• The BoM radar seems to show the thunderstorm heading towards #Melbourne easing a bit for now, no sign round here yet #
• Piracy so crippling Australian music industry that it's only selling 50% more than 2005 – wait, what? http://t.co/vVl7aU1X #
• BoM radar seem to show thunderstorm going north of #Melbourne CBD and on a bee-line for Mount Dandenong /cc @774melbourne #
• Just had the biggest thunder I've ever heard in #Melbourne #
• Fighting grub2 in the data centre, and it's winning.. 🙁 #
• When in doubt make sure grub2 in @debian is using the old skool console mode, not the new fangled graphical console #
• Corruption and incompetence in US local government – http://t.co/szaEY1w3 #
• Ahh, IPMI IERR's on both CPUs in a (secondary) database server, just what I need on the run up to the holidays.. #
• I wonder if Kim Jong's gravestone will adapt Spike Milligan's comment – "I told you I was Il" #
• Hey @PopSci, some articles don't work from Australia, eg. http://t.co/7IHixa4z redirects to http://t.co/Gv43EgoG and is 404 #
• A friend makes good point on how the Australian govt makes drowning more likely for refugees http://t.co/0ITSicbe #auspol #
• For those who think 1,200 #refugees a year is a flood – it's just half a refugee per postcode http://t.co/vMt2grjf #auspol #
• Off to hospital for routine ERCP check up, back this arvo! #
• House in Emerald (just down from Woolworths) has fabulous Christmas lights on and around it! /cc @markbate #
• #VLSCI helpdesk is now closed for the University Christmas break, we'll be back on January 3rd! #
• Interesting new #git merge feature for signed commits on its way via Linus Torvalds https://t.co/0SpNj8jM #security #
• Great to catch up with so many former colleagues from @vpacltd this evening, if only briefly. Sad to see so many leaving.. #
• According to @23andMe I have 0.2 percentage points more Neanderthal DNA than your average European.. could explain a lot.. #
• I do believe that Jeff Mahoney wins the Internets for Christmas with this suggested mod to #btrfs http://t.co/X5IMcMIt #
• Open letter from @simonhackett to all @Internode customers – http://t.co/Ce8Hr9Q6 #
• Awesome video of #Comet #Lovejoy rising over Tasmania just before dawn taken from the #ISS – http://t.co/pdyaYsDl #space #
• If you use #FreeBSD and expose telnet to the world (why?!) be aware there is a remote root exploit http://t.co/EG5Ex8pt #
• Over 28C in the shade up here in the hills, a pretty warm Xmas eve day.. Warmer than the CBD according to the BoM! #
• Signed #SaveFatherBob petition to reinstate @FatherBob, a man who walks the walk for the homeless etc http://t.co/LluOxbqn #
• Is it really just 25C in #Melbourne CBD as per BoM? Still almost 30C here in the hills and we're meant to be cooler! #
• Thunder at last, now we wait and see if there'll be any rain with it – last thing we need now are dry lightning strikes.. #
• So merry seasonal festival of your choice everyone, I'm off to bed.. #
• Seems like the thunderstorm has pootled off over Lilydale, very distant thunder but spectacular light show behind Mt Dandy #
• Mosquitoes, can't live with them, can't chase them round the house with flamethrowers… #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/G5bHCSrM Tom Lehrer – A Christmas Carol #
• Typical, after whinging last night about storms missing us Melbourne waits until I'm away to put on a really good one! #

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• This mornings earworm: Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi's Dead #
• ObBauhaus: Complete this sentence: Maxell…. #
• It appears @SMSGlobalHQ made this court ordered "media message" an image only message, wonder why… http://t.co/dMXNMpI8 #
• The news about the Higgs Boson is that there is no news about the Higgs Boson http://t.co/IRx0SyBG #arXiv #physics #cern #
• Remember CERN announcing that they've not found the #Higgs boson yet is still very important and valuable information #
• I wonde if the #CERN ATLAS Higgs paper will be like HEP's version of Kevin Bacon ? #
• Despite what @HPCwire says I see no evidence that @nVidia is "open sourcing" their #LLVM based #CUDA compiler #
• It appears that @nVidia will allow restricted access to their #LLVM #CUDA compiler, presumably under proprietary license #
• Anyone know what the hold-up time for a @Supermicro_SMCI PWS-981-1S PSU is ? #hpc #lazyweb #
• Kudos to @mrjohnclarke (of Clarke and Dawe) for taking the non-DRM name your price path – let's prove it's a good choice! #
• Anyone know how to set default mount options for #IBM #GPFS filesystem on a remote cluster? mmchfs refuses #hpc /cc @ibmhpc #
• Wow, Melbourne's dams haven't had this much water in them since 1998! #
• So SGI's new machine for iVEC and SKA will be called Fornax – what a stellar name.. (I'll get me coat) #hpc #
• Want to help @debian? Install devscripts + run wnpp-alert : RFH=Request for Help, RFA=Request for Adoption, O=Orphaned #
• .@debian wnpp-alert script only tells you about help wanted for the packages on your system, i.e. ones important to you #
• Regression in #Linux 2.6.32 + later causes reading /proc to be slow on high core count systems http://t.co/JlXw0cB9 #hpc #

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• Ah Monday, must be time to whinge about OpenFOAM's build system again.. *whinge* 🙁 #
• [about OpenFOAM] RT @a7ndrew @chris_bloke after I'd compiled that, I felt like a MAN! #
• Does Pandoras Box mean anything to #ALP Pakistan wants AU uranium as per India http://t.co/RHjQJD3t via @sallysaraABC #
• So the Liberal Party in Victoria are going to bring us all of the costs of the ALP's PT plans with none of the benefits? #
• Struggling to debug why #xCAT rcons not longer works to LPARs under IVM since upgrading from 2.4.2 to 2.6.9 🙁 #hpc #
• Japanese whalers get $28M in "earthquake aid" from Japanese government http://t.co/5VnBhpaS (via @abcnews) #
• Achievement unlocked: less than 60 unread emails in my work inbox. It won't last… #
• Kudos to @metrotrains for finally having someone who will respond to tweets! #
• #ACL blocking/censoring other Christians on their website who disagree with them http://t.co/BJ0MZSLt – via @claudinec #
• Kudos to #xCAT devs, < 24 hours of reporting rcons issue they pointed me to an already existing patch in trunk to fix it! #
• Down to 38 unread emails in my inbox! Time to go home.. 🙂 #
• Great news, my fab wife @donna_williams doesn't have melanoma, it was a non-malgnant blue nevus! Big relief @ Chez Samuel #
• Tomorrow is @donna_williams and mine's 11th wedding anniversary, here's to a lot more of them! #
• We've both seen too much of hospitals, both as patients and visitors, this year. Hopefully 2012 will be much less medical! #
• Next turn 260km 🙂 #

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• RT @HappyExhaustion: Please RT if you know someone who has been raped. Help me prove: It's not an issue that only effects a small minority. #
• Fire alarms and fire engines at Melbourne Central #
• Luckily the fire alarms went off shortly after the firemen sauntered in, obviously weren't very worried. #
• Amazed at no. of ppl who went in to Melbourne Central whilst alarms still going and fire trucks with sirens turning up #
• Sigh, why can't RHEL5 or CentOS5 "yumdownloader –source kernel" find the #Linux kernel sources like it's meant to ? #
• Space is big – @MarsCuriosity is travelling at 163,000 km/h and it's still going to take over 8 months to get to Mars. #
• Dear Melbourne cyclists, which bit of red traffic light and pedestrian crossing do you not understand? #
• .@metrotrains definitely big improvement, but it'd be nice if the old ones stayed up until new ones were ready! /cc @ptua #
• Braille-It labeller, cheap+easy to make and sightless construction – via http://t.co/fAmXY4rG @engadget /cc @ABCRampUp #
• .@Borders (not B+N) sells /16 netblock for $768,000 as part of liquidation ($12 each) http://t.co/cqZCJjua via @atoonk #
• Kookaburra poised to pounce – black & white #photo http://t.co/Jpp7qkVz #
• Making a cup of tea before settling down to listen to the Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio4 courtesy of the Intertubes #
• I would have loved to have heard Dylan Thomas read the Shipping Forecast for Radio4, he had the perfect voice for it.. #

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