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Archive for March, 2009
Twitter Updates for 2009-03-24
01054 days
by Simon Scullion
in Tweets
- buenos dias! rather chilly in my office this morning, after the heating/AC was left unplugged last night…. Brrrr!!
- @ ¡feliz cumpleaños Tomás!
- @ thx for the reminder on the need for café! Machine in this building borked, sounds like and excuse to take a wander!
- nope, can’t resist any longer…. off in search of café!
- @ bit grey here this AM, has been lovely lately tho! Did I mention we celebrated the arrival of spring with a BBQ on Sat!
- anyone else seeing FF3 open a page but render just a grey screen, *very* annoying!
- reboot o’clock
- @ think flash is OK, got 10.0.r22 installed
- RT @glynmoody: Boycott Novell is building a wiki – smart move to consolidate the site’s info
- @ @ @ together for lunch in the city, doesn’t bear thinking about!
- RT @bbcnews: Virgin Media says it will start offering 100 to 150Mbps broadband speeds Spain is WAY behind!!
- @ humpf!! you feeling better btw?
- lunch is calling
- @ good to hear! you’d have enjoyed the big BBQ we had on Sat, 20 of us!
- about to join a global Town Hall webcast for my internal org
- @ 10Mbs as standard!!? I’d settle for that! can I ask what the price point is for that surrently?
- time for a break, time for a Kitkat!
- @ me too! I’m currently being robbed for 40€/mth for 3Mbs here in Spain :´-(
- @ I recommend you go straight to 8.5, worth it on a number of counts, including performance
- @ sorry! I don’t normally indulge, so just *had* to tweet it!
Enjoy the M&M’s!
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links for 2009-03-23
01054 days
by Simon Scullion
in Links
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50 ways to increase your Linux knowledge and help you along the way to true geekdom.
Twitter Updates for 2009-03-23
01055 days
by Simon Scullion
in Tweets
- buenos dias tweeps, why does Monday always have to come after a hard weekend!?
- Eye-opening comparison of the Spanish ADSL market, check the end for EU comparison, 6x more than the UK! (in Spanish)
- @ right! Now seriously looking at my options, though its fraught with issues, misinformation, etc. Robbery whichever way you go!
- is wiki hacking
- getting cross with excel, again! why can’t I hide the title row in a pivot table? I just want the data…..
- uh oh…. I think Windows is going to come crashing down… again!
- now looking at mod’ing a VB macro in excel to copy and paste pivot table data as values… don’t ask!
- just had to reboot yet again!
- @ isn’t communication an essential element to successful collaboration?
- RT @nicholaspatten: Wow I want my OS to look like this.
- cathcing up on tweets whilst waiting for the little’un to decide she’s hungry! ah, she must be able to read me typing this….!
- calling it a night, buenas noches tweeps!
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-20
01058 days
by Simon Scullion
in Tweets
- good morning tweeps, yep, Friday is here again already!
- lots of thoughts to get posted following yesterday’s brainstorming, colleauges, you have been warned! :-p
- off to think collaborative strategy with @
- had a great session with @ cooking wicked plans!
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-19
01059 days
by Simon Scullion
in Tweets
- now then tweeps! another lovely sunny morning here in Asturias, wonder if it’ll last for the weekend…
- @ @ beat me to recommending Ubuntu, nut I will anyway!
- Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads here in Spain!
- RT @mysharepoint: # CMS based on WSS < just because you can, doesn’t mean you should!
- debating various aspects of the economic situation with @
- @ @ but the Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google Thats a lotta reading! via @
- head down, up to my ears in wiki markup, fun!
- RT @Candascat: Paul Grignon’s presentation “Money as Debt” tells in very simple terms what money is and how it is created
- @ LOL! I’m in “must resist new gadgets” mode too! Lots of bits for the boat we want for this summer!
- RT @yachtbusiness: Welcoming @ to twitter. A great concept that should be supported. < Cool to see them on twitter!
- for some reason I have a craving for a tuna and mayo sarnie, on granary bread of course! weird!
- @ why would small sites pay for WSS? they should be looking at #OSS, # and the like…
- @ why stick with vista!!? at least promise to give ubuntu a go using
- @frogpond: LOL! I’m proud of the # status, but there are more deserving causes than wiki markup!
- RT @dominiccampbell: Love seeing people’s reaction to passion in meetings. Seems to make them very uncomfortable. < Boy is that true!
- @ LOL! pregnant no, despite evidence indicating otherwise!
- RT @captainjack63: RT @solargroupies: RT @ @ RT @ecogeek: Spain Sets World Wind Record
- @ nope, passion is all good! Kinda weird for a southern shandy, though maybe part of why I feel so at home here in Spain!
- head up from preparing presentations
- @ I’m currently doing a lot around removing that fear factor, the Confluence version tracking helps a lot there!
- RT @ccwharris: @ you mean you never got your mum over the shoulder boulder holders for mothers day, wow… < ROFL!!
- why am I not seeing streetview in google maps for even major cities?
- @ I’d heard a rumour….
- in a workshop looking at a collaborative culture
- brainstorming session went very well, lots of input and ideas
- been installing Ubuntu on an old Thinkpad T40, everything working fine, though need to establish if it has a wireless card
- @ yes, seems to be working fine here too, I have a USB wireless stick somewhere too if needed
- @ what % capacity does the battery tell you? Ubuntu is telling me 19% here, might look into a replacement
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-18
01060 days
by Simon Scullion
in Tweets
- bonjour tweeps!
- @ Menorca is a nice place to have to go for a wedding! I hope you get some time to explore the island a little
- kudos to @ for responding to my criticism of Zemanta’s stat tracking img, tho it does raise some further q’s
- @ shameless pimp, would you mind sharing your email/twitter/rss time mgmt habits & any tips?
- @ thats a coincidence, GTD came up in a chat with my boss yesterday, so I pointed him in the direction of @
- Cooliris + Flickr Creative Commons is a fantastic combination for presentation material
- had twitterscope down most of the day, now giving up catching up
- calling it a night, buenas noches tweeps!
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-17
01061 days
by Simon Scullion
in Tweets
- buenos dias tweeps! Another sunny morning in Asturias
- @ are you following them back? sounds like a follower I’d consider blocking
- @ I guess twitter would know the % use of the web UI vs a twitter client, its captured for every tweet
- @ thats my old home turf! Don’t miss much tho, other than my folks and friends obviously, give them a wave for me!
- @ Happy St Patrick’s day! the black stuff counts as food in my book, tho consumption should not be exclusive to today only!
- @ nice to see the beeb is now allowing embedding of video content
- @ your preference or theirs?
- on the blog: ScribeFire, Zemanta, and a hidden tracking image
- RT @edbrill: Now shipping — Alloy by IBM and SAP! < exciting enterprisey stuff!
- off to give my boss a demo and update of some of the stuff I’ve been working on lately
- now in a Qwaq demo session
- @ well thx for trying! Appreciated! How is the Royal County today anyway!?
- @ most definately the beer. Bad memories of haggis, or was it the whiskey that went with it…?
- @ wow!
- Twitterverse, please give a big “hola” to @eriesgo: a great guy, press-ganged sailing buddy, oh, and SOA dude! Welcome!
- @ don’t fight it! go with what you’re body tells you!
- @ afraid I can’t travel, tho if you fancy popping over to Asturias, I’d be happy to play host!
- @ ¡bienvenidos de nuevo!
- RT @siburgess79: RT @Wossy: Exciting news. Just got a text from the great Eddie Izzard – he is now on Twitter. @ is the real deal
- @ LOL! my 3yr-old daughter has learnt to use the mouse to navigate youtube videos by herself!
- @ funny you say that, I am planning on formatting an old laptop with edubuntu for her #
- @ they’re frighteningly smart! the hand-eye coordination with the mouse is amazing to see. Looks like I’ll have geek daughters!
- @ yes, plus edubuntu has all the benefits of ubuntu linux, secure, twice yearly updates, non-M$, free!
- @ we loved Menorca last Sept with wife 6mths pregnant and 3yr old, will go back when # is a little older
- @ re Menorca: relaxing, tastefully Brit friendly, sailing in Fornells, few big hotels, huge choice of beaches & villas
- hometime for me tweeps, be good whilst I’m gone!
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