• Emergency! Out of Italian Almond Tea error! Insert teabag in slot 1 and press go! #
• The Chaser team are coming back to the ABC for the #election 🙂 http://bit.ly/ccmX5w "Yes We Canberra!" #
• Random fact – 48 years ago today (12th July) The Rolling Stones performed their first gig at the Marquee Club in London #
• RT @Lateline: Anti-vaccination group accused of harassing parents http://tinyurl.com/2fo5pp2 #
• Trying to run #Calibre to convert some PDF's into epub format – wow it makes this machine go slow! 🙁 #
• Learning to package kcaldav for Ubuntu, trying to work out if I can patch the Makefile to patch a file created during the build #
• Didn't bother patching the makefile, just altered it directly in the package (this is only for test purposes!) #
• Lithium Iron battery? Didn't seem that heavy! 🙂 http://twitpic.com/24wzmk #
• New Kobo ebook reader from Borders http://twitpic.com/24x08p #
• Got newer version of #Calibre from Nate Muench's PPA, much nicer! Understands Kobo + grabs @lwnnet with my subscriber id #
• #planck #esa RT @arjenlentz http://www.esa.int/images/PLANCK_FSM_03_Black_Regions_v02_B,0.jpg very pretty picture #
• #Oracle #039;s deaf ear to #OpenSolaris governing body leads to threat to dissolve itself in frustration – http://bit.ly/bPQnrx #
• great quote from the #Beowulf #HPC list – "my first computer was a Univac II – vacuum tubes, no operating system." 😉 #
• Awesome APOD of the #eclipse – RT @apod: Easter Island Eclipse: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100714.html #
• RT @insideHPC: SC10 aims to encourage growth of #HPC workforce http://bit.ly/aFnQAK #
• neat! RT @insidehpc #Amazon adds support for traditional #HPC workloads with Cluster Compute instance http://bit.ly/aCjekJ #
• Groklaw: software #patent application rejected; USPTO cites #Bilski as part of case law for rejection http://bit.ly/ae0MbZ #
• Going through PDF's of SCO's alleged copying in Linux – it's *all* header files + all from ELF and Open Group Unix specs #
• Here's a hint #SCO things like struct utimbuf and the prototypes of strcasecmp() and shmget() aren't secret.. 😉 #
• Whilst I never thought #SCO had a case I'm gobsmacked by the paucity of what they claimed to have as evidence; laughable! #
• Yea ghods the new @bbcnews website is awful! Anyone know a way to get the old version back ? #
• Downloading over 700 emails at 60MB – guess who's neglected his home email again.. 🙁 #
• #VLSCI announces "Call for submissions for Early Adopters Ph.D. Workshop at SC10" http://bit.ly/d9O9iI #sc10 #hpc #
• Best. Eclipse. Photo. Ever. RT @apod: Andes Sunset #Eclipse http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100715.html #
• (for US) RT @BreakingNews: January-June 2010 was warmest first half of year on record, federal climate service reports http://bit.ly/9VPfrA #
• #OpenMM releases version 2.0, includes Gromacs and Amber support for nVidia and ATI GPUs! http://bit.ly/bk5Cf8 #hpc #
• RT @marsroverdriver Testing ESA's Mars rover: cool. http://is.gd/dtDx1 – I wonder how the Welsh feel about being compared to Mars this way? #
• .@marsroverdriver they'd probably fight over who was north mars and who was south mars (yes, I'm Welsh :-)) #
• Any sufficiently advanced user with physical control of his workstation is indistinguishable from root. (apologies to ACC) #
• The @abcnews has a "How to vote" page – http://bit.ly/bZOo1U – and no, it's not about more funding for them! 🙂 #
• #Motorola Droid-X #Android phone has anti-tamper mechanism that will brick it if you try to mod it http://bit.ly/dnAEw3 #
• Clark and Dawe on #refugees and #Australia – classic – http://bit.ly/aYahbh #
• Fabulous @oldspice parody – "Look at your grades, now look at mine" 🙂 http://bit.ly/bhuEtV #
• Animated MRI scan of an artichoke – http://bit.ly/9qVKbe – (via @astroengine, @mactavish, @Wordweaverlynn) #
• Just noticed that @KRuddPM has become @KRuddMP; good for him. #
• Us #Linux #Kobo users are out of luck with firmware upgrades: "At this time we don't support Linx with the Kobo eReader." #

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