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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Chris Samuel
  • Ah, that's why it feels cold, it's less than 8C outside! http://bit.ly/1l8L3D #Melbourne #
  • Wow, the suspect in the #MCGgunman case certainly has what you could only describe as "form" – http://bit.ly/c1BXa5 #
  • Lots of police helicopters around #Melbourne CBD as I left work, wonder if they'll charge #MCGgunman for their fuel? #
  • Starting to dispair about politics here with the leaders of both main political parties pandering to the #acl πŸ™ #
  • Victorian life scientists, Friday is the deadline for the next round of applications to use the #VLSCI supercomputers! #hpc #
  • Wonderful! C3P0 looks like Chaplin – RT @theretronaut: What if Chewbacca was a Victorian…? – http://tinyurl.com/2dfp6cb #
  • Oh yay for the USPTO, they let #Amazon #patent social networking – filed in 2008 – http://bit.ly/a0i21E #
  • Amazing photo of a shuttle launch from a group of skydivers – amazing timing! http://bit.ly/cKtpTQ (via lots of people) #
  • Australian govt ctte investigating mandatory firewalls and anti-virus for machines connecting to ISPs http://is.gd/cYFYx #
  • RT @NewtonMark: Fascinating. iPhone OS 4.0 supports (+uses) #ipv6 if it's available, but I can find no way to get it to tell me its address. #
  • RT @GeordieGuy: Privileges c'ttee has published my response to Conroy's attack, incorporated in Hansard http://bit.ly/bjYj64 #openinternet #
  • RT @astronomyblog: <speechless> RT @telescoper: #STFC Council meeting in Cardiff today. Council Member asked "Excuse me but what is Planck?" #
  • California considering digital car license plates that would display advertising when stationary – http://bit.ly/aIUR5I #
  • RIP Frank Sidebottom – http://bit.ly/dcWrZu – #franksfund to pay for his funeral #
  • RT @NewtonMark: Prediction: ABC News will win next year's @Walkleys for definitively punking Twitter. #spill #ruddroll #
  • All these tweets about the #ruddroll #spill and it's not even a trending topic – where's #BP when you need them ? πŸ˜‰ #
  • RT @leighsales Rudd press conference at 10.10pm #spill #ruddroll #
  • Rudd not standing down, #spill at 9am tomorrow morning – #ruddroll #
  • Julia Gillard visited Rudd asking for a #spill there's going to be one at 9am tomorrow, but he says he intends to fight #
  • RT @cosmicjester: Is it just me, but does Rudd only communicate well when he's angry? #spill #
  • The lost army of King Cambyses II (525BC) found in the Sahara desert ? http://bit.ly/advxAU #archaeology #
  • RT @leighsales: ABC1 will have live coverage from Canberra 9am tomorrow. #
  • RT @BreakingNews: Judge rules for #Google in Viacom's $1 billion copyright lawsuit over YouTube videos http://bit.ly/akF3SH #
  • There have been 3 more deaths in the #BP #spill remediation works in the last 24 hours, 1 of which looks like suicide πŸ™ #
  • Disturbed to hear it's the right of the Labor party pushing for Gillard, last thing Labor need is another lurch to right! #
  • Australia now has its first female prime minister! πŸ™‚ #
  • So will Conroy get rewarded for supporting Gillard and promoted out of the IT role ? πŸ™‚ #
  • Dai iawn Ms Gillard! #
  • So Australia's first female Governor-General has sworn in Australia's first female Prime Minister – I like that symmetry #
  • Just ordered a Kobo ebook reader from Borders, apparently works happily under Linux with free software! http://bit.ly/cBgsAo #
  • Sigh, getting sick of @JamesJohnsonCHR @'ing everyone with nutty ideas about Gillard unseating Rudd being treason πŸ™ #
  • RT @seamus: Gizmodo is starting a campaign for the change we really need. @katelundy for the IT Ministry! http://bit.ly/cUzXPt #
  • Interesting blog by Tridge on his SIP server being hacked for calls to North Korea #DPRK amonst others http://bit.ly/9pcwAX #
  • .@JamesJohnsonCHR I realise who you are but it doesn't change the fact that you don't vote for a Prime Minister in Australia #
  • Shortest serving Australian Prime Minister was Frank Forde, served for 8 days before loosing his seat http://bit.ly/aM7Dud #
  • Irony++: some of the videos that #Viacomm were suing #Google over (and lost) were uploaded by Viacomm http://bit.ly/cyS5Kh #
  • Oh wonderful! πŸ™‚ RT @alecmuffett Obscure programmer automotive pun: http://bit.ly/cXoUaz #
  • "Patel jury sequestered for third night" – does that mean they've buried them underground in non-permeable strata ? #
  • RT @spufidoo: RT @gothick: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Daleks: http://hicksdesign.co.uk/1266 (via @hicksdesign) #
  • So yesterday not only did we get first female PM we also got first PM to use the non-religious version of the swearing in! #
  • Partial lunar #eclipse visible tonight (26th) from Australia – Sydney Observatory info here – http://bit.ly/cNwdxd #
  • At Lev's for lunch πŸ™‚ http://twitpic.com/2016q2 #
  • Partial lunar #eclipse reminder for #Australia – the Moon enters EarthÒ€ℒs shadow at about 8:15pm and leaves at 11pm. #
  • Outside trying to take photos of lunar #eclipse with patchy cloud, easier said than done! #
  • …and now it's raining πŸ™ #
  • Ubuntu bug #596327 (http://bit.ly/atWlZg) in exiv2 0.19 causes 250x slowdown importing photos – please vote if affected! #
  • I've put my photo of the partial lunar #eclipse on Flickr under a CC license – http://bit.ly/9tzlAt #
  • RT @PlanningAlerts: Browse local council websites for 15 minutes today and make a big difference to PlanningAlerts.org.au http://is.gd/d5Dnt #
  • #Amazon #patent exchanging money for computer time/storage http://bit.ly/bJ6fV4 ? (via @sijoe) #cloud #hpc #OhNoNotAgain #
  • At Roar House gig at Noise Bar (Station Hotel) to hear @donna_williams do a spoken word set. Plus sausage sizzle πŸ™‚ #

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