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    Password Choosing and Password Cracking

    Good to know my most-used password would take 11 billion years to brute-force crack...;)
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    April Reading Thread

    And Poirot and Hastings, of course - I'm always astounded by the casting of Peter Ustinov in the part...
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    New Doctor Who season trailer (2024)

    Officially, Season 14. If anything was to tempt me back to being a regular viewer, (after giving up with the later Capaldis and all of the Whittakers) this looks likely.
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    April Reading Thread

    Just finished a re-re-read of Look to the Lady - one of the 1930s Campion mystery/detective novels by Margery Allingham. Sometimes a portrayal on TV sets the look of the characters in a book forever in the mind's eye - for me, with Campion, it's Peter Davison (with Brian Glover as Lugg) in the...
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    Old Tech thread

    Why would you wear a hat inside a perpex dome? They also look unstable - with that traffic density, goodness knows what would happen if one fell over sideways!
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    Old Tech thread

    Just what you ladies need to give your life a lift...
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    Deadpool & Wolverine

    Is this a hopeful sign that the MCU/DCU juggernaut is starting to run out of steam?
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    It's a Small World - the modelling thread.

    Hasegawa 1/700 Japanese Navy Carrier-based Aircraft Set Biplane Model Kit
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    What Was the Last Television Episode You Watched?

    Canal Boat Diaries, binge-watched S4.
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    April Reading Thread

    It's an interesting book, about a cycle tour of Germany by Harris, George and J. Published in 1900, it shows the general favourable British view of Germany before the demonization of the country in the 20th century, while coincidentally mentioning aspects of the German character that make you...
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    April Reading Thread

    Moved on to Jerome's Three Men on the Bummel (or Three Men on Wheels in the USA).
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    Old Tech thread

    Fun on the road, 1936-style. 90mph!
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    HP Lovecraft

    Sorry, this is simply not true. Read The Cats of Ulthar, and work out how much padding could have been added if it was.
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    Old Tech thread

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    April Reading Thread

    I tried to read The Owl Service and Red Shift, but just couldn't get into them. Possibly I was expecting something more on the lines of Weirdstone and Gomrath, more conventional fantasy. I do remember that I was enthusing about the latter two at school, and a passing 6th-former overheard...
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    "A Pint of Bitter, Please."

    Samuel Smith's Dark Mild - 3.4% ABV.
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    Word of the Day: unusual words you may not have heard of

    Dromomania: an uncontrollable urge to walk or wander about.
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    Transposing letters and missing words

    I always have problems with nessecery neccesery necessery necessary, to the extent that I usually Google it (do you mean...), then copy and paste...
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    Regional variations of words: Word-atlas

    Some of these look a little odd - I mean, the most hated car brand in Angola is Bugatti?
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