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#Aberystwyth University: Sex, Drink, Work, Church, Rugby. Pick any three. # The cheque that Gordon Brown bounced, sold for £3101 : http://bit.ly/7jQv7G # NZ policewoman allows naked cycling – with helmet http://bit.ly/4PxRDd – in the US this would be an arrest, possibly a terrorist offence? #

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happy #solstice everyone # @CurranC strikes me that the solution to this is to lower corporation tax to match Ireland and have the money fall into our pot instead. in reply to CurranC # Directgov "The Country's Official Website" ? http://bit.ly/7e0clF — Surely that's http://www.official.co.uk ? # @CurranC I know – I have met some…

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Arthur Charles Muffett, 14 July 1907 – 20 December 2009. Age 102 / RIP. My Uncle, a good man. Thoughts with Duncan & Sarah. #

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OSX has disgusting VM / management performance – once it’s started creating swapfiles, dynamically, it never lets them go and it manages them awfully badly. My machine has been crawling for the past few days and nothing obvious is eating CPU. Remembering the existence of the Dtrace toolkit on OSX, I did: sudo iosnoop …and…

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#uksnow rg27 0/10 #uksnowman http://bit.ly/7GTb0t 🙂 # http://bit.ly/6Fsoao Government slammed for ‘snowman skills shortage’ HT @chaostocosmos #uksnowman # Why does #chromium for mac use one process per tab, PLUS one process that multiplexes ALL flash in ALL tabs? Point defeated, much? # If you have not seen the 7-part review of ThePhantomMenace, you must. It's…

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IMG_7418 Originally uploaded by alecmuffett I’m astounded that nobody else has done this yet.

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@futureidentity you mean http://bit.ly/6gZpQF ? in reply to futureidentity # Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense http://bit.ly/95tQ7 # yesterday it was snowing. Today one of my neighbours is mowing the lawn. # @pfuetz …below that it will suck, unless you like me are…

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@futureidentity you mean http://bit.ly/6gZpQF ? in reply to futureidentity # Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense http://bit.ly/95tQ7 # yesterday it was snowing. Today one of my neighbours is mowing the lawn. # @pfuetz …below that it will suck, unless you like me are…

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After my Linux Suckage posting this can be dealt with relatively easily; so I will include analysis below to make up the shortfall in effort. I have two non-Mac x86 machines at home – a AMD x64 server running OpenSolaris, and a old Thinkpad. The AMD is a file server and one does not like…

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ITS SNOWING! # #uksnow rg27 2/10 # #uksnow rg27 4/10 # @benmarsh any hope of larger 'flakes' on big map? Snowfall-reports are being lost against satellite cloud imagery. Or use "terrain" map. # http://bit.ly/4PqsKY – and while they are at it, charge multiple license-fees for homes with 2+ TVs # "no requirement […] to show…

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A review of “Defining the Decade – A Googling We Go” on iPlayer – which will be available for the next 6 days, if you missed it: It is described: Edward Stourton tries to make sense of a decade in which history has been put on fast forward. There has been a revolution in the…

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[I would provide more links but I can’t be arsed to go dig them up again. See my recent twitter stream for some of them.] 1) Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic All the xen-tools and stuff install nicely from the repository, but there is no Xen kernel provided. None. At all. You have to go wading through…

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