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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-21
:: Somehow I find this terribly ironic, @boingboing http://t.co/96KqjTqW # @simonw Ask @neilhimself – he would certainly know the word for such things. # @simonw The true meaning of "factoid" should cover it – something that looks like a fact but is not – but the word is popularly misused. # @simonw Compare "Android" –…
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Loving the way that TVTropes CAPITALISES #BRIANBLESSED
Played his best and his favourite role as the sympathetic, tragically naive (yet still occasionally bombastic) emperor Augustus in the acclaimed british mini-series I, Clavdivs. (“IS THERE ANYONE IN ROME WHO HAS NOT SLEPT WITH MY DAUGHTER?!!!”) via BRIAN BLESSED – Television Tropes & Idioms.
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Une petite memoire de Lille…
Alec: Claude! Ca va? Claude: Ca va mon brave! Comment allez-tu? Alec: Merde. Claude: Ah. Courage! Alec: Quoi? Claude: Courage! [vigourous fist pumping] Alec: Ah. C’est une idee Francaise. Claude: Oooooui! [grin] Alec: Les Anglais, er… nous avons une autre expression… “Tue les batards”. [all collapse in laughter] Excuse me for murdering the language…
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I saw this last night; if you travel and have a IBM or Toshiba laptop, you will want one. HT @harrym
I have no idea where to get them. 🙁
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Whom amongst my circle of friends is involved in the field of “semantic analysis” software ?
A chap I’ve met would like get to know you, if you are onesuch. He may buy you beer, I’m not certain but it’s a possibility.
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My new communications strategy: Let clarity become the new brevity and Twitter become a channel
Update: manifesto is here, first year’s results here In case it’s not been obvious: to a first approximation I have stopped Tweeting; I engage, respond to questions and use DMs (etc) – but since early January I have imposed a few extra rules on myself: If it’s worth a tweet, it’s worth a short blogpost or…
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If crypticide.com drops off the Net over the weekend … #roadworksahead
…please don’t fret; I have some caching issues I want to rework. Expect an extended outage.
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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-20
:: "The Google Dialogues: Search Neutrality" (http://t.co/LIOO5PJL at Computerworld) http://t.co/igRO6lWe # :: HTC Releases Unlocked Bootloaders for Six More Android Powered Devices | http://t.co/7jgdMXRQ http://t.co/6saWiuGc # Who's doing #dc4420 next week? #
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HTC Releases Unlocked Bootloaders for Six More Android Powered Devices | ITProPortal.com
Looks like HTC’s approach to software updates for its phones is to throw them over the wall to Cyanogenmod. From this experience this is possibly bad for corporate strategy but semi-good for open-source geeks in that there will be a lot of hackable hardware kicking around for cheap. Overall sense: ambivalent. Two weeks ago, HTC…