Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

• January 26th, 2021, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Mon, 14:32: This is also a lie. One dose does not mean someone is vaccinated. This is a two dose protocol and requires a second dose within 21 days to achieve maximum strength. Instead, this is an unwarranted experiment in virus mutation using the UK population as guinea pigs. https://t.co/wtoFPXAlJD
• Mon, 14:58: Et tu, Blue? https://t.co/dAU8IJHGaw
• Mon, 15:14: Country rock time. https://t.co/6ERkx82my4
• Mon, 15:21: RT @David_Gunkel: #Robot--the word and the concept--is 100-years old today. 25 January marks the centenary of the first public performance…
• Mon, 16:21: Sunlit Uplands. https://t.co/rts26jVhLW
• Mon, 17:30: Hey @bbcnews, why aren't you correcting Matt Hancock's statements about vaccination A single dose does not mean that someone is vaccinated. These are all double dose treatments that don't have full protection until three weeks after the second dose.
• Mon, 18:18: Let's stop calling @spacex's rocket the Starship and give it it's real name: the Anastasia. https://t.co/Hrod578oR0
• Mon, 18:26: I am explaining things to Phryne. @marypcbuk gets most amused when I attempt to reason with cats.
• Mon, 18:41: With Alphabet shutting down Loon, it might be worth revisiting the time I managed to catch a Loon balloon launch from the project's base in a tiny Nevada town... https://t.co/BklOjcs1pr
• Mon, 18:45: I loved B5. So sad to see that Mira Furlan died at the weekend.

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  #robot, twitter

• January 25th, 2021, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Sun, 12:08: Parrots in the snow https://t.co/ilPCaNQwYQ
• Sun, 13:17: RT @BBCRadio4: Sunday 24 January 1954 should have been a day off for Richard Burton. He was in the middle of a season of Shakespeare at the…
• Sun, 13:32: To follow up the Samsung Note 10+ slomo snow, iPhone 12 Pro slomo snow. https://t.co/ob5B0HOc10
• Sun, 13:34: RT @Adela_Terrell: They are looking good today. @cpp_friends @LOVESE19 @thepengetourist https://t.co/J9XMtWMj69
• Sun, 14:18: Recent Reads: The Bookman. Lavie Tidhar's homage to the pulps takes a steampunk lens to an alternate London where storybook heroes plot revolution against lizard overlords. Is the The Bookman friend or foe? Shattered by the death of his lover, poet Orphan finds out. A fun read!
• Sun, 15:10: “So what about second breakfast? I am not a kitten, I am a hobbit!” https://t.co/dtvU5yJGL1
• Sun, 15:52: Is a baby owlbear an owletcub?
• Sun, 18:02: There were Seville oranges in the veg box this week. And when there are bitter oranges there is... https://t.co/fBWSHduskK
• Sun, 19:33: Ford vs ... https://t.co/Jj4XaQ8Mtj
• Sun, 21:33: Marmalade! https://t.co/i4cuAci88o

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  twitter

• January 24th, 2021, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Sat, 13:05: ...!JANET!ukc!https://t.co/qqsbDAaUKJ.bath.gdr!ee4sb https://t.co/Cq7cSRatQ5
• Sat, 19:16: Pink Cadillac https://t.co/aXKFCq9p85
• Sat, 23:43: RT @ellipressuk: The Weird Field World book by @thisnorthernboy will be available to buy from Ellipress from Saturday 30th January 2021. To…
• Sat, 23:45: An excellent piece of SF art; well worth adding to your collection... https://t.co/yabqDUWqbC
• Sun, 10:25: Suburban Snow https://t.co/JhrHx9CjFv
• Sun, 10:55: The parrots are puzzled. https://t.co/ITs5ZjCgn8
• Sun, 11:11: Super slomo snow https://t.co/IArorDQPZX

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  twitter

• January 23rd, 2021, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Fri, 12:30: The key phrase is "Now what?" https://t.co/O57Jq1c9Na
• Fri, 12:54: Probably not a good idea to be eating cold porridge with lingonberry jam on a call, but wot the hell archie, wot the hell. https://t.co/PyqEWb1nAR
• Fri, 13:11: RT @PrinceJvstin: "All life is transitory. A dream. We all come together in the same place at the end of time. If I don't see you again her…
• Fri, 13:41: RT @tokyosexwhale: Have been asked to pop a Teeny-Tiny Bernie into my shop https://t.co/AT6JWR2ojo but because I feel this is going to be f…
• Fri, 14:05: RT @marypcbuk: My hair is here! The rich turquoise doesn't really photograph well in the bags, it's not at all this pale. Orange, purple gr…
• Fri, 23:39: RT @markrussinovich: "Building microservices? Give Dapr a try" via @sbisson https://t.co/rYUiiUmH91
• Fri, 23:40: Lyra likes the backs of my knees. https://t.co/QnyLp4on2i
• Fri, 23:48: Recent Reads: The Rise And Fall Of The Trigan Empire Volume 1. The classic comic strip collected at last, with restored art. Roman-influenced science fiction with storytelling as good as I remember. Literate, intelligent, and beautifully painted. Recommended.
• Sat, 00:10: “These are mine. Fill them.” https://t.co/eKsIXWdaMn
• Sat, 11:50: I used to climb; @mjohnharrison’s Climbers is the closest to being on the rock you’ll get. https://t.co/P8VcCMufhO

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  twitter

• January 22nd, 2021, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Thu, 13:41: Running pitop on my ADS-B receiver. https://t.co/oFevoPkfzv https://t.co/GWfcurF505
• Thu, 14:49: Bemused kitten by putting on socks.
• Thu, 15:38: One of my favourite SF novels. A study of a taoist anarchism, one that nearly leads on to her masterwork Always Coming Home. This is LeGuin defining anthropological SF. https://t.co/z6PKeEAsiR
• Thu, 19:53: RT @ruraljerseymag: Jèrriais phrasebook, Tchi Pitchi (pronounced ‘chip ee chee’) means ‘what a pity’ and was launched less than a month ago…
• Thu, 20:00: RT @github: It’s been a decade since we first heard the word “DevOps”—so what’s next? Join experts from GitHub, Red Hat, Lightstep, and R…
• Thu, 20:52: OK, who broke Spotify this time?
• Thu, 21:13: Oh dear. The @Shopify Shop app can't tell the difference between London, Ontario and London, UK. It's not parsing data from a Chinese courier company correctly...
• Thu, 21:21: RT @LukePollard: Right now its the 21st minute of the 21st hour of the 21st day in the 21st year of the 21st century. #smallthings
• Fri, 00:31: RT @cinnamon_msft: Seen in the main branch on GitHub, coming soon to a Windows Terminal Preview release near you! 👀 https://t.co/qcc0UnPov…
• Fri, 09:53: Ice ice baby https://t.co/Rbcr8k4V3K

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  #smallthings, twitter

• January 21st, 2021, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Wed, 17:17: RT @InfoWorld: . @Microsoft's #OpenSource, cross-platform #microservices framework is ready for prime time at last — by @sbisson. https://t…
• Wed, 17:21: RT @stevecla: my favourite line of @POTUS inauguration speech https://t.co/MUYdVkSc6R
• Wed, 17:31: RT @ZDNet: Red Hat introduces free RHEL for small production workloads and development teams https://t.co/8FQDYIculE
• Wed, 19:53: OK. I thought I couldn't be boggled by Qultists, but then I came across the ones who believe that President Biden being inaugurated on the 20th of January is because it was Epstein's birthday and not because it was set by the 20th Amendment in 1937...
• Wed, 20:48: I have come to the conclusion that the Tortie Twins are quantum entangled. One minute Phryne is one your lap, the next it's Lyra and the've swapped places without you noticing.
• Wed, 20:58: RT @Mike_Seeley: Good morning, Sun, and good morning, #Falcon9! This is the #SpaceX #Starlink rocket, passing in front of the Sun, seen We…
• Thu, 00:33: RT @darkgreener: Thread. The UK's street address data is one of our most important, and problematic, public datasets. Now, an opportunity…
• Thu, 09:09: New Pi alert! A tiny ⁦@Raspberry_Pi⁩ with their first self-designed silicon. Very much a maker board... https://t.co/gPD64rLdix
• Thu, 09:33: RT @SFGateway: For the first time ever, Damien Broderick's authorised adaptation of John Brunner's classic novellas is available as an eboo…

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  #falcon9, #microservices, #opensource, #spacex, #starlink, twitter

• January 20th, 2021, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Tue, 13:57: Two 2020 pins, A and B. Poll in next tweet. https://t.co/HgsEgnKlM6
• Tue, 15:21: Oh, rain rains down... England is dreaming Of the change of the seasons The song of the hedgerow To love and to be loved... And if we only have love It's more than enough https://t.co/69WCnNZYip
• Tue, 16:04: So much Floof! https://t.co/1STItywDXq
• Tue, 16:59: RT @dmoren: Just a reminder that, while I’m hard at work on The Next Project (let’s call it TNP for short), you’ve still got a couple weeks…
• Tue, 17:00: RT @Marcus_Aure1ius: BREAKING: Boris Johnson tells the truth! The problems with seafood exports *really are* because people filled the for…
• Tue, 17:05: With Dapr rapidly approaching a 1.0 release, over at @infoworld I take a look at how you can get started with the Microsoft-sponsored open source distributed application environment. https://t.co/XU9LAaJ7EE
• Tue, 17:06: RT @catandgirlcomic: Words about pictures about words https://t.co/zqkm219it8 https://t.co/QzogjLrq5Q
• Tue, 17:15: There is a#mainecoonsofinstagram hash tag. I wonder if #mainecoonsoftwitter is a thing too?
• Tue, 17:18: RT @thenewstack: Why Parler Can't Rebuild a Scalable Cloud Service from Scratch https://t.co/eR09HMyvD9 @marypcbuk #parler #CloudService
• Tue, 17:32: Thingumy inspects my new Moomin mug. "It's nery vice, wig and bide!" they said... https://t.co/sYF2MaBWrA

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  #cloudservice, #genuary, #mainecoonsofinstagram, #mainecoonsoftwitter, #make100, #parler, #starshipsn9, twitter

• January 19th, 2021, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Mon, 13:26: Today I am mostly thinking about dapr (again).
• Mon, 13:34: "Blue Monday" may be just PR hype and a marketing hook, but Hooky's bass riff lives on. Also Above & Beyond's reworking of it as a trance anthem was one of my favourite pieces of dance music from 2020: https://t.co/ROK763iSMR
• Mon, 14:46: “They are calling, and I, I must go to them. Or maybe I’ll just stay here in the warm.” https://t.co/tJoNu9vn6T
• Mon, 15:37: So @marypcbuk’s supervisor has her on a purrfomance improvement programme. https://t.co/zNy1mKIqGM
• Mon, 16:11: RT @Myrmecos: A very bold claim, especially since this might end up being the lesser of two weevils. https://t.co/jzUDcTOVh5
• Mon, 16:29: "I see a ship in the harbour." https://t.co/1BX03EyVQ4
• Mon, 16:54: Rethinking 80s electronica as trance anthems (cont). Crockett's Theme. https://t.co/4aHpYXTJDT
• Mon, 17:15: RT @TJ_Cooney: Timelapse of the @virgin_orbit first stage today for #LauncherOne. What an exciting day! You can notice some oscillations at…
• Mon, 17:24: RT @mtholfsen: NEW! A quick tip video 📽 on how to use the just-launched Presenter View in #MicrosoftTeams. You can see video, chat and pres…
• Mon, 17:48: I'm getting better at spotting when a parrot is about to plummet. Today's parrotfall. https://t.co/qGdfKdCNSp

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  #launcherone, #microsoftteams, twitter

• January 18th, 2021, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Sun, 15:19: RT @tomgauld: ‘Coronavirus advice from a regency novel’ (my cartoon for yesterday’s @guardianreview) https://t.co/8jgaxi8eRj
• Sun, 16:06: How many kittens? https://t.co/KEaRoDMucl
• Sun, 16:18: RT @Virgin_Orbit: With operations for our #LaunchDemo2 mission already in full swing, it's an exciting morning here at Mojave Air and Space…
• Sun, 18:05: Pouring the cake batter https://t.co/gqB25Y4krv
• Sun, 18:18: Kitten and beer and books https://t.co/uDFB5X8mTu
• Sun, 18:21: RT @CassRMorris: Hey, I wanna see something: RT this if you're a published author or other publishing professional who has, at some point…
• Sun, 18:22: I even had a LJ just for my fics... https://t.co/IoR8a99gSG
• Sun, 18:23: RT @Oglaf: There's new stuff in our @topatoco store, including t-shirts like this one! https://t.co/ZpesLrgoQY https://t.co/VelMp2YAqf
• Sun, 18:39: It’s a lovely day on the buses and you are a horrible goose. https://t.co/JEfnweChK1
• Sun, 19:53: RT @Virgin_Orbit: The upper stage has shut down as planned and will coast for about 30 minutes. Then, NewtonFour will relight to circulariz…

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  #launchdemo2, twitter

• January 17th, 2021, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Sat, 14:45: Recent Reads: Lover Revealed. J R Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood return; with ex-cop Butch O'Neal in tow. He is in love with vampire aristocrat Marissa, a relationship that can never be. Or can it? Designer clothes and a little combat spice things up as the soap opera rolls on.
• Sat, 14:48: RT @po8crg: Today is September 10000, 1993. Ten thousand days of social media without restraint. How has that experiment gone?
• Sat, 15:56: Mocha https://t.co/Uxa6vOubUN
• Sat, 17:30: I am so much the #avgeek that I can’t help getting annoyed every time I see a Piaggio P.180 Avanti referred to as a “private jet”...
• Sat, 17:39: RT @wendyg: Entries are open until February 1 for the @absw awards for excellence in science, technology, engineering and mathematics journ…
• Sat, 20:40: It’s London! https://t.co/lsGsfsv4RB
• Sun, 09:24: RT @jeffhollan: The new designer for @logicappsio, being able to build it using a visual designer in @code, leveraging 300+ connectors... t…

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  #avgeek, twitter