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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-16

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Chris Samuel
  • "God is Funny" (entertaining youtube video) http://bit.ly/hKx6ac (via @donna_williams) #atheism #
  • So a #Palin aide says cross-hairs were never meant to evoke violence. What on earth else are gun sights going to evoke! #
  • Waiting for the #TrainReplacementBusService #
  • Sigh, why doesn't fio clear up its temporary files on exit ? 🙁 #
  • .@alecmuffett assuming 1 storey is 3m, then that's a 16 storey house.. he must have been rich! 😉 #
  • Main problem with scientific software – it's written by scientists (especially build systems) #hpc /cc @mage0r @myrddian #
  • Worrying for #lca2011 – potential for repeat of Brisbane 1974 floods – http://bit.ly/hMtYsT /cc @linuxconfau #
  • Palin's editors delete critical comments from #FB page in mins, but leave 1 saying OK to kill child http://bit.ly/dFR2ry #
  • Good job it's GPL'd! – RT @insideHPC Just in: Inside Track: Oracle has Kicked #Lustre to the Curb http://bit.ly/foPp0T #
  • Hydrologist on @ABCNews Radio said not expecting levels to exceed 1974 ones – and 1890's had much higher levels (over 8m) #
  • .@ABCNews Radio had headlines immediately after that saying Brisbane expecting "unprecedented" floods bigger than '74.. #
  • Rocking out to The Levellers, TMTCH, John Lee Hooker, Motorhead and Jello Biafra with DOA #amarok #
  • Wow, it's so long since I've listened to "Bomber" by Motorhead – and still a good one! #
  • OK folks, enough already with the SEO expert bar jokes, what are you, SEO experts? experienced? learned? educated? tutored? #
  • Dear #Thunderbird – I get heaps of email as it is, please don't duplicate them when filtering to IMAP folders as well! #
  • #Queensland #Flood Relief Appeal (run by #QLD government) – http://bit.ly/h7ePv4 – #qldfloods (please RT) #
  • Latest news from @AARNET (who seem to have fallen off Twitter) about their #QLDfloods status http://bit.ly/fWz9eK #
  • Luckily found doc on how my Libretto writes suspend state at fixed point – end of 8.4GB disk – but new one is 20GB 🙂 #
  • Watching grub2 compile, again.. #
  • Just learned that Michael Jackson, author of "Complete Guide To Single Malt Scotch", died in 2007 🙁 http://bit.ly/fLxE5E #
  • Progress resurrecting my Toshiba Libretto 70CT: grub2 now boots a kernel, and the kernel doesn't panic, but… #
  • …my stripped down kernel is obviously too stripped down as it doesn't find the hard disk before trying to mount / 🙂 #
  • Much progress in the saga of getting #Debian Squeeze #Linux (6) on to my Toshiba Libretto 70CT! #
  • 1st kernel booted but couldn't find HD, 2nd kernel mysteriously converted itself to i686 and wouldn't boot in i586. 🙂 #
  • 3rd kernel boots and finds HD but missed option to mount largefile filesystem r/w, 4th kernel boots fine and I can login! #
  • Next step is working networking as 4th kernel has PCMCIA enabled but I forgot to enable drivers for PCMCIA net cards. 🙂 #
  • Starting to sound like the building a castle sketch from Monty Python's Holy Grail… 😉 #
  • ""Mum was just trapped under there and we took some pictures but she's all right now," she said." – http://bit.ly/eMqSpM #
  • Must not remember that I cannot cut and paste phone numbers into my phone – need more coffee #ENOCAFFEINE #
  • Who's going to @LinuxUsersVic Penguin Picnic tomorrow (Saturday 15th) @ Docklands ? http://bit.ly/gISjup #linux #melbourne #
  • Spray on liquid glass – you wouldn't want to get that mixed up with anything… http://bit.ly/edbBzH #
  • Uploading my photos from the #Melbourne #Flickr group photowalk on 9th January – http://bit.ly/hQGdp3 #
  • Who's going to @LinuxUsersVic Penguin Picnic today @ Docklands ? http://bit.ly/gISjup #linux #melbourne #
  • One day I want to copy someone's Tweet word for word and see if they notice. #
  • Hit 7,000 tweets, obviously talk too much 🙂 (or retweet too much) #
  • Short video of shadow of the moon on the earth during the 2005 total #eclipse taken from the #ISS http://bit.ly/hx5TK4 #
  • Uploading photos from New Years Day photowalk in Melbourne's CBD with @donna_williams to #Flickr – http://bit.ly/i3EWwR #

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