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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-07-12

    • Laughing at losers in line for the ibrick #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-07-11

    • @ddeane it was a hard fought game – I only hope the quakes – galaxy rivalry gets back to previous levels of hate 🙂 #
    • @webmink I think you’re right. I think that *is* the best contrib agreement #
    • 3 hours of sleep and I’m pumped on a Friday! W00T! TGIF! Developers, developers, developers! #
    • @Silona any other day, and I’d help, but today is fully loaded #
    • @sioksiok retweet “Twitter, at its best, is like jazz. Wish I could tweet like the way Ella scats.” I think that sums it up #
    • sweet. twitter is up and facebook is down. rock on 🙂 #
    • interesting Slate article on predicting teacher performance in public shools: http://www.slate.com/id/2195147/ #
    • @lisah remind me never to get between you and a milky way #
    • @puppetmasters @laurelatoreilly did somebody mention pliny? you should try more of RRBC’s stuff. #
    • tweetdeck on Linux, at least on first glance, is niiice #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-07-10

    • @jakemckee ruh roh – “This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota” – I can’t get to your site #
    • @monkchips eggggggxactly – I don’t understand how otherwise intelligent people drool at any news from teh Steve-o #
    • today is open source community governance day #
    • dear tweeps – have any examples, good or bad, of memorable codes of conduct, contributor agreements, or other community governance docs? #
    • @twitter what’s the story behind redacted twitter posts? I’m missing something #
    • @MikeTRose so twitter sold out to some apple marketing bullshit? color me unimpressed. Seriously considering yanking my account #
    • @MikeTRose Oh! well that’s what I get for jumping to conclusions 🙂 #
    • @webmink @ragavan thanks for the links! #
    • @fuzzychef oof… I hope none of my friends are in the firing line 🙁 #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-07-09

    • I <3 @dmarti and I <3 twit.pl #
    • @rodmur wow, that must be scary #
    • rt @irabinovitch “FISA Bill passed with immunity. Hillary voted against it, Obama for it.No vote from McCain” I voted for the wrong guy #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-07-08

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  • Reiser Case Proves Geeks No Different from Others

    I, and many others, have long considered geeks to be quite different from the general populace. One of the ways this manifests itself, or so I thought, was in our ability to look at a situation objectively and divorce ourselves from pesky human emotions. I call this “geek exceptionalism” – that some things which apply to others simply don’t apply to us. We laughed at many a convicted felon’s family and friends who defended said convict’s innocence because, in our view, they simply weren’t able to look at the situation from a distance. We, or at least *I*, knew that I wouldn’t make that same mistake.

    Unfortunately, the Reiser case has brought to the fore the fact that, at least in some ways, we’re really just like all the other numbskull humans on the planet, subject to the same emotions and biased points-of-view as everyone else. It’s painful to conclude that we’re really not all that exceptional, but as I recall those of us who defended Reiser and accused the jury of convicting someone without the necessary evidence, my main takeaway is that we really cannot place a higher value on our judgment over anyone else’s. Speaking only for myself, I didn’t think it was possible for someone as nerdy as Hans to harm anyone. The few times I met Hans, “prone to physical violence” was not a characteristic that came to mind.

    With the apparent location and retrieval of Nina Reiser’s remains, mine and many others fears have been confirmed: Nina was in fact murdered, and it was at the hands of Hans. So whenever we need to make a judgment about something to which we have a personal attachment, we would do well to take into account the opinions of those who can truly provide an independent, unbiased point-of-view… even if they’re not a geek 🙂

    Today, my thoughts go out to Nina’s children and other family members. May they find health and happiness in the future.

  • Twitter Updates for 2008-07-07

    • let me get this straight, we work our asses off the night before just to get ready for the house cleaners tomorrow? wtf? #
    • @storming wow! congrats! that’s wonderful news. #
    • Eek! I was just reminded that I’m presenting tomorrow at CMU West. Proceed to full panic mode. #
    • @tdondich congrats, man. does ‘splunkr’ go on your biz card? 😉 #
    • dear twitterverse, what cell phone data plan do you use and why? sprint / nextel appears to be the cheapest for lines > 1 #
    • rt @hyperic “3.2.4 release… now with more RPMs & appliances thanks to rPath” great news wrt rpath #
    • so… anybody got a good identi.ca <-> twitter gateway thingie? #
    • @dmarti re: twit script – if I’m using openid for identi.ca, how does that work? I don’t have a “password” per se #
    • testing twit #
    • twit me #
    • one more time – posting to both accoutns #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-07-06

    • ugh… what do you say to someone whose mother just passed away? #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-07-04

    • oh yeah, time for a beer #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-07-03

    • @DaveTaylor 1 some people have issues with vonage service; 2 unless you have other int. service you still have to pay for local phone #
    • @ripcitylyman greedy bastards. but on a positive note, MLS is coming to Seattle next year! Yay!!!! #
    • how did I miss this? SIP to Skype gateway – http://www.rsdevs.com/psgw_linux.shtml anybody use Asterisk-based PBX’s? #

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