Team 3rd Wheel

A fund raising blog for team 3rd Wheel's cycling adventures

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Back into the woods

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Great Manchester cycle at the weekend, so 26(+) miles of unicycling happened. This is me on a closed motorway.

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Go towards the light on Flickr.

Go towards the light

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This week’s free read on Pulseit is delilahsdawson‘s HIT! Start reading here now! www.pulseit.com/hit-dawson 

SUMMARY: In order to save her mother, a teen is forced to become an indentured assassin in this sizzling dystopian thriller. 

No one reads the fine print. The good news is that the USA is finally out of debt. The bad news is that we were bought out by Valor National Bank, and debtors are the new big game, thanks to a tricky little clause hidden deep in the fine print of a credit card application. Now, after a swift and silent takeover that leaves 9-1-1 calls going through to Valor voicemail, they’re unleashing a wave of anarchy across the country. Patsy didn’t have much of a choice. When the suits showed up at her house threatening to kill her mother then and there for outstanding debt unless Patsy agreed to be an indentured assassin, what was she supposed to do? Let her own mother die? Patsy is forced to take on a five-day mission to complete a hit list of ten names. Each name on Patsy’s list has only three choices: pay the debt on the spot, agree to work as a bounty hunter, or die. And Patsy has to kill them personally, or else her mom takes a bullet of her own. Since yarn bombing is the only anarchy in Patsy’s past, she’s horrified and overwhelmed, especially as she realizes that most of the ten people on her list aren’t strangers. Things get even more complicated when a moment of mercy lands her with a sidekick: a hot rich kid named Wyatt whose brother is the last name on Patsy’s list. The two share an intense chemistry even as every tick of the clock draws them closer to an impossible choice.

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So it looks like you can read my latest book, HIT, for FREE. If you do, I hope you’ll consider leaving a review somewhere or telling a friend. <3

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Its well worth reading

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The English psyche

If you ever need to understand the English, understand this photo of somebody drinking tea from a flask in the rain

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Why is it we remember & talk about the cold wet rides, more than the others?

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It was a cold muddy ride today

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In the bleak mid-winter

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Still enjoying the winter rides

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I had a bit of fun unicycling about in the snow yesterday 

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The Ferguson Public Library has been doing incredible things for the community. Here’s how you can support their ongoing work.

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also, here is an interview with their only full-time librarian.

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“Libraries, by default, usually are a safe space. Much of what we did was just continue to operate normally, staying open and offering services while letting the community know we were there for them.”

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Libraries, support all of them.

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1000 !

Quick text update. This year's unicycling distance total broke the 1000km mark today. More about it with pictures & stuff later. Right now though there is whisky to be drunk

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Just riding through the woods 

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Samaritans Radar some thoughts

I’ve been following this for a bunch of reasons, so here are my thoughts on the matter

Data protection :- The Samaritans say they aren’t a data controller & I agree. I’m not convinced an email address & a twitter handle constitute personal data. My experience is they are not enough together to uniquely identify a person. They also say they aren’t a data processor. How can that be ? Radar reads tweets & acts on what it finds. Well its a legal definition, no data controller has engaged them, so no they aren’t a data processor.

Privacy :- Here is where people have been getting heated, I sort of understand why, but the radar app acted on public posts. This is pretty important, especially for the data protection above. The rules for published data are very different. Twitter's API makes it reasonably easy to read the feed of public posts a twitter handle sees. (https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/user_timeline explains quite well).

Accuracy:- 

From my reading it seems radar is a Heuristic, keyword scanner, much like an anti-spam system, you'd expect it to generate both false positives & false negatives, especially in the early days. If I was programming something like that I'd favour false positives over false negatives.

Bullying:-

A sad fact really, it didn't enable bullying, it might have made it easier though.

I'm not sure what to make of radar & the kerfuffle surrounding it, I didn't sign up to it (I have my reasons) but I wouldn't be surprised if it was active on my timeline somewhere. I don't think there were data protection concerns, and to be frank if you have privacy concerns why are you publishing in a global forum ? A twitter public status is just that a status that can be read by anyone, anywhere (but not at any time, they sort of expire)  

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Riding through one of the more technical sections of the blue in the autumn sunshine 

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Fallen leaves