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my milkshake (via Kotke)
very very nice
Posted by Alex Laurie, Mar 4, 06:18 PM
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About
A 30-something webby / mobile person, one of the founding crew of mobbu.
likes: skiing, sailing, dogs, france, living on the south coast (UK), music, beer, friends that take the piss out of me, sharks with “frick-ing laser beams” …
dislikes: … R&B, Marmite, Butterscotch, cold calling (making and receiving), spelling + other stuff.
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- RodCorp — art, architecture, books, maps; how teams and systems work.
- Ideas Unlimited — the people side of consultancy, these guys can help you change, adapt or just have a great time at work.
- Brighton Caravan Club — Parties on Brighton Beach at OHSO Social
- DJinc - Mitch — Mitch and a little bit of me do some DJing...
goodness
- Crimestoppers — 0800 555 111 - call anonymously with information about crime
- Most Wanted — Go to this site so see the the Police's most wanted crims and see if you know them and report them if you can! a Crimestoppers service - 0800 555 111
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- Email on the Nokia N73, N80 etc — link to a popular article on this site
- How to unlock your BlackBerry device
other
- RSS XML feed of this site — Hungry ? feed on the RSS
- Alex Lawrie Factoring — So if you came here expecting the UK Factoring Co. then you need to go here
del.icio.us
- James Governor’s Monkchips » Prism Microsystems: To Secure USB sticks
- Daring Fireball: Markdown Syntax Documentation
- Bruce Schneier: CCTV doesn't keep us safe, yet the cameras are everywhere | Technology | The Guardian — CCTV has some well-publicised crime-solving successes but generally aren't effective: links to several UK and US studies.
- Airwave Alliance Programme
- Britain to get 3,000-strong border force to fight terrorism and illegal immigration - Telegraph — ACPO/HO admit u-turn on single agency approach (Jul07): "risks and complexities of such an approach to be of such magnitude that we are looking at the viability of two complementary agencies at the border; concerned with control and security respectively"
- Security system management - Reliance tackles The 2012 Challenge — "biggest security challenge is need for extra 7,000 security personnel. "Currently, there’s an estimated 150,000 SIA-licensed security operatives in the UK [most already employed]". Bonus comments on architecture for security.
- 0xDECAFBAD » Queue everything and delight everyone — Use of msg queues rather than simultaneous updates everywhere "flip side to processing queues are message inboxes—expect content duplicated everywhere and fetched simply, rather than using cleverly expressed SQL joins that bring a system to its knees"
- Mailmanagr for Basecamp
- Mailmanagr for Basecamp
- Airwave explain the benefits of the new NPIA Acceleration Package - Bapco Journal
