• RT @astronomyblog Listening to a programme about instruction manuals. No, really. http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r4choice #Radio4 #
• [via @HPC_Guru] RT @simonmcs #HPC ten of the coolest supercomputers in history – older ones looked more interesting: http://bit.ly/gZplv #
• How I wish many scientific software writers would look at the Debian "Getting Packaged" guidelines http://bit.ly/151xg7 #
• RT @AstroMeg @ASTRON_LOFAR @carolune The Google logo today celebrates the 400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope! #
• RT @astronomyblog @AstroMeg @ASTRON_LOFAR @carolune The Google logo today celebrates the 400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope! #
• Yay for Josef Bacik, he's just posted a patch to the #btrfs list providing proper ENOSPC handling! http://bit.ly/dMaqY #
• RT @HPC_Guru Hot Chips Conf: Intel Nehalem-EX & Westmere, AMD Magny-Cours, IBM POWER7, Sun Rainbow Falls, Nvidia GPUs… #HPC […] #
• Found Pew Research Science Quiz http://bit.ly/riglX via @astronomyblog. Very easy, got all 12 right. One of the 10%! 🙁 #
• RT @GetUp GetUp is hiring! We need a short term events coordinator ASAP: good fun and a great career booster! Details: http://ow.ly/ldjc #
• According to the CFA RSS feed there have been almost 300 shouts in our region (13) since 4:11pm today – that's some storm! #
• You can tweet an astro object name to @lookupastro and it will reply with its RA/Dec (by: @orbitingfrog+@astronomyblog) #
• #NASA has been recording spinoff's from the space programme for 50 years and has an online database: http://bit.ly/w0767 #
• You can hear more about the #NASA spinoff programme on Planetary Radio with @mat_kaplan here http://bit.ly/iuvUZ #
• Been testing+debugging #Linux cpuset aware processor affinity for #Open-MPI over the past few days, looks like it works! #
• Been testing+debugging #Linux cpuset aware processor affinity for #OpenMPI over the past few days, looks like it works! #
• Oops – that patched Open-MPI doesn't seem to want to work across nodes if you tell it to bind to cores or sockets.. 🙁 #
• [cute small Sharp Ubuntu #linux #netbook] RT @alecmuffett: If you miss your Psion 5 : http://bit.ly/1UPwlg ? #
• The #Apache website was reportedly briefly compromised via an apparent compromise of an SSH key – http://bit.ly/148iTB #
• Sitting here watching the rain falling, musing on the irony of having chosen today to do burning off for fuel reduction #
• RT @cafuego Word on the street is #Zimbra 6.0 will probably be available next week. #
• RT @insideHPC #Australia ups ante in race to host Square Kilometer Array with new supercomputing project http://bit.ly/OYDsn #
• Just back from walking in Sherbrooke Forest, tally for today is 3 lyrebirds, 2 wallabies and 2 eastern grey kangaroos! #
• RT @Planck The First Light Survey's official end was at 14:49 CET 27 August. That marks the start of routine operations #

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• RT @774melbourne RT @abcnewsMelbrne Thousands still without power after weekend storms http://bit.ly/4EhlNb #
• Put @donna_williams 2009 UK #autism lecture tour up on her website, along with some #music gigs – http://bit.ly/2DB2AY #
• Virgin Blue apparently pinches Flickr photos, has spurious copyright attribution – http://bit.ly/MSaYA – via @mikal blog #
• RT @Gamdel Countries with the lowest rates of social dysfunction are the most secular http://is.gd/2g9iN #
• UK National Archives release a bunch of #UFO related materials – http://bit.ly/saza (and no, I'm not a believer 🙂 ) #
• Watching the launch of the #NASA rocket to test the inflatable re-entry vehicle courtesy of @NASA_Wallops – T-3 mins! #
• RT @NASA_Wallops The launch webcast can be viewed by going to http://sites.wff.nasa.gov/webcast and clicking on view launch. #
• "At this point in the count, motor systems are armed for launch." #
• T minus 1 minute #
• there it goes! #
• payload deployed! #
• the camera on the payload shows a very very fast spinning earth 😉 #
• You can see the current status of the mission in text here – http://bit.ly/oYrSL #
• Looks like it's inflated now. #
• It's quite wild to be watching streaming live video from a small spacecraft… #
• "Looks like it just collapsed in on itself […] 6 psi" – cuts to picture of control room of people clapping #
• the video seemed to show it expanding out and over and covering the camera #
• RT @NASA_Wallops The IRVE experiment deployed and preliminary reports indicate all systems performed nominally. #
• #NICTA have published a formal proof on a variant of the L4 microkernel (seL4) written in #Haskell http://bit.ly/w97Lf #
• Since when has methane from coal seams been renewable energy ? http://bit.ly/M0HP2 #climatefail #australia #
• via @insideHPC – 650 CPU system for the ISS http://bit.ly/lXJ0T + SGI kills graphics division http://bit.ly/3pEFCJ #
• Need more entropy ? Can't wait for the 2nd law of thermodynamics ? Just plug in a USB stick! http://bit.ly/f3sda #
• Interesting comparison on European and US internet usage patterns – http://bit.ly/2yfgDl #
• VIC govt list of 52 towns most at risk this fire season http://bit.ly/1lYmRB catch is it includes Dandenong Ranges as 1! #
• RT @elakdawalla A very happy 2000 sols for the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit! (That's 2000 Martian days since Spirit landed.) #
• big congrats to all the MER team! to quote @marsroverdriver "Spirit's now 2000 sols into her 90-sol mission." #
• RT @elakdawalla Funny with a grain of truth: Contrast the publication styles and resulting careers of Newton and Galileo: http://is.gd/2nf29 #
• So true! RT @skwashd Things that say 'Melbourne'[…] Catherine Deveny ftw! its always nice to start the day with a laugh http://is.gd/2npmd #
• Oh dear, no change to funding mechanism for Exclusive Bretheren schools under Labour – 50% extra! http://bit.ly/2lMtFa #
• RT @insideHPC Japanese Super Figures Pi to 2.5 Trillion Digits http://bit.ly/8QIhB #
• [neat self-organising clustered ARMs!] RT @jonoxer Crazy multi-processor ARM-based Arduino system: http://bit.ly/49RmtT #
• Oh wow, thanks to @alecmuffett for mentioning the #songsincode meme that's doigng the rounds at the moment! #
• RT @jacobfinke if ($_REQUEST["q"] == "Kookookachoo"){ echo "They aren't the eggman" } else {echo "I Am the Walrus";} #songsincode #
• if [ x$me eq "xRick Wakeman" ]; then echo "Eat your heart out $me"; else echo 'I like short songs!'; fi #songsincode #
• [ via various 😉 ] RT @netik: rickroll == !give_you_up() && !let_you_down() && !run_around() && !desert_you(); #songsincode #
• money(away);if (job->get("good")) me=ok; money=gas;grab(cash(hands=both, stash));get(new(car),caviar,daydream,footballteam) #songsincode #
• if [ `arch` != "sun4m" ]; then shutdown -h now; fi #songsincode [a nice short one for the older hackers out there 🙂 ] #
• village->push(redcoats);streets(fighting);king.printf("tax tea");if (you->going(party)) { you->going(party(boston(tea))) } #songsincode #
• kill -9 `pidof BelaLugosi` #songsincode #bauhaus #
• [1st time outside ppl & pigs] RT @BreakingNews Reuters: Chile finds turkeys infected with H1N1 flu virus at two farms, official says. #
• #Oracle gets go-ahead to buy #Sun http://bit.ly/9c2uD – US DoJ has given the green light [via good friend @alecmuffett] #
• Why would the Sydney Morning Herald publish a 2nd letter saying Sun goes around the Earth ? http://bit.ly/JSH8L #fail #
• $submarine{"yellow"} ~= /we/; #songsincode #
• if (earth.turning) { dance=FALSE; } ; if (beds!=burning) {sleep(7*60*60);} ; #songsincode #
• listen(support(monarchy)); listen(exists(union(jack))); see(custody(Namijira)); see(chains(Truganini)); #songsincode #sorry #
• export HOME=/sweet/alabama #songsincode #
• stop it it's silly! that's enough #songsincode from me, time to let those who do it better carry on.. 😉 #
• 🙂 RT @astronomyblog i = soexcited; i = !hide(it); while(i<5){ i+=know; } i = want(u); // by the *sisters #songsincode #
• The @sans_isc ppl have a piece on a malware for the Delphi compiler http://bit.ly/16ZwSa makes it produce infected exe's #
• Grr.. #Microsoft is trying to #patent techniques that biologists have been using for decades – http://bit.ly/Oy0S5 #
• Spent a large part of yesterday and today gathering, moving, chopping and storing wood. Boy I ache now, getting old! #
• Cisco+OpenMPI are developing an IB kernel module to let libraries know when a process free()s RAM – http://bit.ly/Jf8JR #
• Jeff Squyres has Open-MPI related blog – RT @jsquyres First, go check out my Cisco MPI_BCAST blog: http://bit.ly/D1MWg #
• Open Source (CC licensed) hydrogen fuel cell powered electric #car anyone? 40Fires is just starting http://bit.ly/152ade #
• RT @sabman: Vic #Bushfire Royal Commission recommends use of Common Alerting Protocol for publishing warnings; excellent CAP2Tweet is easy #
• RT @marsroverdriver A dozen NASA photos of cities at night: http://bit.ly/dHH8k Someone please develop this into a coffee-table book! #
• [good read] RT @marsroverdriver AMASE field report, giving you a sense of what it's like to be rehearsing a Mars mission: http://is.gd/2uggg #
• NIST is working on a definition of cloud computing, v15 has just been published – http://bit.ly/LjcVQ (via @enomaly_ecp) #
• Right, that's enough recuperation time, back to chainsawing! 😉 #
• Strong wind warnings for #Melbourne & #Victoria – ABC News – http://bit.ly/IaMdI – Bureau of Met – http://bit.ly/CXJb6 #
• [some nice screenshots of the N900 in action] RT @huwlynes New #Nokia phone runs #linux http://bit.ly/WEOyU #
• The #KDE News site has an interesting article about Simon, a speech activated user interface for KDE http://bit.ly/4quD3 #

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• #lazyweb why does ^C not work if I ssh as root into a #CentOS #linux box then to another, but it works OK as a user ? #
• A big #fail to 'Life in the United Kingdom – The Official Practice Citizenship Test' – Flash only – http://bit.ly/zqGuz #
• I thought the Australian citizenship test was bad until I saw the practice UK one! Just failed it with 58%.. 🙁 #
• #Motorhead Ace of Spades as you'll wish you'd never heard it before.. 😉 http://bit.ly/W2tm6 #
• Hmm, #Android doesn't know about the AT command to turn on echo suppression on the OpenMoko FreeRunnner. 🙁 #
• Update your WordPress blogs to 2.8.4 ASAP – unauth admin password reset bug out there and being exploited.. 🙁 #
• Dear 203.166.226.41, who reset the admin password on my blog at 00:28:27 AEST, thanks for not doing anything bad with it! #
• ah – apparently it doesn't permit remote access.. http://bit.ly/5Hc5H #
• Looks like Michael Trimarchi's alternative #Android port to the #FreeRunner has echo suppression! http://bit.ly/c2K0g #
• Wow – Michael Trimarchi's #Android port seems much faster than the Koolu one! It feels responsive, not sluggish.. #
• #Microsoft Word sales+import banned in the US for infringing an XML software #patent – http://bit.ly/5ZiUt #patentfail #
• RT @RandomSpaceFact Perseid Meteor shower peaks tonight-avg. 60 meteors/hr from dark site. […] #
• US journalism #fail relayed by @alecmuffett "if Stephen Hawking were British, he would be dead." http://is.gd/2eVu6 #
• RIP Les Paul, guitar master, dead at 94 (via @BreakingNews) #
• Darwin has fallen off AARNET, oops; redundant link has failed near Coomalie Creek (west coast link down a few days ago) #
• Darwin now back on AARNET, at least via Alice Springs.. #
• Oops, I'd forgotten to use the provisioning hack after reflashing the Panicking Android image so no incoming calls! #
• Now I can confirm that Michael Trimarchi's #Android port doesn't seem to have any echo, and is miles faster than Koolu! #
• Oh foo.. "All Linux 2.4/2.6 versions since May 2001 are believed to be affected" – http://bit.ly/114whO #
• #NASA are going to launch + test an inflatable re-entry capsule on Monday http://bit.ly/5Tbpk #
• Open source GSM mobile phone network run from tent at #HAR2009 using OpenBSC – http://bit.ly/cAxm3 – links to photos too #
• Cool – @AARNet are on Twitter (and actively using it, they just followed me) – nice one folks! #aarnet #
• [caveat: for RHEL/CentOS] RT @huwlynes mitigation steps for the linux root escalation bug http://bit.ly/1nR0zX #
• RT @elakdawalla,@nivnac: Calypso pan taken while Spirit has been stuck at Troy http://tinyurl.com/kt3pca also includes QTVR by @mmbman #mars #
• Looks like there's a big dust devil on the horizon on that Mars panorama by @nivnac about 1/5th of the way from the left #
• Wet and windy up here in our part of #Melbourne, local CFA teams have had a lot of shouts overnight looking at their RSS #
• Nice article on Netbooks, Linux and Microsoft by Brendan Scott – http://bit.ly/b8ojs (via http://planet.linux.org.au/) #
• Currently have 'Ruby Soho' by Rancid going around and around my head. Guess there are worse earworms to have! 🙂 #music #

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• Thanks @chacon for the #git reply to my lazyweb, just what I was after! RT @chris_bloke – google "git pickaxe" #
• wow – awesome sand art live – http://ping.fm/hZKOL (via @stewartsmith) #
• I'm off to the Classic Curry Company for a pre-meeting curry if anyone wants to meet (5:52pm) – then to LUV.asn.au! #luv #
• #KDE 4.3.0 is announced – http://bit.ly/fGviL – downloading 500+ MB of Kubuntu packages now… 😉 #
• The "Geek My Ride" slides from the #LUV talk by @jonoxer are up on his website http://bit.ly/4tBHP6 #linux #arduino #
• RT @garystiehr: Do you have a 1000+ FC/SAS/SATA disks in RAID arrays? What disk failure rate do you see (e.g., 0.1% per week)? #
• [gibber] RT @insideHPC Khronos Group Details WebGL for Hardware Accelerated 3D Internet http://bit.ly/v4Nx6 #
• Hmm, I seem to have a working #Android on my #OpenMOKO Freerunner Neo! #
• [oh dear!] RT @insideHPC Intel stops shipping SSDs following discovery of data loss http://bit.ly/cwEHF #
• Can't access the #Android market from Cupcake on the Neo Freerunner – apparently "Market" applet isn't open source 🙁 #
• RT @donna_williams Peter Gzowski & Donna Williams interview 1992, http://bit.ly/30rxh , #autism #aspergers #CBS #Gzowski #
• "Geek My Ride" talk by @jonoxer video now up on blip.tv – http://blip.tv/file/2444703 #luv #linux #cars #241kmhwebserver #
• [some people get all the luck ;-)] RT @sabman Back on land after 2 weeks of mapping coral reefs http://yfrog.com/0u5ifj #
• Obscure kernel bugs in filesystems are really annoying.. 🙁 #
• #Apple censor an English dictionary for the #iPhone, and rate it 17+ http://bit.ly/3qauuv (via @alecmuffett) #

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• RT @stokely I am looking for a venue for an @openaustralia hackfest in Melbourne. Anyone want to volunteer a weekend venue with robust wifi? #
• Nice find Stewart! 🙂 RT @stewartsmith Homeopathic Emergency ward: http://ping.fm/lvr1h #
• ipv6 for teh win! 😉 #
• dear #lazyweb – is it possible to tell Postfix to receive via IPv6 and v4 but only send via IPv4 ? #
• #ubuntu 2.6.31 rc3 & rc4 mainline kernels seem to be built without any DVB support.. 🙁 #
• RT @elakdawalla: Congratulations to @NewHorizons2015 passing the 14-astronomical-unit mark yesterday! Still nearly 18 AU from Pluto tho… #
• RT @spam: If you gave your login and password info to TwitViewer, we strongly suggest you change your password now. Thanks! #
• qpdf's "qdf" mode is a most excellent tool for making a #PDF suitable for a text editor – think indent for PDF #
• Hmm, I'm being followed by #Microsoft (@Live_at_edu), if you never hear from me again you'll know why.. 😉 #
• Sandia doing #Botnet research with one million #Linux kernels on its cluster – http://bit.ly/eCUhG #hpc #security #
• #Yahoo! goes #Bing – Yahoo and #Microsoft have done a search & web advertising deal – http://news.bnonews.com/ivcg #
• VPAC is looking for an Operations Manager for our HPC group – must be Australian PR, understand research, etc – vpac.org #
• and the prize for the first (and only so far) emailed delivered by #IPv6 goes to #KDE – not even vger.kernel.org has v6 #
• [well spotted Alec!] RT @alecmuffett some geek at google has a sense of humour: http://bit.ly/weRLE #
• A big thank you to all the sysadmins out there (yes, including the VPAC ones, @andybotting) 🙂 #
• Dear #Google Alerts – please don't tell me when I link to my own site, kthxbai #
• Nice West African/Northern Nigerian recipe posted by @alecmuffett, must try a smaller version 🙂 http://bit.ly/xHFwi #
• Creationist vandalism at the Australian National Botanic Gardens 🙁 http://bit.ly/hGwjm #
• Nice to see #Linux Weekly News (LWN, aka @lwnnet) on Twitter #
• Some Squirrelmail plugins compromised (via @lwnnet) – http://bit.ly/ZujGv #
• This weeks good deed – catching a typo in the Library of Congress catalogue via Flickr – http://bit.ly/crDq0 #
• [well done!] RT @donna_williams 6 of my paintings will fly off to new homes this week. I love when they adventure out into the world #art #
• Busy day lopping branches from fallen wood in the garden, methinks I need to jump in the massage chair for a bit.. #
• Dear #lazyweb – how do I find the last version of a file that contains a specific word in a #git repository ? #

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• RT @stokely I am looking for a venue for an @openaustralia hackfest in Melbourne. Anyone want to volunteer a weekend venue with robust wifi? #
• Nice find Stewart! 🙂 RT @stewartsmith Homeopathic Emergency ward: http://ping.fm/lvr1h #
• ipv6 for teh win! 😉 #
• dear #lazyweb – is it possible to tell Postfix to receive via IPv6 and v4 but only send via IPv4 ? #
• #ubuntu 2.6.31 rc3 & rc4 mainline kernels seem to be built without any DVB support.. 🙁 #
• RT @elakdawalla: Congratulations to @NewHorizons2015 passing the 14-astronomical-unit mark yesterday! Still nearly 18 AU from Pluto tho… #
• RT @spam: If you gave your login and password info to TwitViewer, we strongly suggest you change your password now. Thanks! #
• qpdf's "qdf" mode is a most excellent tool for making a #PDF suitable for a text editor – think indent for PDF #
• Hmm, I'm being followed by #Microsoft (@Live_at_edu), if you never hear from me again you'll know why.. 😉 #
• Sandia doing #Botnet research with one million #Linux kernels on its cluster – http://bit.ly/eCUhG #hpc #security #
• #Yahoo! goes #Bing – Yahoo and #Microsoft have done a search & web advertising deal – http://news.bnonews.com/ivcg #
• VPAC is looking for an Operations Manager for our HPC group – must be Australian PR, understand research, etc – vpac.org #
• and the prize for the first (and only so far) emailed delivered by #IPv6 goes to #KDE – not even vger.kernel.org has v6 #
• [well spotted Alec!] RT @alecmuffett some geek at google has a sense of humour: http://bit.ly/weRLE #
• A big thank you to all the sysadmins out there (yes, including the VPAC ones, @andybotting) 🙂 #
• Dear #Google Alerts – please don't tell me when I link to my own site, kthxbai #
• Nice West African/Northern Nigerian recipe posted by @alecmuffett, must try a smaller version 🙂 http://bit.ly/xHFwi #
• Creationist vandalism at the Australian National Botanic Gardens 🙁 http://bit.ly/hGwjm #
• Nice to see #Linux Weekly News (LWN, aka @lwnnet) on Twitter #
• Some Squirrelmail plugins compromised (via @lwnnet) – http://bit.ly/ZujGv #
• This weeks good deed – catching a typo in the Library of Congress catalogue via Flickr – http://bit.ly/crDq0 #
• [well done!] RT @donna_williams 6 of my paintings will fly off to new homes this week. I love when they adventure out into the world #art #
• Busy day lopping branches from fallen wood in the garden, methinks I need to jump in the massage chair for a bit.. #
• Dear #lazyweb – how do I find the last version of a file that contains a specific word in a #git repository ? #

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• A toilet breaking when you've 13 people is bad enough, but in orbit it's a little more fun! http://bit.ly/h4w2Q #iss #
• Off to see Donna perform in "Footsteps of a Nobody" at Carlton Courthouse tonight (8pm) http://bit.ly/wgxPT -come along! #
• Here's a neat idea on what to do with old HDDs :- ) – RT @alecmuffett http://twitpic.com/azm46 – 35Gb roof decoration #
• QOTD "If you want even the nerds to consider you a nerd, try getting enthusiastic about bicycle gearing" http://bit.ly/12z6ex #
• RT @skwashd: troubleshooting network issues in china is soo much fun. getting some idea of what conroy wants australias internet to be like. #
• Awesome website of space info – Saturn V timeline is great – http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/saturnv.htm #space #
• Canonical have open sourced Launchpad under the AGPL v3 http://bit.ly/xjT8d – via Phoronix – http://bit.ly/uqUeJ #
• Helping a friend – alternatives to jailbreaking an iPhone to unlock one on O2 in the UK ? http://bit.ly/15IOYC #iphone #
• anyone know any good docs on using (as opposed to building) the Milepost #GCC compiler ? http://bit.ly/19UmK0 #lazyweb #
• Geek = watch 1M #KDE SVN commit. Geek++ = watch via IRC. Extreme geek = video IRC for those who missed it http://bit.ly/DtffU #
• Hint: if selling servers to a browser company check IPMI web interface doesnt forbid their browser – http://bit.ly/7ScvG #
• RT @skydiver Wanna feel old? SuperSoaker just released their 20th Anniversary edition water gun. Sigh. #
• I want my, I want my, I want my #KDE RC3 (with apologies to Dire Straights) #
• RT @cafuego New Blag: LCA – Now easier to visit than ever http://ur1.ca/7sbu #conference #lca2010 #linux.conf.au #opensource #
• RT @sijoe New blog post: Itanic sinks at SGI http://scalability.org/?p=1758 #
• Appears that you can't search for images in portrait/landscape orientations in #digikam ! 🙁 http://bit.ly/lIw76 #kde #
• At last, a new #DamnInteresting article! Steely-Eyed Hydronauts of the Mariana http://bit.ly/167CbX #
• Finally a convincing explanation for why Sarah Palin resigned! http://bit.ly/6HzQa 🙂 #
• Lovely little low-budget live cover of "I am the Eggman" by Anthony, a friend of ours.. 😉 http://bit.ly/13nszi #
• Oops – meant to tweet that "I am the Eggman" video http://bit.ly/13nszi by Anthony as #beatles ! #
• Nice comparison of security issues in email attachments vs emailing a link by Steve Bellovin – http://bit.ly/M2UcH #
• Appears the #Microsoft #GPL #Linux driver release was forced on them due to a GPL compliance issue – http://bit.ly/yVNwN #
• EU paper on how #Microsoft monopolises markets through anti-competitive means – http://bit.ly/X73OX (via Chris Smart) #
• #LCA2010 Call for Papers deadline extended until Friday 31st July! #lca #linux.conf.au #conference #opensource #linux #
• w00t – #KDE 4.3 RC3 has hit the #Kubuntu Jaunty backports – downloading 500+MB of packages now.. #ubuntu #
• Congratulations to @Planck and @EuroSpaceAgency on the successful commissioning of @Planck! http://bit.ly/OKyLX #
• RT @AP11_SPACECRAFT : SPLASHDOWN! #
• RIP Harry Patch – last surviving British soldier to fight in the trenches – http://bit.ly/43Zbyc #
• BBC #obituary of Harry Patch, 111, last British survivor of #WW1 – http://bit.ly/xSMNE #
• Off to see Donna and the Aspinauts play at Glitch Bar in Fitzroy North (starts 8pm, $5 for 3 bands) http://bit.ly/JwZwc #

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• 555MB of KDE 4.3 RC2 packages downloading from the KDE backports PPA for Ubuntu 🙂 #
• RT BreakingNews: AP: Study finds that many 1918 flu pandemic survivors are immune to the new swine flu, but not to the seasonal flu. #
• RT @774melbourne – Marine Tsunami warning for Victoria from 10:15… more to come #
• BoM site says "Sea level observations have confirmed a #tsunami has been generated." http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/national.shtml #
• RT @774melbourne – Observations of a very small Tsunami in Tas. No major land impact expected. #
• According to @774melbourne the #tsunami was ~17cm in NZ and "very small" in TAZ; @johndalton you were in no risk.. 😉 #
• BoM late – currently says – The next national warning summary will be issued at 10:27 PM EST on Wednesday 15 July 2009 #
• very much agree with Alec -> RT @alecmuffettKent Police clamp down on tall photographers — http://is.gd/1zPyb — v.silly, sad #
• RT @timfaas : "NSA@home is a fast FPGA-based SHA-1 and MD5 bruteforce cracker" http://nsa.unaligned.org/ #
• RT @RandomSpaceFact Today is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch. #
• oops! RT @774melbourneCow is 100 metres outside of the Burnley Tunnel with its horn stuck in a tyre. Should be removed shortly. #
• try again! RT @774melbourne Cow is 100 metres outside of the Burnley Tunnel with its horn stuck in a tyre. Should be removed shortly. #
• More on the #tunnelcow http://bit.ly/aqgnS
  🙂 #
• RT @markbate you know things are going well in your MPI pi test when pi = 0.0 with an error of 3.141592 #
• RIP Henry Allingham, last surviving founding member of the #RAF http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8157128.stm #ww1 #
• A little gardening today, we ended up filling around 42 buckets (DA would be proud) with various small firewood.. #
• I suspect this is the vulnerability info that @timfaas is looking for – http://bit.ly/s0WzZ #
• Microsoft has pulled another protection racket stunt on a Linux company over some alleged patent – http://bit.ly/UHdZs #
• Security & compilers is not new, check out "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson http://bit.ly/LaFc6 (PDF) @timfaas @psnively #
• Made fab #GFCF rhubarb+apple crumble last night with own rhubarb + crushed Orgran Outback Animals (little choc cookies) #
• RT @kattekrab : general reminder first…. Call for presentations for #LCA2010 closes on Friday!!!!!!! #
• Now moving csamuel.org to a different Rimuhosting server for newer kernel + more RAM (for free, they rock) – no web or email until moved #
• Csamuel.org moved successfully, 1GB RAM available, DNS changes done, just needs to propogate. Rimuhosting rock. 🙂 #

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• Bleddyn Williams, who captained Wales in their last victory over the New Zealand All Blacks in 1953, has died 🙁 http://www.wru.co.uk/ … #
• Let's try that link again – http://www.wru.co.uk/21807.php #
• Reverse on our Golf died; great timing at 11pm when Donna had parked front in at the station to pick me up. Thanks Iain for towing us out! #
• #luv was good tonight, talks by Ben on licensing in Oz and Jacinta on how to get a talk accepted at a conf, and tricks when presenting! #
• I have grave fears for what's going on in Urumqi & Xinjiang http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/07/2619553.htm http://news.bbc.co … #
• from @timfaas – WinCE ATM's hacked – wonder if they figured out what ctl-alt-del was ? http://cli.gs/Yqsv1J #
• Teh Intertubes too bad for your LOLCAT ? You need Censordyne! http://censordyne.com.au/ #
• SSH 0day exploit likely a hoax – phew – http://bit.ly/30dR9E #
• Seeing lots of plasma crashes when windows go away in KDE 4.3 RC1 ? Don't worry, it's fixed already (apparently) http://bit.ly/MhtEH
  #kde #
• I'm impatiently waiting for the AMD64 KDE 4.3.0 RC2 packages to hit the Kubuntu repositories! #
• Just had a lovely veggie lasgna+salad at "Cafe Have Ya Been" in Upwey, Donna had soup, great to see my photos on display! #
• Linux Weekly News is after someone to sell adverts, but has to be sensitive to their needs – http://lwn.net/Articles/340924/ #
• Playing around trying to get a Logitech QuickCam S7500 going under Linux – picture seems tinted orange, very odd! #
• Aha – its USB info isn't matched in the UVC webcam driver, just added it, let's see if it works.. #
• 28 years of GUI desktops – http://bit.ly/18qGB0 #
• d'oh, no change, because I added it to the list of cameras that don't announce themselves as UVC, and it does already do so! 🙁 #
• qdbus is for KDE4 what dcop was for KDE3 – thanks Stefan! http://bit.ly/cfPwD
  #kde #
• It's amazing what daylight does for a webcam, much better picture today! 🙂 #
• The delay on the webcam is just long enough to be able to see yourself blink. A very peculiar sight! #
• Some fabulous first light images from the @ESAHerschel spacecraft – http://herschel.esac.esa.int/FirstLight.shtml + http://herschel.cf.a … #
• Linux based Open-PC project announced – http://bit.ly/u0u1D
  – http://open-pc.com/ #linux #
• Open-PC already has a manufacturer signed and is looking to ship in around 9 months! #linux #
• It's the 30th anniversary of Skylabs re-entry, including bits landing in WA – via @RandomSpaceFact #
• Just found out about the James Bevan Trophy, competed over by Wales and Australia (Wales currently hold it) http://bit.ly/4fZyJj
  #rugby #

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• Donna's band (Donna and the Aspinauts) playing tonight at Gertrudes Brown Couch in Fitzroy (8:30pm) – come and join us! – http://bit.ly/ … #
• Oops – link got truncated (still learning Twitter!) – also playing are The Vagrants and Jona Byron – http://bit.ly/diw3v #
• Off to Fitzroy for @donna_williams gig at Gertrude's brown cow! http://bit.ly/diw3v #
• compute program can match the "handwriting" of ancient Greek inscribers across different texts #history #archaeology http://bit.ly/14eFFJ #

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