• An old friend …

    I saw the vehicle of an old friend, today; left a note on his screen suggesting he Google his license plate. Ah, such fun.

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-03-23

    B&Q take delivery of a new stock of buckets: http://is.gd/oo5M # Free Porn – all you need is Microsoft Silverlight. Excellent marketing, dudes… http://playboy.covertocover.com/ # nb: /me runs OpenSolaris and OSX and Ubuntu. Silverlight deeply unlikely to ever get installed. # “Its Population Falling, Russia Beckons Its Children Home ” – http://is.gd/ow68 – do you

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-03-23

    B&Q take delivery of a new stock of buckets: http://is.gd/oo5M # Free Porn – all you need is Microsoft Silverlight. Excellent marketing, dudes… http://playboy.covertocover.com/ # nb: /me runs OpenSolaris and OSX and Ubuntu. Silverlight deeply unlikely to ever get installed. # “Its Population Falling, Russia Beckons Its Children Home ” – http://is.gd/ow68 – do you

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-03-23

    B&Q take delivery of a new stock of buckets: http://is.gd/oo5M # Free Porn – all you need is Microsoft Silverlight. Excellent marketing, dudes… http://playboy.covertocover.com/ # nb: /me runs OpenSolaris and OSX and Ubuntu. Silverlight deeply unlikely to ever get installed. # “Its Population Falling, Russia Beckons Its Children Home ” – http://is.gd/ow68 – do you

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-03-22

    BBC “Excess Baggage” does radio segment on geek history, tech, Bay Area: http://is.gd/iPiE (Click “Play Most Recent”, starts @ 16:00ish) # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-03-21

    “So you’re a lying, thieving, coveting, blasphemous person. Do you still think you’re a good person?” http://is.gd/obfo – My answer: “yes.” # If I wrote “Ode to a Mag-lite” – would it be a torch song? # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-03-20

    “There are 100,000 stars in our galaxy and 1,000 million galaxies. I am sure cricket must be being played elsewhere” – Patrick Moore # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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  • iTunesASUHelper stole my /usr/local/bin !!!

    I updated to iTunes 8.1 and wondered where my ffmpeg binary went; then I found this explanation, which was spot on: This may be useful to some people — I’ve solved my problem but it may bite others. My boot disk is partitioned. The boot partition was too small. I put /usr/local on another partition

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  • A cynic is a passionate person who …

    A cynic is a passionate person who doesn’t want to be disappointed again. Lovely quote from Benjamin Zander on Front Row, tonight. (Thursday 19 March)

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  • links for 2009-03-19

    Flickr: meteotek08's Photostream and moar Who needs a flash camera to photograph space when you've got a £56 one and a balloon? :: Kate Day moar Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon – Telegraph Wow! Want!

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-03-19

    yet another epic firefox coredump – 965,626,960 Mar 18 12:59 core – yet again due to flickr.com and Flash. # Home is where the books are: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/3071303347/ # i find it odd that i am trading hated barbie pink paint (old spare room) for a jasmine (hint of pink) and grey combination, but looks good

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  • Wheelie Bins roll on, and on…

    Note from my sister, regards Aunt Betty: Have just spoken with Betty. She got a letter today from an 80 year old in Brighton (or was it Bournemouth) who’s having trouble with her council in regard to wheelie bins. The letter was addressed to: Jenny Mapson (Wheelie Bins), Droitwich, Worcestershire !!! Chalk one up for

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