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(Posted at 11:23am)

I've finally found out how to filter LoudTwitter output by custom flist (you use the email update, not the atom or xmlrc ones).

So, who wants a bit of peace and quiet around here?

Poll #1387236 DeTwittering....
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• 10:12 Burst blistery thing plus iodine dressing: leg on fire.... #

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(Posted at 11:56pm)

• 23:14 Save Edinburgh's Odeon - tinyurl.com/ctsug3 A wonderful place that should not be knocked down! #

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• 08:49 Packing for wedding anniversary weekend in Amsterdam.... #

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• 22:13 (Tap, tap)... Is this thing live? #

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(Posted at 04:40pm)

First of all, let's ignore the signing up ages in advance and practicing. However, for that many people with fire on sticks we would need to have a truly enormous health and safety meeting (I suspect that Tynecastle or Easter Road might be too small) and a similar-sized venue would need to be taken over for the spraying of people's clothes with the obligatory fire-retardant.

No kids and animals of course - this definitely means no pushchairs.

Lots more stewards, of course, and if there weren't going to be enough on the night, the organisers would be stuck phoning round all their friends until they'd sorted the numbers (but, as these organisers' friends include the council and the Police, the number of stewards needed would soon be cut).

No alcohol - can't mix fire and alcohol, oh no. Similarly, no glass to be brought onto the Hill.

But the biggest difference of all is that the people organising the Torchlit Procession don't have to spend a chunk of the run-up clearing away Beltane's mess, whereas every bloody year, it seems, the ruin of the "longship" leaves its cargo of nails (someone's been misreading Norse mythology, obviously), hinges, and chunks of random burnt metal for the Beltane performers to tidy up lest someone should get an involuntary tetanus-flavoured piercing.

That said, off I go - still a sucker for fire onna stick!

(Posted at 05:32pm)

Due to a miscalculation, I have tickets for two seats on the Glasgow to London sleeper on Monday night and a single seat on the London to Edinburgh sleeper on Tuesday.

Offers?

(Posted at 08:29am)

Birthday drinks: Auld Hoose, Saturday. Between us, autopope, brain_hurts and I will be 123....

Will probably edit to add more details later - thanks to FaceBook's event creation/invite system, and using a mouseless PC, I'm already late for work.....

(Posted at 01:44am)

There's a bug in the version of openssl on Ubuntu 8.04 that means it gives false positives when verifying some certificates. This could have been oh so Not Good at All, except it got caught in plenty of time - and in future I get to ssh into a known safe box when checking certificates.

And what fun, it turns out the bug goes back at least some way towards Ubuntu's ancestral Debian distro.

I'm just surprised no-one noticed it before.

(Posted at 12:39pm)

I always used to be be able to tell when i was working too hard, or more precisely, when I was concentrating too much on a particular topic: it would intrude into my dreams or, in extreme cases, into the real world and I'd find myself doing odd things like interpreting the horizon as if it was a GLC trace or an nmr spectrum.

( Hence the odd dream I had the other night )

(Posted at 12:02am)

• 01:37 Oh, wow! Brauhaus on lauriston place! Insane range of nice bottles. 7.5% wheat beer - Erdinger pikantus - cheaper than Hoose Hoegaarden! #

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• 04:56 Sunrise from Calton Hill. Beautiful! #

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