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by Alec Muffett

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-06-27

    Michael Jackson broke Google http://is.gd/1ectj # @adriana872 spotted that the BBC has adopted the FAIL! meme in a heading; needs caps, exclamation mark. http://is.gd/1ectj # Have ordered T-Mobile G1 on a discounted Combi35 deal – 800 mins, free internet, free sms, free phone, 30 quid per month. # unfollowing @1938media because am fed up with…

  • Twitter Updates for 2009-06-25

    creative: http://imgur.com/OBKyC.jpg #

  • Preserve history of British computing at Wikipedia: GEC OS4000

    Wikipedia is wonderful, but gosh they can be arses in a “Water is wet [citation needed]” sort of way. Andrew Gabriel writes: I have put quite a lot of info about OS4000 and the GEC 4000 series onto Wikipedia recently, which you might find interesting, or even want to add to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC_4000_series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS4000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC_Computers The…

  • My first OS4000 login in 20 years (approx)

    This should freak out a few friends. 🙂 OS4000 Rel 6.5 A036 on A7 WED 24 JUN 2009 08:05:53 Logging in user ALEC password ID last used WED 24 JUN 2009 07:56:36 STARTED – WED 24 JUN 2009 08:06:02 OS4000 Rel 6.5 A036 on A7 WED 24 JUN 2009 08:06:02 error 10 unknown command: USER.INITJCL…

  • Twitter Updates for 2009-06-24

    Dropsafe: Something must have burped with my #WordPress, had to re-approve 3 comments. http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/3194 # @jackiedanicki would you be drinking it anyway, even without the protolurgy? in reply to jackiedanicki # @lskrocki next, will needs a real vacuum. in reply to lskrocki # “deep packet inspection” becomes meaningless bogeyman, declare it unamerican, in need of…

  • Something must have burped with my #WordPress, had to re-approve 3 comments.

    weird.

  • Twitter Updates for 2009-06-23

    @dme WD passport is current fav. in reply to dme # skimming a cache of the #nightjack blog. amusing. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

  • Leaving Sun, Rebooting Muffett

    I’ve been getting a lot of traffic about this offline/e-mail/IM, so I thought I would save some bother and post here: Practically speaking, barring extraordinary events, around the end of July I shall leave Sun; there’ll still be some admin to be sorted out beyond that, but to all intents and purposes July 31 is…

  • Twitter Updates for 2009-06-22

    http://bit.ly/hpyqP #littlechef #hestonblumenthal # many thanks to @webmink and family for stupendous and extraordinary evening of food, drink and conversation; must attempt to reciprocate 🙂 # @jimfinnis I think you should really have a #Erdos number of complex 3i since I am 2 but the h-numbers paper was never peer reviewed in reply to jimfinnis…

  • Heston Blumenthal at Little Chef, Popham, 20 June 2009

    A few days ago I had cause to drive to Andover, and since Cynthia for months has been raving about some Channel4 documentary that was televising it, I was aware that Heston Blumenthal of The Fat Duck was involved in overhauling the Little Chef in Popham. When I arrived midweek it was quiet, I got…

  • Twitter Updates for 2009-06-19

    TwitterTools goofed, so if you are in Sun UK and suddenly find you need a new phone, add a comment/thoughts to http://is.gd/15haq # What I am currently thinking re: getting a new phone: http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/3174/comment-page-1#comment-21519 # trumpet ye not, sez FIFA: http://is.gd/15nZu # Aside from the fact that he’s “not Ahmadinejad”, is there any analysis of…

  • If you’re in Sun UK and you suddenly need a new phone, then add a comment to this posting!

    Really. You know what I mean. Maybe we can help each other?