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/me is marvelling at the ability of SunSpace to bring my browser to its knees… # Rupert Murdoch claims booming subscription revenue at #WSJ – would you pay to get to the WSJ website? Other news source? http://is.gd/xl85 # How to mislead a thousand journalists: http://is.gd/xH7W # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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So I was on the UK Apple Store website, speccing out a Mac Mini. When you go to the Mac Mini store page, it offers you two base systems which you can configure to your liking – one low-spec, one somewhat higher. We will call them “low” and “high” My suspicions were aroused by accident,…

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Different spin on recumbent bikes… http://is.gd/xenk # something tells me that in 5 years, it’ll be considered baroque http://is.gd/xe8b # iMac G5 on hardware test loop – cracked open case and dusted, installed Tiger and tested – still occasional panics. Suspect dodgy DIMM… # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Who, if anyone, is doing hackday this weekend in London? http://www.hackday.org # presume there should be a #hackday on that last tweet 🙂 http://www.hackday.org # secretly, i always get nervous when there’s a shuttle in orbit nowadays. two tragedies too many. # bbc @the_magazine demonstrates tragic ignorance of Paul Erd?s, ascribes to kevin bacon all…

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GCHQ denies pursuit of intercepting *all* communication: http://tinyurl.com/csgk2y # vintage malt does not glow in the dark. http://is.gd/wzXY # perhaps it’s just because i notice the number, but it is quite frequent that I have 1337 unread e-mails on my Mac # Can you edit (add to) the membership of a group in DestroyTwitter? If…

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The announcement that the White House would now join Twitter, Facebook and MySpace prompted Shadow Wrought on Slashdot.org to comment: My wife and her High School friends use Facebook to stay in touch. Which seems to primarily revolve around sending drinks to each other. Transparency and reachability are certainly good, but, it does make you…

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walked chelsea to bayswater for a chinese, lovely evening in london, walking back through kensington palace gardens. need to do picnic 🙂 # I’m backing King Arthur! http://is.gd/wxpo (please retweet as necessary) # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Hooray, I’m with Larry on this: “Larry Ellison – What The Hell Is Cloud Computing?” http://is.gd/7wsn (ht: @ChrisGerhard) # messing with DestroyTwitter client; initial setup and familiarisation was a pain, but eats less CPU than TweetDeck, will let u know how goes # Fascinating Privacy Review: http://is.gd/vTEw http://is.gd/vAi1 http://is.gd/vTEV http://is.gd/vTFq http://is.gd/vTFS # Maybe presages Chrome…

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#OneHundredAndFortyCharacterLongHashtagsWillNeverBeSuccessfulOnTwitterBecauseNobodyWillEverReTweetThemSinceThereIsNoRoomForTheRTPrefixString # woot i think i just found a twitter bug # #One Hundred And Forty Character Long Hashtags Will Never Be Successful On Twitter Because Nobody Will Ever Retweet Them Since …(cont) # (cont)… There Is No Room For The RT Prefix String # …but it seems Twitter has an inherent limitation anyway, sigh.…

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Arrived home from 2 weeks away, to a semi-dead iMac G5 spinning its fans. Thank heavens for backups and “target mode” # After 23 years of Unix, have discovered the (rather more recent) “-h” option for ls/du/df; I like it, saves doing Gb conversion in head. # hands up everyone who thinks the tories will…

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