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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-11

Posted on October 11, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • Even #Microsoft canÒ€ℒt get #OOXML right.. http://bit.ly/2zVgVs #standardfail #broken #fail #
  • A case of two wheels good, four wheels better ? Segway concept 4 wheeler – http://bit.ly/SegwayCentaur – via @alecmuffett #
  • just picked up my photos from display at a cafe for the last few months. People liked them + the owner kept them up longer. #
  • Didn't sell any though, but not really surprising given it was only my second showing ever, and my first ever solo show! #
  • oh noes – calamari still frozen! random fridge pillage food time.. #
  • RT @elakdawalla More indirect evidence that the ringed planet may have a ringed moon: http://bit.ly/M3XSL #
  • Following on from @ids – AU #Apple TV ~ US$288/GBP181/AU$329, UK one ~ US$348/GBP219/AU$397, US is US$229/GBP143/AU$261 #
  • nice one #AARNET! RT @AARNet: News: AARNet provides unmetered access to Akamai's cached content http://is.gd/3Ym3I #
  • What Australian climate experts are thinking (ABC news blog) – http://bit.ly/3n5XVo #
  • #GDB 7.0 released – includes Python scripting support – http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/download/ANNOUNCEMENT #
  • #N900 browser tricks and tips… http://bit.ly/t4DCI #
  • just printed out the #N900 manual, now to read it on the train home and try not to drool on it πŸ˜‰ #
  • #Tsunami warning for the Pacific after mag 8 #earthquake near Vanuatu – http://bit.ly/1OlmBT #
  • USGS #earthquake report for mag 8.1 quake near Vanuatu is here – http://bit.ly/4eMC62 #
  • Vanuatu #earthquake revised down to magnitude 7.8 – still big #
  • Now a magnitude 7.3 #earthquake near Vanuatu (also shallow) – http://bit.ly/RzCd2 #
  • day off today (after working Sunday) so now it's breakfast time! πŸ˜‰ #
  • #Tsunami watch for Queensland, Australia – "between Bowen and St Lawrence" and tsunami expected at Willis Island #
  • "a tsunami is expected to affect Willis Island off the Queensland coast at about 9:4am AEST" – http://bit.ly/UXoNv #tsunami #
  • If you see people labelling spam with vanuatu or tsunami to get into search results, please block them. #
  • RT @CAREAustralia CARE staff on Ambae Island,Vanuatu monitoring the impact of earthquake. Staff ion high ground ,can see tidal wave coming #
  • Australian BoM has cancelled tsunami watch for QLD. – http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/ #
  • Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PWTC) has just issued a tsunami warning supplement with some measurements http://bit.ly/4tprUD #
  • USGS have revised the mag 6.2 quake near Vanuatu to mag 7.1 – that's almost 10x more powerful (log scale) #
  • RT @BreakingNews BULLETIN — PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER CANCELS ALL TSUNAMI WARNINGS AND WATCHES. #
  • PTWC official bulletin cancelling #tsunami watch here – http://bit.ly/rcefm #
  • Just because the tsunami alert is cancelled doesn't mean that there won't be more quakes as the fault line settles. #
  • RT @Images of the Nokia #N900 from CTIA Fall 2009 http://bit.ly/XTWGC #
  • RT @allaboutmaemo Maemo 5 (Nokia N900) downloads now available – http://bit.ly/M8h87 downloads on maemo.org now has a listing for Maemo 5 #
  • Yay, one of the downloads for the N900 is for Ogg support! http://bit.ly/GoArY Nokia, this really should be by default! #
  • Off to Monash Uni for the launch of their new Apple #HPC cluster called "Orchard". Will there be cider @markbate ? πŸ˜‰ #
  • RT @alecmuffett Many cryppies will know Hal Finney http://finney.org/~hal/ but *everyone* who is human should read -> http://is.gd/44HAm #
  • The Maemo 5 team have a YouTube channel talking about the #N900 apps – http://www.youtube.com/maemo5uiteam #
  • RT @NewHorizons2015: […] DPS: Pluto's evidence for a CO-rich ice spot grows– but why is it there? A 1st hint of Plutonian volcanism? #
  • As a former Usenet admin and FAQ keeper this is sad news about Googles broken archiving – http://bit.ly/3nPQF6 (via @alecmuffett) #
  • RT @astronomyblog: Gloucester pub gets "Good Lighting" award from BAA http://bit.ly/oFK00 #
  • I wonder how long before I meet a sysadmin to whom I can say "I was an admin before you were born" – probably all too soon! #
  • RT @huwlynes Google study on DRAM errors in the real world (via arstechnica) http://tinyurl.com/yeyc5hu #
  • RT @plutokiller More on KBO occult. If you're in Aus. , NZ, HI, SW US w/scope for LCROSS, watch the pre-game show. http://bit.ly/2NkwwL #
  • Back @ home watching @LCROSS_NASA on NASA TV en route to a not-very soft landing – 20 min to impact – http://bit.ly/IAL4 #
  • RT @LEIGHSALES: the NASA moon probe is due to happen at 1030pm our time – if we can get the vision turned around in time, we'll run it. #
  • RT @VAXHeadroom "Look at the SIZE of that thing! Cut the chatter Red 2." #LCROSS @LCROSS_NASA #NASA #
  • 5 minutes to Centaur impact #LCROSS @LCROSS_NASA #
  • Nice of #NASA to schedule the impact of @LCROSS_NASA just after the last episode of Spooks at the start of the news! πŸ™‚ #LCROSS #
  • 2 mins to #LCROSS Centaur impact! #
  • Can I get my laptop up and going to be able to watch NASA TV and ABC news at the same time ? #
  • 60 seconds to Centaur impact! #LCROSS #
  • no sign of centaur impact ? #LCROSS @LCROSS_NASA #
  • Last few seconds of @LCROSS_NASA #LCROSS! #
  • #LCROSS @LCROSS_NASA impact – report LoS #
  • ABC Late Line didn't manage to show the live @LCROSS_NASA impact footage, still leading on other stories. #LCROSS #
  • [um, it's not an *air*craft, it's a *space*craft!] RT @BreakingNews: BULLETIN — SECOND NASA AIRCRAFT CRASHES INTO THE MOON. #
  • RT @elakdawalla RT @NASA_Langley Note to all: science is not always visible to the camera. Sensors and instruments give actual data. #LCROSS #
  • All hail Douglas Adams – RT @LCROSS_NASA Ò€œThat's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me?Ò€ #
  • RT @astronomyblog Loving that @LCROSS_NASA's twitter account re-created the scene from HHGTTG. πŸ™‚ #
  • Oops – #Palm Pre southern hemisphere GPS #fail! http://bit.ly/1av7kI #
  • Catching up on overnight @LCROSS_NASA updates on @elakdawalla blog on the Planetary Society site http://bit.ly/897k5 #LCROSS #
  • [Lovely picture!] RT @marsroverdriver Thar be dragons! On Shelter Island! http://is.gd/498sM πŸ˜‰ #
  • A great gallery of @LCROSS_NASA impact related images by @elakdawalla here http://bit.ly/6yRtR #LCROSS #
  • [yay!] RT @lwnnet: Nokia ports #Qt to #Maemo 5 (the Inquirer) http://lwn.net/Articles/356335/rss #LWN #N900 #
  • RT @alecmuffett: one thing about #themineproject I'm very proud of: re-establishing that Open Source is something you "make", not "vend" #
  • Oh I wish the not-open-but-build-from-source scientific codes would open up – their build systems are generally awful! #
  • Typical, you wait weeks for a #Google #Wave invite and then two turn up at the same time.. πŸ˜‰ #
  • Odd, the Nokia #N900 user guide has either been moved or deleted from the Nokia site, PDF has gone 404 πŸ™ #
  • Found a document on getting the #N900 talking to an #Arduino via Bluetooth – one for @jonoxer ? http://bit.ly/49WE2o PDF #
  • No answer to my blog on questions on the #N900 based on the manual (now gone from the Nokia site), so will ask here! πŸ™‚ #
  • Is #N900 offline mode really flight mode? Manual: "Calls may still be possible to the official emergency number programmed into your device" #
  • Why canÒ€ℒt the #N900 A-GPS service use Wifi ? Manual says that only "a packet data Internet access point can be used." #
  • #N900 guide "an update using the Nokia Software Updater may sometimes be necessary" but is windows only; Linux alternative ? #
  • Does the #N900 automatic time update use NTP, GPS or the GSM time information some carriers provide (or some combination) ? #
  • Can you charge the #N900 whilst it is off ? Might sound like a silly question but Neo Freerunner has to be on to charge. #
  • Hmm, testing tweeting from Google Wave.. sadly it seems to hide the identities of the tweeters in what it gets from Twitter.. πŸ™ #
  • The spammers are getting lazy, 4 people followed me all with the same 3 tweets and all sent through HelloTxt.. #
  • Carbon dioxide, water vapour and ozone were shown to be greenhouse gases by John Tyndall in *1859*. http://bit.ly/Zf5NB #
  • At last – on the worst bushfire risk days the VIC state gov will advise ppl to leave the night before http://bit.ly/upzbc #
  • RT @cyberdoyle went in asda today,4 litres milk £3.46. milk left our #farm in tanker this morning at 17p a litre.4x17p=68p #

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