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Ketan turned up to last week’s VRM-Hub post-openspace drinks session with an interesting toy: The photos speak for themselves; I just can’t wait to see the resulting pictures! Browse for more info, starting at his flickr…

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blarg. sinusitis and laryngitis and snot, oh my! # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Anyone else annoyed that Twitter authentications now last less time that Facebook ones? Change IP address and *poof* one has to re-auth… # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Via @TimBray – I love throat-singing of all forms, but the Inuit style always makes me think “dot matrix printer” – http://is.gd/qsBR # Obligatory throat-singing links: Oidupaa http://is.gd/qsDI – Lessons from a Dutchman: http://is.gd/qsD4 # Oh,&u cannot miss Yat-Kha’s Albert Kuvezin covering Motorhead’s Orgasmatron; possibly the most incredible voice on earth: http://is.gd/ps2t # Powered by

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if you want to increase your signal/noise ratio on G20 tweets, search explicitly for the #G20 hashtag, not the “#G20 OR G20″ twitter default # Weirder: it’s not the Met’s vehicle, it’s one of the attendees! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7976444.stm 🙂 # #g20 lots of live video on the front page of http://www.qik.com # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Only in Britain… I presume the Aussies were self-sufficient for Vegemite, an so forth… BBC NEWS | UK | Nuclear threat sparked tea worry The threat of a nuclear attack on the UK in the 1950s caused concern over the supply of tea, top-secret documents which have now been released reveal. Government officials planning food

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It all makes sense once you know what the code looks like… although “objects” are going to be renamed “items”… r120 – protomine – Google Code going to purge the update api-methods for the things (excepting objectaux) since they are wholly unnecessary – the keycrud overrides this as you are never gonna update a thing

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OSX -> NFS ZFS update: in 17h the iMac G5 had written only 250Gb to the NFS-mounted f/s, so I killed “dd”. There must be a better way. # Ripping old video projects from iMovie into full-quality DV for archiving, and deleting the originals. Must try not to screw up. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Want quiet 1Tb USB Desktop for timemachine+scratch; Amazon: WD MyBook @85 quid; Ebuyer: passive enclosure @15 + Samsung Spinpoint @80. Hmm. # I erased and zeroed a 500Gb TM drive, then re-did TM backup, and am now dd’ing that over gig ether to compressed ZFS partition. Let’s see… # Will Apple NFS cope with writing

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welcome to british politics. “respect for the prime minister? piffle!” http://is.gd/oKSd # want to go play with the unicycle # New laminate floor. Cat surprised to find that it has no grip, claws not working for some reason. Warner Bros time. # Had forgotten how good the Mull Historical Society were; new studio environment lends

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