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Coffee Tasting Results

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Personal
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How do you relate to your twitter followers?

You see, my twitter feed is public, so it's not like following me will help you, unless you're interested in what I have to say and want that delivered to you. I don't know why @QuitSmokingZone is int...

Random
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VPSLand Staff: illiterate, incompetent or just don't care?

Time passed, servers churned, and for the most I was happy. Then MooBox's VPS dropped off the face of the ether. An email to support had the issue resolved in slightly more time that I'd hoped and all...

TechnologyWork
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Senator Stephen Fielding Seeing Spots

While the solar flares debate, which Senator Fielding has recently cottoned on to, has been around for many years, no evidence exists to link them to the current warming, according to Graeme Pearman, ...

EnvironmentPolitics
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Australian Bushfires - Housing the Homeless

Like so many people around the world, we have been touched by the devastating effects of the 2009 bushfires that have swept through Victoria and New South Wales and wanted to use the skills we have to...

Uncategorized
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StixCampNewstead - the next BarCampMelbourne - seeking sponsors

So what is this StixCamp I speak of? The first ever BarCamp in Australia was [BarCampMelbourne](http://barcampmelbourne.org/) 2007, and it was held at Lake Eppalock. Given two people got lost and ther...

Random
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3 months of news; has microblogging killed the blog?

Could it be that more frequent microblogs on Identica and Twitter are to blame for the drop in frequency on this site? Or was it just a busy time of year? I'm not sure.

ConferenceExtra CurriculaRandom
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Dear Temptee: Beware of Microsoft's BizSpark

> SAN FRANCISCO, November 5 Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Microsoft BizSpark, a global program designed to help accelerate the success of entrepreneurs and early-stage startups. BizSpark provides sta...

Open SourceRant
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Making comments more accessible

Russ identifies these attributes of a comment:

Work Life
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Mothers will do anything to help their kids

> Hello Ben I am trying to urgently locate someone who could assist my son with a web programming Uni assignment, which needs to be finished by Friday. The person would be well remunerated. I look for...

Random
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Will Cloud Computing Violate your Privacy and Security?

That's what I understood from the show. I'm not entirely sure how Chrome fits in to the equation, but I'll get to that later.

TechnologyPrivacySecurity
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The trend of me

Every time someone says something about you or related to you (according to your search conditions) it'll appear in your reader. One instance this came in useful is when someone misspelt my name in th...

Technology