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There was a recent book[1] by Cat Jarman called The River Kings that discusses the Vikings’ expansive trade with the east. It was decent and was quite popular after publication. [1…

As an American living in the UK, it's interesting to see the disparity in almost all aspects of the treatment of lead. In the US, for example, there is an abundance of research and…

1password has changed recently. Are security experts recommending their newer cloud subscription service or the older version that stored the vault on Dropbox or another storage se…

Are you using 1Password's cloud sync or the older Dropbox/iCloud/other method? (Really curious about all 1Password users in this thread) I've read a lot of reviews but many predate…

The author may be referring to libraries themselves having dependencies. These attitudes are changing. For example, last week the Django community published a draft proposal that d…

I moved to the UK a few years ago and I couldn't agree more that the IRS rules and regulations unfairly penalize "average" US citizens that live and operate abroad. FBAR, FATCA and…

A bit strange that it costs $28.91 on Amazon.com but £38.50 on Amazon.co.uk.

We used SmartOS (or its predecessor) for 3+ years. The experience was overall very positive and performance was great. Joyent's reliability is outstanding. Sure, some of our softwa…

You should check if your bank is in the Global ATM Alliance ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_ATM_Alliance ). If I withdraw money from a Barclays ATM in London (or Deutsche Ban…

They are adding Linux publishing but according to this post ( http://blogs.unity3d.com/2012/07/03/linux-publishing-preview... ), the editor won't be available for Linux. Still thou…

Tent.is ( https://tent.is/ ) uses ^ https://tent.tent.is . You will soon be able to use your own domain names so ^ https://example.com will be possible.

I sent your article to my partner this morning and she tried to access it on her phone on the Virgin Mobile UK network. She couldn't access the article or your homepage. I just ask…

I just sent this link to my partner who is a Virgin Mobile customer. She couldn't open the page on her mobile browser. She said it said something like "Restricted by Virgin." Seems…

Many of the Virgin Group's web properties have weak password requirements. Virgin Atlantic requires your password to be between 5-8 characters (including symbols) and Virgin Trains…

I've been using django-model-utils for a while and really love it. I contributed the patch for PassThroughManager that adds the for_queryset_class. I agree that it's not pretty, bu…