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last night: this morning:

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What if it's not an #Apple tablet? What if #iSlate (or whatever) is just a peripheral like an old LightPen system? # Microwave Haggis and Romaine Lettuce makes a surprisingly good wrap-filler combo. # just backed up my tweetstream before risking going over the 3200-tweet "we can't be arsed to keep it in your timeline"…

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How to eat yellow snow. Originally uploaded by alecmuffett Not had the opportunity to do this for *ages*. Pour a small splosh of maple syrup or other cordial into fresh snowbank[1] and attack resulting slushpuppy with teaspoon. [1] avoid low-lying snow near animal paths. obviously.

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I’m shifting DNS and then hosting providers in the next few days; please expected outages and don’t be surprised if the blog burps a little during that time. Should be back to normal by february.

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WANTED : inexpensive hosting provider with SSH+PHP+MySQL+Cpanel+Apache+Django, or root/do-it-yourself. Cost $10 to $20/mo. Suggestions? # @mathiasbaert sounds about right – i'll dig around their website some more. Are folks fans of #slicehost ? in reply to mathiasbaert # Amused at #slicehost selling 256Mb domU instances under #Xen after the noise about #Solaris now requiring 64bit…

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@VirtualisedReal my #vmware problem is that the effort required to set it up under (eg) Ubuntu far exceeds the effort to setup #virtualbox in reply to VirtualisedReal # @VirtualisedReal i am not scared of patching kernels, but believe in 2009+ one shouldn't have to chase round forums to do it in reply to VirtualisedReal #…

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using CoRD and VBoxHeadless to run small VMs on my Mac Mini – #virtualbox is great, but i sure wish it was VNC not RDP # @ThinGuy have both but been using CoRD as seems more OSX-ish; still much prefer #JollysFastVNC which is the best VNC client for mac by far in reply to ThinGuy…

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using CoRD and VBoxHeadless to run small VMs on my Mac Mini – #virtualbox is great, but i sure wish it was VNC not RDP # @ThinGuy have both but been using CoRD as seems more OSX-ish; still much prefer #JollysFastVNC which is the best VNC client for mac by far in reply to ThinGuy…

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using CoRD and VBoxHeadless to run small VMs on my Mac Mini – #virtualbox is great, but i sure wish it was VNC not RDP # @ThinGuy have both but been using CoRD as seems more OSX-ish; still much prefer #JollysFastVNC which is the best VNC client for mac by far in reply to ThinGuy…

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@williamheath wasn't there was a Blakes's 7 episode where if the planet's president failed a popular vote, he was electrocuted? Crowdsource? in reply to williamheath # Let me guess the translation" Monty wants the #MySQL brand? http://bit.ly/6FUXwM # Reading El Reg's quotes of the year, taking particular interest in the Climategate links: http://bit.ly/6eNchd # Wow…

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Just noticed Embankment stn district line has enormous drop down doors at platform exits. Maybe in case Thames breaks thru? # It annoys me that one of the most useful apps on android is essentally a GUI version of 'kill -9 -1' # @shawnferry GIF in reply to shawnferry # yay! sleet more than slow!…

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reading up on the new #underwearbomber #tsa flight #security restrictions. hilarious. i pity those flying for the next 6 months. #

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