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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-01

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Chris Samuel
  • RT @astronomyblog: Just seen Transformers. Not appreciating the appropriation of Beagle 2 as a NASA JPL mission. It wasn't a rover either. #
  • RT @mikal: Julia Gillard must be desperate — she's cutting renewable energy programs to buy people new cars? I'm voting green. #fb #ausvote #
  • just left Box Hill for city, still travelling almost on time, no mention of problems yet despite SMSs from @MetroTrains #
  • Want to claw my eyes out after using Novell website to do SLES10 activations, Java null pointer exceptions to get downloads?! #
  • Celebrating over 40 years of the UNIX system . Win a classic license plate http://bit.ly/1wsWYl #unix 40 #
  • 261 signatures asking Aus govt #patent review to remove software from eligibility, add yours! http://bit.ly/9rLHva pls rt #
  • Recently found out a friend of mine at #VPAC was 2nd author on Nature paper in 2000, nice one Mike! http://bit.ly/bToVpf #
  • Richard Stallman (RMS) will doing a seminar at NICTA in #Melbourne on the evening of Sept 15th http://bit.ly/dqwnKn #gnu #
  • .@getup is the mental health vigil tonight (according to email and twitter) or tomorrow (according to website) ? #
  • Building Poppler 0.14.1 from source to get newer pdftohtml to see if it helps #Calibre convert #IBM RedBooks PDF to ePub! #
  • First discovery, Poppler 0.14.1 won't build with make -j 5 πŸ™‚ #
  • Answer: No – pdftohtml from Poppler 0.14.1 still results in pretty bad ePub ebook from IBM RedBook PDF's πŸ™ #
  • Latest (last?) release candidate for Open-MPI 1.5 has just been released, grab rc5 from here: http://bit.ly/bqjh7w #hpc #ompi #
  • #NBN map for Victoria is here (PDF) http://bit.ly/9PULxQ #ausvotes #
  • It's been a good, if very hectic, week here at #VLSCI I've got a 2048 node, 8192 core NAMD job running to prove it. πŸ™‚ #
  • Uh oh, what's he up to now? πŸ™‚ RT @jonoxer huge skip arrived today: weekend of demolition for the start of @SuperHouseTV #
  • RT @FilterConroy: Stephen Conroy is NOT number 1 on Labor's Victorian senate ticket. Keep telling every Victorian you know to Filter Conroy! #
  • Only 61% of Australians think it takes a year for the Earth to go around the Sun, wonder what the other 39% think? #
  • USPTO wants *your* guidance on how #Bilski affects what is/isn't eligible for #patent e.g. software: http://bit.ly/aLOAZ1 #
  • At New Voices festival in Eltham, @donna_williams is on in the next session! #
  • Awesome session with @donna_williams and Sandy Jells at New Voices. Sandy has been shortlisted for The Age book of the year! #
  • Awesome session with @donna_williams and Sandy Jeffs at New Voices. Sandy has been shortlisted for The Age book of the year! #
  • Sandy Jeff's shortlisted book is "Flying with Paper Wings – Reflections on Living with Madness" http://bit.ly/blb3AQ #
  • Big thanks to @kattekrab for being awesome @linuxusersvic president, hope you get a chance to get a rest now! πŸ™‚ #
  • It looks rather miffed.. RT @alecmuffett: how to clean your owl: http://bit.ly/bFhqxO #weekendlinks #
  • RT @BreakingNews: Greenland ice sheet – 10% of worldÒ€ℒs freshwater – lowered by 20 feet in a month in 1 region http://bit.ly/9KUKrJ #
  • Back home after 4 hours setting up joint exhibition with @donna_williams at the 1812 Theatre in Upper Ferntree Gully #
  • Exhibition setup at 1812 Theatre – my photos http://twitpic.com/2akcvu #
  • Exhibition setup at 1812 Theatre – more of my photos http://twitpic.com/2akdm5 #
  • Exhibition setup at 1812 Theatre – Donna's paintings http://twitpic.com/2akdzx #
  • Exhibition setup at 1812 Theatre – more of Donna's paintings http://twitpic.com/2akeb7 #
  • PDF of petition to keep referrals to social workers and occupational therapists eligible for Medicare http://bit.ly/aXBhBY #

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