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"sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters" … but little brother is still having to mediate # soooooo cute! http://is.gd/2L4nU – even if it is trying to disembowel the ball. really. that *is* what it's doing. # Facebook banned for council staff http://is.gd/2L4VL – TRY to make sense of the first 3 paragraphs #…

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Why does #Twitter unnecessarily shorten links via bit.ly (etc) when a tweet is still less than 140 chars? I just sent this test tweet: http://twitter.com/alecmuffett/status/3684791756 The original read: this is a test: http://thenextweb.com/2009/08/31/woman-fired-caps-email/ Total length: 72 characters. Space remaining, 68. Way under 140. (updated: to address typo, thanks @iamkhayyam) So, why truncate? Why does it…

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Skype to be sold to US Government, replace federal phone system. Will be administered by the NSA … No? 🙂 # first day of autumn. don't care what the calendar says. # WELL, THIS IS WEIRD: http://bit.ly/qfMwY # this is a test: http://bit.ly/qfMwY # Please Retweet: #twitter #stopshortening http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/3403 # @KevBarnes That was done on…

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SnowLeopard installed, Apps installed, Gmail synced. Now waiting for "mdworker" to stop eating all my CPU. currently "SlowLeopard" # great: GTalk XMPP connection to someone dies, and now Google SMTP mail submission is broken. # Just finished surgery on a Mighty Mouse to clean it properly; not too hard, works perfect now. Waiting for (required)…

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Trading Standards Help Wanted : Is there a UK law against citing premium-rate support phone numbers without explanation of costs? # yummy. roll on, march. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calçot # @ketan surely once the data is in #hCard format, you ought never to have to convert it back, XML being data's nirvana as it is? 😛 in reply…

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The BBC website on the interview they broadcast last night: The man who swam to the lakeside home of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has spoken of his sorrow that his action led to her arrest and trial. John Yettaw told the BBC that he had a dream that Ms Suu Kyi was…

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Dinner tonight: 3x corn-on-the-cob ripped straight off the stalks, peeled and dropped into boiling water, plus a mound of baby carrots (thinnings) and a baby beetroot (likewise), also lightly boiled. Dressed in butter, salt and pepper; with a homemade ciabatta doorstop to mop up the buttery jus. Lovely, and surprisingly cheap. 🙂

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free at last, free at last! thank god almighty, we are free at last! # @DaveLevy good guess 🙂 in reply to DaveLevy # @nmeth 🙂 in reply to nmeth # http://twitpic.com/fkd3t – Goodbyeeeeeee…. # happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing radio http://is.gd/2Eo78 @ 1:53…

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I’m freecycling a bunch of stuff I no longer need, and tonight’s disposal launched a discussion with a very nice chap with whom I hope to meet up again; without getting too specific he works for a large technology company with a local presence, and he directed my attention to Microsoft OneApp – “The One…

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ITT: Radio Broadcast Interstitial Music http://is.gd/2BIJM http://is.gd/2BIHp http://is.gd/2BIF5 # I would love to know what #tpb The Pirate Bay's backup, H/A and redundancy strategy is; corporates have a LOT to learn. http://is.gd/2BYzp # If you miss your Psion 5 : http://bit.ly/1UPwlg ? # I don't know how #yahoo survive: using yahoo groups, it's crap. Submit…

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…in the sidebar; let’s see if it adds value 🙂

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Blargh. And I say again: blargh. # @bubbva can I plz be a #mantofollow ? in reply to bubbva #

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