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There are several hundred thousand terabytes of data on The Internet, here are my latest contributions to it:

	There must be an automation-friendly interface to the Debian bugtracker, but I can't find it. Anyone know where it is?	916 minutes ago
	Why did 'modernising' the Linux desktop involve breaking workspaces? That's one of the things you got right 10 years ago.	36 hours ago
	Well, this afternoon has been a good lesson in the fragility of Wordpress.	57 hours ago
	@Raspberry_Pi as long as you don't say which month is the month, you're fine! :)	61 hours ago
	As if this wasn't surreal enough, Vikings just turned up unannounced.	86 hours ago
	"I was expecting hundreds of people and tents everywhere but instead it's eight guys in a bombshelter"	122 hours ago
	Clearly nobody has told SOCA of the difference between theft and licence infringement. http://t.co/eagNZMzo	ages ago
	@elwoodicious yeah that's what I did. Just not until I noticed today that I actually hadn't enabled all those sites yesterday...	ages ago
	Handy hint: a2ensite only processes one argument and silently ignores the rest; `a2ensite *` doesn't do what I thought it did.	ages ago
	Motor? That's not a motor. http://t.co/x5nVebGj	ages ago
	lets set the domain before checking its nullness	ages ago
	Removed all use of getUser & setUser, cleaned docs accordingly and tidied up bits and pieces. Long overdue commit	ages ago
	@notch seems to be a one-man apache load-testing tool. Wonder if I can use his popularity to test some of my servers...	ages ago
	Drowning Pool – Reminded	ages ago
	@bokkiedog Not yet. So far everything that was an apt-get install away has been a yum install away. It's come on a bit in the past few years	ages ago
	Limp Bizkit – My Way	ages ago
	Even the "Movie player need some more codecs for this, want me to install them?" thing works! I've never seen that work on any Linux!	ages ago
	Hm. 3 days in and Fedora's still not managed to annoy me with anything. That's a little surprising.	ages ago
	RT @cycleworks Anyone recognise this man? He stole a bike from Us, and a few other bike shops on Saturday http://t.co/rCsjs49s	ages ago
	Why are there so many ways to authenticate for IMAP and, more importantly, why do none of them appear to work?	ages ago
	F22	ages ago
	I think I've just reached a new height (or low) in doing Bad Things with symlinks, mountpoints and vpopmail.	ages ago
	@bokkiedog He tries to. He's got Sim City working on it I think.	ages ago
	@bokkiedog Jon's got the Windows laptop, but Craig's got his Stevebook out, too.	ages ago
	Someone's brought a Windows PC in to work. It's hilarious watching him try to do anything.	ages ago
	On second thoughts, throwing snowballs at the guy with the snow shovel was a bad idea.	ages ago
	Various lets-not-use-the-setters changes. Still compiles, but doesn't actually work	ages ago
	Say what you like about it, Aptitude does at least have a sense of humour when it comes to concocting 'solutions'.	ages ago
	I had no idea snow shovels were so poor for clearing snow.	ages ago
	I've lost track; is the vertical thing on the left with the icons in it in Unity supposed to auto-hide in 12.04? Mine doesn't.	ages ago
	Why do OS installers still measure partitions in MB? Surely there's enough spare cycles knocking around to use GB where appropriate.	ages ago
	I was, of course, referring to Arch's package manager, not Pinky's friend.	ages ago
	pacman's got the feel of something that was designed by somebody who knew he'd never need to use it.	ages ago
	10 O'Clock live is like a terrible version of something familiar, but I can't quite work out what.	ages ago
	Royal Liver Assurance	ages ago
	So, turns out ctrl-j in bash executes the current command. Which is what you get when you hit ctrl-c on a qwerty keyboard mapped to dvorak.	ages ago
	Filling in the form to get off the @LashBackInc spam blacklist feels an awful lot like signing up for spam...	ages ago
	I've heard good things about Fedora and OpenSUSE's packaging of KDE, but my fondness for dpkg means I've not yet given them the chance.Debian's seems less bonkers than Ubuntu's, but I'm not a KDE user so I don't know how much of that bonkers is KDE and how much is Debian's packaging of it.	ages ago
	Kubuntu's never really been a good way to use KDE. I don't have much love of KDE, but many people package it better than Ubuntu.If what you want is old Gnome just use XFCE; Xubuntu in canonical-speak.	ages ago
	I'm not really sure that Unity is a tablet UI. They've replaced a menu with a search box, do tablet UIs normally involve more typing and less pointing?	ages ago