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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-15

January 15th, 2012

Fourth powercut in a week at home knocks out DNS, Squid & load balancer; web & phone system u/s as a result. Physcl access req'd to reset. #

January 8th, 2012

The Christmas stable dismantled & stored ready for next year's display. £116 collected for http://t.co/SZ21XbBC #
Finished taking the Christmas Lights down. Lovely sunny day, very lucky & thankful not wet, but boy am I cold. #brassmonkeys #

January 1st, 2012

My new DSO Nano is smaller than the the screen of my old 'scope and is even thinner than the bezel depth. Amazing what can be done today. #

December 25th, 2011

Off to Crib Service shortly at St. John's, where Grace is playing "Second King". #
Changing bulb in blowmould Father Christmas leads to fuse blowing and half of the rest of the lights failing. Now all fixed. #
That thing where you get organised, buy a present early then can't find it when you need to do the wrapping. Grrr. #
Long queue to collect turkey. Actually long queues everywhere. #
Working at office with daughter in tow. Just had a lovely breakfast & cup of tea. Fortunately Chicken Smoothie not blocked! #
Sorry for the noise: Testing Twitter Tweets (what other sort are there?) –> Google+ using http://t.co/Zix3Fw3P Let's see now… #

December 18th, 2011

RT @coolcomponents: delivery of Conductive Thread in t'day-why not sew that flashing santa suit…<=No flashing Santas around here, please! #
Wahey! What excites us Landrover drivers => RT @LucasBlack: SNOW WARNING http://t.co/ULK4cdvR #
Just finished a nice chat about the #IOT and #Pachube related stuff with the man from Intel. #
WFH today. Against: ruddy Citrix keeps timing out. For: P&Q, Smell of mince pies being baked, the view of the common bathed in sunshine. #

December 4th, 2011

Here's a picture of the lights – just for you, @anthonyshenton http://t.co/L7ottAok #
All the Christmas lights put up & tested. Half an hour to Countdown and grand switch on. #
Am in need of medicinal rum. Only have it available infused with this season's sloes. It's EXCELLENT. Hope it makes me sleep. #
RT @jimmy_young: I actually love this – http://t.co/0Q3bepXo – A combination of Handels Messiah, flyin… (cont) http://t.co/1ot89jvG #
Started putting up the Christmas lights. Bright, warm sunshine, & very light shower leads to rainbow. http://t.co/GMnkGzIh #

November 27th, 2011

Another reindeer now out of the loft for rewiring this evening with LEDs for this year's Christmas lights display. #

November 20th, 2011

Probably not for the traditionalist Landrover owner: http://t.co/DJHYQs9N via @Telegraph #
RT Pictures of Tractors -> @FarmersWeekly: RT @Will_FW: Latest photos from #agritechnica11 up here http://t.co/DaVidGug #agritechnica #

November 13th, 2011

Just completed the final DNS change for one of our major sites that recently acquired a new owner. Good Luck, http://t.co/8SmY3Keu #
Developers at work asking for Apache rewrite rules for one of our sites that will make spagetti. Trying to resist. #