• Twitter Updates for 2010-01-29

    #sun Can someone please spider blogs.sun.com before it goes *poof* / is purged and turns into a Oracle mouthpiece in April? Pinkslips friday # When blogs.sun.com gets purged a lot of dtrace and zfs reference material will go up in smoke. A lot of culture, too… # @peterjenkins too many gaps in reply to peterjenkins

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  • If you need a feelgood sense of wonder today…

    …you could try this site: In July 2006, Jacob, Goat and Sean began in Alaska and have since pedaled over 34,000 kilometers, passed through 14 countries, arriving in Ushuaia on January 10, 2010 after 3.5 years of travel. Instead of riding along the PanAmerican Highway, their unique journey brought them along the dusty, muddy and

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-01-28

    @peterjenkins Whatever it is, I don't want it to be just a really huge iPod Touch. in reply to peterjenkins # Oracle + Sun Strategy Update Webcast, *OR* Steve Jobs. Decisions, decisions… not. # #chromium / chrome has a "Paste and Go" menu option; really cool idea, thanks guys. # .@simonw Mayhap you 've not

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-01-27

    How to be Foreign Secretary: http://bit.ly/7n69t7 – Ignore the law, and expect the Courts to cover your arse. # Working my way through the Upshares-Downshares theme tunes of the past year – the laughs make it worthwhile: http://bit.ly/8ZRJL8 # Surprisingly long and yet hilarious http://bit.ly/4H0Syf <- via @adriana872 and @carriebish # @shaver did you see

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  • #Sun Songs, Sad Songs

    Years ago I was a Astronomy undergraduate at UCL, repeatedly crashing a Sun 3/160 (running realio trulio 4.2BSD no less) which I was charged to look after, by teaching myself network programming in pursuit of writing a multi-user dungeon; one byte in the wrong place and *boom* – the kernel panicked. Jon Crowcroft himself explained

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  • For all future Oracle employees

    Bratislava Originally uploaded by Adriana Lukas Adriana took this photo in Bratislava; I am not sure why, but it feels right…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-01-26

    @sarah_katz kid wash dog? in reply to sarah_katz # New #brompton luggage: Carradice CarraDry http://twitpic.com/zqtfj # I have finally found a bicycle bell serious enough to mount on my #Xtracycle, and I have named it "The Wrath of God"; manufacturer "Push". # @brundage That's the AirZound? Considered that, not got one yet but if I

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-01-26

    @sarah_katz kid wash dog? in reply to sarah_katz # New #brompton luggage: Carradice CarraDry http://twitpic.com/zqtfj # I have finally found a bicycle bell serious enough to mount on my #Xtracycle, and I have named it "The Wrath of God"; manufacturer "Push". # @brundage That's the AirZound? Considered that, not got one yet but if I

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-01-25

    Question: Is there a CSRF trojan / virus hitting #Facebook ? Have now received two "Hi Alec! [LINK]" messages, both fake # One message has "URL DELETED", the other is to af64sandrafox3 . isuisse . com # Commonality of two fake #facebook messages (possible CSRF) is "Sent via Facebook Mobile" # …but I don't WANT

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-01-23

    What Jonathan apparently mailed to everyone inside #Sun: http://bit.ly/79NXZp # perhaps more interesting is the bitly link-analysis for jonathan's posting: http://bit.ly/info/79NXZp #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-01-22

    The Network IS: http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/so_long_old_friend # MySQL. Oy. Not. http://bit.ly/7OvZgT #reallyobscurepuns #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-01-21

    @zalez I sorta know that, but it's like running a hacked iPhone – I can't be bothered… in reply to zalez # @zalez plus: having the DRM under it all makes it feel kinda… dirty. In a bad way. in reply to zalez # Had my blue #Sun PS EMEA fleece professionally repaired over the

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