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just exported / deleted all my RSS feeds from GoogleReader; it's faster to tidy them in NetNewsWire. Will put them back in a couple of weeks # "Steve Jobs: How to live before you die" http://bit.ly/8fXLlA – worth listening to. # After a revelation at Christmas, I am experimenting with iVox speech synth voices for

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I was just looking at a *.wordpress.com blog, and noticed that there is no ATOM feed linked from it. The more I work on stuff like feed-generation for the Mine, the more I reinforce my longstanding prejudice that it doesn’t really matter how data is encoded so long as the mechanism is fit for purpose;

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By dint of regularly going shopping with @adriana872 I recently acquired a Paul Smith suit-jacket and waistcoat at a very reasonable price, from (I shall call it) a “boutique” store in South Ken; the lady behind the counter filled-in my utter lack of knowledge saying that Paul Smith is “a very lovely man”, and that

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God Hates… Cheeseburgers. Goat cheeseburgers? http://bit.ly/55C7a7 # Google offers no auto-search on Islam. I just tried this, it works. Eek. http://bit.ly/6TIi4q http://bit.ly/85v9Jl # a punt gun: http://bit.ly/8tUnra (see video) – never saw one fired, but saw the associated decoy/hide at Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust # Britain, literally covered in snow: http://bit.ly/5YKUSG # @jeffnolan I don't think

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#uksnow rg27 4/10 depth 22cm # #uksnow rg27 8/10 – big wet heavy flakes, depth 9" / 23cm # "Chrome OS is … built from the ground up" – funny how "from the ground up" means Linux, nowadays. http://bit.ly/6YA8si via @adriana872 # @nmeth not site, but i would estimate about 8 weeks ago. It seemed

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last night: this morning:

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What if it's not an #Apple tablet? What if #iSlate (or whatever) is just a peripheral like an old LightPen system? # Microwave Haggis and Romaine Lettuce makes a surprisingly good wrap-filler combo. # just backed up my tweetstream before risking going over the 3200-tweet "we can't be arsed to keep it in your timeline"

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How to eat yellow snow. Originally uploaded by alecmuffett Not had the opportunity to do this for *ages*. Pour a small splosh of maple syrup or other cordial into fresh snowbank[1] and attack resulting slushpuppy with teaspoon. [1] avoid low-lying snow near animal paths. obviously.

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I’m shifting DNS and then hosting providers in the next few days; please expected outages and don’t be surprised if the blog burps a little during that time. Should be back to normal by february.

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WANTED : inexpensive hosting provider with SSH+PHP+MySQL+Cpanel+Apache+Django, or root/do-it-yourself. Cost $10 to $20/mo. Suggestions? # @mathiasbaert sounds about right – i'll dig around their website some more. Are folks fans of #slicehost ? in reply to mathiasbaert # Amused at #slicehost selling 256Mb domU instances under #Xen after the noise about #Solaris now requiring 64bit

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@VirtualisedReal my #vmware problem is that the effort required to set it up under (eg) Ubuntu far exceeds the effort to setup #virtualbox in reply to VirtualisedReal # @VirtualisedReal i am not scared of patching kernels, but believe in 2009+ one shouldn't have to chase round forums to do it in reply to VirtualisedReal #

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