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@ceri long time since i've been "that" alec muffett except to people of a certain age 🙂 in reply to ceri # #Facebook caved over #CEOP http://bit.ly/9cnAmE – expect election crowing from Home Secretary # @williamheath so in what way is a face-saving middle-ground – enabling the Govt to crow about a groundless success –

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@ceri long time since i've been "that" alec muffett except to people of a certain age 🙂 in reply to ceri # #Facebook caved over #CEOP http://bit.ly/9cnAmE – expect election crowing from Home Secretary # @williamheath so in what way is a face-saving middle-ground – enabling the Govt to crow about a groundless success –

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fantastic read: RT fanf: http://dotat.at/:/FP59F – Hollywood, please stop the teal and orange madness! # @katzmandu: mailman is smart # neighbour just dropped off a few spare duck & hen eggs! yay! # in case you missed the reviews of uranium ore: http://tinyurl.com/6a3wu4 # I support #Facebook regards the #CEOP panic button; why should a

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I finally bit the bullet and for £245 bought a Toshiba NB200-13L from Amazon, to augment my compute capability; it seemed wise to buy a model which had a little age on it – other people have solved most of the problems you’ll encounter installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it. Experience so far is good,

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@jimfinnis patches! we want patches my precious! 🙂 in reply to jimfinnis # nb200-13l just arrived, now truing to make a #ubuntu liveUSB stick # amazed how dragging bookmarks around in firefox can lock up gnome, & since the x-server is unkillable by default in karmic, hang the system # —> prepping to switch crypticide.com

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@gracielix have you looked into #freecycle ? in reply to gracielix # Friend reports a #Sun Ultra5 with a > 1100 day uptime; when it was last booted, Sun was still (almost) viable. # Mm. "We are currently working on an exciting new refresh of the TweetDeck UI & scalable font sizes are definitely going

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Wallpaper removed, mostly. Plastering begins tomorrow. Renovation++ # @ikawnoclast intravenous common sense injections for all IT management ? in reply to ikawnoclast # @cthreeo3 wha? in reply to cthreeo3 # @RuthieGledhill am so glad you updated the tweet. The thought of pope-abuse would be just too much… in reply to RuthieGledhill # gingernut. pumpkin seed

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I’d say this is about accurate: http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/14/key-to-gmail/ Today at the Gmail Behind The Scenes panel at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, key team members of the Gmail team revealed the true secret of the service: Shit umbrellas. Product manager Todd Jackson made the humorous revelation when explaining how the Gmail team works as a

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Why is Pi day 3/14 (wrong in so many senses) instead of something more approximate like 22/7? #

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Why is Pi day 3/14 (wrong in so many senses) instead of something more approximate like 22/7? #

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.@markRbowyer we aim to please. i like the "wot, no privacy" look of the first picture, though; just has your head framed nicely. # @CurranC i gave up listening to that years ago; the callers are picked to make extremes, not show "balance" in reply to CurranC # Apple Question: Can I use TimeMachine on

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Hmm. "Swine Flu" – why aren't we all dead, yet ? # ALERT: Avoid Currys Electrical in Farnborough Gate – sales staff try to claim that "premium" £70+ HDMI cables "improve signal". Bad! # Currys quote: the cable "Will actually INCREASE the quality of the HDMI signal" # Assuming the newspaper Jon and I just

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