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Review — Worcestershire Wobblejuice cider
This was another cider that I acquired at Milletts Farm — a sort of strange family-friendly theme-farm/garden centre/petting zoo near Frilford, Oxfordshire where Nor used to go as a kid. We went there a few months back. I reviewed …
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HTML5 and covert peer to peer filesharing
Imagine a well-designed P2P distribution network that was reasonably anonymous, took no effort to install or configure and could be used without large amounts of effort by any normal computer user. Such tools can and indeed have been built and open up a range of opportunities for illegal use to cybe …
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Obama crypto leak: no mandatory broken encryption. Yet.
A recent leak published in the Washington Times seems to point to the Obama administration backing down on recent proposals to include backdoors in encryption products following pushback from the public, crypto experts and some of the big US tech companies.The memo, which was published last week, …
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FLOSSUK reviews: CoffeeScript and Data Science from scratch
I recently reviewed a couple of books for FLOSSUK, formerly the UK UNIX Users Group for their Spetember Newsletter. The books were CoffeeScript 2nd Edition by Trevor Burnham and Data Science from Scratch by Joel Grus. You can read both reviews in the September newsletter which ought to be embedded …
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Is GCHQ password advice dodgy?
It is unusual, to say the least, for me to find a part of the work of GCHQ that is not entirely obnoxious. However, their recently published password guidance seems rather reasonable, despite this dig from the Guardian some will be sceptical about trusting the advice of the intelligence agency o …
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September 2015 Reading
I picked this up from Blackwells some time ago hoping to learn a little about the profession of psychoanalysis as it is practiced. Malcolm focuses on a series of interviews with a New York psychoanalyist. The material …
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How we pronounce WWW in English: a detailed but unscientific survey
I was listening to the radio the other day and heard the interviewee talking about his website as double u, double u whatever dot com, which is a linguistic trait I have noticed happening more in recent years. It set me thinking about how we pronounce the WWW in web addresses, so I spent a day off …
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Font of the Month: CSS Sans
It is not often that one sees something as clever as the CSS sans font yet which has no practical application beyond the sheer fun of creating it.It’s been a while since my last Font of the Month, which was Sans Bullshit Sans back in February, so this time I thought I should review something …
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The automatic #corbynocalypse certain doom prediction machine
Everywhere I look it seems that another apocalyptic prediction about what will happen if Jeremy Corbyn is elected leader of the Labour Party. It seems that the Corbynocalypse is upon us. Fortunately the certain doom prediction machine® knows exactly what it will be like. Press the button, …
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Windows 10: privacy violations, mandatory updates and bugs
The tech world has mustered a sigh of melancholic resignation along with a squeal of justifiable outrage in response to Microsoft’s new release of its bloated virus-magnet operating system, Windows. The latest incarnation is called Windows 10, not 9 as would make combinatoric sense. Perhap …
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