• Looks like old imagery in @GoogleEarth isn't limited to UK, there's air photos of German cities from 1943 (inc. Berlin)! #
• Hmm, turns out this 1940's era imagery has been in Google Earth for about a year, oh well! 🙂 #
• Rumours that UK's Severn Barrage scheme to be scrapped, to be replaced with more nuclear power – http://bbc.in/b9q3RJ #
• Looks like the weird network issues on the #VLSCI BlueGene/P were due to deteriorating GBIC in login node, sigh.. 🙁 #
• So with the new GBIC iperf tells me I can sustain 9.88Gb/s for 30 minutes to transfer 2.2TB of data – not bad for a VM! #
• Oops, in last tweet the 2.2TB should have been 2.02TB, but what's 200GB between friends ? 🙂 #
• That's 3 episodes of "Monkey" watched, only another 49 episodes to go! 🙂 #
• .@NewHorizons2015 now has fewer sleeps to get to Pluto than it has taken to get where it is (halfway chronologically) #
• On a train, going nowhere fast.. #
• #Google to put the Dead Sea Scrolls online http://bit.ly/daloTf (AFP) #archaeology #
• "Universities in England are being warned to expect an 80% cut to their teaching budgets" (via @fooishbar) #
• Looks like @BBCBreaking twitter feed is broken, or its got the hiccups, same tweet on Chechnya keeps appearing.. #
• Phew – @ear1grey tells me the category 1 accident in #Portsmouth is just a radiation drill, been planned for some time. #
• .@ear1grey has just nipped off to a tutorial, just had a quick chat with him on skype and all is well in #Portsmouth #
• Home at 7pm, fish fed, ducks fed, now 8pm and I guess I should eat something myself.. 😉 #
• Fab! Joshua backported a patch to exiv2 to fix 150-200x slowdown bug in ops on Nikon images http://bit.ly/atWlZg #ubuntu #
• Now just have to hope that someone at #ubuntu cares enough to take ownership and incorporate it, it's only been 4 months.. #
• Upgraded zfs-fuse to 0.6.9 (gone from #ZFS pool v16 to 23) and turned on dedup+verify, hoping to reduce space backups use #
• Damn, that patch to exiv2 results in Gwenview, Konqueror + Nepomuk crashing with segv on some images. 🙁 #ubuntu #
• Nice #HPC 101 poster from Ast.Prof. Mohamed Ahmed @ American Uni in Cairo – http://bit.ly/c6NQTz (via @insideHPC) #
• Yesterday was 20-10-2010 (offer not available not in the US or in ISO format) #
• Chinese censors censored 3 speeches by Chinese premier – titbit in http://bit.ly/dmqGla (via @NewtonMark @newmatilda) #
• "Apps are forbidden from mentioning the name of other computer platforms, such as Microsoft Windows or Google Android" #
• That quote was from the Apple Insider summary of new app store rules http://tinyurl.com/253kpdl courtesy of @bulletford #
• Spring might finally be here in Melbourne, forecast top is 29C! #
• #Locust spraying has started in Victoria, #bee keepers needs to be aware sprays are toxic to bees: http://bit.ly/dua7OG #
• Big gum branch down on corner Grattan + Bouverie Sts Carlton, hit a pedestrian; medics on scene, Bouv. blocked onto Grattan #
• Ambulance has taken felled pedestrian away, Bouverie St blocked onto Grattan by big branch, police on duty. #Melbourne #
• Big gum tree limb down on Bouverie St, Carlton, Melbourne http://twitpic.com/2zomrn #VLSCI #
• Public art in the lane near Melbourne Central Station http://twitpic.com/2zq0bb #Art #
• Big gum tree limb down on Bouverie St, Carlton, Melbourne http://twitpic.com/2zr0n9 #VLSCI #
• Wonderful animated version of Tom Lehrer's classic "The Elements" on YouTube – http://bit.ly/aEb8F2 #science #
• The #SCinet network for #SC10 will have 260 Gb/s of aggregate bandwidth! http://bit.ly/9ksPbW (via @SuperComputing) #
• Perfect photo on the ABC for the story of Peter Costello's reaction to John Howards memoirs – http://bit.ly/asuex8 #
• An interesting account of the Battle of Little Bighorn from the side of the victors – http://bit.ly/atps9B #history #

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