Month: November 2011

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-27

  • @colettebrowne would be a shame to hold anybody in public life accountable or up to public scrutiny #
  • @GTCost @liamooo Dr. Hjalmar Schacht who was the nazi minister for economics may have been considered a techno… (cont) http://t.co/HG03R8NK #
  • @GTCost @liamooo can't see it meeting the definition of a technocracy on that basis #
  • @GTCost @liamooo all those ministers without portfolio hardly meets the definition of a technocracy. Althoug… (cont) http://t.co/E1eQUkbM #
  • RT @businessinsider: This Anti-Semitic Vodka Billboard Will Be Removed From Manhattan's West Side Any Secon… (cont) http://t.co/nS3iPVAe #
  • @GTCost @liamooo have some experience of DG-info. I'd like to hang on to my research grant so I'll shut up now 🙂 #
  • RT @topgold: Amazon Pepper Spray just gone north of 300 customer comments: http://t.co/8wwLV7Vo <poor user experience #
  • @normanwyse anyone for a proclamation of independence for the South East? 🙂 #
  • Fascinating (if very long) Berkman Centre debate on anonymity, defamation & privacy in online journalism http://t.co/jAbMZi5l #
  • RT @businessinsider: Officially Eurobonds Are Taboo But Behind The Scenes Nothing Has Been Ruled Out http://t.co/h78NkFHp <no surprise #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-20

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Yes Siri

It’s here and it works. Despite a notable bug that means you have to disable/restart to get it to work, I’ve found it to be genuinely useful and usable. So far, I’ve used it to calculate areas, find facts, send emails, setup a reminder and do pretty similar things to those I use wolfram alpha for. Voice command curve-fitting could be very tedious though 🙂

No coincidence of course as Siri uses alpha at the backend for much of the “personal assistant” knowledge finding tasks I’ve described. There’s some cool tricks described here at iphonehacks.com. The morse code feature is particularly geeky/nerdy and I’m looking forward to trying it out with my colleague and ham radio enthusiast, John Ronan, on Monday.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-13

  • Italy's 10 yr bonds are up http://t.co/Uexw8bIz (via @brianmlucey) + an article by Ed Hugh on Italy's debt dynamics http://t.co/657EhXKv #
  • Seem to have wrenched something in my back. Very sore #ouch #
  • @paulmwatson sounds like the 7th circle of google+ hell #
  • @paulmwatson of course they are and they become sad if we don't show them brand love 🙂 #
  • bbc news seem to think it's "serious to call Netanyahu a liar". Is it really? Sounds like a statement of fact tbh #
  • So Italy's 10 yr rate (http://t.co/Uexw8bIz) is a bona fide debt snowball http://t.co/ZYj6s8dR over+out #
  • RT @GTCost: RT @zerohedge: Can we please get some fat European eurocrat telling us that Italy is not Greece? < …til the fat eurocrat sings #
  • @cscotta @jkeyes this is relatively common & I've even heard of it done by 2 Irish tech companies. But yeah, it's a disgusting tactic #
  • Weren't troika's commissions of 3 who convicted ppl without trial in the Soviet Union during the "great purge"? Appropriate really #
  • @normanwyse calls for a New Europe. It's odd that the rest of us view Europe as a continent but Germany always thinks of it as a power bloc #
  • @Mickipedia "leverage" is pretty awful too 🙂 #
  • @damienmulley that's a v reasonable price. I've paid much more for much less. Will definitely visit @RPGuilbaud for lunch soon. #
  • @mrs_bopp Ireland appears to be finished sooner. Last 1 out has to turn off the lights #
  • RT @carolinesimons: Sarkozy – 'a sort of small scale Caligula' http://t.co/bv82RBCX < tragically true #
  • @jmason nice to see that 5th century english women went to battle in clothes befitting an FHM cover shoot #
  • @JamesMcCarthy99 ouch, painful but true 🙂 #
  • Will _somebody_ please arrest James Murdoch 🙂 #
  • @jmason I also learned that broken fingers heal in a day. King Artie was a level 9 lesson on history, medicine and gender equality. #