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Bits & Bobs Want

Tempted: Pashley Sovereign

April 18, 2014October 2, 2014 No Comments

Pashley Sovereign. A real classic bike. Edit: I got it in May, couldn’t say no!

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Arts Bits & Bobs

‘Girl Picking Poppies’, Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924)

April 17, 2014April 17, 2014 No Comments

‘Girl Picking Poppies’, Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924) via Twitter / geminicat7: 'Girl Picking Poppies', Daniel ….

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Freedoms Life

Just because someone disagrees with you doesn’t make it bullying

April 16, 2014April 16, 2014 No Comments

Great column by Colette Browne in the Indo today, pointing out that being irate at someone for messing up a schedule shouldn’t be mistaken for bullying: To try to suggest that the treatment meted out to Prendeville, from a disgruntled guest over a scheduling issue, was in any way analogous to the horrific abuse suffered […]

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Delorean Moments History Internets

Great Scott! Bebo is back?

April 14, 2014April 14, 2014 No Comments

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Technology

A good heartbleed explanation by xkcd

April 14, 2014 No Comments

From xkcd number 1354/:

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Security Technology

Heartbleed – it gets worse…

April 14, 2014April 14, 2014 No Comments

Apparently, the NSA may have at least known of this bug for a long time, and you can bet your boots they’ve exploited it against someone. Given their propensity for reading the communications of all and sundry, I somehow doubt that only the ‘bad guys’* were targeted. In any case, if the NSA knew about […]

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Security Technology

Heartbleed – it works against the client too

April 10, 2014 No Comments

Just when you might have thought it safe to wander out, a reminder that those heartbeats in TLS work both ways, so a malicious server could compromise your client (browser, VPN, and so on) with interesting results. Check https://reverseheartbleed.com/

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Bits & Bobs Photography Want

Tempted: Voigtlander Vitoret DR German 35mm Camera | eBay

April 10, 2014April 18, 2014 No Comments

I’m tempted by this little old-school Voigtlander Vitoret DR German 35mm Cameraon eBay (pear not included according to the seller). There’s something nice about manual photography…

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Big Business Regulation

Ben Goldacre: What the Tamiflu saga tells us about drug trials and big pharma

April 10, 2014 No Comments

Remember the big stockpiling exercise by Governments of Tamiflu for our benefit in the event of a pandemic a few years back? Looks like all that money was wasted … So does Tamiflu work? From the Cochrane analysis – fully public – Tamiflu does not reduce the number of hospitalisations. There wasn’t enough data to […]

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People Security Technology

Theo de Raadt on heartbleed

April 9, 2014 No Comments

OpenSSL is not developed by a responsible team. via Re: FYA: http: heartbleed.com.

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