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@mroesch thank you, marty 🙂 in reply to mroesch # BUGFIX POSTED for dynamic_pager_wrapper: http://bit.ly/b2v8n5 # must-see for anyone who stays in a hotel: http://bit.ly/aVDmuB 🙂 #

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UPDATE: 2012: I’VE STOPPED DOING THIS NOW, MY NEW MACBOOK SEEMS TO HAVE ENOUGH MEMORY AND FLASH DRIVE SPEED FOR IT NOT TO BE A PROBLEM THAT NEEDS FIXING. I have a MacBookAir; it has 2Gb of RAM, a dual-core 1.6GHz processor, and a bunch of applications on it. The performance, especially when Firefox is

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"become a fan" – the proper perspective: http://bit.ly/aQywY1 # To squeeze more performance out out my MacBookAir, I am resorting to techniques from the 1970s. It is ever thus in IT, reinventing the old. # Make Your Mac Laptop Perform Better? See http://bit.ly/aS4eZ0 – "Addressing The Outmoded Swapping And Paging Strategy in OSX?" # @kjtoms

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Getting some air on a #Brompton http://bit.ly/cWBIlD 🙂 # Quick everyone RT this! @DarenBBC RT @chrisbrogan Want 2 meet UK's smart social media folk? Search Twitter for #likeminds & follow of them #

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Just back from #themineproject talk at #djugl fantastic audience, good chat after. Train delay smoothed by Under Milk Wood & Nyman # it's been tweeted a lot, but mjr has done a sterling spoof: http://bit.ly/97sUKe – Hitler and Cloud Computing. #

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alternative use for GoogleTranslate: use it as a reverse-proxy to access web-pages which are blocked for you #security #hackoftheday # @The_Real_Schiff only for your cholesterol in reply to The_Real_Schiff #

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Watching #bbcrevolution episode 4 and it really gets on my tits http://is.gd/90BMK – premise so far is "OMG THE WEB IS WEIRD" Sociology 1.0 # #bbcrevolution as @adriana872 says, it's like a 19th century blacksmith looking at the automobile: "our children won't value horseshoes!" # #bbcrevolution "is it bad that you'd drop 10 FB friends

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@altepper I don't. I don't like beliefs you have to pay for when you could get the same benefit for free… in reply to altepper # @altepper …and if you only can believe by paying the money then it's a Gödelian version of "a fool and his money…" in reply to altepper # @altepper A

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must-read for programmers: http://www.cenqua.com/commentator/ # There was a time Gerry Adams could not be broadcast on TV; now he's presenting Bible History documentary on Channel4 #worldchangedwordsfail # All the "Three Strikes And You're Out" makes me think: wouldn't the world be better if the USA had adopted Cricket? http://bit.ly/bJcTfo # Experimenting with Skype Beta 2.1.0.81

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must-read for programmers: http://www.cenqua.com/commentator/ # There was a time Gerry Adams could not be broadcast on TV; now he's presenting Bible History documentary on Channel4 #worldchangedwordsfail # All the "Three Strikes And You're Out" makes me think: wouldn't the world be better if the USA had adopted Cricket? http://bit.ly/bJcTfo # Experimenting with Skype Beta 2.1.0.81

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Dear LazyWeb: How do REST APIs generally deal with HEAD requests, if at all? (joke answers also welcome) # @beng so just treat HEAD as a truncated synonym for GET and ignore the POST, DELETE and PUT URLs? Sounds doable… in reply to beng # #themineproject – "if you wanna be social, go somewhere else".

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BWAHAHAHA! "ShadyURL: Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening" RT @nmeth: http://bit.ly/acfy6S #stopshortening # Sample #ShadyURL – http://5z8.info/trojan_w3x7s_super-nsfw # ALERT: FACEBOOK VIRUS – There's an "X likes your photo" app which you join and which spreads itself virally to your contacts. I just got hit # FB VIRUS: symptom is you receive

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