Monthly Archives: July 2013

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Greenland, Day 15, afternoon

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For the first time on this trip, we had an unscheduled opportunity to disembark and stretch our legs on land. The expedition head pulled us up to a random spot on the coast of Greenland and said, everybody in the zodiacs. There was a waterfall and a lagoon and fair flat piece of shrubbery that we could, with difficulty, tramp around on. This was puzzling because we’d only had an hour ashore at Ivittuut, well, maybe hour and a half after the muskox had been spotted and everyone scattered. Why didn’t we use the extra time back there, maybe take half an hour to look for the Viking ruins?

We were at this point being followed up the coast by a Danish warship, complete with fly-bys from a military helicopter. Maybe they just wanted to have a conversation with the captain, so we pulled over.

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Minotaur on the Moortops

Gavin R Jones

 

He tries to sink back through the earth,

Through iridescent slips of schist,

To where the rock can douse his eyes,

Quench fire of sight, dull iris light.

 

The space – which counts the stars as months,

And judges time by shadow falls –

where lives can howl and show their age.

Each tick of sun and moon: a death

 

Up here, where echoes never start,

He lays down low and feels through peat

The rocks beneath, the subtle heat,

The walls where blood is merged with night.

 

Unfreed, unbound, and lost beyond:

The air is thin and spiked with sound.

 

 

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Apple Website Hacked – Customers’ Personal Information Stolen

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Don Charisma

Apple Website Hacked

It’s only taken them 5 days to tell me, you’d have thought it would be a priority to let their customers know that their personal information had been stolen, Apple are so arrogant and patronising … Anyway, just as a heads up I received this message from Apple just now :

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Apple Developer Website Update

Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. In the spirit of transparency, we want to inform you of the issue. We took the site down immediately on Thursday and have been working around the clock since then.
In order to prevent a security threat like this from happening again, we’re…

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WordPress.com Users Can Now Register .CO Domain Names

WordPress.com News

We’re excited to announce the addition of .CO as a new top-level domain on WordPress.com. If you’re interested in buying a custom domain name for a new or existing site, you can now choose and register .CO from among our existing options (.ME, .COM, .NET, .ORG). The .CO domain costs $25/year.

Since launching in 2010, more than 1.5 million .CO domain names have been registered by individuals and businesses in over 200 countries worldwide. A .CO domain name is short and memorable, making it a great option for your WordPress.com website or blog.

Steps for existing WordPress.com users

  • If you’re an existing WordPress.com user, you can register a .CO domain name for your site by going to Store → Domains in your dashboard. Under Add a Domain, type in the .CO domain name you’d like to register:

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Everything is different

Everything is different

This is one of the most unusual european country with a unique language, derived from arabic and written with latin characters, with fortresses and churches, with traffic on the left side of the road, with a cuisine which, if you’re lucky, bears the italian imprint, with buses painted with all sorts of colours and with the most powerful Catholic Church in the world.