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• So if we come last does that mean we don’t have to watch it or enter next year? #eurovision #
• Stop voting for Denmark! #eurovision #
• How much did they spend on the cameras and cgi? #eurovision #
• Now that was the winning song of #eurovision #
• Think it will be between Germany and Ireland. #eurovision #
• Ok what are the drinking rules for #eurovision scoring? 1 finger per point for your country? #
• Spain… when will the clown come on stage… oh wait…. #eurovision #
• Keep moving them both off the stage….. #eurovision #
• A copy of every breath you take? #eurovision #
• Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz #eurovision #
• He has git the lyrics in a note on his hand! That’s cheating! #eurovision #
• Ok on song 19 how many more songs of pain are left? #eurovision #
• France sounds like a boring French dance track.. #eurovision #
• Ukraine I take she isn’t going to jump around or pan the camera down.. #eurovision #
• Iceland, first their bad banks, then their dam ash and now a crappy song. #eurovision #
• Albania - bad translation of Bad boys? #eurovision #
• Turkey almost sounded like a mix of rock band an rapping. #eurovision #
• I think I wait for the scoring…. #
• Just got in and accidentally turned on Eurovision Ireland sounds good, Greece WTF, and now the UK err right… #Eurovision #
• Right 4 year old P4 box 910GL chipset vs a 5 year old AMD socket 939 nForce 4 box. Which one do you think is better? #
• Formatting done! #
• Ok bets on how long a 800gig hard disk will take to format? #
• Ok bets on how long a 800gig hard disk will take to doemat? #
• Did the BBC do a tribute to Gary Coleman of Different Strokes at the end of the F1 coverage? #
• Right, it’s 5pm. The weekend is now here…right now! Have a good one everyone. #happy #
• I’ve been Tweeting since June 05, 2008 (722 days). How about you? - http://HowLongOnTwitter.com #
• I heard there was a load of Pirates queuing up in Regents street in London this morning….they were looking to buy the new iPatch #
• “Tilke to design new US F1 track” http://bit.ly/cZ4byM No..No. NO! Expect the US GP to be boring then. #f1 #
• What, why is everyone looking at me? I am #notworkingonkillzone3 #
• “German bank robbers in Italian Job moment” http://bit.ly/c1gyaV - I’ve been cracking up since reading that story on the BBC yesterday #fail #
• “German bank robbers in Italian Job moment” http://bit.ly/c1gyaV - I’ve been cracking since reading that story on the BBC yesterday. #fail #
• Ok, where did all this rain wind and….more rain come from? #
• Hmm….camera phone isn’t good enough to show the damage on the bumper. #
• Gah some woman reversed into my car, paintwork on bumper is damaged. #
• Right Super street fighter 4 is 23 quid in Morrisons and not 15 #
• Mass Effect Movie - http://bit.ly/b5I54b Considering how bad most Game to Movie conversions are, I’m sure all Mass Effect fans will worry. #
• Yes if press update when the corrected word is highlighted it doesn’t use the highlighted word it uses your mispelt word. #
• Hmm I am wondering if the official Twitter client has a bug with the spelling of the last wird #
• Everyone missed the England goal in the pub where I am, everyone was staring at a wasp! #
• 27 and melting here in Chippenham. Those cold beers look like they want srubkinf! #
• Ok so if have few beers watching the England footie match and then watch #Lost, will I have a chance of understanding the ending? #
• I will be catching up with Lost later…no spoilers please! #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-05-23 http://bit.ly/aZy85C #

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• I mean exit so quickly… #
• The cat must had known he wasn’t meant to be on my front room… never seen a cat exit front room, garden and fence when I said “oi” #
• My viewing of the football was briefly interrupted by one of the local cats… #
• Right garden sorted out, Doctor Who watched and now I have some cold beers to watch the champions league final. #
• RT @xanthein: @Brammers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmTpOQrqoO0 (For all the Star Wars fans out there!) #
• So @xanthein what’s this execellent video that @sunbug is talking about? #
• Quick pint stop on the way home from work. Need it in this hot weather. #
• Heh, goto http://www.google.co.uk/ and play PacMan! #
• Hot day, hot office… and a Magnum to cool me down! I think a cold pint is in order later! #
• Here is my #followfriday @ProphecyNetwork @Gameburst @adriennepierce @HiddenEloise and @jakehumphreyf1 #
• Hmm…better come up with a few #followfriday’s myself…. #
• Looking at DDR2 ram - how is this old memory type so expensive? #
• /dev/xvda4 has gone 209 days without being checked…..great….. Linux fsck still takes an age…. #
• Right…time to backup my mum’s PC…. 200gig space left on my SAN…that’s just enough space. Any bets on how long it will take to copy? #
• It’s ridiculous, I have more networked entertainment devices than computers now! #
• Just heard the Shakira world cup song on the Radio, it sounds crap imho… #
• And yeah! It’s Monday! First day of the week! Errr…think I took the wrong pills this morning…. #
• Hmm git subtree merging…. lots of “Removing” messages…. That’s gone a bit south, back to square one. #
• Ok time to see if Spotify is worth the 9.99 a month. #
• Monaco Grand Prix results http://bit.ly/bEo2X4 #
• Hmm touchscreen keyboard thinks when I type FIA it thinks I mean DOS… #
• RT @Jamesallenonf1: #f1 FIA stewards have decided that Schumacher’s pass is illegal and add 20 seconds to his time. #
• Still no Stewards decision from Monaco. I am thinking of a quick dash for a few cans of Beer! Will there be a decision before I get back? #
• Going to start on the FF1GP results, but we are still waiting to hear about the Stewards decision in Monaco. #f1 #ff1gp #
• After hearing the arguments I don’t think Schumacher will get any penalty. #f1 #
• If Schumacher is given a 10 second penalty he will end up last…will he not? #f1 #
• Damon Hill is on the Stewards panel - so Schumacher won’t get off lightly after overtaking on a safety car lap #f1 #ff1gp #
• Great win for Webber in Monaco. #f1 #
• Great quote on 5live - Jenson will not want to hear “Push the button” from the sugarbabes #f1 #
• Nooooooo Button is out #f1 #
• Yuck I mean… #
• It’s tuck outside. Well I will just settle for the f1 in Monoaco #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-05-16 http://bit.ly/bE3tpf #

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• You can tell this is a big match for the FA cup final - local pub is empty of a lot football fans. #facup #
• Unlocked ‘Ding! Expert’ in ‘Borderlands™’ http://tinyurl.com/34wu29x #xboxtweet #
• Unlocked ‘There are some who call me…Tim’ in ‘Borderlands™’ http://tinyurl.com/3ymhan4 #xboxtweet #
• Unlocked ‘Discovered Headstone Mine’ in ‘Borderlands™’ http://tinyurl.com/33y768k #xboxtweet #
• Hmm the latest Google maps update has sneaked a new road satnav program onto my phone. #
• So who is left to sue out of all the main SmartPhone makers? #
• RT @neal_revell HTC slaps back at Apple patent slap http://bit.ly/ajOtIh (Can I say Good!) #
• Misread the BBC news website headline “UK coalition leaders in unity vow” I thought there was a unity row! #ge2010 #
• Reinstalled Rainbow Six Vegas - a 2006 game - Hardware check says it needs a 3.0-3.5GHz CPU. Says my Quad i5-750 2.66GHz doesn’t cut it. #
• That has to be the most brutal episode of 24 ever. #
• Just turned over from BBC news 24 to BBC1 … I shouldn’t have bothered… all normal programmes are off. #
• David Cameron waits longer than expected at Birmingham palace while the Queen finds the spare keys for no. 10… #ge2010 #
• So what deal have the lib-dems agreed to? It better be good. #
• Oh change of government - that happen quicker than I expected… #
• Gordon Brown goes…. another step in the right direction. #
• Right the last football matches of the seasons as a Liverpool supporter I will be cheering on Stoke and err … Chelsea #
• Thanks everyone - yeah like that! Right better do the FF1GP results #
• Can one of my followers send me an @ message please? #
• Missed Lewis crashing out… and the Virgin cars did not run out of fuel! #
• Lol - drive through penalty for rejoining the track!? #f1 #
• Meanwhile on using the HTC desire … it is excellent! One thing I wish it could do is link Twitter accounts to contacts. #
• Well that start was … not that exciting #f1 #
• Ahh Spain! One of the greatest f1 races I have been to. Not long to lights out and the smell of burning rubber! #
• Ok where can I find a news channel with other news on? Also what are the chances of Click not being shown today? #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-05-09 http://bit.ly/aV9QiT #

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• Just seen Iron man 2 - excellent film! #
• Grr dam election pushing the F1 off BBC1 - just glad it’s on the red button #f1 #
• After 3 weeks the formula 1 is back #
• Testing Twitter #
• I have a new toy, one HTC Desire! #
• News just in - “There is now no chance of the Conservatives winning a Commons majority.” Good! #ge2010 #
• Hung parliament, I’m not surprised One good bit of news is the Lid-Dems won in Chippenham. #
• Bed calls…. on this very odd night… #
• If there is a coalition between Lib-Dems and Labour, I want to see electoral reform. #ge2010 #
• Ok BBC please push Aastair Campbell into the Thames #ge2010 #
• The BBC is predicting a Conservative overall majority? I hope not…#2010 #
• So….how did the BBC get their giant iPad? #ge2010 #
• And BBC… Thornbury and Yate is not in South Yorkshire (or even South Whiltshire) #ge2010 #
• Why is the BBC interviewing peeps from a piss-up on the Thames in London? #ge2010 #
• Voting done pint in hand - all i can say now is #gonick #
• #ukvote SN15 #
• Right off to vote and have a pint! #
• Don’t forget to vote today! #ge2010 #fb #
• Ok just sticking “Contact” in (Blu-Ray) and I’ve got a FBI warning on Piracy….. #
• Plan for tomorrow. 1) Get up 2) Goto work 3) Go home 4) Go and vote.5) Goto pub next to polling station…. #
• Why all the Tory basher keep bashing the Tories with negative spin? Forget that & put some positive spin on and vote Lib-Dem! #ge2010 #
• Anyone know where I can find a AMD Socket 939 Motherboard? Make and model not too important. #
• Unlocked ‘Headcase’ in ‘Halo® 3: ODST’ http://tinyurl.com/35ful33 #xboxtweet #
• Unlocked ‘Pyro’ in ‘Borderlands™’ http://tinyurl.com/35×5y2g #xboxtweet #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-05-02 http://bit.ly/aEzd3E #

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• RT @jodiekearns: Got this email from one of my favourite London restaurants - the BNP bit made me laugh! http://www.twitpic.com/1k2f6p #
• Redmine 0.9.4 bug/security fix released: This maintenance release fixes more than 30 bugs and several secu… http://bit.ly/dCZZae #redmine #
• Post office #Fail part 2 - Season 3 of the Unit came today….Still missing Season 2 (I have 1,3 and 4) #
• Ok with the availability of GPS and route planning software, why are Parcel Delivery companies unable to give an ETA for delivery? #
• I ordered The Unit Seasons 2,3 and 4 all at the same time. Season 4 has arrived, but not 2 and 3. Post office #Fail #
• http://www.twitVoteUK.org.uk Looks like a LibDem landslide victory! #twitVoteUK #ge2010 #
• Oh great, I am at the mercy of Home Delivery Network…. #
• First Redmine Developer Meeting - 2010-04-30: We have picked a date and time for the first Redmine Develop… http://bit.ly/dqAL1g #redmine #
• I’ve just registered my opinion for my constituency for #ge2010 at http://www.twitVoteUK.org.uk, why don’t you? #twitVoteUK #leadersdebate #
• Note to self: For a CD-Rom drive to work, you do need to plug in the power lead…. #
• Is the hay-fever season early this year? I’m sneezing about a month earlier than I should be. #
• Good afternoon using GIT. Only major issue is git submodules is nowhere near as good as subversion externals I need git submodule add-tag #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-04-25 http://bit.ly/c825fF #

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• RT @stephenfry: Oh dear. My hair is simply too long. I look like James May’s twin sister. (Always good to hear a tweet from @stephenfry!) #
• Opps….my last tweet wasn’t meant to put Twitter over capacity. Anyway, lets hope my 1,000 tweet doesn’t break twitter again! #
• Oh and morning everyone, it’s Friday! and it’s payday as well! #
• 20:00-20:45 Grabs popcorn for the opening of the General Election debate…. 20:05 onwards…grabs beer for the Liverpool match! #
• Android working on the iPhone - http://bit.ly/95jRjY - Now lets see the iPhone OS working on a Android phone.. #iPhone #
• Ok so the choice tonight is the Election Debate, or the Liverpool match. #NickCleggsFault or #NotNickCleggsFault - you decide! #
• The music track on the Lib-Dem’s general election broadcast was bugging me, found it - Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent) - http://bit.ly/7dNI5 #
• Ok, so AVG is about to run out in about 30 days odd. Anyone got any #AntiVirus recommendations? Must work on Windows 7 64bit. #
• £599 quid for the basic iPad - Way too much to be charging for a iPad - http://bit.ly/bdyxZc Will be cheaper to buy a Apple laptop. #
• Try this at work, look out the window and say “Oh I can see a plane”…watch everyone move to the window to try and spot it #ashtag #
• http://xkcd.com/730/ - Quite scared that I can still recognise a flip-flop, the evil version of the 555 timer… #
• Excellent track recommended by @delphi_uk earlier - http://open.spotify.com/track/45qa2mLPlhnD3Ef1kBdyUO Spotify: Airship – Algebra #
• To remove followers. 1) Protect your tweets 2) On the followers page, click the action button and select “Remove” 3) Unprotect your tweets #
• To remove followers. 1) Protect your tweets 2) On the followers page, click the action button and select “Remove” 4) Unprotect your tweets #
• Testing Teamspeak 3 with @neal_revell - very impressed with it, miles ahead of ventrilo! #
• Google Chrome extension for Redmine users: Dmitry Budnik has written a Chrome extension that lets Redmine … http://bit.ly/ak8k7V #redmine #
• I think Vettel was more in the wrong for pushing Hamilton over in the pit lane, but it wasn’t a unsafe release, a racing incident IMHO. #F1 #
• I will be doing the #FF1GP results after watching the F1 Forum on the BBC Red Button. Hope the stewards don’t change the race results. #F1 #
• Wow! good race - Button wins! #f1 #
• Hmm could we see a Hamilton vs Button battle soon? #f1 #
• Just saw the replay of the Vettel and Hamilton - looks like Vettel is in the wrong, and not Hamilton #f1 #
• Button in the lead on lap 20 #f1 #
• RT @sniffpetrol: Mike Gascoyne now Twittering about ‘more raisins in 15 mins’. STOP EATING AND DO SOME WORK. #F1 #
• Hamilton vs Schumacher bring it on! #f1 #
• Hamilton is going to be in a lot of trouble over that pit stop… #f1 #
• Ha! Like the shot of Chalie pointing at Alonso at the start “I saw that!” #f1 #
• Why does Bernie give such bad interviews to the BBC? #f1 #
• RT @Ian_Phillipson: @NobleF1 Bernie unveils revised F1 Calendar: Bahrain, Oz, Malaysia, Shanghai, Shanghai, Shanghai, Shanghai.. #
• Morning! Who is up early watching the F1? #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-04-18 http://bit.ly/bAxx9Q #

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• Morning - watching the F1 qualifying. #
• RT @SirBlimelyWindy: @brammers sure it’s not a well-hung parliament? #ge2010 (Gave me a good chuckle!) #
• http://bit.ly/awMhb1 Makes May 6th interesting - everyone being nearly neck-n-neck, which will mean one very hung Parliament #ge2010 #
• RT @CCPGames: CCP Greyscale wrote a new dev update about deep space: http://bit.ly/cZL9xv WTB - bookmark thats 95k light years from its sun #
• Watching #F1 Second Practice re-run on BBC Red Button, if you want to see Sebastien Buemi crash, tune in about 7:55pm #
• It’s the weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekend!!! Have a good one everyone! #feelgoodtime #
• I think Nick Clegg came out well from that, he addressed the questions asked a lot better than the other 2 did #eadersdebate #
• That got more interesting as it went on. #leadersdebate #
• Politicians being honest? Since when has there been a honest politician #
• Now for a interesting question- expenses! #
• Not that impressed with the debate so far… #
• Right…time to grab popcorn and watch the election debate. #
• Except I should have gone out a lot earlier if I wanted to take a picture of the sunset…I got a red haze instead. #
• So there is supposed to be a spectacular sunset tonight, with all this volcanic ash in the area? TIme to grab the camera! #
• Getting Avatar on Blu-ray/DVD 4/22 #
• Right after an evening of music, GIT, emails and tweeting about red hair.. Goodnight all! #
• Glastonbury 2010 - Muse (Yes!), Faithless (Yes!) and Florence and the Machine (OH YES!), and so much more! http://bit.ly/d8Bgrb #fb #
• RT @glastofest: The 2010 Glastonbury Festival line-up is revealed - http://bit.ly/2010lineup #glasto #
• Now to other things, sorting out a IRC web client for @ProphecyNetwork before @neal_revell nags me. #
• Quite a few issues sorted out with GIT… Now have a server setup working at home, it works with Redmine. Just now need to use it more. #
• So the iPad launch is delayed. I feel so sorry for all the Apple fans out there, no honest really I do! #
• …And I can’t spell Tortoise tonight…. keep missing that o! #
• Git is clever - I added a identical file (Different name), removed the old one. It spotted this, and treated it as a rename operation. #
• Hmm discussion of straight or bendy keybaords…..can we not go there please? #
• …And I’m getting annoyed with this ergonomic keyboard. It has a curve that causes me to press enter, when I want to press backspace. #
• RT @chastmeister: http://xkcd.com/723/ - So true and re-re-tweeting since Tweetdesk shorten a short link already…. #
• RT @chastmeister: http://bit.ly/cVXJkW (So true!) #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-04-11 http://bit.ly/a1ad6G #

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• And back home after some 4WD action on the Welsh hills, and also an excellent BBQ with @alexcstanley, @chastmeister and everyone else! #
• Fantastic sunny day in Wales today - I an off to do some 4WD off road driving #fb #
• Been messing around with GIT today. An odd moment was when GIT refused to add empty directories. I found this useful http://bit.ly/9NCCAk #
• I’m chuckling at a Fail2Ban report - a IP has been banned, and the location in the whois is listed as “opp. Begum Peth police station” #
• Ok the iPhone OS4 - is there a video somewhere from the conference? #
• Although isn’t the #debill getting another debate tonight, before being voted on? #
• I choose not to recognise the UK’s Digital Economy Bill #whatdebill #debill http://whatdebill.org #
• Beep…..Beep….Beep….Beep B-B-B-B-Beeep! #24 #
• Hmm…an Android phone or wait for a Windows 7 Mobile phone? #
• Right everyone, you have 30 days to decide which bunch of crooks you want to vote for. #ge2010 #fb #
• Right finished a bit of tweaking on the #FF1GP site - Bit of food, beer and Just Cause 2 calls! #
• Anyone know any good javascript date handling libraries (Besides DateJS) #javascript #jquery #
• …thats after I fixed the error mailing code to not fall over when it tries to send more that 1meg of log attachments . #
• …thats after I fixed the error mailing code to not fall over when it tries to send more that 1meg of log attachemen #
• Has just received 4megs of error logs from his websites as a result of the MySQL server falling over this morning. #
• That was a cracking race to watch. Will do the #ff1gp results after the post race coverage #
• A black and white for Lewis - thats a flag you dont see that often. #
• And Button overtakes Alonso! #
• Fantastic battle between Lewis and Petrov #
• Morning and happy Easter Watching the F1 looking like a good race #fb #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-04-04 http://bit.ly/a7DC0l #

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• Dr Who - Early days I guess for Matt Smith, however Karen Gillan was great! And the picture in HD was gorgeous! #
• Ohh some interesting news at the LHC http://bit.ly/dtxCkU #
• This is brilliant http://xkcd.com/ Type ls, or any linux command or apt-get moo #aprilfool #
• Day 42 - Well come this Sunday, I’ll be allowed to touch cola again! Can’t believe I’ve got this far without touching a drop. #
• Why do they need to make a sequel to Independence Day? - http://bit.ly/cKsWDN #
• Great - so Freeview HD is going to have more HD channels than Freesat HD - http://bit.ly/9FH8m3 #
• I wonder what’s in the air in Wiltshire - That’s the 2nd night I had with bugger all sleep. #fb #
• Oh and to you know who…. I now have Borderlands! #
• Ebay = One excellent area to get cheap copies of Xbox games. #
• What’s new in trunk: Subtasking: Subtasking, one of the most requested features was committed in trunk a f… http://bit.ly/bl3yIf #redmine #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-03-28 http://bit.ly/cfkmnL #

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• This Earth Hour was ok upto a point - I was blinded by the Fridge lights when I went to get a cold beer… #
• Just had a call from the Lib Dem’s while cooking tea - Have the @libdems never heard of the Telephone Preference Service list? #fail #
• Anyone know how to clear the dictionary of user words on a Nokia #N95? Got one too many mis-spellings in it. #
• Everyone - there is some good news. It’s Friday! #
• I’ve finally got a copy of Lego Star wars for the Xbox, I will finally be able to give @Siygess his copy back! #
• I’ve found some amusing old Neocron game footage…time for a bit of fun I think! #neocron #
• Played the Just Cuase 2 demo - reminds me a bit of Far Cry 2 a bit, but with more destruction. #
• Opera Mini Countup http://is.gd/aU8g6 So what is the chances of Opera getting approved for the iPhone. #Opera #
• Anyone know a way to copy a HD image off one PC to another PC via the network? (Looking for a Linux solution ideally) #
• Best error message I’ve had today “Cannot find Adobe Acrobat” Unfortunately it was found a short while later… #
• Day 34 - Just over 10 days left! Although I’m thirsty, and I would like something other than Tea Coffee or water! #NoCola4Lent #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-03-21 http://bit.ly/9OBGJJ #

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