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samazer

  1. Another lovely day in Montreal twitter.com/samazer/status…
  2. Power is off so charge-up before heading out twitter.com/samazer/status…
  3. Everybody should read Schneier - see the section on the useless TSA scanners - another aspect of Security Theater. schneier.com/crypto-gram-12…
  4. @TarekFatah Not fair. Our Liberty is ours to protect rationally. If we allow Security Theatre to continue we have only ourselves to blame.
  5. Blizzard! Complete with great big fluffy snow flakes!
  6. Spent the morning today with two great visionaries. We'll soon be back to the future with Sustainable Agriculture and Locally Grown Food!
  7. Copying ~14k photos into Picasa azer.ca/sa-picasaweb incl. tags. No perms settings avail - Google seems to be emailing for your permission.
  8. SysBackup v3.018a posted to SourceForge and Github. Adds a quick-install utility, new features and bug fixes. azer.ca/sysbackup
  9. Dice 2010/11 Salary Survey, "Tech workers feel 'infinite loop' as wages remain flat" (PDF File) bnt.ca/rez40o
  10. SysBackup v3.016a posted to github and SF. Many improvements, bug fixes, added local and remote NAS rotations. azer.ca/sysbackup
  11. SPICE on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot | AzerTech.net azertech.net/content/view/7…
  12. PLEASE note that I HAVE NOT SENT ANY E-CARD EMAILs out - no e-cards of any kind. In general please be careful with links in emails.
  13. Tracking firms have been adjusting the way they serve scripts for months. It's now almost impossible to block tracking with current addons.
  14. New version of Adblock Plus now allowing "acceptable advertising" by default. This is probably not as bad as it sounds.
  15. Absolutely: 7 Things Highly Productive People Do | Inc.com - bnt.ca/q48q7w
  16. Only a few days before christmas and the grass is still green as it was in the 70's twitpic.com/7sw9rl
  17. (SysBackup v3.012a contains only updates to the documentation - no changes to the code.)
  18. Posted SysBackup v3.011alpha at azer.ca/sysbackup and at SourceForge. Please give it a try and let me know how it goes. Thanks!
  19. (Christmas lights are out but the grass is still green!) lockerz.com/s/162911379
  20. Aggravation: tried a program, got "can't find .net." Installed 30mb .net. Win update then lists 94mb of security & reliability fixes!