Dropsafe

rediscovering the joys of IRC as a technical aid # my utterance of the day: “oh gods, it seems to mean futzing with lambdas” # the problem with Python/OOPS in general is the lack of ways to inherit setup of *class* data without using instances/taking a runtime hit # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Things to which you *really* must listen, part 1: Divine Comedy / Duckworth Lewis Method interview on Radio 4: http://is.gd/FnEM # Things to which you *really* must listen, part 2: Wry academic analysis of the music of Morrissey: http://is.gd/FnOP # peanut? # Super Cool Stop-Motionesque RT @cheesymike: My daughter Sam filmed her goldfish, sped up

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WOOT! GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE! # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Who’s going to LOSUG tonight? IPS and OpenSolaris http://opensolaris.org/os/project/losug/ # Trying to determine whether Adium+Firefox is a sufficient replacement for custom Twitter clients # silliest visual pun / advert i have seen in a long time, laughed myself silly last night. http://is.gd/BGEY # guess what @webmink is describing: “hostile as a cornered rat” # Powered

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Giving up on #DestroyTwitter – requires Admin access (why?) to install / update, spontaneously “excludes” friends, pissed off with weird UI # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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what the hell is wrong with the #ted rss feed? some videos have been re-posted up to three times in the past year, different size/length? # Remind me never to go to Montreal: http://is.gd/AqXx – the attitudes of the “authorities” are obscene #canada #montreal # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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deep in the heart … of droitwich # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Terminally fed up with “Chicken of the VNC” on #Apple #OSX, have compiled “RealVNC” and running under X as alternative. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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OK, I am not as famous as Dave Winer, so not by any means should I expect to replicate his experience… …but c’mon; “Wolfram|Alpha isn’t sure what to do with your input”? How about “punt it to a Google search” – Jeez, I’ve gone there for information and if they can’t provide from their preened

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Trying out the latest Chromium (Google Chrome Browser, core codebase) build for Mac from http://is.gd/yAlk – not bad # “Gratis-T-Shirts, die Währung der Hackergemeinde”, kommentiert Alec Muffett – http://is.gd/z7lJ -alas xlation loses subtlety, as did author # Davros! It’s the leader of the Daleks, I tell you! http://is.gd/zUJ0 # w00t! now OSX has a bunch

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WANT: contact lenses with astigmatic correction at 45 degrees from vertical/horizontal planes. Suggestions? # Do you get the feeling that someone was trying to recapture the “snakes on a plane” viral zeitgeist? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1350498/ # Yay! New Mac Mini and 48 bottles of wine arrived. I am sorted for *weeks* 🙂 # This is what happens

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