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Woking leapfrog ftw. #

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Someone – perhaps some wag – put my name forward for "Would you like to participate in 'Come Dine With Me' – on Channel 4?" #doesnotwatchtv #

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Star Wars Theme. On Bagpipes. While riding a Unicycle. http://t.co/S2fswW9B #awesome FAO @BoingBoing # PHP Developers in London: London Elgg Meetup Group, Shoreditch – Wed Nov 23rd at 7pm – #php #london #elgg # nudge @ketan @mrchrisadams # Dear @PHPLondon, we'd like to invite Elgg-curious PHP developers to the 1st London #Elgg Meet. How best…

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@arkadyevna You've read the WSJ from last year? http://t.co/l54RjxlW # @JackGavigan If it does – especially audio – then the UK's civil-rights do-gooder community are apparently unaware of it. # The thing about #XKCD http://t.co/iYBlk4Oe is that my favourite map projection is only alluded-to, the Cahill one: http://t.co/Uv14RUsS # @julesskynews Tweeting where? #

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#BT are looking for a Lead #Security Consultant http://t.co/WKfhTNw1 – can you do teh #cyber ? # Some may look down on fried bread – but if they do I have no idea how they justify Croque Monsieur # Oxford taxis, buses, to record video and audio of passengers "just in case" #surveillance #cctv http://t.co/ydRAyp4w…

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Is there a reason a #Chinook just flew over Hartley Wintney at just-above treetop height? Some Remembrance Sunday thing? # @RobHale77 Generally you can't see the pilot when theey go over at altitude. # Have rolled back to #Skype v2.8 on OSX Lion because that way I don't suffer the chat-scrolling bug and screen corruption…

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System.out.format("%f, %<+020.10f %n", Math.PI); // oh, that's gross. Intra-format argument duplication so you have to check both? # How often should a pub fully clean and flush the lines that feed from the cellar kegs up to the pumps? # Sadler's Wells, apparently … there are no words to describe this: http://t.co/x7kVwfxZ # Tnx. A…

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TIL that Upper Slaughter is a "doubly thankful" village with no casualties in WW1 or WW2 – and so has no war memorial http://t.co/p7cuPVob # …rather puts in context the number of villages which _do_ have War Memorials… # Pandemonium at Hartley Wintney WI – they've changed the layout of the tables! http://t.co/uDYEHttu # .@ramtopsrac…

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EC2 has just opened up in US West (Oregon) Region – insert Oregon Trail jokes here. # If you use #Oystercard here's a retrospective on what you paying via that little plastic tap: http://t.co/c0qNL6Xu #lrt #tube #fascinating # Am purging #Growl from all my machines; fed up of clicking on popups & losing focus, won't…

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…and I was a good one, too, patching up a bunch of gaping holes in JDK 1.4: /** * This class kludges around the RMI serialization limit of 64Kb in * DataOutputStream.java by breaking long strings into palatable * chunks. * * @author Alec Muffett * @version 1.23, 00/10/18 * @since Bruce1.0 */ public final…

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@CraigOverend I missed the shift to Flash which delays things a bit, but I use BT kbd on my 32Gb S2 sometimes to do documents on Dropbox 🙂 # @DaveHill As a cyclist BBs scare me; as a human I find them ugly in a stark utilitarian way. I prefer the doubledeckers. #transportofdelight # RT…

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Ruby experiences a "someone goofed deploying the crypto" bug http://t.co/OUYWDotL – join the line behind debian, netscape… HT @glynwintle # @bensummers not making them is to be praised more highly # Grauniad's @DaveHill describes move away from #bendybus as "pointless" http://t.co/Yi5ofAJQ – he can't have read http://t.co/LlJyNxw3 ? # so i was wondering why i…

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