• Bought soundtrack of "The Future is Unwritten: Joe Strummer" today, has cracking cover of Rock the Casbah by Rachid Taha #
• My fab wife @donna_williams taking a photo of me taking a photo of her in #Olinda http://flic.kr/p/8G1Di5 #
• Photo of @donna_williams with no processing, effect is with a #Lensbaby 2.0 from @seeinanewway http://flic.kr/p/8G1Di5 #
• Charles Dickens last words: "No, no, no; I have got the toothache, and shall be better presently." #
• Didn't make it into work this morning, stomach cramps on train led to swift exit at Nunawading and a lift home from Donna #
• Thanks also to the person who offered to call someone to assist at the station, very kind. Donna was on her way already. #
• #Melbourne #039;s water storages are at their highest level for 5 years, but still not yet half full (47%) http://is.gd/fJed4 #
• A headline worthy of Monty Python – RT @VOTPnews 6.4-inch Parrott Rifles, Part 3 http://bit.ly/9yzoNb #
• Reseating mini-PCI wifi card in my ancient laptop fixed it! Unfortunately don't think reseating CPU will speed it up.. #
• Today is the 53rd anniversary of the launch of #Sputnik 1 on 4th October 1957, first artificial satellite of the Earth. #
• Sigh, got a typo in the first version of that #Sputnik tweet! 🙁 #
• #VLSCI at University of Melbourne is advertising for post of Head, Life Sciences Computation Centre http://bit.ly/ajKAK6 #
• You've got to hand it to Cray, they can make their racks look very nice! http://bit.ly/9HZVw3 (via @insideHPC) #hpc #
• #RIP Norman Wisdom, Charlie Chaplains favourite clown, at 95 http://bbc.in/cdcn1e #
• Now listening to the Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace #
• Now listening to Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – Hammersmith Odeon, London, 1975 #
• Bee Line – probably the luckiest shot from our trip up to Olinda last weekend http://flic.kr/p/8GyZPK #
• After churn to @internode I get drop outs every phone call in or out, got new filters + new Billion 7800N but still drops #
• Time to hit Whirlpool… #
• Australia publishes draft #ACTA agreement – ITNews – http://bit.ly/ckRHCs #
• Great photo of a wedge-tailed eagle about to get the shock of its life from a magpie (ABC website) http://bit.ly/do5xL9 #
• Loud mobile phone conversation on train "Username is aus-database, password is Meryl1 with a capital M" sigh.. #
• SGI just had a #Linux kernel patch merged to fix an overflow on a system with 16TB of RAM.. http://bit.ly/azLxTQ #hpc #
• If you use #ZoneEdit com for managing your DNS zones and have more than 2 free zones then read this! http://bit.ly/chRkFa #
• Absolutely wonderful – Sesame Street's Grover does @oldspice http://t.co/FFhJjEM (via @arjenlentz @eleybourn @youtube) #
• Just relicensed all my @Flickr photos under @creativecommons BY license (was BY-NC-SA) – have fun! http://bit.ly/ckoRul #
• Chose @creativecommons BY license as it matches my free-software thinking and I'd get a buzz from them being reused! #
• Just watched "Bran Nue Day" with @donna_williams, very silly! 🙂 #
• "Listen To The News" from Bran Nue Dae is very powerful; based on archival photo of indigenous people in neck chains #
• Found http://twitpic.com/2w8dwf #
• Next-gen #Intel platform to provide onboard SAS + HW acceleration for software RAID, but *not* RAID6. http://bit.ly/drqwPp #
• Excellent sanity check by @bulletford of "toxins" mentioned in @bbcnews report on Hungarian spill http://bit.ly/acPtv4 #
• "In the environment it'll probably react with CO2 in the atmosphere and become that well known toxin, calcite… limestone" #
• UK Ministry of Justice rules threaten archaeological research, bones must be reburied after 2 years! http://bit.ly/9m3bgF #

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