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Tidying Up IM

There was an interesting post on Lifehacker yesterday outlining the steps that can be taken to migrate away from an old email address. It was recommended that you use your own hosted domain to ensure that future mail can be managed in a single place.
Well I’m in the process of doing something similar with my [...]

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Seam Carving to resize images

Seam Carving is an image resizing technique that Jeremy originally pointed out to me … whilst on the phone … walking … through the rain … to the pub … funny what you remember eh?
When J and I discussed it, Seam Carving was available as a GIMP plugin which meant installing GIMP.
Well now there’s a [...]

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Sans Interwebs - update

Well it may not be the ideal but it looks like we might be back online rather sooner than planned thanks to the Wifi offered by the hotel complex.
Whilst it’s still a short term fix it will do for basic browsing and email at home. I still need to find a solution to the bigger [...]

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Time to start encrypting email again!

You gotta love this. In the midst of a fiscal crisis and during the one time in our history when data protection and privacy are considered hot topics of the age GCHQ (who may or may not be based in Cheltenham and may or may not listen in on every phone call made in the [...]

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I miss Twitter SMS Alerts

I can understand why they’ve been switched off (must have been costing them a fortune) but at the same time, I feel like I’ve lost a level of integration with what was my second most prolific online comms channel after this blog.
Truthfully, unless something is jumping up and down at me daily (e.g. this [...]

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