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I have only been running a Tor server on my home server for a day on default setting, and it’s sucked over 7GB at around 70KB/s. My own web browsing has suffered a bit, so I am caping the speed to 30KB/s.

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The reason why they are called Ying Ying and Lok Lok… The creativity is… scary.

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‘cos it’s a small sheep…
Link, via BoingBoing via Fortean Times.
Update (22:11): Well, it’s an urban legend. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me – you can’t get fooled again…

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Link.
No comments.

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I have just been notified about a suspected case of serious intrusion of privacy and possibly sabotage by the local authority. It might have been merely technical glitches, but there are far too many coincidents to indicate otherwise. If this is true, then the matter is totally out of order.
I planned to do a couple [...]

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Via Boing Boing, Rebecca McKinnon’s blog entry on the matter and the HKU seminar. Inmedia’s article here.
This is IMPORTANT STUFF, even if you never download pirated songs or movies from the Internet.

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has been cancelled. Sigh. Bummer.
I am reluctant to sign up for the European trip, now that Euro and UKP are at their highest points. Also, something about indulgence being one of the seven deadly sins.
Crap.

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Wicked web development tool. Link.

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Link.
Caveat Emptor.

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Check out the new features. Implementation of tagging opens up a whole world of possibilities with new features.

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if you deal with a bozo in style.

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James wrote about the fetish for so-called colour signatures of famous up-market lenses. The futility of such endeavour (chasing after the lenses and their colour signatures) is well-known, yet bozos buying into this are so numerous, saying another word is just a waste of time. Time wasted.

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is due very soon. Watch out for it!
Meanwhile go grab your account. Unlimited upload!

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Great success with Hovis Bread Yeast! Beats the cheap yeast I bought by a mile! The bread seems to raise much better and is a lot softer.
I am not the only one.

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Microsoft Exchange Server/Outlook style, via Google Calendar.

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Google Earth exposing the Darfur crisis.
Open Google Earth (you have it installed, right?), scroll to Sudan and start reading and looking at the photos.

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Use quakr to build a view around town.

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Siu Ying’s blog entry on the Sony GPS module re-ignited my interest in the gadget. I assumed that, like all Sony products it would not be compatible with anything else, but after some research it seems that you just plug it (USB) into a WinXP computer and pull the standard GPS data file out of [...]

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