hand – YouTube # Deeply Cool, Robotic Magnetic Clip-on Fingers
60. 22 AugThis is the most sexually explicit thing I’ve ever posted on this blog, and yet …
61. 22 AugGoodnight iPad, Ann Droyd # not quite as good as Go The F**k To Sleep. PLUS: BONUS PHILOSOPHY!
62. 22 AugEA on in-game “hacking” :: “We Take Security Seriously”, hire Microsoft security expert
63. 22 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-22
64. 21 AugDraft response to #CCDP – Work in progress. What have I missed?
65. 21 AugThe real reason that 4G rollout is lagging behind in the UK
66. 21 AugAt #Symantec “We Take Security Seriously” :: Does #Norton AV mark #TorProject browser bundle as malware?
67. 21 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-21
68. 20 AugSo I bought a Nexus 7
69. 20 AugMINEAPOLIS on Vimeo # “real-time special effects” fun
70. 20 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-20
71. 19 AugJulian Assange Betting – How will he leave the Ecuadorian Embassy?
72. 19 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-19
73. 18 AugMUST READ SECURITY STUFF: “The 0day and the Ivory Tower”
74. 18 AugBBC News – Ramadan fasting dilemma when sun never sets
75. 18 AugThe case of the 500-mile email /ht @tqbf
76. 18 AugFeminism, Technology Conferences, Harassment and Fear – Links
77. 16 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-16
78. 15 AugComment on the UK Government’s Snooping Bill – Open Enterprise /ht @glynmoody
79. 15 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-15
80. 14 AugNew Statesman – The problem with porn filters # What you have to do to get an incorrect censorship block removed
81. 14 AugSnoopers’ Charter Consultation « Paul Bernal’s Blog #CCDP
82. 14 AugOn Kindle and Openness… /cc @webmink @symbiat
83. 14 AugOn Doc Martens: Was I alone in experiencing these problems?
84. 13 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-13
85. 12 AugKitty Cams UGA Home /ht @glynmoody
86. 12 AugThought for the Day: In America a Celebrity Politician is like Schwarzenegger. In the UK it’s like Boris Johnson
87. 12 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-12
88. 11 AugHolocaust Foursquare – Tasteless Humour Alert
89. 11 AugDistraction of the evening: Cheese or Font http://cheeseorfont.com/ /ht @mjj122
90. 11 AugArts versus Customs # must-read illumination of the bureaucratic mindset
91. 11 AugWe need to talk about Islam | Index on Censorship # fear of religion, fear of fear, & the #twitterjoketrial /ht @alomshaha
92. 11 AugI can’t be arsed with an iPad. Do I get a Nexus 7? #seriousquestion
93. 11 AugMars 360-degree Flash Panorama /ht @webmink
94. 11 AugTesting … 1 … 2 … 1 … 2 …
95. 11 AugDropsafe going down shortly for rebuild. Back tomorrow.
96. 11 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-11
97. 10 AugBBC News – Vast volcanic ‘raft’ found in Pacific, near New Zealand
98. 10 AugNew word on the rise in the UK: “shonky”
99. 10 AugPerseid Meteor from Above
100. 10 AugApparently #Outlook is now a good thing ; also: Regards domain-squatting
101. 10 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-10
102. 9 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-09
103. 8 AugThe phrase that disturbs me most in this is “rogue computer security researcher”
104. 8 AugHenry V at The Globe, London
105. 8 Aug#WiReD is butthurt that @csoghoian called them out. They’re wrong. /cc @rsingel @runasand #cryptocat
106. 8 AugAmused that when HMRC make a mistake they don’t apologise. They “reduce your penalty”. To zero.
107. 8 AugAn Unexpected Ass Kicking | Blog Of Impossible Things # MUST-READ POSTING FOR ALL GEEKS
108. 8 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-08
109. 7 AugStrategies for implementing Content Security Policy – Ben Summers’ Blog /ht @bensummers
110. 7 Aughumour du jour: “i feel like an aeropress”
111. 7 AugAdvance Notice: Crypticide / Dropsafe Outage, Saturday 11th
112. 7 AugIll teenager misses her family cat, so the internet builds her a virtual cathedral of felines #aww
113. 7 AugHELP: Someone plz remind me: tool for ripping thru disk/exe images looking for crypto key material?
114. 7 AugNASA’s Mars YouTube Videos taken offline by bogus copyright claims and automated police software #curiosity /cc @OpenRightsGroup
115. 7 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-07
116. 6 AugInfiltrate the Vault: Security Analysis and Decryption of Lion Full Disk Encryption (PDF) #DONOTPANIC #NOTBROKENYET
117. 6 AugLight Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » Analysis of FileVault 2 (Apple’s full disk encryption)
118. 6 AugNext time someone cites “military grade encryption”, this is your response: #security
119. 6 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-06
120. 5 AugIsn’t this the same as (say) compelling people to gamble with their money just “to keep it moving” ?
121. 5 AugBBC News – ‘Bradley Wiggins effect’ warning to motorists # Cycling is a ‘craze’?
122. 5 AugWhy I Don’t Use Bing Maps – YouTube
123. 5 AugGoogle Alerts “We (Should) Take Security Seriously” :: @TheDailyBeast: “Digital Pearl Harbour” – Regulate Security!
124. 5 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-05
125. 4 AugAzure VMs contain amusing capabilities; WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? /HT @GeoffArnold @seclectech
126. 4 AugDictionary of sects, heresies, ecclesiastical parties, & schools of religious thought # Fascinating; 666pg
127. 4 AugNiche Christianity in Rural Essex: The Peculiar People and “Old Peculiars”
128. 4 AugA Selection of 78 RPM Records – Part 2
129. 4 AugGermany calls for law against hurting peoples’ feelings.
130. 4 AugPlease Do Not Give Sweets To The Crocodile
131. 4 AugRemembering Elementary School
132. 4 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-04
133. 3 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-03
134. 2 AugE.T. the Walrus practices his vocalizations at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium – YouTube
135. 2 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-02
136. 1 AugGoogle Wallet: A “We Take Security Seriously” Special Edition /HT @peterjenkins
137. 1 AugGoogle Alerts: “We Take Security Seriously” :: Congress should encourage bug fixes, reward secure systems
138. 1 AugTwitter Updates for 2012-08-01

July 2012

1. 31 JulReal Actors Read Yelp Reviews – YouTube
2. 31 JulRouters from China’s Huawei Vulnerable to Trivial Attack # If you’d heard what I’ve heard about Huawei …
3. 31 JulAbout » The Privacy Surgeon # Simon Davies is back
4. 31 JulHELP: Advice to a new graduate applying for a job in Pentesting & Security, first interview
5. 31 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-31
6. 30 JulThere’s Free (as in Beer) and Free (as in Speech) but the lesser-known third option is …
7. 30 JulShow us the source code of your patent-pending app #Wickr, else you smell like #security snake-oil /cc #torproject
8. 30 JulGoogle Alerts “We Take Security Seriously” :: Ubisoft’s DRM #vulnerability puts users at serious #security risk #BREAKING
9. 30 JulPhantom Railings – A WWII installation art / memorial near Euston
10. 30 JulGoogle Alerts “We Take Security Seriously” / “Military Grade” / “E-Voting” #thisshouldbefun #prediction
11. 30 JulHey Trusted Computing / Security Label Geeks – if you like XMPP then read this: “XEP-0314: Security Labels in PubSub”
12. 30 JulTroy Hunt: Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco # MUST-READ analysis by somebody who gets it
13. 30 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-30
14. 29 JulBetter than a reusable coffee cup: An edible coffee cup made out of a cookie | Grist
15. 29 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-29
16. 28 JulSkype denies system upgrade enables in-call spying # Doesn’t matter any more – and I also don’t believe them
17. 28 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-28
18. 27 JulOpening ceremony a ‘good time to bury bad Newcastle’ # #dailymash now exceeds #theonion
19. 27 JulAbortion being restricted in Spain
20. 27 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-27
21. 26 JulHorrified to find I am mostly agreeing with the pony-tailed one.
22. 26 JulAdriana Lukas, London Quantified Self, discusses interesting trends emerging from the Quantified Self movement
23. 26 JulExcellent Horse-Like Lady – Hyon Song-wol – YouTube # so many levels of wrong it’s untrue
24. 26 JulToday we’ve had outages of: Google Chat, Twitter, MS-Azure, and it’s the Olympics tomorrow. Either…
25. 26 JulTesco Discount Barcodes, Cracked – and Censored?
26. 26 JulHow the new can live with the old: Robert Rogers at #TEDxHoP # and Tradition as a Security Blanket
27. 26 JulComparative costs of #CCDP – Headline: 100x expensive than current data retention regime # MUST READ
28. 26 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-26
29. 25 JulThe more I look at the London Tech boom the more I think ‘Bay Area, 1993’ #sex #drink #tech #coding
30. 25 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-25
31. 24 JulTIL that some Shoreditch bars are running low on booze because of the Olympics
32. 24 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-24
33. 23 JulWhat would happen if the Church mandated filters on Internet access carried by its network?
34. 23 JulWhy is beauty such an important word? – Do Lectures # I’d call this a must-watch for life-affirmation & management
35. 23 JulFake Chinese LinkedIn profile tries to get me to connect to them
36. 23 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-23
37. 22 JulRhondda Rhapsody (Rhapsody of Love) – The Melachrino Orchestra
38. 22 JulMarianne – Fox Trot
39. 22 JulThat Naughty Waltz / Joseph C Smith’s Orchestra
40. 22 JulFor Best Results use only COLUMBIA NEEDLES # vendor lock-in, @openrightsgroup
41. 22 JulDarkey’s Delight # not politically correct at all
42. 22 JulShe Only Started Giggling
43. 22 JulThe Copyright Protection Society – Two Pence /cc @openrightsgroup
44. 22 JulCopyright Protection Circa 1920 – A License Stamp /cc @openrightsgroup
45. 22 JulDo You Dance? #marketing #hmv
46. 22 JulTP Rodgers, Music Dealer, Haymarket & Sheffield
47. 22 JulWH Priestley – The House Of Sound Repute, Colmore Rd, Birmingham & Wolverhampton
48. 22 JulChanson Hindoue (Hindu Song)
49. 22 JulThis is why we talk of Music being released as an Album.
50. 22 JulA Selection of 78 RPM Records – Part 1
51. 22 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-22
52. 21 JulView from the ISS at Night on Vimeo # THIS IS A MUST-WATCH, USE HD IF POSS
53. 21 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-21
54. 20 JulGirls denied cervical cancer jab | UK news | The Guardian
55. 20 Jul“GO FORTH AND FIND GOOD SMUT!”
56. 20 JulBBC accused of broadcasting
57. 20 Jul‘Online Now’ on Vimeo # interesting short film both pro- and crit- of new modes of communication
58. 20 JulA dialogue on sending users their passwords in clear text in e-mails, includes the fabulous line:
59. 20 JulKitten attack! – YouTube
60. 20 JulBill Binney Keynote Address at #HOPE9
61. 20 JulILL MIND OF HOPSIN 5 #hopsin – YouTube
62. 20 JulGovernment should legislate on web browsing copyright issue, says media monitoring firm
63. 20 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-20
64. 19 JulA Lesson in Business…
65. 19 JulTHIS: Within Two Worlds
66. 18 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-18
67. 17 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-17
68. 16 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-16
69. 15 JulExactly 21 years ago: “CRACK: A Sensible Unix Password Cracker”
70. 15 JulMUST READ: David House Grand Jury Notes – Pastebin.com # this is how the US #fifthamendment works HT @sonofkojak
71. 15 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-15
72. 14 JulGoogle Alerts: “We Take Security Seriously” :: More! Yahoo! Will! It! Never! End!
73. 14 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-14
74. 13 JulThe Tim and Freya show: Is social media changing the public space? – Storyful
75. 13 JulWembley Stadium – Prohibited and restricted items #olympics #2012 #security #avoid
76. 13 Jul“You wouldn’t Guy Socrates, or make him appear as a clown” # Steve Martin would.
77. 13 JulGoogle Alerts: “We Take Security Seriously” :: VeriFone Point-Of-Sale Systems
78. 13 JulA brief discourse regarding the @OpenRightsGroup London Pub Meetup in Southwark on Monday Evening
79. 13 JulNATO endorse the freedom-enhancing qualities of anonymity; don’t the UK Government agree? #CCDP #TorProject HT @runasand
80. 13 JulJaney Godley’s Blog: Tim & Freya the full story & Conclusion! #epicread #friday
81. 13 JulI know some of my colleagues will complain, but my discovery of the week is #CryptoCat https://crypto.cat/
82. 13 JulGoogle Alerts: “We Take Security Seriously” :: Yet! More! Yahoo!
83. 13 JulAcoustic Kitty – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia # :-(
84. 13 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-13
85. 12 JulPerfect Curve’s Digital Strategy – Twenty Twelve – BBC Two – YouTube # #funny #farfartoorealistic
86. 12 JulSometimes you don’t need Instagram :: Shoreditch Sky # fixed posting from yesterday
87. 12 JulGoogle Alerts: “We Take Security Seriously” – Yahoo
88. 12 Jul“Why is nobody crowing about ‘Critical National Infrastructure’?” (http://goo.gl/aSe4L at Computerworld) #cybersecurity #cni
89. 12 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-12
90. 11 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-11
91. 10 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-10
92. 9 JulThere’s a big gap between “assuming the client system is untrustworthy” versus “assume it is infected”
93. 9 Julsome pictures from a day off
94. 9 JulSTREET ART UTOPIA » We declare the world as our canvasStreet Art in Olsztyn, Poland » STREET ART UTOPIA
95. 9 JulIn Pictures: New Amy Winehouse Tribute Poster @ Camden Town Tube Station | Londonist
96. 9 JulBoeing V22 Osprey over Hartley Wintney #farnborough
97. 9 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-09
98. 8 JulMadeline dachshund puppy with Crab – YouTube # a lot of my childhood was basically #this
99. 8 JulWebsites that are blocked by O2 at #BarCampBerkshire
100. 8 JulAdriana Lukas – State of the Net 2012 – #YouTube #sotn2012 @adriana872
101. 8 JulSnakes and Onions – #Python developers and #Tor – YouTube / #EuroPython
102. 8 JulProject: Match Rockets – Grathio Labs
103. 8 JulPolice Tape: an ACLU mobile app # and a reason to prefer Android over iPhone #security #opensystems
104. 8 JulHigh #security first pet naming guidelines # Next: Time Machine and change your maternal grandparents family name
105. 8 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-08
106. 7 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-07
107. 6 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-06
108. 5 JulWANT ADVICE: best small PC speakers for music?
109. 5 JulSeems like Eric Pickles has been listening to @newsbrooke
110. 5 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-05
111. 4 JulThe appellant replied “fuck off I’ve nae warrant” # classic
112. 4 JulDryden after Horace
113. 4 JulTerry Pratchett & scarcity economics in communications regulation #commsreview HT: @dml @adamkinsley
114. 4 JulIf you’ve ever seen the white “ghost bike” screwed to the rails in Notting Hill, this is why, and what happened next #tragic
115. 4 JulOn 30 June more than 2000 clubs across Germany halted the decks for five minutes to demonstrate opposition
116. 4 JulWho runs the UK? ‘Tories, Lib Dems and Google’ says Harman # Has anyone got a transcript of this?
117. 4 JulSolitary #LiberalDemocrat MEP is the only UK MEP to support #ACTA; why? #libdems
118. 4 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-04
119. 3 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-03
120. 2 Jul“And such people often crawl the web in search of things to be upset by.”
121. 2 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-02
122. 1 JulI have invented Pink Rum! … it’s actually rather nice.
123. 1 JulFibonacci Cake !
124. 1 JulDilbert on #biometrics #security – #mustread
125. 1 JulTwitter Updates for 2012-07-01

June 2012

1. 30 JunCount Robert de La Rochefoucauld – Telegraph
2. 30 Jun“Words or conduct which would not intimidate or influence anyone to respond to the demand would not be menaces” #twitterjoketrial
3. 30 JunThe social-media turf wars have finally begun – “Starting today Tweets will no longer be displayed on LinkedIn.”
4. 30 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-30
5. 29 JunPrivacy blunder shuts online pornography consultation – Telegraph
6. 29 JunWhy Women Still Can’t Have It All – The Atlantic # feminism, politics, and work-life balance
7. 29 JunBaby Changing Station
8. 29 JunSo the Government finally admits that it is not trying to protect children but instead effect social control?
9. 29 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-29
10. 28 JunI have a bunch of 1983-86 issues of “Astronomy”, “BAA Journal” and similar going to recycle unless…
11. 28 JunI know some people who would make-over their shoes like this…
12. 28 JunI don’t know what this has got to do with the SCOTUS decision but it was forwarded to me as relevant #cute
13. 28 JunAre you in #Canada ? Do you want to hire a really excellent Unix / Network / Enterprise #Security Geek? Details:
14. 28 JunHMRC issues £100 penalty for failure to file return; but my accountant has the receipt for doing so #thisshouldbefun
15. 28 JunCopying and pasting requires the free Google Docs web app. This lets us access your clipboard so you can cut, copy and paste #wtf
16. 28 JunTerrorist watch now available in chartreuse, magenta, ginger and more – Boing Boing # I still like classic black; goes with anything
17. 28 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-28
18. 27 JunBest discovery this week…
19. 27 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-27
20. 26 JunOh dearie me…
21. 26 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-26
22. 25 JunYammer-Skype Merger under MS ?
23. 25 Junpresenting canon doctor @giles_fraser at #westskep :: the abridged version # ht: @davidallengreen
24. 25 JunWANT: UK #ISO27001 ISMS certification body who understands tech startup culture? #SiliconRoundabout
25. 25 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-25
26. 24 Junmattdiamond/fuckitjs · GitHub #EPIC – even the README. HT: @lothie
27. 24 Jun“Given the thin case against him, it is an outrage that he is being extradited to the US to face felony charges”
28. 24 JunNew Glasses? (Vintage NHS Issue)
29. 24 JunNature revolts against artificial scarcity and “rights management” # BBC News – The world’s oldest clove tree
30. 24 JunI have wanted one of these for years ever since I worked out what the lyrics meant #SOMUCHWANT #TMBG #240VOLTRISTESSE
31. 24 JunNote to self: Must wipe old Solaris system and redo with #SmartOS # SmartOS.org
32. 24 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-24
33. 23 Jun80 years from now we can expect Doritos From Space
34. 23 JunCat plays Guitar. Earthquake results. #IAMYOURCATGOD #WHEREISYOURGODNOW ?
35. 23 JunJoy of Death Festival – Bournemouth UK # Oh, this sounds like fun…
36. 23 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-23
37. 22 JunTIL: There’s a shark called the Largetooth Cookiecutter
38. 22 JunApparently Crack will have a bit-part in the new #Assange “TV movie”
39. 22 JunBearLove Good. Cancer Bad # Cancer / Wildlife charity collection currently sits at $209,500 #TheOatmeal
40. 22 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-22
41. 21 JunHouse of Commons – Trade and Industry – Seventh Report # blast from the past for those who think #ccdp illiberality is new
42. 21 JunIf you want to understand how @TorProject and #Tor works, read this
43. 21 JunIf you’re interested in how the @TorProject approaches child abuse happening on anonymous networks, read this:
44. 21 Jun“Both his parents worked at the local potassium mine…”
45. 21 JunThinkGeek :: Doctor Who Bathrobes # I know some people these would work for.
46. 21 JunThings I like today: A Show with Ze Frank, and Something Positive.
47. 21 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-21
48. 20 JunMandatory Porn Filtering: This is not “censorship” – This is *APPLIED* *SCIENCE*
49. 20 JunThe only good abortion is my abortion – Boing Boing # no words. just read it.
50. 20 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-20
51. 20 JunWho, with any amount of sense, would use an ATM that looked like this?
52. 20 JunOpenRightsGroup Advisory-Committee-In-The-Pub
53. 19 JunSome girls wander by mistake, but…
54. 19 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-19
55. 18 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-18
56. 17 JunMartha Payne is fundraising for Mary’s Meals # now sitting at £80,193 / 1145% of target #neverseconds
57. 17 Jun#Cleanout Progress. Cloudy Apple Juice. Bison Vodka.
58. 17 JunWere I not a security geek I think I would be a lawyer; if so I hope I would be this sort of lawyer…
59. 17 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-17
60. 16 JunWhat the hell does “dis-ambiguous nature of the narrative” mean? At least #SnowCrash is under @JoeCornishNow and he ‘gets’ geeks
61. 16 JunNASA used Russian diplomatic bags to bypass US Customs import grief?
62. 16 Jun“He would have to keep 2 to 3 inches away to not get sucked into the funnel” #ouch
63. 16 JunPoopin 2.0! – YouTube #epic
64. 16 Junplaintextoffenders.com is dead ?
65. 16 JunNever get into an arse-kicking competition with a comedy writer # HT: @Eamonn_Forde
66. 16 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-16
67. 16 JunHIPSTER SPACECRAFT PLAYS ONLY VINYL
68. 15 Jun54 years in space and so far we’ve only got two minibus-sized probes to leave the solar system
69. 15 JunLaw Enforcement and Retrogressive Pressures upon Technology
70. 15 JunBig Wooden Ball Project on Vimeo # #epic #want
71. 15 Jun2004 – Motorbiking Italy
72. 15 JunIn case you’ve missed it you need to read http://neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk/ about school dinners, and then…
73. 15 Junqotd: “Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat”
74. 15 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-15
75. 14 JunIntroducing the #CCDP-compliant “SpookBox 5000” for the implementation of the #SnoopersCharter
76. 14 JunPassword Cracking in a Nutshell
77. 14 Jun“internet mail headers are not unlike giblets” – brian reid; attrib. paul vixie?
78. 14 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-14
79. 13 JunCutting steel magnified and slowed down. [VIDEO]
80. 13 JunWhen I wrote Crack I could make three password guesses per second; @BrianKrebs readers plz note #security #hashcat
81. 13 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-13
82. 12 JunEven more exciting than the #Retina #Powerbook!
83. 12 JunMust listen to the Microsoft Norway Developer Conference Song – #norwegian #microsoft, #german #techno, #wtf
84. 12 JunGreeks apologise with huge horse #dailymash #mustread
85. 12 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-12
86. 11 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-11
87. 10 JunEFF Speakeasy: London with the @OpenRightsGroup & #TorProject # This Thursday Evening, London
88. 10 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-10
89. 9 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-09
90. 8 JunPetit Salé Aux Lentilles, Choucroute, and a Portugese Red.
91. 8 JunFrom 2007: Why Are British Sex Scandals So Much Better than [America’s]? | Culture | Vanity Fair
92. 8 JunStorm Damage, Happy Ending
93. 8 Jun“This article is about a type of dangerous woman”
94. 8 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-08
95. 7 JunVodafone and O2 to merge mobile networks • The Register – Call it #voodafone ?
96. 7 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-07
97. 6 JunI have perhaps 150 old VHS cassette tapes that I want rid of. Can they be recycled easily (in the UK)?
98. 6 JunWhat we really NEED is a kickstarter to aggregate all the cracking of these #LinkedIn passwords
99. 6 JunI found something rather interesting in the alleged #LinkedIn password hashes – salting? corruption?
100. 6 JunRay Bradbury died today. I wonder if he’ll be cremated?
101. 6 Jun“The passwords were encrypted with technology.” #cnet #gottaloveit – from the 2010 #linkedin password change
102. 6 Jun“If it turns out that #LinkedIn passwords have leaked…” (http://goo.gl/N9lhn at Computerworld)
103. 6 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-06
104. 5 JunPut Roomba in Loft. Shut hatch. Sounds like a warzone up there.
105. 5 JunAberystwyth Jubilee Beacon burned a _little_ too fiercely… #jubilee #beacon #fail
106. 5 Jun1970 Sesame Street: My Digital Re-creation | Jordan Orlando
107. 5 Jun#RaspberryPi and Kirby cushion factory could be answer to UK tech sector boost – The Inquirer
108. 5 JunHow the Chinese screwed up their 3G mobile phone networks | Samizdata / Michael Jennings #China #iPhone
109. 5 JunThis is what happens when you implement Censorship on the Internet, part 2
110. 5 JunThis is what happens when you implement Censorship on the Internet, part 1
111. 5 JunLoose Connections – Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil
112. 5 JunIs it a bird? Is it a plane? No … it’s a dead cat with propellers stuck on it! – in pictures | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
113. 5 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-05
114. 4 JunCosta Coffee in Hartley Wintney plans 35 seats in Cafe
115. 4 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-04
116. 3 JunCat walking down fridge (Spider Cat) – YouTube
117. 3 JunThe Times has dropped its paywall for the jubilee, so I am introducing a friend to AA Gill’s Restaurant reviews
118. 3 JunINCIDENTAL COMICS: Cycles of Life # for cyclists everywhere
119. 3 JunThought for today
120. 3 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-03
121. 2 JunBarbecue Dessert
122. 2 JunWork in progress…
123. 2 JunRT @mksguillemont “Global search and replace will hunt through every Kindle and cranny, of course”
124. 2 JunBBQ heating up; pork belly marinated in balsamic, glazed with ketjap manis. Glass of Beaujolais.
125. 2 JunScunthorpe Rides Again: Global Search And Replace Stupidity #Kindle #Nook
126. 2 JunHartley Wintney Costa Coffee Shop Planning Brouhaha
127. 2 JunLocal Wine Tasting – First Saturday of the Month
128. 1 JunTwitter Updates for 2012-06-01

May 2012

1. 31 MayEthiopia Introduces Deep Packet Inspection | The Tor Blog
2. 31 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-31
3. 30 MayArticle
4. 30 MayCute idea: bury a treasure chest full of chocolate gold coins, and…
5. 30 MayToo oblique?
6. 30 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-30
7. 29 MayAn Alan Moore Poem
8. 29 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-29
9. 28 MayGoogle Apps receives #ISO27001 security certification – ComputerworldUK.com
10. 28 MayWhen Security Geeks Get Snarky
11. 28 MayThe importance of making and testing backups. And the equal importance of quality product.
12. 28 MayThermite would be better and more assured:
13. 28 May“To Profile or Not to Profile?” # Critical reading as the UK Government enables data-trawling apparatus
14. 28 May#PennyArcade: Gay muslims plant a dirty bomb inside the Internet
15. 28 MayIf you want to follow the #Cambridge #FPGAbackdoor story hype the most effective search is …
16. 28 May“Chinese Cyberwarriors in your Chips?” (http://goo.gl/XK2WI at Computerworld) #FPGAbackdoor
17. 28 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-28
18. 27 MayThe Naive Optimist • Hitting 40 employees and going vanilla
19. 27 MayKosmograd: Olympics Brand Exclusion Zone
20. 27 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-27
21. 26 MayTheories of Bicycle Pornography – YouTube
22. 26 MayMy Dr Who question, answered… #goshilovetheinterwebs #varos
23. 26 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-26
24. 25 MayWas this an episode of Dr Who, or Blake’s 7? There was this planet where…
25. 25 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-25
26. 24 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-24
27. 23 MayChainmail Socks for #Barefoot Running. Yes, really. Eat your heart out #Vibram
28. 23 MayDesuited, debooted, tshirted and now in pursuit of the finest Burritos known to the UK
29. 23 MayIs rock n’ roll the ‘gateway drug’ that leads to drink, dope and risky sex? | Mail Online # #bigtentuk12 #retro
30. 23 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-23
31. 22 MayShostack on Threat Modeling # Making Security Fun
32. 22 May“Ask Alec: Security for Freelance Developers” ( http://goo.gl/vMlc0 at Computerworld ) #security
33. 22 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-22
34. 21 MayCBBC Newsround – New mobile phone SIM service Bemilo ‘to beat bullies’ #mustread @openrightsgroup
35. 21 MayBelostomatids death to the buttocks is spicy
36. 21 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-21
37. 21 MayIs there a way to sync Firefox plugins across machines yet?
38. 20 MayBBC News – Pakistan blocks Twitter because of ‘offensive material’
39. 20 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-20
40. 19 MayGET SPOCK UP HERE! # #pratchett meets #trek
41. 19 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-19
42. 18 MayVodka Martini: Vodka, Vermouth, Olive; Vodka Gibson: use an Onion; Vodka Muffett: use Pickled Garlic
43. 18 MayBotching the Bomb | Foreign Affairs
44. 18 MayWhat I think is wrong with #VRM – HT @nzn @glynmoody @windley @dsearls @adriana872
45. 18 May“JESUS also suffered from GOVERNMENT CUTS” # should have gone on strike, then.
46. 18 MayDinner: poached goose egg on warm baguette, french butter; vodka martini.
47. 18 MayJust in case anyone thinks that Internet trolls and timewasters are a new phenomenon…
48. 18 MayExpress.co.uk :: We’re the new naughty novelists # La Express reports on the British #CottageErotica industry
49. 18 MayLaw banning insulting language ‘is strangling free speech’ – Telegraph
50. 18 May#India blocks #Pastebin? Great way to kill off the tech boom in #Bangalore, guys #whoohoo #IndiaTechSuicide
51. 18 MaySmall team from Plunkett Foundation (@PlunkettFoundat) filming at Hartley Wintney WI Market this morning
52. 18 MayIf you want to fix your Mac’s Desktop Wallpaper, you need today’s APOD
53. 18 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-18
54. 17 May“Why is this message in Spam? We’ve found that lots of messages from schneier@schneier.com are spam”
55. 17 MayApparently my blog is parental-controlled / filtered / censored content on the O2 Mobile network # HT @ramtopsrac @drbexl
56. 17 Maylolcommits: Takes a snapshot with your webcam every time you commit code # requires port to Subversion for @surevine deployment
57. 17 MayBUNNIES!
58. 17 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-17
59. 16 May“This Is The Funniest Graph I’ve Ever Seen About Why The Euro Is Totally Doomed” – Business Insider
60. 16 MaySo Judge Alsup – the Oracle/Google Java/Android Judge – is a coder?
61. 16 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-16
62. 15 MayThe day that my Father gatecrashed the Pope: 5 June 1944
63. 15 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-15
64. 15 MayUpcoming Kickstarter for Geek Porn Anthology
65. 14 MayTIL: UK censored/blocked websites include ShelfAppeal: blog featuring items that can be placed on a shelf
66. 14 MayUnsolicited plug: Toresano, St John’s Wood, London – Great #tapas, best #churros in London.
67. 14 MayLondon #Olympic / IOC Committee was tracked via #GPS & #CCTV to smooth them through traffic lights # Keeping London Moving
68. 14 MayHPCwire: Open Source Compiler Adds Support for Nvidia GPUs #LLVM
69. 14 MayWelcome to Life « Tom Scott # HT: @tomscott – 165 seconds of excellent copyright dystopia scifi
70. 14 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-14
71. 13 MayLight Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » I’m from the Government and I’m here to help #security #openstandards
72. 13 MayHas someone yet doxed the #part3 “completely considered you when i saw this” Twitter worm/bug/hole?
73. 13 MayA few years ago the Dell 2407WFP was a must-have geek monitor; what’s its modern equivalent?
74. 13 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-13
75. 12 MayTIL that Sweden banned “Skippy the Bush Kangaroo” for being unrealistic
76. 12 MayThe Oatmeal on The C-word
77. 12 MayEach morning is now spent imagining – reconstructing – Roomba’s Big Adventure #roomba
78. 12 May“DDOS and blocks are both forms of censorship” – PirateBay upbraids some-bunch-of-Anonymous-people
79. 12 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-12
80. 11 MayIran’s Internet Filters Filter Out Leader’s Screed Against Getting Around Filters | Techdirt
81. 11 MayIf You Meet a Censor, Ask Them This One Question
82. 11 MayBrussels wants to impose classification of Internet content
83. 11 MayCase for snooping powers backfires for Theresa May – Telegraph
84. 11 MayHow a Bicycle is Made (1945) on Vimeo
85. 11 MayHoney Hunters in Nepal
86. 9 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-09
87. 8 May“#Cybersecurity: Demand An Evidence-Based Approach” ( http://goo.gl/VOLHy at Computerworld )
88. 8 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-08
89. 7 MayThe Interwebs are @aleksk’s antfarm once again: Did the Internet make you an #atheist? The BBC wants to know…
90. 7 MayWorried about online porn? Don’t regulate the net – regulate your kids # excellent @charlesarthur piece
91. 5 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-05
92. 4 MayPolitics in a nutshell… or in grapes…
93. 4 MayPrime Minister to address BT, T-Mobile, Vodafone re: preventing hate speech, fraud…
94. 4 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-04
95. 3 MaySchneier on Security: Cybercrime as a Tragedy of the Commons
96. 3 MayFrom Shakespeare to Transubstantiation
97. 3 May“large as the udders of a Pampas heifer, and as tall and proud as the Andes” #dailymash
98. 3 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-03
99. 2 MayCan any old-timers from #SunMicrosystems please pass comment upon “Commercialization of TCP/IP” / Martin Leufray
100. 2 May“I’m sure many list members designed and wrote their own compiled languages as children”
101. 2 MayLemurian Crystal Attunements Course #yesreally #lemurs
102. 2 MayALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS – EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.
103. 2 MayCan someone plz explain to me why these folk are not being prosecuted under #IR35 like the IT contract sector?
104. 2 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-02
105. 1 MayTwitter Updates for 2012-05-01

April 2012

1. 30 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-30
2. 29 AprMust-See: Science off the Sphere: Fun with Antibubbles # Zero-G Bubble in Space!
3. 29 Apr“Do you know, Miall, Encyclopaedia Britannica doesn’t even mention spaghetti?” # and this is why we have #wikipedia
4. 29 AprBasic forensics / Why it sucks to lack Google Streetmap in Switzerland / Panorama Spaghetti Trees
5. 29 AprThunderously deep boom over Hartley Wintney. Not thunder.
6. 29 AprOuter Space on Vimeo
7. 29 AprPresumably any aircraft deviating from approach to London City will be shot down; they should avoid go-arounds then…
8. 29 Apr#Missiles in East #London for the #Olympics? Cor! It’s the #Blitz all over again!
9. 29 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-29
10. 28 AprAfter discovering Notker the Stammerer, I find Grundthos the Flatulent to be much more plausible
11. 28 AprIs there somewhere (ideally nr #Fleet) where I can drop a bunch of shoes/boots and have them polished/treated?
12. 28 AprSomething to do with the dead flies that build up in your house over summer:
13. 28 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-28
14. 27 Apr“What we need are some IPv6-only Porn Sites” # to fix IPv6 adoption – epic @bsideslondon quote
15. 27 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-27
16. 26 AprYahoo’s genius content strategy # so I’m not the only person who does this?
17. 26 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-26
18. 25 AprRobotic support brings freedom to paraplegics – Tek RMD – YouTube
19. 25 Apr“I work in security.” – “Oh really, that’s so _interesting_!!!” #youarelying #socialengineeringihazthis #hhldn
20. 25 Apr“I do security.” – “What, like in a nightclub?” #notexactly #hhldn
21. 25 AprBBC News – Scottish wildcats found in Cairngorms
22. 25 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-25
23. 24 AprBBC News – Sir David Omand – Social media snooping powers out of date #ccdp
24. 24 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-24
25. 23 Apr“The Government stresses that what is proposed is merely an expansion of existing powers” #tootrue #ccdp
26. 23 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-23
27. 22 Apr[Full-disclosure] phpMyBible 0.5.1 Multiple XSS #security #xss
28. 22 AprI am so glad that @zefrank is back…
29. 22 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-22
30. 21 AprWorm propagation strategies in an IPv6 Internet
31. 21 AprBritish farmer’s quest to find lost Spitfires in Burma – Telegraph
32. 21 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-21
33. 20 AprWondering if the civil service understand IT any better now that they know what a fencepost error is?
34. 20 AprYes, blow up the #cows. It worked really good for the #whale. Use dynamite. What could possibly go wrong?
35. 20 AprVery cool contrail photography # Dark Roasted Blend: Jets & Clouds Effects
36. 20 AprKTHX-FM – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia #kthxbye
37. 20 AprHartley Wintney. [kaboom] [rumble rumble rumble]
38. 20 Apr“We have a Guide to Pub Etiquette including when to tip for food in pubs and restaurants” #EUROCRYPT
39. 20 Apr#AddisonLee chairman provokes controversy with his views on London cyclist deaths | road.cc | Road cycling news, Bike reviews, Commuting, Leisure riding, Sportives and more
40. 20 AprIf you’ve ever wanted a Roomba, Amazon UK are back-ordering a recent model £329.99 saving ~80 quid
41. 20 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-20
42. 19 AprI really hope Britain tries to extradite some of the #BPAS “hackers” – see if US extradition is bidirectional
43. 19 AprFour Lit-tle Bytes of Ad-dress Code – an IPv4 song by Aaron Davies (after G&S)
44. 19 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-19
45. 18 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-18
46. 17 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-17
47. 16 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-16
48. 15 AprCould we replace marriage with incorporation of private limited companies?
49. 15 AprALMOST EVERY TIME SEAN BEAN HAS DIED ON FILM, EVER (WHICH IS A LOT OF TIMES)
50. 15 AprOne Sean Bean DIES every 1.24 years – but YOU have the power to stop it!
51. 15 AprTIL: one c*nt == 180 days in British law.
52. 15 AprI’d forgotten how much I enjoy my HD600 headphones; not the /best/ but they sound great…
53. 15 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-15
54. 14 AprWarm but slightly cloudy. Rain may fall. Solution: hang laundry in greenhouse to dry.
55. 14 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-14
56. 13 Apr#CCDP isn’t a question of liberty: it’s simply against common sense | The Spectator
57. 13 AprCBBC Newsround – Fifty things to do before you’re 11¾ # 48/50, not bad.
58. 13 Apr…And now a call from #Admiral claiming to have had my vehicle reg# wrong, except that …
59. 13 AprAs if by magic a phonecall from Direct Line saying #Admiral had been in touch to confirm they accept liability
60. 13 AprHow #AdmiralInsurance are trying to blackmail me and are lying to my insurers (FAO: @AdmiralNews)
61. 13 AprIn which I agree with Peter Dinklage about luck …
62. 13 AprThe problem with leaving garden tools out in a proper bucolic fashion is that birds sit on the handles. And crap on them.
63. 13 Apr“Should #TrentonOldfield have set himself on fire _if_ he really meant it?” #poddelusion
64. 13 AprMove your moggy with webuyanycat.com
65. 13 AprHumanist Quotations on Animal Welfare
66. 13 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-13
67. 12 AprAbstruse Goose : the tide #funny #rofl #ccdp
68. 12 AprOne thing that particularly upsets me about #CCDP is that it’s a step towards a British #CALEA (HT #Netflix)
69. 12 AprAn extract from the Crypto Wars / ORG Wiki
70. 12 Apr“Still Scrambling For Safety” ( http://goo.gl/rPnP8 at #Computerworld )
71. 12 AprRoundup of writings on #CCDP
72. 12 AprIs it me or is #DISQUS totally full of #fail now? Should I recommend #ComputerWorld drop it?
73. 12 AprToday is improved – therefore, I’m cleaning …
74. 12 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-12
75. 11 AprHEADSUP: Scrambling For Safety Conference: London, Thursday 19th April (next week) #ccdp #privacy #security
76. 11 AprSeat Assignment: Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style
77. 11 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-11
78. 10 AprA perfect description for the British Computer Society ?
79. 10 AprFLASH: The whole of Gmail only has 7.6Gb of space left.
80. 10 AprCute idea for text-cartoons…
81. 10 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-10
82. 9 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-09
83. 8 AprRoast Chicken – a set on Flickr
84. 8 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-08
85. 7 AprMUST SEE: RSA Conference 2012; New Threats to the Internet Infrastructure; Bruce Schneier; YouTube #CCDP
86. 7 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-07
87. 6 AprWindows Project Glass: One day too… – YouTube
88. 6 AprIf Oracle wins its Android suit, everyone loses | Open Source Software – InfoWorld
89. 6 Apr.@TheNextWeb discovers the horrifying truth that stolen credentials CAN BE REUSED – #facebook client, #dropbox @MPanzarino
90. 6 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-06
91. 6 AprHow the Snooper’s Charter materially threatens the UK Coalition Government #CCDP #LibDems #telldaveeverything
92. 5 AprInterested in the @OpenRightsGroup? Battling #CCDP? Up North? You want #ORGSheffield
93. 5 AprHEADSUP: @OpenRightsGroup London April Pub Meetup: Censorship in the Comms Bill – Monday April 16th #ORGLondon + #ORGSheffield
94. 5 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-05
95. 4 Apr#CCDP and #CloudComputing – some _really_ interesting new questions that I’ve not heard discussed #restraintOnBusiness
96. 4 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-04
97. 3 AprI am surprised at the amount of #CCDP discussion I’m seeing mention “Logging #Skype calls”
98. 3 AprSurveillance: what the parties said then and now | UK news | The Guardian
99. 3 AprMitchell’s Law : “You automatically lose any civil rights debate when you invoke paedophiles or terrorists” #godwin #ccdp
100. 3 AprThe Home Secretary appeals to the The Sun to bail her out for #CCDP; but preaching to the wrong choir won’t help
101. 3 AprHome Sec: Web snoop law will snare PAEDOS, TERRORISTS • The Register
102. 3 AprSurveillance? Only *SOME* Liberal Democrats aren’t supporting it… #CCDP #libdems
103. 3 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-03
104. 2 AprAn example of how a BBC News article changes hour-by-hour / day-to-day
105. 2 Apr.@Nick_Clegg declares public support for #CCDP’s distributed database – @libdems
106. 2 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-02
107. 1 AprHow Linux is changing lives in Zambia | News | TechRadar
108. 1 AprVia @andrewcb: #porn and #erototoxins
109. 1 AprCan we #FOIA request the number of people killed by #porn in the UK in the last 5 years?
110. 1 AprMUST READ: SpyBlog: “Anonymous media briefings to soften us up for even more Internet Snooping” #ccdp
111. 1 AprNice to see the #Police using #Twitter to crowdsource crimefighting amongst themselves; shame if it was #censored
112. 1 AprCan someone plz provide the URL for the tool which tracks changes to BBC News articles?
113. 1 Apr“Email and web use ‘to be monitored’ under new laws” The BBC /finally/ spot that #CCDP is a story
114. 1 AprTwitter Updates for 2012-04-01

March 2012

1. 31 MarIs it still “pre-loading” to enjoy a couple of cheap beers at home without going out?
2. 30 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-30
3. 29 Mar“Historic & Traditional Pub” – w/ en-suite kitten
4. 29 MarTravel Agent: “Visit Historic Norwich!”
5. 29 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-29
6. 28 MarBritish Pie Week. May contain gunshot and small bones.
7. 28 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-28
8. 27 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-27
9. 26 MarCash4Access Dot Com – Get up close and personal with your favourite Conservative politicians http://www.cash4access.com/ #rofl
10. 26 MarGeek Must-Watch: @Lessig on “Recognising the Fight We’re In” – Closing Keynote from #ORGcon 2012
11. 26 Mar2011: lovely warm early spring, dry-but-grey-summer, mediocre autumn. Same again?
12. 26 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-26
13. 25 MarHow (not) to communicate new scientific information HT @jimfinnis #WileyOnline #Epic
14. 25 MarHartley Wintney now has room for more dead people #yourenotfromroundtheseparts
15. 25 MarMiscellaneous #ORGcon photos …
16. 25 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-25
17. 24 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-24
18. 23 MarMichael Bloomberg (@mikebloomberg) proves he can do elementary maths
19. 23 MarPub conversation …
20. 23 MarMillions of #Barclays card users exposed to #fraud – #contactless #pickpockets # HT @bensummers
21. 23 MarMaybe it’s coincidence but for the first time I noticed #homebrew eqpt at #Tesco; #alcohol pricing
22. 23 Mar“#LibDems custodiet ipsos custodes?” (http://goo.gl/uqB5o at Computerworld) #ccdp #imp #libdem #orgcon
23. 23 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-23
24. 22 MarHousehold Visitor: Large Wasp or Small Hornet?
25. 22 MarInvisible Tree Is Invisible #basingstoke
26. 21 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-21
27. 20 MarTIL that the NHS is the world’s fifth biggest employer. Not the third.
28. 20 MarAn apple tree in Winchfield Station Car Park hasn’t yet dropped its apples from last year. Looks bizarre.
29. 20 MarTIL in defiance of US Corporate Management Guidance that Gorillas may weigh as little as 400lbs.
30. 20 Mar#TorProject releases cute “Join The Network” YouTube video for #Tor #security #privacy #ec2 #cloudcamp
31. 20 Mar“1 Gender 1 Motor (Safety First, Honour Now)” – Malaysian Campaign says No to mixed-gender Motorcycle Pillion passengers
32. 19 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-19
33. 17 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-17
34. 16 MarKyle Lambert | Gallery | Toy Shining – iPad Paintings #theshining #pixar #steverollinginhisgrave
35. 16 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-16
36. 15 MarUK DirectGov Consultation on “Civil” #gaymarriage*; note the careful wording…
37. 15 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-15
38. 14 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-14
39. 13 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-13
40. 13 Mar#RDGGEEK29/TONIGHT/TUESDAY: COPYRIGHT: HELP OR HINDRANCE? @copyrightgirl THE ORG : FREEDOM IS RELEVANT @peterbradwell
41. 12 Mar#GoogleMaps London has deleted Leicester Square?
42. 12 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-12
43. 12 MarThere’s something disappointing about a guy with a handlebar moustache riding a MTB with flat bars.
44. 11 MarProcol Harum, Pink Floyd & Douglas Adams – wonderful evening
45. 11 MarWonderful bird photography from Melissa Penta – HT: @dbspira
46. 11 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-11
47. 10 MarHow in the name of #Clegg have the #LibDems gone to #LDConf without full, live internet streaming?
48. 10 MarAnybody going to the #DouglasAdams party tomorrow at Hammersmith Odeon?
49. 10 MarPlaying with a #Tor #Onionbox – #Excito B3 Tor router.
50. 10 MarJoy Division’s “Atmosphere,” accompanied by slapped cats
51. 10 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-10
52. 9 MarQuadrotor drones are amazing and cute, and they will probably destroy us all #ALLPRAISETOTHEQUADROTORS
53. 9 MarRichard Bartle @DigitalSurrey, Guildford, March 22nd #mud #mist #essex #0000496000001 #brand #brand #brand
54. 9 MarBBC – Could the digital ‘cloud’ used for storage ever crash? # Normal people afflicted by #megaupload ‘takedown’
55. 9 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-09
56. 8 MarChap on @BBCRadio4 #PM sez the railways “did not expect nor plan for growth” #WhatTheHellWereTheyThinking ?
57. 8 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-08
58. 7 MarEncounters with Police documents at one remove…
59. 7 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-07
60. 6 MarBlargh.
61. 6 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-06
62. 5 MarMobius Scarf, modelled by Pete Jenkins #geek #knitting #sunmicrosystems
63. 5 MarIron Man Cosplay – I like the last one
64. 5 Mar“…convince the tornado that you are already dead and not worth chasing.”
65. 5 MarCatholics urged to oppose gay divorce – The Daily Mash
66. 5 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-05
67. 4 MarThis mead? It’s very sweet, excellent chilled with ham, and begods it’s strong HT @belledejour_uk
68. 4 MarEver had a hangover this bad? # Archer – Blood Mary – YouTube
69. 4 Mar#uksnow RG27 3/10 – huge wet flakes, sleet
70. 4 MarEat Cat Poop To Become More Attractive To Women? #toxoplasmosis #theatlantic
71. 4 MarQuadrocopters play Pong/Tennis, Keepy-Uppy
72. 4 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-04
73. 3 Marh to the izzo, v to the izzay … and a nice chenin blanc from @nakedwines
74. 3 MarTIL you can actually jetwash your teeth
75. 3 MarTIL there are approx as many Mormons as Jews in the world. Does this qualify as x4 Abrahamic faiths?
76. 3 MarQuite disheartened to find the WP article on #Crack nearly got canned in January for “lack of notability” #password #security
77. 3 MarRoast Steamed #Duck dinner with friends … #food #porn photos
78. 3 MarTomorrow I shall rack the first of the Earl Grey Mead into bottles.
79. 3 MarThink you can trackstand? Do a few cycle tricks? This Senegalese guy owns you…
80. 3 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-03
81. 2 MarDevelopers and Software Testers will resonate with this letter from Steinbeck…
82. 2 MarTwitter Updates for 2012-03-02
83. 2 MarIt wasn’t my telling the Army guy “you are so innocent”; it was proving the point by explaining #bronies to him
84. 1 MarHow come no Wikipedian has yet updated the “Advanced Persistent Threat” page with a “Humour” section?
85. 1 MarMoney-quote from @RidT’s article in Foreign Policy magazine #security #cybersecurity #surveillance #censorship
86. 1 MarThink Again: Cyberwar #ThomasRid #CyberSecurity http://goo.gl/u4b0Y HT @RidT
87. 1 MarPress release received, funnest thing evar: FREE LOGIN VAULT ENDS SECURITY NIGHTMARE OF MULTIPLE PASSWORDS
88. 1 Marranum on cyberwar: http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/author/mjranum/
89. 1 MarSingle Ticket Winchfield-Bristol £56; Winchfield-Reading+Reading-Bristol £6+£31 same #trains #thismakesnosense
90. 1 Marnote to self: when stopping httpd in order to back up the blog and rotate the logfiles, restart it afterwards.

February 2012

1. 29 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-29
2. 29 FebHappy leap-day everyone.
3. 29 FebPhotopic Sky Survey – pretty. http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html
4. 28 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-28
5. 27 Febnearly home, wet road, dark, headlamps, flash of movement, brake, stop, hazards – to move a frog to safety of the common
6. 27 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-27
7. 26 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-26
8. 25 FebIllustrated guide to Venus-Jupiter conjunction in March #astronomy #science #pretty
9. 25 FebWives ban husbands from Italian cafe with “Sexy” barista/owner #LauraMaggi; but the media…
10. 25 FebWhat #StarTrek teaches us about #GayMarriage, The #ChurchOfEngland, & former Archbishop #Carey
11. 25 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-25
12. 24 FebLucy Lawless – a.k.a #Xena – Occupies a Shell Oil Drilling Ship # HT @newsmary
13. 24 FebVisit to Hartley Wintney Women’s Institute Market (PHOTOS)
14. 24 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-24
15. 23 FebOn the benefits of #macroblogging, observing a #Twitter stupidity, and the return of #stopshortening
16. 23 FebBBC with more #FoldingPlug goodness (HT: @ruskin147)
17. 22 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-22
18. 20 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-20
19. 19 Feb#HamzaKashgari : Saudi Cleric castigates Twitter, Saudi Prince invests in Twitter # @Arabist
20. 19 FebApple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support to Open Source XQuartz – MacRumors.com
21. 19 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-19
22. 19 FebVideoLAN – VLC 2.0 Twoflower is available…
23. 18 FebRemember this folding UK 13 Amp plug? Well now it’s here, sort-of…
24. 18 Feb“@angusprune: Website idea: isthepubsafe.com tells you if there is a major sporting fixture on or if it is safe to go to the pub”
25. 18 FebThe world altitude record for a helicopter led immediately to the the record for unpowered descent of a helicopter…
26. 18 FebToday I made the horrific discovery that one of the most cringeworthy songs I know is a Rachmaninov piece
27. 18 FebWhen the Publishers Association mention “illegal content” – here’s an example. HT @PublishersAssoc @OpenRightsGroup
28. 18 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-18
29. 17 FebHendrick’s Presents the Ladies School of Nuptial Conquest, Lesson 4: Glove – YouTube # advertising comedy wtf?
30. 17 FebChase Williams Apple Gin: does make an epic, though simple, clean and strong, G&T – HT @WilliamsGin
31. 17 FebAccidental recipe: Fake Spicy Stir-fry Vegetables
32. 17 FebJust found this referrer from #BlueCoat in my logfiles; does this mean they have blocked me? #security #censorship
33. 17 Feb“For the sake of the children” is losing its gloss … #TellVicEverything
34. 17 FebTwo Parliamentary Reports: Future of Investigative Journalism / Roots of violent radicalisation; #censorship #regulation
35. 17 FebTheological reading: #JewishEncyclopedia: the unedited full-text of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia: JESUS OF NAZARETH
36. 17 FebOnce again the error of thinking of the Internet as a ‘space’ inveigles into Government thinking
37. 17 FebNew Statesman – Video: Bristol bus driver uses “vehicle as weapon”
38. 17 FebMy Search Neutrality reading list, from the recent #PICTFOR panel session with #Foundem on #SearchNeutrality
39. 17 FebI was with @DrMichaelBrooks of the @NewStatesman right up until he said the word ‘ban’
40. 17 Feb#Geek? #Friday? #Bored? Check out @schuetzdj & his worked solutions of #Security Conference Badge Contests
41. 17 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-17
42. 17 FebAt #DC4420 a few weeks ago I asked “Who here was on Zardoz?” http://goo.gl/fkQcH – disappointing result
43. 16 FebPoorly Drawn Lines – When It’s Cold I like to…
44. 16 Febfuturistic border-protecting iris-scanner technology, dead?
45. 16 FebStanley Green’s “Less Lust, Less Protein” would not approve of new PETA sex-advert for Veganism
46. 16 FebDreamliner jet “draws” Boeing logo across North America # and only mildly cheating
47. 16 FebWanna buy bits of an SR71?
48. 16 FebErrata Security: No, #Anonymous can’t DDoS the root DNS servers
49. 16 FebTrying to work out if the #Netgear DGND4000 would permit me to use my full “/29” and have 5x fully IP-connected hosts
50. 16 Feb…but why I am kinda happy with establishmentarianism is: (HT @RelSoc)
51. 16 FebTwo followups to my @giles_fraser / Richard Dawkins @rdfrs post – one newspaper, one funny
52. 15 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-15
53. 14 FebRegarding @Giles_Fraser on @BBCR4Today and the Richard Dawkins interview…
54. 14 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-14
55. 13 Feb“Learning about Cybersecurity from an Unnatural World” (http://goo.gl/iCqrS at Computerworld)
56. 13 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-13
57. 12 FebWhy are US economy stats being used to suggest an impending UK recovery, when there is a US election due soon? Duh?
58. 12 FebAnd this, boys and girls, is why when traveling any distance we shut our Macs totally down #security
59. 12 FebMalaysia deports journalist #HamzaKashgari back to Saudi for possible #Twitter joke/apostasy trial
60. 12 FebGyroscopic self-leveling pool table on the cruise ship “Radiance of the Seas” – YouTube # playing with science
61. 12 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-12
62. 11 FebTIL we get a 4-day weekend in June for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
63. 11 FebGreenhouse: cold temp last night = -14C ; temp now = +18C
64. 11 FebIEEE blows it on the Security & Privacy copyright agreement # HT @geoffarnold
65. 11 FebThe most disturbing thing about @choochoobear/Randy Mulholland is that each time you think it’s satire, it’s not
66. 11 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-11
67. 11 FebChesterton wrote “When people stop believing in God… they believe in anything”. Let’s test that theory. (HT @mjrobbins)
68. 10 FebReview: Chase Distillery ‘Williams’ Gin – Quite extraordinary Gin from Apple Vodka
69. 10 FebTeens, Lies and Instant Messenger… and now we can add “Don’t share postings with your dog”
70. 10 FebHartley Wintney has been playing Cricket 17 years longer than the MCC & Lord’s cricket ground
71. 10 Feb“Digital Darwinism: Perspectives for Industry and Government” (http://goo.gl/WkZUL at Computerworld)
72. 10 Feb“Hey! Look! A Holistic View Of Our Cybersecurity!” #security #cyber #riskmanagement #risk #iso27001 HT: @cyspex
73. 10 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-10
74. 9 FebPub by Night
75. 9 FebThe Gin stash at Waitrose…
76. 9 FebI know ‘London Gin’ is not a DoC but I still think this is very cheeky of Berry Bros & Rudd…
77. 9 FebI know The Jam nicked it, but the bass line from Town Called Malice is still incredible
78. 9 FebDown the pub in the falling snow, waiting for the rest of the village to arrive…
79. 9 FebWhere Google is not a monopoly: Well Red » Search Neutrality goes to Parliament # HT @DaveLevy
80. 9 FebOn Rory Cellan-Jones, Private Peaceful and the growing primacy of online… (HT @BBCRoryCJ)
81. 9 FebRandom vegetable soup on the stove
82. 9 FebRe: @BBCRoryCJ “Is it right to break news on Twitter before it reaches broadcast outlets?” # when did it last happen…
83. 9 Feb“It’s like someone hit the reverse button on evolution” – I _will_ steal this…
84. 9 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-09
85. 8 FebHot milk + Angostura Bitters. Works. Damn…
86. 8 FebExercise is getting easier… which means it’s getting harder to exercise…
87. 8 FebBrain-Dead Teen, Only Capable Of Rolling Eyes And Texting, To Be Euthanized | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source | Onion News Network
88. 8 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-08
89. 7 FebSo using your own posters, @SW_Trains, shouldn’t the 0651 from Basingstoke be a trifle longer?
90. 7 Feb@DaveLevy in a bar in Westminster
91. 7 FebShot of single malt, dash of Angostura, blend into a mug of whisked hot milk.
92. 7 FebAnother new book out today from my friend who writes porn women’s erotica, #JanineAshbless
93. 7 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-07
94. 7 FebAnd the media complain that the public has attention deficit disorder…
95. 6 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-06
96. 5 FebDaybreak viewers: Confused by time… – The Media Blog – HT @mjrobbins
97. 5 Feb#Macroblogging & #Passionkillers – a definition & manifesto; Macroblogging is a social network activity performed by …
98. 5 FebEverybody: Start the timer until @scobleizer invents^H^H^H^H^H^H^H rediscovers blogging and individual data ownership
99. 5 FebI’d like to report that Hartley Wintney is snowed in — but it’s not…
100. 5 FebSounds like Jessica #Ahlquist is on Radio4 in a few minutes. #atheism on @bbcr4sunday
101. 5 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-05
102. 4 FebShakespeare: Original pronunciation – YouTube
103. 4 FebWildlife report: quite a major fall of #redwing and #fieldfare nr #Burghfield; do we have #Waxwing yet?
104. 4 FebYay! Cycled 33.1 miles in 2h56 + lunch + GPS stops, av 11.3 mx 28.5, last 3 miles in the first #snow.
105. 4 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-04
106. 3 FebWanted: #Cycle routes to cross the M4 near #Reading / #Rdg between J10 and J12? + Footbridge?
107. 3 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-03
108. 2 FebDid you hear the one about the opera-singing duck?
109. 2 FebThere’s a PhD to be had in the sub-vocal interruption noises made by @BBCr4Today presenters to cut-off interviewees
110. 2 FebOn Fleet St and @tom_watson’s breaking #Leveson-based #Nightjack enquiry into at hacking at The Times…
111. 2 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-02
112. 1 FebTwitter Updates for 2012-02-01

January 2012

1. 31 JanFlying People in New York City – YouTube
2. 31 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-31
3. 30 Jan#Trekkies debate whether ‘The Next Generation’ or ‘Deep Space 9’ first allowed female starship captains…
4. 30 Jan#Routerpwn – exploitation of vulnerabilities in home routers and other embedded devices – yummy #security…
5. 30 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-30
6. 29 JanI have to try this just for the inner 5-year-old …
7. 29 JanFLASH: Stephen #Hester to decline his #RBS bonus. Shall we take bets that there’s a #peerage in the offing ?
8. 29 JanChicken as a 3-day meal
9. 29 JanMy eldest sister’s five rules of negotiation with software vendors
10. 29 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-29
11. 28 JanHow to have an epic day…
12. 28 JanRegards BBC security “background music” – http://goo.gl/Z9FIv – have lodged a message with “Feedback”…
13. 28 JanUpside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film on Vimeo
14. 28 JanShit Programmers Say – definitely the last worth watching in the genre http://goo.gl/Idq8W
15. 28 JanHere’s how @BBCr4today @BBCRoryCJ @ruskin147 are *not* helping the challenge of network security education…
16. 28 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-28
17. 27 JanDo It Yourself Steadicam Using a Chicken
18. 27 JanJante Law: Sounds like American Corporatism; If this is real, I would create severe challenges in Scandinavia
19. 27 JanMaking a couple of minor tweaks to #TwitterTools, not that I code in PHP…
20. 27 JanI really should work out some way to work out in the greenhouse, it’s 20C in there…
21. 27 JanLoving the fact that the #ChillingEffects #Twitter page can ironically undo the DMCA notices caused it…
22. 27 JanLoot from Hartley Wintney WI !!!
23. 27 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-27
24. 27 Jan#IronSky Official Berlin Trailer (2012) HD – YouTube !!1!
25. 26 Jan# WE’LL DRINK BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF SENSE, WE’LL DRINK ‘TIL WE START TO SEE LOVELY PINK ELEPHANTS… #neilhannon
26. 26 JanI’ve only had a couple of batches from them but I am really liking the output of @NakedWines
27. 26 Jan35ml Plymouth Gin, ice cold. 4x drops Angostura. #andbreatheout
28. 26 JanOpen Rights Group | Revealed: Proposed new powers over search results
29. 26 JanSpeaking on #SearchNeutrality at #PICTFOR – Monday 6 Feb @ 1830 – HT #Google @ericjoyce @openrightsgroup
30. 26 Jan“Luftwaffles! Wir sind wunderbar!”
31. 26 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-26
32. 26 JanI BOUGHT #FUFU FLOUR – CONTAINS 28% OF DAILY CRAB
33. 26 Jan#GoDaddy, if you are going to advertise in Britain you will need to change your spelling…
34. 25 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-25
35. 25 JanLast night, frozen clear skies. Tonight: Possible Auroral Storm – and it’s clouded out.
36. 24 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-24
37. 23 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-23
38. 22 Jan“Annual Equivalent Salary” – a suggestion for all #benefits statistics ?
39. 22 Jan“Lost” episode of Carl #Sagan’s #Cosmos : The Meat Planet
40. 22 JanHaggis for Breakfast!
41. 22 JanOpinion of #SeamlessID at request of @mrchrisadams ; #security #identity & a HT to @blaine
42. 22 JanHomemade Labneh after straining
43. 22 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-22
44. 21 JanStraining Labneh
45. 21 JanQuick way to make yoghurt without too much faff
46. 21 JanMore on #Android #GPS #cycle applications: #Maverick failage & Google “My Tracks”
47. 21 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-21
48. 20 JanLoving the way that TVTropes CAPITALISES #BRIANBLESSED
49. 20 Jan[US] Army investigating sheep beating video – Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq – Army Times
50. 20 JanUne petite memoire de Lille…
51. 20 JanTIL about mains power connectors, kettle, clover and figure-8 leads…
52. 20 JanI saw this last night; if you travel and have a IBM or Toshiba laptop, you will want one. HT @harrym
53. 20 JanWhom amongst my circle of friends is involved in the field of “semantic analysis” software ?
54. 20 JanMy new communications strategy: Let clarity become the new brevity and Twitter become a channel
55. 20 JanIf crypticide.com drops off the Net over the weekend … #roadworksahead
56. 20 JanSomehow I find this terribly ironic, @boingboing
57. 20 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-20
58. 19 JanHTC Releases Unlocked Bootloaders for Six More Android Powered Devices | ITProPortal.com
59. 19 Jan“The Google Dialogues: Search Neutrality” (http://goo.gl/gzHwW at Computerworld)
60. 19 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-19
61. 19 JanScunthorpe rides again…
62. 18 JanIn which #FortnumAndMason asks a customer to email them their credit card details… #security #pci #oops
63. 18 Jan#BorisIsland? Feh. We need to spin-up “London Prestwick” Airport
64. 18 JanThe Day The LOLcats Died – Fantastic #copyright #sopa #pipa #parody
65. 18 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-18
66. 17 JanFish sauce, basil, cabbage, carrot, lime, sugar, prawn salad really goes well with…
67. 17 JanDoes anyone know what happened at #Winchfield station this morning? #Vandalism?
68. 17 JanRUSH to build film set ignores planning conditions | A Reader in Writing
69. 17 JanWill the #SOPABlackout for #Wikipedia be the last ever Information Silence? #Marconi
70. 17 Jan“Three Cubes Colliding” # very cool Kite
71. 17 JanThe Joy of Books – YouTube
72. 17 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-17
73. 16 JanIn protest of #SOPA and #PIPA, #Wikipedia will “go black” on January 18th, and…
74. 16 JanThree builders’ tubs labelled BURN, TRASH, RECYCLE …
75. 16 JanReading: ‘Is it still possible to extend TCP?’ http://goo.gl/PQAar [PDF]
76. 16 JanWill Someone Please Explain What’s Wrong With The Hammersmith Flyover? | Londonist
77. 16 Jan“AWS Free Usage Tier will now include EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows Server” #justwhatineed #not
78. 16 Jan“if we build the Raspberry Pi in Britain, we have to pay a lot more tax” – #Tax lesson for Geeks & Makers
79. 16 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-16
80. 16 JanHas some TV chef done a programme about Duck Eggs?
81. 14 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-14
82. 13 JanYou and Your Phone are Huge Threats to the Net #security #privacy #tor #dns – HT @rdggeek @techhub @doctorow
83. 13 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-13
84. 12 JanApparently this 1.38Gb file will take 105 hours to upload to #YouTube. Some Mistake Surely?
85. 12 JanI hate Final Cut Express…
86. 12 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-12
87. 11 JanIn protest of #SOPA and #PIPA, #Reddit will “go black” on January 18th, and…
88. 11 JanChap on the train is reading The Sun on an iPad. Cannot help but wonder…
89. 11 JanEver get the sense that the media’s extrapolation of 2 wins (of 50) into a trend/victory, might be bogus?
90. 11 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-11
91. 11 JanIf ever I end up in a wheelchair I want this attachment…
92. 11 JanItinéraires de train à grande vitesse de la France
93. 11 JanInternational (European) E-Road Network Diagram
94. 11 JanU.S. Interstates & Highways as a Tube Map
95. 10 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-10
96. 9 JanSketched out my talk for #rdggeek tomorrow night…
97. 9 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-09
98. 8 JanA small set of negative reviews for #Android #GPS #Cycling applications
99. 8 JanMTB ride in Dipley & on Hazeley Heath – Gorse in bloom in January?
100. 8 JanArt With Salt – Assassins Creed – YouTube
101. 8 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-08
102. 7 JanNational Portrait Gallery. Judi Dench Portrait. Must see.
103. 7 Jan…And I’ve just deleted the #ShareThis plugin from my blog. Here’s why.
104. 7 JanBBC Surrey Radio interview on #RonHoward #RUSH Movie at #Blackbushe Airport
105. 7 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-07
106. 6 JanHollywood filming of #RonHoward’s #Rush at #Blackbushe Airport was rushed & somehow ill-informed
107. 6 JanTalk: “Why you and your phone are huge threats to the Net” #rdggeek Jan 10 http://goo.gl/hjUlO
108. 6 JanOf murder rates and death penalties…
109. 6 Jan#WhatsApp is being educated in full-disclosure
110. 6 JaniPhone 4S Users Consume Double the Mobile Data of iPhone 4 – Tech Europe – WSJ
111. 6 JanNokia and Microsoft to “spend a fortune on marketing” HT: @TheTechEye # why this will not work
112. 6 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-06
113. 5 JanNASA go open-source
114. 5 JanSo it seems that with the takeover of TweetDeck comes the death of RTs that propagate to Facebook.
115. 5 JanThis is what happens then you sand a macbook…
116. 5 JanDo not taunt the frog…
117. 5 JanWhy you might like to read Foreign Affairs magazine this month…
118. 5 JanHow many vendors have ‘celebrated’ the ‘death’ of their software? #ie6 http://goo.gl/9pSBh
119. 5 JanFalling off a cycle has never been so much fun…
120. 5 Jan#Airzound – A New Toy! #cycling #mtb
121. 5 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-05
122. 4 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-04
123. 3 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-03
124. 2 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-02
125. 1 JanTwitter Updates for 2012-01-01