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My Tweets on 2008-10-31

Completeing a Movie Meme – haven’t done one of these for a long time! #
Need a dressing gown and some PJs stat! #

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The joys of the silver screen

It’s been an age since I did a meme thingy but I stole this from the Facebook profile of Matt
“SUPPOSEDLY if you’ve seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, go to your own facebook account, paste this as a [...]

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My Tweets on 2008-10-30

HRH passed through the parish without issue – so now I’m back at work again #
Documenting Perl Code is really not my idea of fun… isn’t there a tool that can do this for me? #

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And we’re online

Finally.
We’ve been given use of a shared, ADSL connection here at the flat – no great shakes but at least good enough for email and web browsing. Of course they couldn’t remember the WEP key but thankfully … it was a WEP key, took approx 10 minutes to break – which is scary when you [...]

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My Tweets on 2008-10-29

First thing this morning and I’ve got hiccups!!! Not funny. #
hiccups gone – now playing with Aircrack NG to try and break a WEP key – it’s not working very well #
Have just installed crossover – how good is this application? #
@gregnbaker maybe ? actually I’m just testing the toolset on my own WAP at [...]

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Who are you?

An interesting point raised by Robert Llewellyn in one of his recent Llewtube vids what should we brits refer to ourselves as?
This already difficult question is complicated even further by geographical sub divisions. For example, most Jersey Beans would deny (correctly) being even remotely English and would have a problem being classed as British. Even [...]

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My Tweets on 2008-10-28

@dafyd or did they? It’s entirely possible his “dust” just needs watering – Auntie Bessie’s Instant Heroes #
And thou shalt count to 3, not 2 nor 5 but 3 ? #
Linux / Mac Users Get a free copy of Crossover pro today only – http://is.gd/4YWW #
@dafyd ah, right, ok, got completely the wrong [...]

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Seeing the Llight

or rather hearing The Llight which doesn’t have quite the same ring as a headline.
And what is The Llight? They’re a band, specifically a band in which my cousin Paddy plays bass, sings a bit and no doubt handles all the creative input stuff to boot.
These guys aren’t your run of the mill, back of [...]

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Seam Carving to resize images

Seam Carving is an image resizing technique that Jeremy originally pointed out to me … whilst on the phone … walking … through the rain … to the pub … funny what you remember eh?
When J and I discussed it, Seam Carving was available as a GIMP plugin which meant installing GIMP.
Well now there’s a [...]

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My Tweets on 2008-10-27

Anyone want to buy a Blackberry Curve? http://is.gd/4VnI #
Just read the headline – http://is.gd/4VTX – I love el Reg #

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