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Twitter Updates for 2009-04-03
Via @TimBray – I love throat-singing of all forms, but the Inuit style always makes me think “dot matrix printer” – http://is.gd/qsBR # Obligatory throat-singing links: Oidupaa http://is.gd/qsDI – Lessons from a Dutchman: http://is.gd/qsD4 # Oh,&u cannot miss Yat-Kha’s Albert Kuvezin covering Motorhead’s Orgasmatron; possibly the most incredible voice on earth: http://is.gd/ps2t # Powered by…
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Security Analysis: watch #g20 from a safe distance, and what to watch for …
I am going to be watching the G20 summit from the safety of my home office, over Twitter; by ‘safety’ of course, I mean safety from both police and protesters. Business offices in London are locked-down from today, due to fear and advice from several parties. Some firms (or their landlords) have told employees to…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-04-01
if you want to increase your signal/noise ratio on G20 tweets, search explicitly for the #G20 hashtag, not the “#G20 OR G20″ twitter default # Weirder: it’s not the Met’s vehicle, it’s one of the attendees! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7976444.stm 🙂 # #g20 lots of live video on the front page of http://www.qik.com # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Only in Britain: Nuclear threat sparked tea worry
Only in Britain… I presume the Aussies were self-sufficient for Vegemite, an so forth… BBC NEWS | UK | Nuclear threat sparked tea worry The threat of a nuclear attack on the UK in the 1950s caused concern over the supply of tea, top-secret documents which have now been released reveal. Government officials planning food…
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my greatest putback message, evar…
It all makes sense once you know what the code looks like… although “objects” are going to be renamed “items”… r120 – protomine – Google Code going to purge the update api-methods for the things (excepting objectaux) since they are wholly unnecessary – the keycrud overrides this as you are never gonna update a thing…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-28
OSX -> NFS ZFS update: in 17h the iMac G5 had written only 250Gb to the NFS-mounted f/s, so I killed “dd”. There must be a better way. # Ripping old video projects from iMovie into full-quality DV for archiving, and deleting the originals. Must try not to screw up. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-27
Want quiet 1Tb USB Desktop for timemachine+scratch; Amazon: WD MyBook @85 quid; Ebuyer: passive enclosure @15 + Samsung Spinpoint @80. Hmm. # I erased and zeroed a 500Gb TM drive, then re-did TM backup, and am now dd’ing that over gig ether to compressed ZFS partition. Let’s see… # Will Apple NFS cope with writing…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-26
welcome to british politics. “respect for the prime minister? piffle!” http://is.gd/oKSd # want to go play with the unicycle # New laminate floor. Cat surprised to find that it has no grip, claws not working for some reason. Warner Bros time. # Had forgotten how good the Mull Historical Society were; new studio environment lends…
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Irish Govt has sense of humour failure.
Watch this and then watch this. Most of all I am astonished that the paintings were “illegally” hung? There’s a law against hanging paintings in an unauthorised manner? Perhaps there was breaking-and-entering or something, but I doubt the paintings were illegally hung…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-25
OpenSolaris: If you are using vncviewer on OpenSolaris, trash it and compile the RealVNC free vncviewer instead. *WAY* better. # autodial cold call: “Do you have problems with debt? If so press #6” (beep) – “Yes, hello, I have problems with debt. My name? Madoff…” # adding uber crypto to the Protomine minekeys #vrm #themineproject…
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links for 2009-03-24
MPlayer OSX Extended Alternate MPlayer OSX build.
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-24
Don’t look at the cameras, you may be arrested: http://tinyurl.com/dndgmf # Powered by Twitter Tools.