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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-31

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Chris Samuel
  • Unofficial "Talk Like Carl #Sagan Day" (Nov 1st) http://bit.ly/dzp1Wt via @alecmuffett (cc @exploreplanets @PlanRad) #
  • RIP Anne McDonald, friend + woman of awesome courage, humour + inspiration http://bit.ly/c5SzKM http://bit.ly/bUOsJz #
  • Anne McDonald, Rosemary and Chris fought + won in Supreme Court of Victoria for her human rights http://bit.ly/drgjn3 #
  • In 2008 Anne McDonald won the Personal Achievement Award in the Australian National Disability Awards http://bit.ly/9WRR7X #
  • Royal Observatory Greenwich building predictions for solar storms based on crowdsourced classifications @solarstormwatch #
  • Our travel portal requires us to read + agree to the credit card policy, but click on it + no permission to read it! ๐Ÿ˜‰ #
  • Live aircraft flight overlay on Google Maps, wonder how long before it gets called a security risk ? http://radar.zhaw.ch/ #
  • Sunrise at Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) in Australian desert from the #ISS http://twitpic.com/30vs0b (by @Astro_Wheels) #nasa #
  • Today is the 25th anniversary of the return of Uluru to its traditional owners http://bit.ly/blQzB1 #
  • Yay! @Internode got Telstra out to investigate my line fault, apparently affects others + claims will be fixed in a week! #
  • Will have to wait until @Internode (hopefully) reports back on what Telstra told them, T. tech lost Donna with explanation #
  • Anyone know if it's possible to persuade #GPFS to syslog() as well as logging to its private text files? cc: @ibmhpc #hpc #
  • Hmm, my #N900 doesn't quite like the PR1.3 update, can no longer read SMS's! I suspect a package clash.. ๐Ÿ™ #
  • Yay, reflashing the rootfs seems to have fixed up my N900, much better now. Now to grab the apps I've lost. #
  • I hate #Java apps, IBM SMclient for DS SAN boxes has 2 different JRE's bundled and gets the timezone wrong (wrong EST) ๐Ÿ™ #
  • Scored 39 on the #Autism Quotient Test http://bit.ly/9ttRpZ (via @atreloar); average for men is 19, women 17. #
  • Odd that "slightly" + "strongly" score same on #Autism Quotient Test; also SBC doesn't buy into visual thinking stereotype #
  • To clarify, I think it's good that SBC doesn't buy into visual thinking stereotype! ๐Ÿ™‚ #
  • Summer Internships in Computational #Biology at the #IBM #VLSCI Collaboratory now open for applicants http://bit.ly/bMgsGA #
  • Public statement on the passing of Anne McDonald by Rt. Hon. Jenny Macklin + Senator Jan McLucas http://bit.ly/awSl1S #
  • New: IBM Research Collaboratory for Life Sciences รขโ‚ฌโ€œ Summer Internships in Computational Biology 2010/11 http://bit.ly/9ArIqR #
  • Hmm, #N900 battery before reboot 83 percent, after 74 percent, where'd all the coulombs go?! #
  • Someone rescued 900GB of #Geocities data, wonder how much of it is animated "under construction" signs and blink tags? #
  • 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, 14,336 Intel CPUs, 4 MW of power and 2.5TFlops – Tianhe-1A from China looks set for #1 in #Top500 #
  • Good article from @alecmuffett on Wikileaks in the cloud, Firesheep, SSL and government monitoring http://bit.ly/aEVfrF #
  • 41 years ago yesterday (29th October 1969) was the first #ARPAnet transmission, from UCLA to SRI – http://bit.ly/99VAgt #
  • Ugh, OpenJDK corrupted some images in @donna_williams's online gallery using JAlbum, switching to official Java fixed it.. #
  • Fab lunch in city with @donna_williams courtesy of @sabman and his brother, much talk about photography. Thanks both! ๐Ÿ™‚ #
  • Got stuck in the horrible new @Twitter interface for a while, fortunately was able to escape.. #
  • Wow, "make coccicheck" is still running after 12 hours on v2.6.36-9657-g7a3f8fe, perhaps I should have done it with -j3 ? #
  • No, you can't run "make coccicheck" with -j as it runs single spatch for the whole kernel tree, no threading either. ๐Ÿ™ #
  • #Melbourne last had 50% of its water storages full in 2006, last time it was over 90% was 1997… http://bit.ly/9EIxe8 #
  • It's official, #Melbourne has broken the 50% mark in its water storages, yay! #

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