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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-16

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Chris Samuel
  • Amazingly awake after flying back from the US yesterday, working from home today to catch up on email, etc.. #
  • Great photos of "Field of Women" breast #cancer event on Friday 7th at the #MCG by a friend of mine http://bit.ly/asY8Rr #
  • "It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion." – tea++ time #
  • Upgraded to #KDE 4.4.3 from the #Kubuntu PPA – bug fix goodness ๐Ÿ™‚ #
  • Had real problems installing Bundle::BioPerl under #Perl 5.12.0, trying again with 5.10.1, seems to include most of CPAN! #
  • Sigh, no joy with Bundle::BioPerl on #Perl 5.10.1 either – even XML::Parser won't install ๐Ÿ™ #
  • Oh joy, my Perl problems appear to be because of the expat RPM in #CentOS 5.4 being too old for XML::Parser's needs ๐Ÿ™ #
  • Nice web page on setting up a remote #git repository over SSH – http://bit.ly/aOXjmK #
  • "GBO-3 found that none of 21 biodiversity targets set in 2002 were met on a global basis" @newscientist http://bit.ly/cNqqlI #
  • There are two @nokia Australia twitter accounts, both have their tweets protected, seems rather counter-productive #
  • Two *potential* @Nokia Australia twitter accounts of course, they could be fake.. #
  • Saw @Nokia Australia advert claiming navigation now free on Nokia smartphones in Australia – but doesn't include #N900 ๐Ÿ™ #
  • ๐Ÿ™‚ RT @alecmuffett The LibDems got fewer seats but more power. This has been the first homeopathic election. #
  • Nice! @lwnnet reporting that #Meego (mobile #Linux distro under dev by @Nokia and @Intel) will use #btrfs by default #
  • Ian Barclay, the digger operator from Time Team, peels a banana with a backhoe http://to.pbs.org/ctRU7M #archaeology #
  • getting reports that #Yahoo Australia have broken their mail system, email addresses re-written to gruposyahoo.com.au #
  • Dear #lazyweb how do I find the revision with the earliest occurrence of a string in a particular file with #git ? #
  • found it – good old git pickaxe! needed to do: git log "-Scase 'm'" trunk/src/cmds/qdel.c #
  • Inaugural Cosmic Variance #Whisky Tasting – the (inebriated) appliance of science – http://bit.ly/9xeGRz (via @elakdawalla) #
  • In #Ballarat on 21st May and interested in #Autism ? @donna_williams is doing a Q&A forum + gig http://bit.ly/aBYX0m #
  • So I know us #hpc folks run Linpack for meaningless benchmarks, but now #Android folks are at it too! http://bit.ly/aQS1Ao #
  • The #InfiniBand Trade Association has published an "Introduction to InfiniBand for End Users" http://bit.ly/9WVXAR (PDF) #
  • Hehe – 'Although the working title for this book was รขโ‚ฌล“#InfiniBand for Dummies,รขโ‚ฌย its readers are anything but dummies.' #
  • My little walk around #Tarrytown New York State, http://bit.ly/b0xb9y – was actually longer as some of it was off road #
  • #hpc – high performance coffee – the new #VLSCI coffee machine ๐Ÿ™‚ http://twitpic.com/1nmqrh #
  • RT @newscientist There's a new game in town: Guess how much oil is spilling into the Gulf of Mexico http://bit.ly/9tsqXV #
  • An interesting comment on the record of the UK's new Minister for Equality by @msgracefh http://twitpic.com/1npcnt #
  • The case for Neanderthals being considered part of Homo Sapiens (via @newscientist) http://bit.ly/amRt5H #archaeology #
  • Steve teeing off on Iains birthday round of golf at #Olinda http://twitpic.com/1o73b3 #
  • Fly Agaric mushrooms at the #Olinda golf course http://twitpic.com/1o7447 #

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