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@system76's website seems to be very dead. is it just me? an ex-colleague is getting one, and i wanted to browse… # Haggis with a dram. Yum. # Yesterday in Parliament – House of Lords press to ban Moon Lanterns (qv) because of risk to farm animals/not-biodegrade, confusion w/ flares #

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Question: What's the current favourite Linux developers' #netbook? # "Windows. Life without Walls" (TM) Microsoft, on Lenovo site. Surely Windows are mounted within Walls? Sometimes with Bars across them? # searching for #sunhaiku # http://www.youtube.com/user/alecmuffett vs http://alecmuffett.blip.tv/ – do I stick to 10-minute videos, or keep blip.tv ? # Maker Faire, Newcastle – March 13-14,…

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Anyone wants to see #Terrorist #Security #Threat Levels ripped mercilessly apart, watch ep3 of Charlie Brookers #screenwipe from 21:30s # just updated to #OpenSolaris dev tree; the login GUI complained about ICEauthority and after login/pw, has hung on logo screen. wtf ? # @alanc obliged – have had to switch off as login would not…

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enmeshed (enmired?) in javascript – it's like lisp, but messier, and with pointy bits with which you can stab yourself. # Javascript: Says it all, really: http://i.imgur.com/RzRcw.jpg (via @andrewcb) #

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Truly superb #food and #recipes from a Chelsea #kitchen: http://cookingforhippos.wordpress.com/ #

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@lskrocki sometimes complaining yields the solution. Environments without complaint rarely yield change. in reply to lskrocki # body clock playing games: just got up, wondering why it is so bright out at 5:30am – answer: heavy frost, slight snow. "britain in chaos?" # guinea-pig pizza: http://bit.ly/aCrhvJ (ref http://bit.ly/afsRst) #

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@jeffnolan but he's just guessing…. in reply to jeffnolan # #ipad = shiny dumb thin-client consumer content silo. That is all. (c) 2010 @alecmuffett @adriana872 #

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#sun Can someone please spider blogs.sun.com before it goes *poof* / is purged and turns into a Oracle mouthpiece in April? Pinkslips friday # When blogs.sun.com gets purged a lot of dtrace and zfs reference material will go up in smoke. A lot of culture, too… # @peterjenkins too many gaps in reply to peterjenkins…

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…you could try this site: In July 2006, Jacob, Goat and Sean began in Alaska and have since pedaled over 34,000 kilometers, passed through 14 countries, arriving in Ushuaia on January 10, 2010 after 3.5 years of travel. Instead of riding along the PanAmerican Highway, their unique journey brought them along the dusty, muddy and…

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@peterjenkins Whatever it is, I don't want it to be just a really huge iPod Touch. in reply to peterjenkins # Oracle + Sun Strategy Update Webcast, *OR* Steve Jobs. Decisions, decisions… not. # #chromium / chrome has a "Paste and Go" menu option; really cool idea, thanks guys. # .@simonw Mayhap you 've not…

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How to be Foreign Secretary: http://bit.ly/7n69t7 – Ignore the law, and expect the Courts to cover your arse. # Working my way through the Upshares-Downshares theme tunes of the past year – the laughs make it worthwhile: http://bit.ly/8ZRJL8 # Surprisingly long and yet hilarious http://bit.ly/4H0Syf <- via @adriana872 and @carriebish # @shaver did you see…

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Years ago I was a Astronomy undergraduate at UCL, repeatedly crashing a Sun 3/160 (running realio trulio 4.2BSD no less) which I was charged to look after, by teaching myself network programming in pursuit of writing a multi-user dungeon; one byte in the wrong place and *boom* – the kernel panicked. Jon Crowcroft himself explained…

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