So what are the alternatives, in an area between J10 and J12?

• To the west is Burghfield Road, apparently under the motorway, and even further west is an unclassified road near a couple of large pools which appear to bracket the motorway.

• Closer to J11 but still to the west is Kirton’s Farm / Kybes Lane, a bridge over the M4.

• To the east of J11 there appears to be a footbridge over the M4, hung off Old Whitley Wood Lane; you can’t tell from imagery how accessible this would be to a large bike like a tandem.

• Further east again is Shinfield Road, the A327, which is rather major

• Then there’s Cutbrush Lane into Lower Earley.

• Finally: Mill Lane near Sindlesham, King St Lane (ditto), and the A329 Reading Road into Wokingham.

So which of these are nice cycle rides? And – from an alternative transport viewpoint – can you get a large tandem or tricycle over the Old Whitley footbridge?

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Wanted: #Cycle routes to cross the M4 near #Reading / #Rdg between J10 and J12? + Footbridge?

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Did you hear the one about the opera-singing duck?

The faint awright of Justin Webb, the nnght of Jim Naughtie.

There’s an entire control psychology in there.

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There’s a PhD to be had in the sub-vocal interruption noises made by @BBCr4Today presenters to cut-off interviewees

Not only Tabloids but perhaps also Broadsheets were hacking for stories!

…I think of many boozy evenings in 2011 hanging out with journos and being unanimously told that:

They were all at it. The lot of them. Without exception. Even the ‘good’ guys. Mine’s a G&T.

So I am not surprised by the news that John Humphrys (or, indeed Jim Naughtie) presented this morning; but I do wonder precisely “what is going through his head” when he’s reading it out?

Is it perhaps like a bedtime story where he already knows the story’s punchline, and all the details, but is being forced by circumstance to turn over one fat page per month because we kiddies may only be told the tale… ONE… SLOW… WORD… AT… A… TIME?

And what is it that dictates the pace – the media under investigation? The police? Some dripping stream of embarrassment which wells-up and occasionally bursts its banks, permitting us all to scream “OH, REALLY?” in some pantomime of surprise?

Does it really require an enquiry to follow the story?

It makes me sick.

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On Fleet St and @tom_watson’s breaking #Leveson-based #Nightjack enquiry into at hacking at The Times…

via Flying People in New York City – YouTube.

Best in full screen.

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Flying People in New York City – YouTube

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So we heard last week that the Royal Enclosure at Ascot will be enforcing a stricter dress code this year. They will be cracking down in particular on ladies hats. Ladies attempting to enter the Royal Enclosure wearing a fascinator instead of a hat will be turned away.

Similarly, the Church of England has enforced a strict had code amongst its clergy for some time. Women are allowed to wear any hat except for an episcopal mitre. The pointy hat that shows you are a bishop has been strictly reserved for men.

And next week, the General Synod of the Church of England will be meeting and one of the most important votes on the subject of women bishops [...]

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#Trekkies debate whether ‘The Next Generation’ or ‘Deep Space 9′ first allowed female starship captains…

Routerpwn.

Routerpwn is a web application that aids with the exploitation of vulnerabilities in home routers and other embedded devices.

It is a compilation of local and remote exploits ready to run at the click of a button. The current release is v1.0 and contains 84 exploits which can be run locally by using the default internal IP address or remotely by specifying a remote IP address from which to run the exploit.

Routerpwn is written in pure JavaScript and HTML, with the idea of being able to run it on any device. It has been optimized to run on mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. Furthermore, it has been successfully tested on televisions, gaming consoles and old cell phones.

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#Routerpwn – exploitation of vulnerabilities in home routers and other embedded devices – yummy #security…

My five year-old mind would’ve been blown… : pics.

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I have to try this just for the inner 5-year-old …

£963,000 should buy a fairly comfy seat…

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FLASH: Stephen #Hester to decline his #RBS bonus. Shall we take bets that there’s a #peerage in the offing ?

This somewhat offsets the investment in the meat – spending nearly a tenner on a really good bird gets you amortised to 3x ~ £3.30 …

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Chicken as a 3-day meal

1. I am smarter than you.
2. I am better than you.
3. I am relentless.
4. I will outlast you.
5. And, I do not care how much you hate me.

Sounds vaguely familiar…

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My eldest sister’s five rules of negotiation with software vendors

Next up: roast chicken dinner, then movie…

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How to have an epic day…

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Regards BBC security “background music” – http://goo.gl/Z9FIv – have lodged a message with “Feedback”…

Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film from Danny Cooke on Vimeo.

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Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film on Vimeo

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Shit Programmers Say – definitely the last worth watching in the genre http://goo.gl/Idq8W

I suspect this is what the BBC called “balanced opinion” – and you know what, I’d agree, it was a nice package.

BUT: it was laced-over with plinky-plonky spooky “psycho”-type music, bracketing it with FEAR! FEAR! FEAR! FEAR! YOU SHOULD BE SCARED OF ALL THIS CYBER PRIVACY INVASION! I AM A BBC PRODUCER AND DON’T GET IT SO IT MUST BE SCARY!

If Rory approved the music then the Geek community should flatly disown him – you would not do the same to (say) a package on Government immigration policy:

Foreigners are coming! FX: SPOOKY MUSIC

- there would be uproar!

In 1995 I participated in a Open University TV programme re: Security (along with Gene Spafford, Mark Lomas, Brian Neale and Whit Diffie) and back then it would have been vaguely excusable for the novelty; but now, NO, please, stop it.

Please get with the programme; some of us are trying to get people to take this seriously, and the BBC does not have the excuse which a print journalist once gave me in 1995 – the requirement to pander to its demographic to retain advertising revenue driving reinforcement of existing prejudices.

The young generation can cope with privacy issues just fine – in an industry where the world turns upside down every 5 years then all legislation will be knee-jerk. Feeding fear will make it worse.

Regarding privacy: yes there will be a few goofs as people learn to cope with change, but having a bunch of 50 year old journalists telling a 50 year old demographic that something needs to be done is a task best left to the Daily Mail where we can ignore it.

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Here’s how @BBCr4today @BBCRoryCJ @ruskin147 are *not* helping the challenge of network security education…