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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-11

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Chris Samuel
  • Back from roadtrip around eastern Victoria (and just into NSW), off to @linuxusersvic tonight for Rusty's talk #
  • Not going to @linuxusersvic tonight, quiet night at home with @donna_williams after road trip around eastern Victoria! 🙂 #
  • Left on Friday, did Melbourne -> Paynesville -> Omeo -> Greta South (Benella) -> Echuca -> Melbourne, back today (Tuesday) #
  • #IBM using software #patents against company offering support for a FOSS IBM #zSeries IBM emulator http://bit.ly/9r3Obx #
  • Euthanasia group teaching elderly Australians how to bypass Conroys Internet filters http://bit.ly/9WRX0N #nocleanfeed #
  • If you haven't been following the crazy Internet laws being debated in the #UK – read this http://bit.ly/able1j #
  • #Twitter releases their sharding framework #Gizzard on GitHub under Apache license http://ff.im/-iDf1S (via @peakscale) #
  • Another (small) nail in the coffin of Itanic – RT @insideHPC Microsoft Drops Itanium Support http://bit.ly/bCCSFZ #
  • RT @alecmuffett Apparently "nfdbjajxgaknq" is "too simple" a password for #Linode – #ohtheirony #
  • Worth a read: care worker on how old photos bring dignity to people with dementia http://bit.ly/dBUfDe (via @theretronaut) #
  • Look ma, no O2! RT @newscientist: Zoologger: The "alien" mud creature that lives without oxygen http://bit.ly/dBXxe1 #
  • RT @mrtonylee: I'm a writer, my comics are illegally downloaded but even I don't want this bill to pass. Don't speak for me. #DEBill #
  • RT @astronomyblog Seems my MP couldn't be bothered to turn up for the Third Reading of the #DEBill either http://tinyurl.com/yh97579 #
  • UK #DEBill has provisions for #Internet filtering to block access to "locations" re copyright infringement: e.g wikileaks ? #
  • RT @NASAJPL Where, when, how to watch a meteor shower in 2010: Tips on making the most of major viewing opportunities: http://bit.ly/adknSl #
  • Labor premier asked Governor to appoint Liberal govt, Governor asked Labor instead, now Liberals are blaming Labor ? #tasmania #
  • http://twitpic.com/1e1evc – "The Shed", Paynesville #
  • http://twitpic.com/1e1go6 – Paynesville floating shed docked, with band and eggs #
  • http://twitpic.com/1e1he3 – Butterfly on oregano #
  • http://twitpic.com/1e1iix – Donna with friends kitten "Socks" #
  • http://twitpic.com/1e1iqp – Echuca #
  • http://twitpic.com/1e1izc – The Thong (flip-flop) Tree, Echuca #
  • http://twitpic.com/1e1j5u – Self-portrait in teapot #
  • That twitpic/flickr upload brought to you by #Pixelpipe – upload once and it redistributes to your choice of services! #
  • 40 #UK MP's turned up for #DEBill 2nd reading, 40 more for 3rd reading, 187 more arrived just to vote without listening 🙁 #
  • RT @doctorow: When corporations weaponize copyright to use against civilians they use artists as human shields #debill #
  • Today's intriguing book title: "Care and Feeding of Power Grid Tubes" #
  • #Apple slap restrictions on languages you can write #iPhone applications in http://bit.ly/d1j3m7 – glad I've got an #N900 #
  • "more air marshals have been arrested than the number of people arrested by air marshals" http://bit.ly/cH0Ug0 (via @fooishbar) #
  • Last compute node on #VLSCI #SGI cluster sorted out, now all 136 nodes are up for 1088 cores and 4.2TB of RAM total. #hpc #
  • #Steampunk writ large courtesy of @theretronaut http://bit.ly/9J78ji "Dr Evermore & the Forevertron" #
  • Another amazing photo via @theretronaut, this time a panorama of #Tokyo 145 years ago (1865) http://bit.ly/czo20P #
  • Lots of news reports of the plane crash in Russia involving the Polish president and his wife, some say fatally. 🙁 #
  • Some reports say all 87 on board killed, some reports saying around 130 people on board and 87 dead. #
  • Polish state news agency (PAP) reporting no survivors of plane crash carrying Polish President (via Reuters). http://bit.ly/9a0hp4 #
  • The BoM are forecasting possible thunderstorms and possible hail tomorrow for #Melbourne hopefully not as bad as last time! #
  • Wow, no wonder we're tired, Google Maps says our Easter roadtrip around Victoria was over 1,000 km! #
  • Reuters reports Polish president and 95 others were killed in the plane crash near Smolensk in Russia http://bit.ly/cDzBFh #
  • ''If someone tells you definitively that they know what is wrong with the system, they are lying […]" (about #myki #
  • "If they knew what was wrong they could fix it." – Dept of Transport employee about #myki in The Age http://bit.ly/aVOTaE #
  • #coffee # art RT @thecaffiend: looking for Australia's best latte artists, email your best efforts: editor@beanscenemagazine.com.au #
  • RT @SeeInANewWay: Cheerful mosaic of #photos sorted by color: Random got Beautiful http://cot.ag/bBf6ux ^MG #
  • another great #photo – RT @Astro_Soichi: http://twitpic.com/1eqe9m – Another beautiful morning in space! EVA2 today. #

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