• (Tim Robinson's) Babbage Difference Engine No.1 made in #Meccano by Graham Jost http://bit.ly/grNnVa #steamtoypunk 🙂 #
• 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 🙁 #
• 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.. 😉 #
• 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 🙂 #
• Oh noes – end of holiday – work in the morning! Good job it's a fun job! 🙂 #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 ? 🙁 #
• 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.. 🙂 ) 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.. 😉 #
• 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" 🙂 #
• aptitude purge `dpkg -l | grep openoffice | awk '{print $2}'` && aptitude install libreoffice #libreoffice #FTW 🙂 #
• Nice one Glenn! RT @SciMelb New blog post: Directors appointed for $67 million Super Science projects http://ow.ly/1aLx8Z #
• #Flickr – "G’day Chris Bloke! Now you know how to greet people in Australian!" – I think that's taking it a bit far 🙂 #
• Founder of @Wotif made record $1.6M donation to Australian @Greens http://bit.ly/h7S3tf – via @abcnews #
• Spot the cool change in Melbourne 🙂 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.. 😉 #
• Well my home machine is now #openoffice org free – running #LibreOffice 3.3RC2 from the Ubuntu PPA 🙂 #
• .@marsroverdriver Awesome! My favourite was "So you control the tides! Neil deGrasse Tyson is god! Kneel before Neil!" 🙂 #
• So the BoM said there was likely to be storms this afternoon/evening – nothing so far, not even a shower of rain! 🙁 #
• 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 🙁 http://bit.ly/hW0nR0 #
• Oh dear, it appears that 32MB is not enough to boot the 2.6.35 kernel that Debian Squeeze has 🙁 Poor old Libretto 🙁 #
• 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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