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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-09

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Chris Samuel
  • (Tim Robinson's) Babbage Difference Engine No.1 made in #Meccano by Graham Jost http://bit.ly/grNnVa #steamtoypunk πŸ™‚ #
  • So Twitter's "Who to follow" suggested @UKHPCGUY which would make sense, except he's not tweeted since September 2009… #
  • Aha, it appears that there is a #LibreOffice PPA available for #Ubuntu http://bit.ly/en85vQ #Openoffice #
  • One problem with the #Libreoffice PPA – it breaks the dependency that kubuntu-desktop has on openoffice πŸ™ #
  • Shopping with Donna to restock after Xmas, fell victim to half price leg of ham, got home to find it doesn't fit in fridge #
  • Fortunately have dairy free butter chicken sauce – am considering Zen Butter Chicken with no butter and no chicken.. πŸ˜‰ #
  • Went a-wandering with Donna today, at Gembrook cemetery saw a blue ant – really a flightless wasp – http://bit.ly/ecmtfP #
  • Got to say that blue "ants" are quite breathtaking, very shiny blue-green colour – just glad I wasn't their prey! #
  • Also a bugger to photograph, constantly on move + as I thought it was a bull ant I was trying to keep out of its way πŸ™‚ #
  • Oh noes – end of holiday – work in the morning! Good job it's a fun job! πŸ™‚ #VLSCI #
  • Underhanded C Contest – clean code that passes inspection but does something evil – http://bit.ly/g9L2nx – appears defunct #
  • Blue #ant (really the flightless flower #wasp Diamma Bicolor) at Gembrook Cemetery http://flic.kr/p/97nkdg #
  • RIP Gerry Rafferty of "Baker Street" fame.. #
  • #Linux #Kernel 2.6.37 has been tagged in Linus's git repo! Huzzah! #
  • Versioning of images and non-destructive editing lands in #Digikam #039;s #KDE repo! http://bit.ly/e0GHwG #linux #photography #
  • First beta of #digikam 2.0.0 has appeared, including face recognition, nondestructive editing, etc: http://bit.ly/hpoP6m #
  • Some level headed first thoughts on #nvidia #039;s "Project Denver" by Joe Landman (@sijoe) – http://bit.ly/fkzbQE #hpc #
  • BMJ says #Wakefield #autism study contains 'clear evidence of falsification' + 'an elaborate fraud' http://bit.ly/g9IYWw #
  • How many deliberately unvaccinated children died due to the measles as a result of Wakefields bogus autism study ? πŸ™ #
  • Santa Monica Pier Sunset – #HDR photo taken using the #Nokia "HDR Capture" app on my #N900 http://flic.kr/p/8WHLQ2 #
  • RT @lachlanhurst Crash at corner of Plenty and Childs rd, Mill Park. Avoid. /cc @774melbourne #
  • Aide-mémoire: example of using ((warn_unused_result)) to catch unhandled errors in #mariadb #mysql http://bit.ly/es1UnY #
  • Wow, very impressive! RT @apod Sunrise, Moonrise: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110106.html #eclipse #
  • Javascript generated audio in Firefox4, cool or scary ? (or both.. πŸ™‚ ) http://bit.ly/hTgYoj #ff4 via @astronomyblog #
  • Tomorrow (Friday) is forecast to be a day of "very high" fire danger in the central #CFA region – http://bit.ly/fcN0Qa #
  • Merge window for 2.6.38 has opened – and I've got a (minor) patch to the perf userland stuff in.. πŸ˜‰ #
  • Real problem with the north-south pipeline is it's just not long enough; I'm sure QLD would be happy to send water to VIC! #
  • Anyone know if the @Panasas v4 Linux filesystem client can talk to #Panasas v3.5 shelves #HPC #
  • Broadcom PR about open sourcing wifi drivers says "garnered applause", RedHat person said they caused "eye cancer" πŸ™‚ #
  • aptitude purge `dpkg -l | grep openoffice | awk '{print $2}'` && aptitude install libreoffice #libreoffice #FTW πŸ™‚ #
  • Nice one Glenn! RT @SciMelb New blog post: Directors appointed for $67 million Super Science projects http://ow.ly/1aLx8Z #
  • #Flickr – "GÒ€ℒday Chris Bloke! Now you know how to greet people in Australian!" – I think that's taking it a bit far πŸ™‚ #
  • Founder of @Wotif made record $1.6M donation to Australian @Greens http://bit.ly/h7S3tf – via @abcnews #
  • Spot the cool change in Melbourne πŸ™‚ http://www.baywx.com/melbtemp.html (replacement for old Uni of Melb temp graph) #
  • #Flickr says: "O HAI Chris Bloke! Now you know how to greet people in Lolspeak!" Er.. πŸ˜‰ #
  • Well my home machine is now #openoffice org free – running #LibreOffice 3.3RC2 from the Ubuntu PPA πŸ™‚ #
  • .@marsroverdriver Awesome! My favourite was "So you control the tides! Neil deGrasse Tyson is god! Kneel before Neil!" πŸ™‚ #
  • So the BoM said there was likely to be storms this afternoon/evening – nothing so far, not even a shower of rain! πŸ™ #
  • Let's see if I can debootstrap Debian Squeeze onto this donated laptop disk (thanks @zootman!) and resurrect my Libretto #
  • fingers crossed – "debootstrap –arch i386 squeeze /media/LIBRETTO http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/" #
  • Install went really well, but found I ran into Debian bug #588293 with grub2 – need grub-legacy πŸ™ http://bit.ly/hW0nR0 #
  • Oh dear, it appears that 32MB is not enough to boot the 2.6.35 kernel that Debian Squeeze has πŸ™ Poor old Libretto πŸ™ #
  • At least I know that grub-legacy works where grub2 doesn't – sadly kernel panics whilst trying to decompress initramfs #
  • Downloading the 250 odd photos from todays #Flickr #Melbourne Group photo walk in Richmond #

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