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Neil Gaiman's bookshelves. Bloody Hell. http://bit.ly/3V9Z5s # If you are in the USA you can get a free eval "full" copy of Snow Leopard Server. Damn. http://is.gd/2T7XF # Aberystwyth: http://www.anitawoods.co.uk/page4.htm #

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@iamkhayyam Thank you; I look forward to it. Please be less judgemental next time. in reply to iamkhayyam # Is @eddieizzard ever going to *stop* running, or is he stuck ? Well done, dude. 🙂 in reply to eddieizzard # Does anyone amongst my friends in the UK have access to a #harmonium ? #

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Three simple steps: 1) Put the shortening in the twitter-client where it belongs, remove it from the server-side 2) Make it optional for the user to use 3) Encourage the above in the Twitter API documentation Is that unreasonable? Extracted from comments on the original blog post.

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It’s so funny to watch this from the sidelines. Via @LudoMP EU probes Oracle’s bid to buy Sun BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union regulators on Thursday launched an antitrust probe into U.S. software maker Oracle Corp.’s takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc., saying the deal could mean higher prices and limited choice for database software. EU

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grmbl. cut chunk of skin off end of finger prepping lunch, deep, bloody. more annoying than anything, though. slows typing. # Having short URLs could become a Web-Darwinian-survival-characteristic! http://is.gd/2O563 #stopshortening # @Xlib take a look at http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/3403 – I would be interested to hear what you think in reply to Xlib # RT: Large security

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"sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters" … but little brother is still having to mediate # soooooo cute! http://is.gd/2L4nU – even if it is trying to disembowel the ball. really. that *is* what it's doing. # Facebook banned for council staff http://is.gd/2L4VL – TRY to make sense of the first 3 paragraphs #

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Why does #Twitter unnecessarily shorten links via bit.ly (etc) when a tweet is still less than 140 chars? I just sent this test tweet: http://twitter.com/alecmuffett/status/3684791756 The original read: this is a test: http://thenextweb.com/2009/08/31/woman-fired-caps-email/ Total length: 72 characters. Space remaining, 68. Way under 140. (updated: to address typo, thanks @iamkhayyam) So, why truncate? Why does it

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Skype to be sold to US Government, replace federal phone system. Will be administered by the NSA … No? 🙂 # first day of autumn. don't care what the calendar says. # WELL, THIS IS WEIRD: http://bit.ly/qfMwY # this is a test: http://bit.ly/qfMwY # Please Retweet: #twitter #stopshortening http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/3403 # @KevBarnes That was done on

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SnowLeopard installed, Apps installed, Gmail synced. Now waiting for "mdworker" to stop eating all my CPU. currently "SlowLeopard" # great: GTalk XMPP connection to someone dies, and now Google SMTP mail submission is broken. # Just finished surgery on a Mighty Mouse to clean it properly; not too hard, works perfect now. Waiting for (required)

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Trading Standards Help Wanted : Is there a UK law against citing premium-rate support phone numbers without explanation of costs? # yummy. roll on, march. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calçot # @ketan surely once the data is in #hCard format, you ought never to have to convert it back, XML being data's nirvana as it is? 😛 in reply

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The BBC website on the interview they broadcast last night: The man who swam to the lakeside home of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has spoken of his sorrow that his action led to her arrest and trial. John Yettaw told the BBC that he had a dream that Ms Suu Kyi was

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Dinner tonight: 3x corn-on-the-cob ripped straight off the stalks, peeled and dropped into boiling water, plus a mound of baby carrots (thinnings) and a baby beetroot (likewise), also lightly boiled. Dressed in butter, salt and pepper; with a homemade ciabatta doorstop to mop up the buttery jus. Lovely, and surprisingly cheap. 🙂

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