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@charlesarthur @EMadge It's only be _ironic_ if the entire Financial Services industry suddenly decided to move to Mac. # @charlesarthur @EMadge For reference on irony, Ed Byrne: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg – poignancy required. # @jennyshaw Try these some day http://goo.gl/YfpSx – from bleargh to mostly awake in 5 minutes. # @charlesarthur @emadge Okay, I can see it

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RT @BBCLauraK: Fascinating document of Treasury evidence – cutting immigration could cut growth http://goo.gl/KuWn6 # This is a surprise? # I really ought to hang a copy of this up in the gym changing room http://bit.ly/i0v8fQ # You know, I'm certain that I set my facebook settings to "always use HTTPS" – and yet somehow

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Rehydration packs. Magic in a glass. Much happier now. # Now that I have my brain back due to rehydration packs, the caffeine-withdrawal hangover is kicking in. # Photoshop as a security risk permitting arbitrary code generation 😛 http://bit.ly/hmPqvq # New: On a particular form of perspective… http://bit.ly/gIby3D # This is epic. Via Bethsie: BBC

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An English friend of mine tells the story of reviewing a book about the history of Russian Marxism for a major national newspaper here in the States. In the course of his review, he observed that G. V. Plekhanov was “the father of Russian Marxism.” Minutes before the issue closed, an obtuse sub-editor took it

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Less than 4h sleep. Argh. # Have asked to defer my preso for #rdggeek until next month, am deeply annoyed at this bug. # @charlesarthur You meand http://bit.ly/an7qSF ? # Cancelling all appointments… # Cisco starting to act like Sun? #> Cisco shuts down Flip video camera business – http://goo.gl/qV1lv #

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Yay! RT @proactivepaul: Here's the video (14mins38) from the #LinkedGov #HackCamp on 9/10 April 2011 http://cot.ag/fwUg2f # Have bought 2x 16Gb SanDisk Cruzer thumbdrives -black, cheap, tough- for £13 ea; now to try make #Virtualbox use raw VDI partitions on them # @tomscott Posted a video of your minty yoghourt rocket yet? I hear it

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Some telemarketer’s autodialler called me up, and when I picked up: “Please listen carefully, this is not an advertisement, this is a public information announcement. Are you in debt… ?” …and then it tried to connect me to a debt-management company – and it didn’t get through. So it sent me to voicemail. Big mistake.

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http://t.co/xD9zzUG – The Christopher Hitchens Holiday Fun Club page for: Sudan # The Christopher Hitchens Holiday Fun Club : Index http://bit.ly/gjybLv # @mjj122 Original quote at http://thetim.es/el2Zuo # New improved graphics, better UI http://holidayfunclub.heroku.com/ #linkedgov #hackcamp # We won! Twice! #hackcamp #linkedgov # And @ukgovcontracts wins too! #linkedgov #hackcamp # Just back from #linkedgov #hackcamp,

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I swear I saw a Peregrine stooping and then head for a chimney stack nest, just 2 minutes east of Clapham Junction station. # Musical boxes, fairground organs, mechanical street organs, mechanical singing birds, musical saws and other musical instruments… # Wigs, false beards, eyebrows and eyelashes, switches and the like, of human or animal

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I'm starting to see performance problems from #Dropbox – taking lon time to sync, connect. Anyone else? # "#practical #dropbox #security #advice quot; @computerworlduk #unscrewingsecurity http://goo.gl/a12RO # @pfoo07 Not as bad as all that: http://bit.ly/hzTiwS # @tuxplanet @geekbay @pyr #Dropbox not as bad as all that: http://goo.gl/a12RO # @His_Grace Am searching His Grace's latest posting

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@jamesfirth http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/1045 < national loyalty card # @loudmouthman Nah – I was there three years earlier, got bored of it by then 🙂 Thing is, it was all true: http://bit.ly/fETE41 <- Blair # Dontcha just hate it when Kindle editions (7.49) are more expensive than print (6.38) ? http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0670918997/ # >We have been informed by

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Did Solaris ever port to ARM? http://bit.ly/eIGwMh # "Everyone has to believe something. I believe I'll have a million quid." http://goo.gl/QSum9 #templeton #martinrees #joke #humour #satire # @mappingbabel There are several interesting projects in the area for me the question is "who can switch-off the storage" to distinguish them # @mappingbabel Broadly there are 3

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