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Lucknow Tandoori, Newington Green Road, N1

Yesterday (22 June 2002) I ate in the Lucknow Tandoori Restaurant on Newington Green Road (tel. 020 7354
1078). The place itself is nothing special but the food is excellent. It does the best indian takeaway I’ve ever had and delivers too.

I just thought there ought to be something on the web about it as I couldn’t find anything except address/telephone number when I searched for it yesterday to show the people we were going with. I know it was mentioned in Time Out as John Hegley‘s favourite restaurant but I felt it needed a token online presence!

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How To Wolf Whistle

Whistling is useless but being able to whistle loudly (for a taxi, to call your friend across the street, for help even) is very useful. In trying to learn this skill I’ve scoured the web. I found only one site that was helpful and that seems to have disappeared now so I have put its text up here for anyone else like me who was trying to find out how to do it without buying a book

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Ignore Compulsory Logins!

I don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier or hear about but you know those sites like The New York Times that force you to login but you gain no benefit by doing so? Well people have registered generic/generic or username/password so you can just tap that in and off you go.

I heard about this on slashdot or metafilter I can’t remember which.

This is the results of a quick survey I’ve done of some major websites to see how far this has gone. My suggestion is to register username/password as username and password if you ever have to register anywhere again (obviously excluding those sites which take credit card details or where registering brings an actual benefit).

Site generic/generic? username/password?
java.sun.com No Yes
newyorktimes.com Yes No
ibm.com No Yes
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UK Online Activism

I was at Extreme Computing 2002 (Need to Know‘s 5th birthday party) the other day where stand.org.uk was launched. It seems that its already had (or helped with) a major success – the indefinite postponement of the RIP s22 Order that would have given access to traffic data to dozens of government departments. Their front page right now (June 19, 2002 story) has a very interesting piece on how its not so hard to influence your MP as you might think. Very heartening. If you’re American you can trundle off to eff.org who do similar good things for you guys (actually all over – they had a speaker at the ntk gig who was very good and I’ve sent them some money).

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Eng-Ger-Land!

England have beaten Argentina 1 – 0 in the World Cup. I have nothing insightful or interesting to add I just wanted to celebrate the fact publicly. COME ON ENGLAND!