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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-13

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Chris Samuel
  • Looks like Elbert Chou (elbert7878) deleted and re-uploaded that Kingfisher picture here http://flic.kr/p/9o9y8c #
  • So David Cameron is in Cardiff at the same time that a large fire breaks out in the docks. Coincidence? I think not.. #
  • Daily Mail reports SAS and MI6 to go into Libya and less than 24 hours later British forces held by Libyan rebels – d'oh! #
  • Not implying that Libyan rebels read the Daily Mail, they use Google News Alerts instead: "British army SAS MI6 Libya" #
  • UK Tories claim Big Society thriving in #Wales whilst charities have to sack people as funds dry up http://bbc.in/gsNFhG #
  • .@bulletford nails it with this blog on why today's computers won’t create tomorrow’s programmers http://bit.ly/hiZAkC #
  • Back from dentist, preparing for another crown.. #
  • Looking up at gum trees at bottom of our garden. Converted to B&W using #Digikam emulating Ilford SPX-800 http://flic.kr/p/9o7KQZ #
  • Seems to be quite a smoke haze around Mount Dandenong, wonder where that's blowing in from? #
  • If nothing else might be an interesting sunset with all this smoke around.. #
  • Damn you sultanas in my breakfast cereal, you just sucked my temporary crown off! 🙁 #
  • James Bond gets a dressing down (and dressing up) from M for International Womans Day http://bit.ly/fbxXUl #equality #
  • Had to come home early, not feeling so good. Miffed that I'll miss SAGE-VIC talk tonight. 🙁 #
  • Not well enough to go to work today, so missing the launch of MASSIVE at Monash.. 🙁 🙁 #hpc #
  • USGS report magnitude 7.2 #earthquake 100 miles from Sendai on Honshu Island, Japan and 416 km from Tokyo #
  • #Japan mag 7.2 #earthquake location map http://1.usa.gov/gaLGf4 #
  • It is 10 years since the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan. 🙁 #
  • Congrats to @DigitiseTheDawn, @kattekrab etc on hitting fundraising target – plus on @abcnews too! http://bit.ly/fveHVM #
  • Feeling a lot better today, on my way into work, hopefully not jinxed now! 🙂 #
  • Doctor Who USB TARDIS USB hub! http://twitpic.com/4825ew #Fun #
  • Doctor Who TARDIS USB hub at a friends place in Melbourne. #DoctorWho #BBC http://flic.kr/p/9pf6hF #
  • Photo on @VicSig of the @metrotrains Siemens train embedded in the Bendigo Bank in Sandringham – http://bit.ly/dZHoAd #
  • UK super-injunctions, which even ban reporting profession + that there is an injunction http://bit.ly/hTwZZh #censorship #
  • Great, #Hotmail randomly decides to hate non-spam MTA's, and @Google @GMail hates "small" MTA's http://bit.ly/hw9vlT #fail #
  • Dear @IBMhpc PLEASE fix #GPFS to use syslog! Even #AIX has syslog.. It's a nightmare to monitor/correlate without! #hpc #
  • US has managed to make their #patent system even more broken by permitting another entity patent someone else invention #
  • Same week that @NASA report sea level rise due to ice melt is far worse than models predict the Coalition deny warming.. #
  • Oh transient network issues, how I hate thee.. #
  • Senator Minchin used a tobacco industry study in 1995 to claim that passive smoking isn't dangerous, so he has form.. #
  • Thoughts with Japan and others affected by #earthquake and #tsunami worried about our friends over there 🙁 #
  • Joint Australian #Tsunami Warning Centre currently reports no tsunami threat to Australia #
  • Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre website – http://bit.ly/aP5c2m – still says no #tsunami threat to #Australia #
  • BBC News talking head mentions that the #tsunami which may hit Tuvalu may be higher than the island itself. #
  • Interesting startup via @sabman, framework for building location aware apps inc. disaster response http://bit.ly/fHiTgx #
  • Animation from computer model of #eqjp #tsunami propagating across the Pacific ocean by @usNOAAgov http://bit.ly/hao7pJ #
  • Awesome version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by @JakeShimabukuro on ukulele http://bit.ly/fnIlsW via @alecmuffett #
  • Made contact with our friends in Japan – they and their families, friends and staff are OK. #
  • The good folks at @abcnews have a twitter list for #eqjp #tsunami info – http://twitter.com/abcnews/japan-earthquake-21 #
  • Fabulous! Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy entry for Daleks (YouTube) http://bit.ly/eQHgaD (Happy birthday Douglas Adams) #
  • Backed up #N900 and copied off the device in preparation for installing the Community SSU – fun! http://bit.ly/hokdoI #
  • Thanks to @mustali for the pointer to the #N900 CSSU service, now updated and having fun! Community for teh win! 🙂 #
  • BBC reports Walt Patterson from Chatham House saying detection of caesium and iodine indicates melting nuclear fuel #eqjp #
  • The data from USGS seems to show over 160 earthquakes of mag 5 or greater (virtally all near Honshu) since the 8.9 quake #
  • So that's something like an average of 5 #quakes of magnitude 5 or greater *per hour* for the last 30 hours.. #eqjp #
  • Sunset on Neumann Track near Kallista http://flic.kr/p/9pKMTG #
  • Went walking in Sherbrooke Forest to see if I could photograph Lyrebirds. Heard some but only saw roos and wallabies. #
  • Very eerie video of liquifaction in progress at a park in Chiba City, Tokyo, during the 8.9 quake http://bit.ly/fZqj7R #
  • UK Channel 4 news reporting 10,000 of Minamisanriku's 17,000 inhabitants unaccounted for #eqjp #
  • Just passed by a red pulsar on the Hume highway, driven by a guy wearing a gasmask! #
  • Torrential rain out here near Willowmavin #

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