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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Chris Samuel
  • 419 scammers now sending pictures of alleged loot and (badly) photoshopped passport ID page – inspired by Mossad? 🙂 #
  • Unfortunately the 419 scammers don't seem to know about EXIF information 🙂 pics from 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2010.. #
  • Happy St Davids Day – Dydd Dewi Sant Hapus – Cymru am byth! 🙂 #cymru #wales #
  • Apparently locusts aren't common in Melbourne, advised by friend to send my photos to DPI to confirm whether/not they are #
  • http://twitpic.com/160ig7 – Could this be a locust at Cardinia Reservoir ? #
  • Installing xCAT via Yum – wow that's easy! 🙂 #hpc #
  • Kudos to @mobicity for publicly sorting out my friends #Nokia #N900 USB port warranty repair http://bit.ly/bWTgjy #
  • [hotel door hacking+defence with #HHGTTG RT @alecmuffett must-see for anyone who stays in a hotel: http://bit.ly/aVDmuB 🙂 #
  • Yay for #xcat new #VLSCI #SGI cluster has first compute node remotely installed – now need to refine the kickstart! #
  • Also first parts of the #VLSCI #IBM cluster arrived today, but they'll need to wait for the room to be built.. #
  • What sort of sick people target hospitals with suicide bombers ? That's not religion, it's inhumane madness.. 🙁 #
  • [LWN subscribers article – please support LWN!] RT@lwnnet: [$] Apple's patent attack http://lwn.net/Articles/376793/rss #
  • Yay, #Kubuntu has packages of #KDE 4.4.1 in the KDE PPA – downloading almost 600MB of updates now 😉 #
  • Link for announcement of #Kubuntu #KDE 4.4.1 packages – http://bit.ly/bAByOp #linux #ubuntu #
  • Mr Bean does Avatar 🙂 RT LEIGHSALES http://twitpic.com/16fuyz – This should give you a giggle to start your day. #
  • Finally got serial-over-lan working with #xCat and #SGI XE340's, hadn't set the port to 1 in the nodehm table, d'oh! #
  • Very very true – RT @newscientist: Why scientists must be the new climate sceptics http://bit.ly/dqiDyn #
  • Looks like the BoM's Laverton rain RADAR is back up and running! http://bit.ly/dowdNR #melbourne #
  • http://twitpic.com/160ig7 – Answer from DPI – no it's a grasshopper, but… #
  • http://twitpic.com/16jikh – according to DPI this is an adult plague #locust at Cardinia Reservoir near #Melbourne #
  • Like to be able to get #Google #Analytics stats for your plugin on #WordPress org ? Vote for this: http://bit.ly/cOzXho #
  • [awesome engineering!] RT @astronomyblog OK GO video which reminds me of the Great Egg Race http://bit.ly/9eByz3 #
  • Surived epic hailstorm today – was driving back from Cardinia Reservoir and had to pull over until the worst had passed #
  • Got home to find Donna had been defending the house from flooding and helped unblock the road to let it drain properly #
  • On/off/undervoltage power for most of arvo – fortunately only a few dents in the car and a cracked window at home #
  • Thanks @maddoghall for the blog comment on DECnet orphaned in #Linux sic transit gloria networking! http://bit.ly/aApDqM #
  • Great Clark and Dawe sketch on Tony Abbott's Excellent Outback Adventure – http://bit.ly/bKb7Kda #politics #comedy #
  • ABC reported hailstones of 10cm diameter in Ferntree Gully – fortunately the ones that hit our car were only golf ball size! #
  • BoM 256km #rain radar shows storms heading south towards #Melbourne http://bit.ly/9Dtn3p – could be interesting! :-/ #
  • Grr, why is #SVN asking me for my GNOME keyring passphrase? I use #KDE not GNOME, I Have no GNOME passphrase! #fail #
  • Looks like the current line of thunderstorms has missed Mount Dandenong, but #Melbourne might not be so lucky.. #
  • Looks like the storms have died down a bit looking at the BoM #rain radar – was almost black when it was over Shepparton! #
  • Rumours of a hail cannon being used somewhere around Mt Dandenong, can hear regular distant bangs.. #

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