• Some fabulous long exposure photos from 1992-1994 http://tinyurl.com/3chuldz via @theretronaut #
• Reported problem with @Panasas 4.0.1 to #SGI a process can hang removing same directory tree on multiple clients 🙁 #
• In our case this happens when #Torque pbs_mom's clean up a jobs temporary directory which is on a @Panasas filesystem #
• Just got a free 508MB upgrade to my VM that runs @donna_williams and my web and email servers, thanks @rimuhosting! 🙂 #
• Debian CDs on ancient quad PentiumPro: Squeeze locks up before syslinux menu, Lenny panics booting kernel, next is Sarge #
• Er, that would be Etch next, not Sarge – not that desperate yet! 🙂 #
• Sigh, it appears that there is no @Debian CD archive for older releases in Australia, not even at @Internode 🙁 #
• Yay! @Debian Etch install kernel doesn't panic on boot like Lenny one does! Squeeze CD locks up *before* booting kernel.. #
• Success! @Debian Etch installed and booted on my ancient Olivetti Netstrada quad processor Pentium Pro box! 🙂 #
• A PDP-11 emulator – written in #Javascript and running in your web browser – http://pdp11.aiju.de/ 🙂 #pdp11 #
• The javascript that does the emulation of the #PDP11 is here – http://pdp11.aiju.de/pdp11.js #
• Core of the 1999 new train control system for Melbourne (Metrol) consisted of 14 PDP-11's – http://bit.ly/e9HgkI (page 2) #
• My brain is fried… #
• Right, time to go home, have a good Easter all! 🙂 #
• Upgraded my #PPro box to Squeeze as Lenny kernel panics, but unfortunately it hangs very early with no diagnostics.. 🙁 #
• Now booting Squeeze with Etch kernel results in non-functioning networking.. :-/ #
• Non-functional networking in Squeeze fixed by manual "dhclient eth0" – if only booting a newer kernel were that easy! #
• Even my own 2.6.38.3 kernel (starting from an allnoconfig) won't boot on my PPro box; hangs after "Booting the kernel" #
• Just retweeted @TimHetherington's last tweet, poignant. RIP him and @ChrisHondros #
• Sigh, exactly the same lockup with #Linux 2.6.39-rc4 at the "Booting the kernel." message.. 🙁 #
• US citizen and interested in how much the govt wants to know about you ? Read this: http://is.gd/bkzaF5 via @ioerror #
• Getting desperate with booting a recent #Linux kernel on this Pentium Pro box, currently compiling an "allnoconfig" test #
• OK, so even an "allnoconfig" #Linux kernel for i386 and verbose debug/boot messages hangs after "Booting the kernel." 🙁 #
• I've thrown myself on the tender mercies of the x86 architecture maintainers and LKML re: PPro hang http://bit.ly/hOVqAz #
• Storing live data from heart monitors on the Amazon #cloud – what could possibly go wrong ? http://bit.ly/hJpsGw #
• Thomas Meyer may have found problem with modern Linux kernels on my PPro box, kernel overwrites the registers it uses! #
• viz: bios seems to report size in AX/BX. code in
  memory.c move return sizes from CX/DX into AX/BX, when
  CX or DX not zero #

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• Clubs Australia running scare ads w/ $100k of 90yo mum's life savings. Think that's un-Australian? http://is.gd/K5Hrxj #
• Women ditching science careers: oft dissuaded by impact of family on publication rate + hence funding http://bit.ly/hNXqZt #
• Male Eastern Grey Kangaroo – Cardinia Reservoir (black and white) http://flic.kr/p/9xHXHY #
• Going to be a busy few days for me here at #VLSCI getting ready for OS upgrade outage on our SGI system this Friday #
• .@AARNET's CentOS 5.6 mirror doesn't include the DVD ISO images which I need for #xCAT but fortunately Swinburne's does! #
• Gah, spent whole morning under misapprehension it was Wednesday, need more caffeine! 🙁 #
• Plus side is that I don't have a meeting this afternoon and can keep on trying to get CentOS 5.6 onto a Bruce test node #
• Sorry I can't be there at the rally but I support protecting funding of medical research.. /cc @protectresearch #
• Happy Yuri's Night everyone! 50 years of manned spaceflight… #space #
• First Orbit: a film with video from the #ISS audio from Yuri #Gagarin and music by Philip Sheppard http://bit.ly/hCq7Qa #
• Fabulous interview with Terry #Pratchett (@terryandrob) by @leighsales on the #ABC730 report – http://bit.ly/dOENGk #
• apt-get upgrade'ing my #N900 phone to latest #Maemo community SSU release #
• Right, that's all the meetings out of the way for they day, time to start work! Hmm, what time is it again? D'oh! #
• Awooga, awooga, @APNIC down to their final /8, maximum allocation *per customer* is now a /22 http://bit.ly/dJWKfR #ipv6 #
• Warning: Summoning #Cthulhu may cause lung cancer, night gaunts, fhtagn, and end of the world. http://bit.ly/eOPMQy #
• Hat tip to @AHGrayLensman for that link.. 😉 #
• Pulling data at 4Gb/s from our 4 @Panasas shelves onto #GPFS as part of our backup before Panasas f/w upgrade #VLSCI #HPC #
• 4Gb/s figure is with about 15 rsync's running in parallel on an IBM x3650 M2 – 10GigE to @Panasas and dual QDR IB for GPFS #
• Powering on the #VLSCI SGI cluster "Bruce" after OS upgrades and University electrical work in the data center #
• The #VLSCI SGI cluster "Bruce" is back in service after the electrical work and an upgrade to @CentOS 5.6. Enjoy! #hpc #
• Going to try installed Debian/kfreebsd-i386 on my old Olivetti Netstrada (quad PentiumPro deskside server) for giggles 🙂 #
• well that fun didn't last long, the install kernel crashes with: panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr: c3925000 #
• Thanks for the #FF @suhaibkhan and @Atlantean7001 🙂 #
• Just noticed my first @WordPress blog spam (caught by Akismet) from an #IPv6 address – Peking Uni 2001:0DA8:0201::/48 #
• Realised my blog was looking crap on mobile devices due to left sidebar, shifted things around to remove that + fix it up. #
• Looks like videos uploaded to @Google Video will no longer viewable from April 29th – http://bit.ly/eg2JnU #
• Confirmation @Google Video going away on 29th April, uploaders have until May 13 to grab their stuff http://bit.ly/fmIQu4 #
• What would you do with 30 spare Cisco PIX 501 firewalls ? Test a 30 layer NAT setup.. 🙂 http://bit.ly/gNxNw1 via @v6ix #
• RT @sijoe file system surgery on borked #Lustre volumes http://bit.ly/dIPbGo #hpc #
• One of the reasons I'm hanging out for #Digikam 2.0, face detection and recognition in photographs: http://bit.ly/eNcG4U #
• The Father Ted house on Google Maps (in the Burren, Ireland) – http://bit.ly/dy3ftH (via @glinner's FAQ) #FatherTed #

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• For working audio in #Kubuntu 11.04 beta I had to do "aptitude purge pulseaudio" (as in most recent Ubuntu releases) #
• Early night to get a decent nights sleep, got to be at Box Hill hospital at 7am for an ERCP to shift more gall stones! #
• Off to hospital for ERCP, should be back later! #
• Out of hospital, awesome surgeons removed at least 6 gallstones from bile duct to finally clear it. Phew! #
• It appears there will be no more temporary IPv4 allocations for conferences from @APNIC, it's #IPv6 only or nothing now! #
• #Ubuntu bug #596327 (exiv2 horribly slow manipulation of photos from #Nikon cameras) fixed in 11.04! http://bit.ly/gZPJsY #
• Somehow my hostid has changed after my upgrade to #Kubuntu 11.04, was 573ff8ff now 007f0100, it has confused #ZFS FUSE! #
• #Kubuntu 11.04 switches default audio backend to #gstreamer for consistency with #Ubuntu hence I need Xine to make it work #
• ..and now for the upside of a day on a clear liquids only diet following ERCP, mango jelly! 🙂 #
• #Kepler planet finder lets astronomers monitor the surface of red dwarf stars – http://bit.ly/fNIQqJ #space #
• If you're interested in #astronomy and haven't played with @chromoscope yet then you really should! http://bit.ly/gDqocN #
• #Tutankhamun Anatomy of an Excavation – website with heaps of photos and notes from original dig – http://bit.ly/elD3J0 #
• My word, our two Intel clusters are 98.5% and 97.5% utilised and our BlueGene/P is 100% busy! 🙂 #VLSCI #HPC #
• So @SpaceX #Falcon Heavy will be heaviest lift vehicle since Saturn V with half the SV ability; shows how good SV was! #
• Oh this is just so wrong.. 😉 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1YABGdai5k #
• ..and whilst on an 80's kick – "Eighties" by Killing Joke – http://bit.ly/fO0IAm – with Jazz Coleman looking scary 🙂 #
• Hmmm, is #Monash Uni having networking issues with @AARNET ? Everything seems ECONNREFUSED #
• .@CentOS 5.6 has hit the @AARNET mirror here in Australia, rsync'ing to our SGI Altix XE cluster (Bruce) management node! #
• "scp file user@machine" gives me 10MB/s, "sudo scp file user@machine" gives me 46MB/s – what ?!?!?! #
• of course those commands are really both "user@machine:" not just "user@machine" #
• Solved my scp problem, many moons ago when I was testing something I put "Host *\n Compression On".. Now nuked 🙂 #
• I just entered the draw to win $5000 of @Kogan gear. You could enter too – takes just 1 click: http://t.co/5wdX3IL #
• Well you never know your luck and @Kogan do stand up against the Internet filter and against overpriced rip-off retailers #
• Coalition dumping funded work to upgrade stations to fully staffed + instead have armed novices at night only, not smart #
• Wow, @sijoe has 5U box that sustains 3.4GB/s write to disk – that's 1TB in 5 mins or over 12TB/hour! http://bit.ly/gVOBVI #
• A late sci/tech #FF @sijoe @marsroverdriver @protectresearch @kattekrab @peakscale @astronomyblog @stewartsmith @lwnnet #
• More late sci/tech #FF @elakdawalla @hpcwire @insidehpc @hpc_guru @suhaibkhan @vallard @alecmuffett @linuxfoundation #
• Aurora Borealis via Airplane – http://beepshow.com/sf2cdg/ – via @grisch #
• Oh my word, this is awesome! Play with the solar system: http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ #space #planets via @twisst #
• #Groklaw to stop new articles May 16th, 8 years after it started, as battle with #SCO is won http://bit.ly/g1UePO #linux #

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• A day of gentle walking and getting sun to make up for 5 days in a hospital bed. 🙂 #
• Time to tackle pokie problem gambling. Sign the urgent national petition at: http://bit.ly/hta6XG #
• Brent Welch's talk slides on the state of parallel #NFS (pNFS) development for #Linux http://bit.ly/f4acV9 (PDF) #hpc #
• Steve Langasek on @Debian/#Ubuntu multi-arch support finally done properly – http://bit.ly/igmxxs #linux #
• Important to note that @Debian multi-arch support is more than ia32/x86-64 bi-arch done elsewhere, supports *any* arch.. #
• Thanks to @penguin_brian for the pointer by email on that @Debian multi-arch blog post! #
• Argh, forcibly upgraded to new @Twitter against my will, hate it, hate it hate it!! 🙁 #newtwitter #
• Sigh, the link to get back to old #Twitter interface from #NewTwitter gives a 403 forbidden error /cc @support #
• Survived a day in the office today, but will be working from home Thurs/Fri. #
• Got a @Garmin Nuvi 2350 today, quite good except it prompts me to accept the EULA every time I turn it on! 🙁 #
• Yay! @Support have fixed the button to let you go back to old #Twitter from #newTwitter the pain eases at last.. #
• At #VLSCI we currently have 18 Unix users (6 Linux, 12 Mac) and 3 Windows users.. 😉 #NotAnAprilFool #
• Sigh, does #Puppet *really* need to use 400MB of RAM ? 🙁 #
• Try #2 #Puppet client restarted, now using ~175MB. Damn memory leaks.. (previous <100MB was RSS not total) #
• Dear #Lazyweb is there *any* way to get Java to run via a SOCKS proxy? Tsocks doesn't seem to be able to.. 🙁 #
• Uni of Melbourne and Swinburne Uni are doing a survey of grandfathers (already done grandmothers) – http://bit.ly/ekJsI8 #
• Feeling sorely tempted to upgrade my home desktop to the #Kubuntu 11.04 beta 1 that is out now.. #
• Awesome quote – RT @marsroverdriver My day job is turning gods into places #
• I'm sure you're only meant to see that from inside an aircraft through a window! RT @BluestMuse Sky! http://t.co/71mbCWQ #
• Linear B writing tablet found in Greece, earliest known example of writing in Europe to date – http://bit.ly/floP7h #
• .@Donna_Williams currently talking for 8 different #Autism New Zealand groups via videoconferencing as part of #WAAD #
• Australian #chocolate blog (and no, I can't have any!) – http://gonechocco.com/ #
• Upgrading to #Kubuntu 11.04 beta to finally escape the last few releases broken Exiv2 packages when used with Nikon images #
• Where on earth does initramfs-tools get its list of "installed: kernels from? It keeps trying ones that are long gone.. #
• Updated to #Kubuntu 11.04 beta (Natty Narwhal) without issues (asides from running out of space on /var, easily fixed) #
• Good summary of impact of severe solar storms on Earth 1859-2003 (inc. Quebec power grid failure) http://bit.ly/fHOBrf #
• Radiation From Cornwall to Hong Kong Beats #Tokyo Amid #Nuclear Plant Scare – http://ow.ly/4qPon (via @BloombergNews) #

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• Awesome view of the #ISS flying over #Melbourne very bright indeed before going red and disappearing into Earth's shadow #
• Email from <1—mafia@sbcglobal.net> to say I have $85K money transfer – they need less descriptive email addresses 🙂 #
• At the dentist, back in 2 hours… #
• 12th April 2011 will be the 50th anniversary of human spaceflight – http://yurisnight.net/ #YurisNight #
• Apple seem happy to rate an app to "cure" gay people as 4+ (not objectionable) http://bit.ly/h6zqOk #homophobia #fail 🙁 #
• Hat tip to @ABCRampUp for that piece of Apple idiocy… 🙁 #
• Time for an early night I think, been a very busy day today… #
• Looks like Google is broken, claims "unusual traffic seen from this computer" when I try and get a cached page.. 🙁 #
• Epilepsy treatment: from gladiators to computers – Prof. Mark Cook speaks @ Melbourne Uni Tues 29/03 http://bit.ly/hoXX3M #
• In Angliss hospital with suspected gall stones, going to be transferred to Box Hill hospital tomorrow for MRI and surgery #
• Thanks all for the best wishes! #
• Now in Box Hill hospital ward 2 south, been MRI'd and waiting to hear what happens next! Thanks for the good wishes all! #
• Thanks to @a7ndrew for visiting and dropping off a get well card from the VPAC folks! #
• EPRC today, removed half the 6 stones in the bile duct, put in a stent to help it drain and will try for rest next week #
• Looks like I *may* get discharged tomorrow until the next EPRC. 🙂 #
• At least it took me to 41 years old before having an overnight stay in hospital! #
• Good news: discharged from hospital, back at home. Bad news: have to go back Monday 4th April for another ERCP #
• Just 445 new emails after 5 days in hospital in my work inbox, that's pretty good! Not going to try looking at them yet. #

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NB: References to EPRC should have been ERCP, was still learning the lingo then.. 😉

• Earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear accidents, repression in Libya – dandelion break! http://bit.ly/gXoz2i #BloomCounty #Opus #
• A final pull request has gone to Linus for #btrfs fixes for 2.6.38 #Linux kernel release from Chris Mason #
• USGS #earthquake map of north east coast of #Japan – http://1.usa.gov/i9puX3 #eqjp #
• Good to see Chris Mason's git pull request for #btrfs fixes for 2.6.38 went through and 6 fixes hit Linus's repo #
• Busy prepping for the DDN enclosure firmware upload tomorrow, ready for the big outage on Wednesday when we reboot.. #
• Trying not to fall asleep while #SuSE #SLES is "Waking up ZMD…" – how do I stop it going to sleep in the first place?! #
• Dear #SuSE it should not take 15 minutes or more to install a single trivial RPM (tftp) via rug.. #
• You'd think working on a public holiday would mean quieter public transport – you'd be wrong.. #
• OK, got Khweeteur auth'd to both Twitter and Identi.ca, wonder which it sends to now? Both? 🙂 #
• OK, so it does send to both but at least it seems Twitter doesn't accept the rebroadcast from Identi.ca – good, no echo! #
• TEPCO has declared an "Occurrence of a Specific Incident (Failure of reactor cooling function)" for FD no.2 unit #eqjp #
• Someone is dancing on top of a house near Richmond station! #
• #Linux #kernel 2.6.38 has been tagged in Linus's git repo and released on kernel.org #
• What a day! All our DDN firmware updated, fixed 3 unexpected hardware issues on x86 boxes and now #HPC #039;s back in service. #
• eep – gone midnight again – time for bed said Zebedee! #
• Useful discovery from @astronomyblog today – @Flickr machine tags are for machines to read, but you can add them by hand! #
• Couple of young people collecting messages for Japan outside State Library tonight, taking photos of message and writer #
• Just rebooted into the 2.6.38 #Linux kernel via #Ubuntu mainline PPA; group scheduling does seem to make a difference! #
• Aussie Human Rights Commission (HEROC) WWW
  #Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes are CC-BY! http://bit.ly/hTxmNo #
• Compare and contrast – Huffington Post versus BBC headline http://imgur.com/0E0Dp (HT @Matt_Alt @JamesJPN) #eqjp #
• The strange tale of the Lebanese space race – http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/ #space #science #
• Japan has two power grids, one running at 50Hz and one at 60Hz, consequently they cannot balance power between them.. #
• I wonder how many more lives would have been saved if the world had declared a no-fly zone in #Libya two weeks ago ? #
• ComputerWorld article on Japan's multiple electricity standards in their grid(s) – http://bit.ly/eZWr4c #eqjp #
• Early morning sun over Cardinia Reservoir http://flic.kr/p/9rpKpB #
• #Melbourne a very bright #ISS will cross the sky tonight from North-NE at 8:22 pm: http://twisst.nl/41331 via @twisst #
• I just took the @AdaInitiative open technology and culture census. You should too! http://svy.mk/adacensus2011 #
• Sunset from Cardinia Reservoir http://flic.kr/p/9rEE9L #
• "SuperMoon" over Cardinia Reservoir http://flic.kr/p/9rBK98 #
• Moon may have been not that different to usual last night, but at least it got me out to try and take photos of it! 🙂 #
• Also a fabulous sunset, and I'd had the foresight to work out that the moon rise was going to be over Cardinia reservoir #
• Missed "very bright" #ISS last night but tonight is "extremely bright" (mag -3.5) for #Melbourne http://twisst.nl/41331 #
• 10 mins to bright ISS pass, trying to work out with Google Earth if gum trees in the garden are going to frustrate this! #

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• Looks like Elbert Chou (elbert7878) deleted and re-uploaded that Kingfisher picture here http://flic.kr/p/9o9y8c #
• So David Cameron is in Cardiff at the same time that a large fire breaks out in the docks. Coincidence? I think not.. #
• Daily Mail reports SAS and MI6 to go into Libya and less than 24 hours later British forces held by Libyan rebels – d'oh! #
• Not implying that Libyan rebels read the Daily Mail, they use Google News Alerts instead: "British army SAS MI6 Libya" #
• UK Tories claim Big Society thriving in #Wales whilst charities have to sack people as funds dry up http://bbc.in/gsNFhG #
• .@bulletford nails it with this blog on why today's computers won’t create tomorrow’s programmers http://bit.ly/hiZAkC #
• Back from dentist, preparing for another crown.. #
• Looking up at gum trees at bottom of our garden. Converted to B&W using #Digikam emulating Ilford SPX-800 http://flic.kr/p/9o7KQZ #
• Seems to be quite a smoke haze around Mount Dandenong, wonder where that's blowing in from? #
• If nothing else might be an interesting sunset with all this smoke around.. #
• Damn you sultanas in my breakfast cereal, you just sucked my temporary crown off! 🙁 #
• James Bond gets a dressing down (and dressing up) from M for International Womans Day http://bit.ly/fbxXUl #equality #
• Had to come home early, not feeling so good. Miffed that I'll miss SAGE-VIC talk tonight. 🙁 #
• Not well enough to go to work today, so missing the launch of MASSIVE at Monash.. 🙁 🙁 #hpc #
• USGS report magnitude 7.2 #earthquake 100 miles from Sendai on Honshu Island, Japan and 416 km from Tokyo #
• #Japan mag 7.2 #earthquake location map http://1.usa.gov/gaLGf4 #
• It is 10 years since the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan. 🙁 #
• Congrats to @DigitiseTheDawn, @kattekrab etc on hitting fundraising target – plus on @abcnews too! http://bit.ly/fveHVM #
• Feeling a lot better today, on my way into work, hopefully not jinxed now! 🙂 #
• Doctor Who USB TARDIS USB hub! http://twitpic.com/4825ew #Fun #
• Doctor Who TARDIS USB hub at a friends place in Melbourne. #DoctorWho #BBC http://flic.kr/p/9pf6hF #
• Photo on @VicSig of the @metrotrains Siemens train embedded in the Bendigo Bank in Sandringham – http://bit.ly/dZHoAd #
• UK super-injunctions, which even ban reporting profession + that there is an injunction http://bit.ly/hTwZZh #censorship #
• Great, #Hotmail randomly decides to hate non-spam MTA's, and @Google @GMail hates "small" MTA's http://bit.ly/hw9vlT #fail #
• Dear @IBMhpc PLEASE fix #GPFS to use syslog! Even #AIX has syslog.. It's a nightmare to monitor/correlate without! #hpc #
• US has managed to make their #patent system even more broken by permitting another entity patent someone else invention #
• Same week that @NASA report sea level rise due to ice melt is far worse than models predict the Coalition deny warming.. #
• Oh transient network issues, how I hate thee.. #
• Senator Minchin used a tobacco industry study in 1995 to claim that passive smoking isn't dangerous, so he has form.. #
• Thoughts with Japan and others affected by #earthquake and #tsunami worried about our friends over there 🙁 #
• Joint Australian #Tsunami Warning Centre currently reports no tsunami threat to Australia #
• Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre website – http://bit.ly/aP5c2m – still says no #tsunami threat to #Australia #
• BBC News talking head mentions that the #tsunami which may hit Tuvalu may be higher than the island itself. #
• Interesting startup via @sabman, framework for building location aware apps inc. disaster response http://bit.ly/fHiTgx #
• Animation from computer model of #eqjp #tsunami propagating across the Pacific ocean by @usNOAAgov http://bit.ly/hao7pJ #
• Awesome version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by @JakeShimabukuro on ukulele http://bit.ly/fnIlsW via @alecmuffett #
• Made contact with our friends in Japan – they and their families, friends and staff are OK. #
• The good folks at @abcnews have a twitter list for #eqjp #tsunami info – http://twitter.com/abcnews/japan-earthquake-21 #
• Fabulous! Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy entry for Daleks (YouTube) http://bit.ly/eQHgaD (Happy birthday Douglas Adams) #
• Backed up #N900 and copied off the device in preparation for installing the Community SSU – fun! http://bit.ly/hokdoI #
• Thanks to @mustali for the pointer to the #N900 CSSU service, now updated and having fun! Community for teh win! 🙂 #
• BBC reports Walt Patterson from Chatham House saying detection of caesium and iodine indicates melting nuclear fuel #eqjp #
• The data from USGS seems to show over 160 earthquakes of mag 5 or greater (virtally all near Honshu) since the 8.9 quake #
• So that's something like an average of 5 #quakes of magnitude 5 or greater *per hour* for the last 30 hours.. #eqjp #
• Sunset on Neumann Track near Kallista http://flic.kr/p/9pKMTG #
• Went walking in Sherbrooke Forest to see if I could photograph Lyrebirds. Heard some but only saw roos and wallabies. #
• Very eerie video of liquifaction in progress at a park in Chiba City, Tokyo, during the 8.9 quake http://bit.ly/fZqj7R #
• UK Channel 4 news reporting 10,000 of Minamisanriku's 17,000 inhabitants unaccounted for #eqjp #
• Just passed by a red pulsar on the Hume highway, driven by a guy wearing a gasmask! #
• Torrential rain out here near Willowmavin #

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• Kangaroos hopping away into the sunset @ Cardinia reservoir http://flic.kr/p/9mjtMQ #
• Scratching and feeding kangaroos at sunset @ Cardinia reservoir http://flic.kr/p/9mjrrC #
• Why @creativecommons rocks, someone turned my photo http://bit.ly/dV7bsp into this http://bit.ly/epr6qU 🙂 #
• Working from home after a crook night, feeling a bit better and not just because of a great cappuccino from Have Ya Bean! #
• Love that @Google Translate English -> Latin puts the Latin text in an incised font on a stone background 😉 #
• Today, March 1st, is St David's Day, the Welsh national day.. Cymru am byth! 😉 #
• Oh, and happy Mailman Day too.. 🙂 #
• I've never metadata I didn't like.. #
• At @linuxusersvic for the March meeting: Julien on Linux networking research roundup and Paul on Worlds Worst Inventions #
• Glad I suggested @lev_lafayette mention @AdaInitiative at @linuxusersvic tonight, even better he got @kattekrab to do so! #
• Bah, UK orders only (for obvious reasons) RT @alecmuffett OMG Laphroaig cheese http://bit.ly/b9RB3q via @girlonetrack #
• The more I play with Red Hat network the more I wish I could use @centos on this #hpc cluster.. #
• At the UniMelb #HPC forum.. #
• According to http://bit.ly/fn12Vj Greater London is a county in Wales. Result! Time for it to be reoccupied.. 😉 #
• Just bought a second hand copy of "Born on a perilous Rock. Aberystwyth Past and Present" from Amazon, should be fun! #
• Claude Choules, 1 of 2 living WW1 veteran is 110 today + was born in Wyre Piddle, not far from where I worked in Malvern #
• Watching waves – a dog on a breakwater at South Melbourne http://flic.kr/p/9hY2ms #
• ASCII art kitten for code – http://bit.ly/i3UZWi – "This one is valid C/C++/ObjC, Java, PHP, CSS…" via @alecmuffett #
• KA9Q NOS by Phil Karn was my first TCP/IP stack on a PC, moved from that to Linux in 1992 or 1993.. #
• Amused to learn that email for messaging.microsoft.com appears to be handled by #Postfix presumably on a *NIX box. 😉 #
• Hillary Clinton Calls Al Jazeera 'Real News,' Criticizes U.S. Media – http://huff.to/fOUEU0 – that'll go down well 🙂 #
• This years @supercomputing conference website seems to have an Ubuntu theme – lots of linked hands! http://bit.ly/fgd1e1 #
• Interesting, a project to port the #Qt SDK to #Android so you can build Qt apps on Linux for 'droid http://bit.ly/gPlDI0 #
• Interesting interview by @VOTPnews of @LibraryCongress #Flickr project on their strategy http://bit.ly/hYXfvi #opengov #
• Upgrading home desktop to #KDE 4.6.1 #
• Our first harvest of millet and buckwheat from the garden! http://flic.kr/p/9o7Di6 #
• Buckwheat flowers in our garden http://flic.kr/p/9oaGJ5 #
• An ear of millet in our garden http://flic.kr/p/9o7F6H #
• A view down our garden – we are so very lucky! 🙂 http://flic.kr/p/9o7HgP #
• Asherah, partner of Yahweh? Interesting article in the Daily Mail of all places, ignore the crap – http://bit.ly/f1fyl4 #
• Awesome photo of a kingfisher taking a fish from water by Elbert Chou (elbert7878) http://flic.kr/p/9o8H9M #

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• Butterfly on an iris flower in the rain http://flic.kr/p/9jwaC6 #
• Wow, @IBM BladeNetworks now do a 1U switch that can do up to 64-ports of 10 gigabit ethernet! http://bit.ly/gfnl4B #hpc #
• Fighting COMSOL to see if I can get it to play nicely with Torque, it uses Intel-MPI but hides everything behind wrappers #
• So the mpd.py command line that COMSOL runs fails on first connect, but works if you run same command by hand! #hpc #
• Considering replacing the Intel-MPI mpiexec launcher in #COMSOL with a script to call the saner OSC mpiexec.. #
• Yay! My wrapper script works! Now I need more than 3GB of RAM *per process* because COMSOL starts Eclipse as MPI tasks #
• Large moth on a blind in our bedroom http://flic.kr/p/9jRWuD #
• #Christchurch has run out of ambulances due to number of injured following #eqnz 🙁 #
• At least 17 dead in #eqnz in Christchurch according to #TV3 #
• 65 confirmed dead in Christchurch #eqnz #
• Work colleague's parents are OK in Christchurch, but their house has collapsed. 🙁 #eqnz #
• Does anyone know if the people from the #BlueFern #HPC facility at Christchurch in NZ are OK ? #eqnz #
• From a friends toy – "Do not sleep with Zhu Zhu pet" er… http://flic.kr/p/8gAYPm #
• Keep getting flashbacks to #Babylon5 when I hear about military defecting from #Libya and refusing to carry out bad orders #
• Sadly not about Wales, but does involve coffee.. RT @Flickr Canofaffenol anyone? http://bit.ly/e4pRpq #
• Advantage of DAB+ radio, @abcnews have brought up a dedicated #eqnz radio channel for folks with relatives in Christchurch #
• New DAB+ digital radio channel for #eqnz news is "ABC NZEarthquake" and is apparently rebroadcasting Radio New Zealand #
• Gah, COMSOL+MATLAB fails in a batch system with a Java exception because *xterm* isn't installed! WHAT!! #hpc #
• Now know why COMSOL+MATLAB don't play nicely, the ability to run them together in a batch system was removed in 4.0! #hpc #
• About to try upgrading @WordPress 3.0.5 to 3.1.0 via SVN, wish me luck – first take a backup.. 😉 #
• #COMSOL 4.x won't work with MATLAB in batch system, COMSOL 3.5x will work in a batch system but not in parallel. 1/2 #HPC #
• So does that mean the version of #COMSOL before 3.5 would work in a batch system and in parallel ? 🙂 (2/2) #HPC #
• Looks like #Iran #039;s new #hpc cluster is #Supermicro based, http://bit.ly/hF4l0W #
• I reckon good chance #Iran #039;s new #HPC cluster is #GPU based, compare: http://bit.ly/ehvUPa & http://bit.ly/ed58lN #nvidia #
• Why you shouldn't use Java for #HPC (non-deterministic floating point conversions) http://t.co/uts2Ixs via @myrddian #
• Just figured out my #Vodafone voicemail settings have been b0rked since I got back from #SC10 my fault though! 🙁 #
• Finally snagged a copy of photo of 1U GPU nodes from #Iran #039;s new supercomputer, updated blog http://bit.ly/h3lW7s #hpc #
• Avebury Landscape Photography Workshop – National Trust http://t.co/n8okRYQ #
• Is it just me, or does @WordPress 3.1 no longer email you when you approve a comment that was waiting to be moderated ? #
• Update my blog post on #Iran #039;s supercomputers after Jeff Johnson spotted 4-in-2U compute nodes http://bit.ly/h3lW7s #hpc #
• Updated #Iran supercomputer blog, cannot find 89TF in Iranian reports + pictured #HPC is not big one: http://bit.ly/h3lW7s #

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• Photos of some of the items stolen from Cairo museum, #Egypt http://bit.ly/esEhnG (via @archaeologynews) #
• "We are at #IPv4 Exhaustion Stage 2, I repeat, we are at IPv4 Exhaustion Stage 2, condition heliotrope" #APNIC #RedDwarf #
• It appears that if you ifup an already up bonded dual IB interface on RHEL5 it stops working. Guess what #xCAT does.. #
• Not every day that a Senator favourites a photo of yours on #Flickr thanks @KateLundy! http://flic.kr/p/8BVQw4 #
• Support a firm, simple declaration against #ACTA — http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta/acta-declaration #
• Australian Government Web Guide includes Okular as a suggested PDF reader: 🙂 http://goo.gl/6K3Ft #KDE – via @jdub #
• Armed police intercept intrepid foreshore archaeologists @ #MI6 HQ in case of mistaken identity http://bit.ly/eZ7izX #
• "They accepted there wasn't much damage we could do with a tripod," – one the the archaeologists intercepted by police #
• James McLay home @ #Moolort restored. In 2004 this had no doors or windows + walls were going http://flic.kr/p/9i7aTi #
• This was the state of the James McLay homestead (1865) @ #Moorlort in 2004 http://flic.kr/p/8J9Aqf #
• .@abcnr your answer to "Watson" was wrong, the answer was "The founder of @IBM", nothing to do with Holmes! #jeopardy #hpc #
• Big congrats to the #Stardust team for what sounds like a successful flyby of Tempel-1! Now we wait for the imagery! #
• Currently migrating my VPS within @Rimuhosting's data centre, no change of IP but an extra 500MB RAM for 1c/month more 🙂 #
• Good for @JoeHockey – @ScottMorrisonMP + @TonyAbbottMHR attitude to #refugee funerals is repugnant http://bit.ly/gSxoly #
• There is something rather amazing to see a good picture of a comets nucleus – twice – http://bit.ly/hwT7LG (via @apod) #
• $300K flight for #refugees to attend #funerals is same amount as Liberal MPs spent on printer toner before 2009 election #
• EFI – because the legacy BIOS system wasn't slow enough.. 🙁 #
• I thought @google had closed their China office, so how come @googlejobs are recruiting for Beijing? http://goo.gl/Zl8K7 #
• W00t, @lwnnet has introduced "conference network protection mode" (i.e. force SSL mode) for users. 🙂 #security #
• http://theagevsheraldsun.tumblr.com/ 🙂 (via a friend not on Twitter) #
• RIP Lindsay Hood, late of @Cray_Inc in Canberra, previously at APAC, a really nice person. You'll be missed.. 🙁 #hpc #
• Full house to hear @donna_williams speak at Darley Community House, they had to open an adjoining room to seat people.. #
• #IBM BlueGene/P node card, 32 nodes, 128 cores #hpc http://twitpic.com/40ztws #
• Talk by @donna_williams had so many people interested they had to book her again, now that's full with a waiting list! #
• Dear @Vodafone_AU – is there not a way to change your plan online ? #
• The "Call For Papers" (CFP) for @SuperComputing 2011 (SC11) in Seattle has now gone out http://bit.ly/glQtlh #SC11 #HPC #
• Why on earth would a read() block forever trying to open /proc/$PID/cmdline ? #Linux #
• Appears #LIbya has done an #Egypt and pulled the plug on Internet traffic – @Google traffic report – http://bit.ly/eg14ru #
• Anyone know a site that graphs #BGP prefix advertisements by country in semi-real time (hourly would do) ? #Libya #
• Streetlight with streamer and sun at South Melbourne http://flic.kr/p/9hUU1V #
• Silent – in memory of Lindsay Hood (1965 2011) http://flic.kr/p/8Gz18P #
• Google report appears to be showing some traffic coming in from #Libya again http://bit.ly/i56pOE (caveated though) #
• Following on from @MarkNewton, here's #Melbourne around 1965 http://bit.ly/fEDFbN courtesy of @ScreenAustralia #
• You can follow @twisst to get tweets telling you when the ISS will be visible from the location in your Twitter bio! #
• Fabulous #photo of an old turtle on a beach in the Seychelles http://bit.ly/hZSWQd – from the @austmus website #

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