• #IBM #GPFS HSM policies require m4 to be installed for them to be pre-processed, but #BlueGene P I/O nodes don't have m4! #
• With #Meego #N900 CE is it possible to install the current stable and pick up updates via yum or it's equivalent? #
• Or do you have to reflash to a new image when it's released ? #Meego #N900 Community Edition (CE) #
• #Linux kernel 3.0-rc5 is now out with some more #btrfs fixes in it #
• Good to see @AARNET trialling 40Gb/s here, puzzled to see it described as breakthrough given 100Gb/s was in use for #SC10 #
• …and to whoever designed the #OpenFOAM build system – please NEVER EVER touch a computer again! #
• #OpenFOAM designers: (1) make should abort on build errors by default (2) default to using system provided MPI, etc! #
• Read Nick Weir's piece @ABCTheDrum about the new chief scientist, don't have a clue what he's on about http://bit.ly/kGGsOC #
• I think he was trying to say that it doesn't make sense to have a chief scientist in that science doesn't work like that #
• But that's just a guess from what he wrote… #
• Testing the KDE plasmoid microblogging applet in KDE 4.6 #
• Downloading the #Meego 1.2 #N900 DE summer release to play with having found an 8GB uSD card to play with #
• Interesting, @sijoe has been playing with some Corsair SSD's and found that hot swapping them kills them irrevocably.. #
• Downloading the latest daily Meego #N900 CE image – the one I downloaded last night was from May, oops! 🙂 #
• I'm at Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) (187 Grattan St, Bouverie St, Carlton) http://4sq.com/kD9NVK #
• I'm at Nasi Lemak House (115 Grattan St, Carlton) http://4sq.com/kwnvOb #
• I'm at Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) (187 Grattan St, Bouverie St, Carlton) http://4sq.com/mpBLS5 #
• I need a bigger tea cup, it doesn't last long enough to get back to my desk.. #
• I'm at Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) (187 Grattan St, Bouverie St, Carlton) http://4sq.com/jgrIYU #
• The default Windows XP desktop image is on Highway 121 in Napa County, CA, USA (via @PetaPixel) – Streetview anyone ? #
• Sent 2 invites for Google Plus (thanks folks!) but can't get in because they've "temporarily exceeded our capacity" :-/ #
• Nice review of @Donna_Williams #autism textbook 'The Jumbled Jigsaw' from PsycCRITIQUES of the #APA http://bit.ly/mImOjp #
• First pizza for a *long* time.. (@ Pizza Piazza) http://4sq.com/iy4bv4 #
• Walking (@ Lysterfield Lake) http://4sq.com/lV0fr9 #
• I just unlocked the "Swimmies" badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/lfuZsV #
• Adrift at Lysterfield Lake Park http://flic.kr/p/9Z3omj #

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• Just uploaded 30 photos from the Belgrave Lantern Parade 2011 http://flic.kr/s/aHsjv1nbLx #
• Shedding Fire – fire juggler at the #Belgrave Lantern Parade 2011 http://flic.kr/p/9UMmqG #
• Throwing Fireballs at the #Belgrave Lantern Parade 2011 http://flic.kr/p/9UMo15 #
• I call on @JuliaGillard, @TonyAbbottMHR, Kim Carr + @SMirabellaM to condemn death threats again scientists – RT if agree! #
• A reliable source informs me that the new Japanese K #supercomputer uses #GRAPE boards to get its performance #top500 #
• Status update: I am no longer on medical leave but now working from home – great to be back doing good stuff for #VLSCI #
• I wish I could spel #
• So my reliable source isn't so reliable.. 🙂 ""the K Computer does not use graphics processors or other accelerators." #
• ~6 months since esc. to #RHEL engineering of kernel driver bug that causes misdelivery of packets, won't get fixed in 5.7 #
• what's the point of paying #RedHat for support if they won't fix the kernel driver bugs that you report ? 🙁 #
• Dear @Nokia, @qtbynokia and @quimgil – please can I buy an #N950 rather than an #N9 ? I need a real keyboard! #nokiacnxn #
• Kitchen smells of very nice hot chocolate – experimenting roasting some organic raw cacao beans 🙂 #WorkingFromHomeRocks #
• Walking exercise! (@ Cardinia Reservoir Park) http://4sq.com/lp8L6v #
• I just became the mayor of Cardinia Reservoir Park on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/asaGwQ #
• #Linux kernel 3.0-rc4 is now out, with another bunch of #btrfs fixes in it. #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://youtu.be/DlYDZ5E0g10?a Christen Eagle – Marek Szufa – VII MaÅ‚opolski Piknik lotniczy – #
• #RIP Marek Szufa – stunt pilot killed in crash at Polish air show a few days ago – http://bit.ly/ir4rZK #
• In the office for a few meetings (@ Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI)) http://4sq.com/lujje2 #
• When is a #Meego handset not a Meego handset? When it's @Nokia's #N9 actually based on Maemo with some Meego APIs on top #
• Source for comment on @Nokia #N9 not really running #Meego – http://bit.ly/mGhbzw http://bit.ly/l6W2Ax (from @lwnnet) #
• That was a big bang – must have been a big tree that guy with the chainsaw brought down.. #
• I'm at Honey Thai (1A, 1678 Main Rd, Belgrave) http://4sq.com/k8wXKq #
• "Please note that Quantum Mechanics was built on a Friday. Some of the bits are the wrong way round" http://bit.ly/ktxYis #
• #BBC on #SBSGoBack http://bbc.in/j1qpys 'globally speaking, the tally of unauthorised arrivals is fairly insignificant' #
• Yesterday was Alan Turings birthday (23rd June 1912) – thank you Alan! #
• Congrats to @jsquyres and #Open MPI team for having FLOSS Open-MPI be used for HPL benchmarking run on K, >8PF #Top500 #

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• Note to self, when troubleshooting audio issues always ensure speakers are turned on first.. 🙂 #
• Mag 5.2 and 6.0 aftershocks in Christchurch – stay safe people.. 🙁 http://bit.ly/iJoIsi #eqnz #
• Out for a walk. (@ Cranbourne Royal Botanical Gardens) http://4sq.com/jXAAxt #
• "There is no asylum seeker problem – the only problem is how we, as Australians, treat asylum seekers" – Malcolm Fraser #
• Excellent example of how collecting information apparently pointless at the time can inform history http://bo.st/k6m2A3 #
• Hat tip to @alecmuffett for pointer to that article – with those sorts of lists might be able to track spread of memes #
• Dear #lazyweb how do I tell trace why a particular function (unused in the code) is being referenced on RHEL/CentOS 5.6? #
• I.e. building #hwloc trunk on RHEL5.6 results in a link error due to referencing __res_query(), doesn't happen on other distros #
• .@terryandrob has received consent papers for assisted suicide in Switzerland, essentially just in case http://t.co/rkBqPAv #
• A new open source compiler – formerly commercial #PathScale EKOPath4 compiler now open sourced! http://bit.ly/j2EXg0 #hpc #
• #VPAC have upcoming #HPC training courses in Melbourne http://www.vpac.org/services/training #
• #PathScale EKOPath4 compiler will appear alongside their other projects here http://github.com/pathscale via @CTOPathScale #
• I just ousted Gabrielle R. as the mayor of Cafe Have Ya Bean on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/ghe4Gc #
• Morning coffee! (@ Cafe Have Ya Bean) http://4sq.com/ldFpvi #
• Good article from The Age on the uncertain future of the Australian #Synchrotron – http://bit.ly/loUTr4 #science #
• Sigh, why on earth are #glite shipping a positively ancient, obsolete & apparently broken version of Torque? 🙁 #hpc #
• Gah, bloody #Ubuntu yama ptrace settings break KDE's crash debugging system, even with kernel.yama.ptrace_scope=0 active 🙁 #
• Time for an early night I think.. #
• Congrats to @steve_evil for his part in getting the linux.conf.au domain to live all year round! http://bit.ly/irCPuF #
• Early dinner with Donna before she goes off to Auslan 🙂 (@ Honey Thai) http://4sq.com/lWu5gi #
• I just ousted Kieran as the mayor of Honey Thai on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/cH7Jy4 #
• Time Team time! 🙂 #
• Camel by Kororoit Creek – photographed by @MelbourneWater staff on May 15th – well spotted! http://flic.kr/p/9Jy5sM #
• How can Barry Humphries defend Donald Friend's abuse of Balinese children as "benevolent pedophilia" ? http://bit.ly/ifahfn #
• Jakarta Post article on Kerry Nagara's film about Donald Friend & Barry Humphries et. al defence http://bit.ly/lcX2N5 #
• I'm at Kofi Beans http://4sq.com/l7Wa2r #
• I'm at Cardinia Reservoir Park http://4sq.com/kKfOPc #
• First CCC curry for months! (@ Classic Curry Company) http://4sq.com/j5PkFv #
• Flying visit to say "hi" after curry (@ Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI)) http://4sq.com/ip6haa #
• Today's experiment: travel by train into CBD and walk to Classic Curry Company to surprise #VLSCI & #VPAC ppl – worked 🙂 #
• "This photo was taken some time in 1843 using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II." – historical image on @Flickr http://bit.ly/lkIWIG #
• BBC News article on The Specials classic hit Ghost Town – still sounding as good as in 1981 http://bbc.in/iyVSSJ #music #
• At the Belgrave Lantern Parade! (@ Belgrave) http://4sq.com/m0NPTg #
• Just watched 'A Not So Still Life' – inspiring doco about @GinnyRuffner: artist, inquiring mind + fiercely independent #
• .@GinnyRuffner is a lot like my fab wife @Donna_Williams: overcame adversity, independent + artistically reaching further #

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• Prediction (hopefully wrong) – @Skype will release new client with incompatible protocol, #Linux version will be late.. #
• So over my 3+ week stint in hospital I lost the grand total of 4kg, though apparently I look like I've lost a lot more.. #
• Went from 80kg to 76kg, now I can tell if I'm sitting on a hard chair… :-/ #
• Fabulous video of the Australia Telescope Compact Array with nature, science and great photography http://bit.ly/jKEiJf #
• You really want to watch that video at 1080p and full screen for the best effect (via @slashdot) #
• Lest we forget – 67th anniversary of D-Day today (6th June 1944) – http://bit.ly/9yuWK4 #DDay #ww2 #
• Dear Mr Regev, you were not "defending your borders" in the Golan, you were defending territory seized by force in 1967 #
• Ooh, according to the BoM there is the chance of snow on Mt Dandenong tonight! #
• Achievement unlocked! Got Davmail working with Thunderbird Lightning extension after the Uni Exchange 2010 upgrade.. 🙂 #
• Can't resist more Vietnamese food on a cold night! (@ Phi Phi Vietnamese Restaurant) http://4sq.com/iwkrDu #
• I just became the mayor of Phi Phi Vietnamese Restaurant on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/9Kkfmn #
• Took a trip up over Mount Dandenong, flurries of snow around Olinda and Mt Dandenong Village, but not settling… #
• My blog, email, etc are all #ipv6 enabled for some time via a HE tunnel, is there anything else I need for #ipv6day #
• Lunch before blood test (@ Tram Stop Cafe) http://4sq.com/jqZsmW #
• Blood test prior to tomorrows out patient clinic done (@ Box Hill Hospital) http://4sq.com/lmXVXP #
• Photo set of #Marysville & #Buxton in the #snow by @DSE_Vic – June 8, 2011 http://flic.kr/s/aHsjuT69Ft #
• Out patient appointment. (@ Box Hill Hospital) http://4sq.com/l3MkQH #
• Cappuccino to celebrate removal of last drain tube and all the staples! (@ Cafe Have Ya Bean) http://4sq.com/mJVUl2 #
• Would like @JuliaGillard @TonyAbbottMHR @SenatorBobBrown + Warren Truss to condemn death threats again climate scientists #
• Plus the independents too, of course, but that didn't fit into 140 characters.. #
• "If anyone uses the term 'APT' in describing the attacks on Sony, please hit them very hard before disregarding them" #
• previous quote from http://bit.ly/lp1ypv on "sownage" via @folded #sony #
• #Microsoft – client side #security enforcement (i.e. none) for your private meetings in #Exchange http://bit.ly/m3atg0 #
• Vassal – open source java engine for playing #wargames online or PBEM – http://bit.ly/jgnxVR – HT to my good friend Iain! #
• This is just heartless and inhumane, whatever happened to facilitating dignity in death? http://bit.ly/mwflIJ #
• Celebrating a week out of hospital! (@ Honey Thai) http://4sq.com/iAk0UL #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://youtu.be/G8NMayki4Uc?a Fields of the Nephilim Last Exit For the Lost #
• I favorited a @YouTube video http://youtu.be/G8NMayki4Uc?a Fields of the Nephilim Last Exit For the Lost #
• Fascinating to watch @plutokiller tweet his observations of a KBO transit and the complications presented therein #space #
• .@SMirabellaMP so death threats are OK against scientists, but not OK for a *journalist* to make a mistake reporting it ? #
• Saddened by failure of @SMirabellaMP and others to condemn violent & sexual threats against scientists and their children #
• Looks like I lost at least 6kg during my stay in hospital according to our scales at home – currently 74kg (11.7 stone) #
• Pre lunch exercise, see how far I can get! (@ Birdsland Reserve) http://4sq.com/lHE9jd #
• I just unlocked the "Adventurer" badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/lBXVVT #

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• Another day in hospital.. (@ Box Hill Hospital) http://4sq.com/klFaxT #
• Spammed by digital signage company who got my address from #Linux 2.6.39 changelog (they gave URL in spam) – very odd! #
• So this morning learned ERCP deferred until Wednesday so back on solid food again. Looks like a lovely day outside! #
• Yay, I'm the second follower for @linux_3, the other one is the guy who runs it, @decklin.. 🙂 #linux #kernel #
• Today I've had an ECG after blood test showed high potassium levels which can damage the heart. Now on meds to lower it. #
• Status: 3 antibiotics (vancomycin, cyprofloxin, flagil), potassium lowering meds, nystatin, paracetomol + 4 drain tubes #
• Sigh, latest @slashdot story continues the myth that Colossus at Bletchley Park was used against Engima cipher… 🙁 #
• IIRC Colossus was used against the Lorentz ciphers, BP used the "bombs" running menus against Enigma. #
• (and yes, I'm the "anonymous coward" pointing it out in the comments) #
• Oops, "bomb" should have been spelled "bombe", I plead not having my copy of "Top Secret Ultra" to hand.. 🙂 #
• Good info on what was used for what here: http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/machines.rhtm #
• Obit of Peter Calvocoressi, author of "Top Secret Ultra" and head of air intelligence at Bletchley http://bit.ly/cKMGSW #
• Amazed that there is no register of Australian Indigenous Rock Art sites, they are priceless, vulnerable + need recording #
• ERCP went well this morning, might be starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.. (@ Box Hill Hospital) http://4sq.com/lzqDtz #
• You've got to feel sorry for Matthew Garrett (@mjg59) http://mjg59.livejournal.com/137313.html #
• Is it just me, or does Joe Cocker look possessed by the spirit of Father Jack ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlDmslyGmGI #
• Great news, been told 3 of the 4 drainage tubes can come out today, original one has to stay for now. http://4sq.com/lmQFoN #
• Three drain tubes gone, original converted to free drainage, thank the pharmacists for endone! #
• Today one of the surgeons uttered the magic words "you could be going home soon" 🙂 #
• Did you know that @internode run an #IPv6 tunnel broker service for customers in addition to their native IPv6 service ? #
• More info here: http://ipv6.internode.on.net/access/tunnel-broker/ (via @NewtonMark) #
• What the hell is the point of having parliamentary rules if ruling party can suspend them to get defeated bill through? #
• When you start suspending parliamentary rules to pass a bill to permit religious discrimination you are in deep trouble.. #
• OK, almost 10pm, bed time here at hospital… #
• Down to 1 drain tube left and that could come out soon according to surgeon's! (@ Box Hill Hospital) http://4sq.com/iBq9ub #
• Rumours that final drain tube could come out today! + Extra blood test to see if I can swap from IV to oral antibiotics. #
• Update: drain tube stays but off all antibiotics. Will be kept in overnight for observation but if OK will be out Sat! #
• Congrats to @ZaReason et.al for participating in the USG "TechWomen" initiative http://1.usa.gov/mM8ccG /cc @AdaInitiative #
• Thought for the day: life is all about having experiences, you need to make the most of the opportunities whilst you can #
• Latest update: http://www.csamuel.org/2011/05/12/adventures-in-hospital/comment-page-1#comment-104314 #
• Access Ministries admit that their school chaplains are on a covert mission to convert schoolkids http://bit.ly/mySVm9 #
• Big thanks to @mikestuchbery for posting that damning audio of Access Ministries admitting covert missionary work in schools #
• Great photo of storm clouds gathering at sunset near Brisbane on the @abcnews website – http://bit.ly/j6IzWt #
• Lovely to have a visit from @penguin_brian and Jin from #VPAC (seconded to #VLSCI for part of each week) last night.. #
• Looks like I am going home this morning! SurgB team happy, so I'm very happy! 🙂 (@ Box Hill Hospital) http://4sq.com/ihrssa #
• I just unlocked the "Super User" badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/k5Nx6c #
• Out of hospital! About to have first decent coffee in over 3 weeks. 🙂 (@ Cafe Have Ya Bean) http://4sq.com/mmppxU #
• Home! What a wonderful feeling to be back in our wonderfully idiosyncratic wooden house in the Dandenongs. Hooray! #
• Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and best wishes, especially to my fabulous wife @donna_williams for her loving care #
• Off to get some good Thai food! (@ Honey Thai) http://4sq.com/iJe13l #
• Fabulously surreal street #photo of characters at a NAB ATM by my friend Pete http://flic.kr/p/9DTPjs #
• Vietnamese tonight, yum..! 🙂 (@ Phi Phi Vietnamese Restaurant) http://4sq.com/kE3Pxw #

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• #Help Recommendations for sane pre-paid 3G Internet so I can use skype on Donna's Mac laptop? #
• So it appears the new antibiotic regime will involve being tied to an IV drip for most of the day. Still able to walk tho #
• Thanks all for suggestions on pre-paid 3G broadband; Donna had to go before most responses came in. #
• Several recommendations for @telstra but website doesn't work on #N900 so went @vodafone. #
• They have brought out the big guns in the battle with this infection, now on vancomycine… #
• They have brought out the big guns in the battle with this infection, now on vancomycine… #
• Today's CT scan shows some fluid around liver, likely infection cause. Will be transferred to Box Hill 1st thing Tuesday #
• Nil-oral again, keyhole surgery to clean this up, then will be under observation there. Bugger. #
• Nil-oral again, keyhole surgery to clean this up, then will be under observation there. Bugger. #
• Confirmed I'm off to Box Hill hospital today for second operation to clean up these pools of liquid #
• 2nd op went OK, now have three drain tubes and have been cleaned out inside. Sadly no window by this bed. People are good tho! #
• Survived night OK. #
• Latest update: http://www.csamuel.org/2011/05/12/adventures-in-hospital/comment-page-1#comment-102882 #
• Due for an MRI scan today (MRCP) to try and identify source of bile leak. (@ Box Hill Hospital) http://4sq.com/loUm2e #
• I now have a view after having moved bed at Box Hill hospital! 🙂 http://flic.kr/p/9MfLp4 #
• Just back from a MRCP (specialist form of MRI) to see if they can pinpoint the bile leak. #
• Infectious diseases doc said I have a serious infection. Am on 3 different antibiotics for a few days now and responding #
• Major victory! I am allowed to eat solid food again! 🙂 Starting with a biscuit, first non-fluid for at least a week! #
• Procedure this arvo to drain fluid pocket in my back under a local + guided by ultrasound. Now have 4th drainage tube. #
• Still in hospital, nil-oral from tonight in case can do ERCP on Monday to check stent+plumbing (@ Box Hill Hospital) http://4sq.com/iw7R0o #
• Lots of visitors this weekend, been great to see everyone. My favourite though was @donna_williams (but I'm biased) 🙂 #

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• I just ousted John F. as the mayor of Angliss Hospital on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/5uCMnN #
• Not sure if I should be proud of being a major of a hospital in 4square 🙂 Wonder if they're going to let me out today? #
• Just been moved to new room on same ward so they can have a ladies only room. Still no news whether I get out today.. #
• Battery low, no charger, last tweet for a while.. #
• OK still in hospital, they want to keep an eye on a small amount of bile caught by the drain. All other vital signs good! #
• In other news: new hospital bed has view of Mt Dandenong. It's same one I ended up in a few months ago! #
• I wonder which will get to 1,000 unread emails first, home or work? …and no, that's not a challenge! #
• Hmm, I suspect none of the various TV stations at this hospital are covering the final shuttle launch.. 🙁 #
• Less than 2 hours to launch of STS-134, final mission of space #shuttle #Endeavour (Atlantis is meant to fly STS-135) #
• Couldn't watch the #Endeavour launch on @NASA TV because of stupid Flash. They require 10 but this phone only has 9. Grr.. #
• Endeavour is in orbit, now chasing the #ISS 🙂 #
• Another day in hospital, not going home today.. (@ Angliss Hospital) http://4sq.com/lOfcH0 #
• Looks like I'm going to be here for a while yet.. (@ Angliss Hospital) http://4sq.com/ilj16e #
• Gah if it's not one thing it's another with this body, now my temperature is up (38C) #
• For people who asked for an update there's more on the blog post here.. http://www.csamuel.org/2011/05/12/adventures-in-hospital/ #
• Progress, since early yesterday evening now allowed sips of water (otherwise nil oral), no news on blood culture tests yet #
• They have spigotted my nasal-gastric tube! This is a good thing they tell me. 🙂 #
• So it was my home email that got to 1,000 unread emails first (though I've been deleting ZenOSS alerts from it) #
• D'oh, meant to say deleting ZenOSS alerts from work email.. 🙂 #
• View through my hospital window of Mount Dandenong http://flic.kr/p/9KBuc8 #
• Status update: nasal-gastro tube gone, suction drain replaced with bag. Downside is I have a temperature. #
• On this day in 1826 The Beagle left Plymouth on her first voyage (pre-Darwin), first captain went mad and shot himself #
• Wikipedia is great for keeping you sane in hospital #
• For 5 years from 1627 the Ottoman flag flew over Lundy Island in the UK when it was occupied by Barbary Pirates. #
• They have taken the drip out for fluids! Will still be used for IV antibiotics.. #

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• Nice to see the Lowitja Institute (@LowitjaInstitut) on Twitter! They're next door to me at #VLSCI on Grattan St. 🙂 #
• Puzzled as to why the rest of the world has Mothers Day a month or so after the UK, makes life hard for us ex-pats! #
• #RIP Lionel Rose (62), the first Indigenous Australian boxing world champion in 1968 http://bit.ly/iNLYCm #
• I'm at Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) (187 Grattan St, Bouverie St, Carlton) http://4sq.com/lAKRr9 #
• I just unlocked the "Newbie" badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/ljCaZ7 #
• Virginia Creeper on the old farmhouse (Heide 1) at Heide Museum of Modern Art http://flic.kr/p/9FYK4Q #
• Listening to Marillion on the Behringer MS40 speakers I borrowed from my fabulous wife @donna_williams.. takes me back! #
• Thermometer says it's 3.8C outside now, time to go find a warm bed! 🙂 #
• 2.5C outside this morning, time to wrap up snug & warm and no playing with any naughty bug-eyed monsters, to quote DNA #
• I'm at Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) (187 Grattan St, Bouverie St, Carlton) http://4sq.com/ik4cPS #
• I just ousted @brettpemberton as the mayor of Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/bWQHrC #
• Considering Korean at Big Ma Ma's on Swanston St before the SAGE-AU talk at VPAC tonight.. #
• Flowers and bokeh – an experiment with my new Nikkor 50m f/1.8 lens http://flic.kr/p/9FVRUR #
• Pre SAGE-AU food with Carl and Andrew (@ Big Mama Korean Restaurant) http://4sq.com/jierqm #
• At VPAC for tonights SAGE-AU meeting (@ Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC)) http://4sq.com/jQAPLn #
• I wonder what software #patents @Skype has to make it worth $8.5b to @Microsoft ? #
• I just unlocked the "Local" badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/kQjfuc #
• I'm at Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) (187 Grattan St, Bouverie St, Carlton) http://4sq.com/lFvP1T #
• Telstra knocks out @Amazon's "One-Click" #patent in Australia, 60 days to amend to be in compliance http://bit.ly/j2195G #
• Virginia Creeper at Heide 2 gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art http://flic.kr/p/9FVNVe #
• Today was last day at work prior to my gallbladder operation Thursday, hectic day! #
• Thanks all for your best wishes! #
• Time to go to the hospital.. TTFN! #
• Admited for gallbladder removal this afternoon! (@ Angliss Hospital) http://4sq.com/kigWWU #
• Still in hospital, apparently my insides are complicated, they had to convert to open surgery. In hospital 5 more days.. #
• Thanks everyone for your best wishes, much appreciated! Looks like I'll be in here until Monday or so.. #
• Apparently my gall bladder was fused to my bile duct, must have been a problem for years to cause that. #
• Senior surgeon says he hasn't seen a gallbladder in that state for 10 years, surgeons can't understand why I wasn't in pain! #
• Still in hospital, but listening to Fields of the Nephilim's Earth Inferno on iPod with JVC headphones. Must.Not.Sing 🙂 #
• Forgotten just how awesome the live version of Psychonaut was. Next up, Dawnrazor! #

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• RIP Henry "Splash it all over" Cooper #
• French investigators have managed to find the flight data recorder memory unit from AF447 F-GZCP http://bbc.in/jCdO7Y #
• "The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind." – MLK Jr. #
• I fear the rather than kill a terrorist leader the US has just created a martyr who more will rally around. #
• "Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary." Mohandas Gandhi, 1919 #
• Video of #tornado in #Auckland NZ – http://bit.ly/ioVM23 (thanks Markus!) #
• Why on earth is the Vic Govt spending $212 million on PSO's for train stations that won't protect ppl & nobody wants ? #
• Air France AF447 Cockpit Voice Recorder found and recovered by search team in Atlantic Ocean! http://bbc.in/mzmWb0 #
• Went to the Pig & Whistle at Mt Dandenong for a (non-alcoholic) drink with a friend, saw a deer cross the road nr Olinda! #
• Friend of mine making a good point on #Pakistan and #BinLaden absent from the discussions I've seen: http://bit.ly/kSsc5q #
• I can haz new Schrodinger license for VLSCI.. 🙂 #
• Last direct link to the tragedy of World War 1 lost, #RIP Claude "Chuckles" Choules, 110 years old http://bbc.in/mRKChc #
• #Science is cool – student Emilia Czyszczon discovered an Ice Age virus which might help fight TB – http://bit.ly/mHtYFt #
• Yay! My quad processor PentiumPro box boots with unpatched #Linux 2.6.39-rc6 kernel and "noapic scsi_mod.scan=sync" 🙂 #
• Clamity: a #GPL v3 testing platform for #OpenCL devices (including GPUs) by @myrddian of VPAC http://bit.ly/l8tvWG #hpc #
• The source code for Clamity (#OpenCL device testing platform) by @myrddian is on Github http://bit.ly/jimH68 under GPLv3 #
• Found on Flickr: "a quiet peeping sound, reminiscent of a small kitten enclosed in a velvet box" 🙂 http://flic.kr/p/xj7UV #
• Very neat fake London Underground map overlays 🙂 http://bit.ly/mdoEJG (via @hayjane @spufidoo) #
• How a simple photo of a child could help prevent them losing an eye to a rare form of cancer – http://bbc.in/jIR2xH #
• Great 4 minute video of "Chook", a Superb Lyrebird @ Adelaide Zoo imitating construction work http://bit.ly/mjZjHT #

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• Just back from a wonderful trip up to see friends at Welshman's Reef, near Maldon in the Goldfields area of central VIC #
• Beautiful vista of the Milky Way last night, including The Coalsack dark nebula + my first ever views of the LMC and SMC! #
• Bucket Dredge used for mining alluvial gold, at Porcupine Township near Maldon (black & white) http://flic.kr/p/9BwAvP #
• Old crane used to clear trees from path of bucket dredge at Porcupine Township, near Maldon http://flic.kr/p/9BwJM4 #
• Caterpillar tracks on the old crane at Porcupine Township, Maldon http://flic.kr/p/9By8iw #
• Vintage Mt Evelyn Fire Truck and Ladder from Maldon Easter Parade http://flic.kr/p/9BzWjh #
• Here's the patch to fix issue with memory detection on my SMP Olivetti Netstrada Pentium Pro box: http://bit.ly/evBU8e #
• Noticed the keyboard backlight on my #Nokia #N900 wasn't working. Easy fix: power off, remove battery, replace, power on #
• Dear @microsoft, none of the 100+ bounce emails you quarantined as spam for my Uni account were actually spam.. #
• Now we really need a @the_chaser_ #RoyalWedding Downfall parody to make it complete 🙂 #
• I say NO to chaplains! #NSCP @JuliaGillard @PGarrettMP @suqld #StopNSCP http://t.co/XJ0YTwK #
• There is something faintly ironic about getting a crown on the morning of a #RoyalWedding 🙂 #dentist #OneUpmanship #
• Just posted some #photos from the Belgrave Lantern Parade 2010 on @Flickr http://flic.kr/s/aHsjuBskoY #
• Donna, lit by lamplight (Belgrave Lantern Parade 2010) http://flic.kr/p/9D7Fcz #
• W00t, the fix for the e801 PPro memory detection problem is in Linus's git tree for #Linux 2.6.39! http://bit.ly/jQQ6yG #
• First attempt at making home grown baked potato crisps with no oil has failed, possibly because we dried them first.. #
• Trying again with freshly sliced ones on a very lightly oiled tray. #
• Second attempt at making low fat oven baked potato crisps (chips for the colonials) seems to be much more successful! #
• Got to say that the #Kubuntu 11.04 Natty release is pretty good (been running it since first beta), very happy! #
• Appear to have lost ~1 stone since being in hospital with gallstones, down to 12.6 stone (80.3kg) from 13.5 stone (86kg) #
• Lovely photo.. RT @BruceEsplin 'Bracken – delicate in bw' http://flic.kr/p/9DpirD #

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