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open source hippy contributing to OLPC, statusnet, cpan, drupal and a few more. LCA2010 organiser.
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day 4- a habit that you wish you didn’t have
Mellopuffy
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soup? little bit of work to
Why samesex marriage is wrong
Steve Bell
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Very funny, and very
Dee Wallace
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I love this witty, satirical
Open Labour this Saturday
Jeremy Naylor
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Are you planning to go it?
I
Jeremy Naylor
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Are you planning to go to it?
Setting for SoCNoC
Shiny
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There's some further info
ocean
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I took a little stroll
how bad are the wellington trains?
Reed
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Jville line seems to be
meeting with womenintechnology.co.nz
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Are they no more?
things i learned about corn recently
Vik Olliver
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There's a science fiction
the weather on my birthday
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Awww - Happy
A Peaceful Moment
Mackenzie
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Oh good, that's precisely
why the poor end up paying more for less
pete
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The law is perfectly clear -
MPs on twitter
Shiny
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You may take all the data
Stasha
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Hi Brenda, I find this very
Infant Formula during Disasters.
Shiny
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link to research please? You
Siskiya
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Breast feeding plays very
On breastfeeding
Shiny
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If you're going to make
Siskiya
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Recently, research team
that's not how you make coffee
Alex Carmel
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Well, if they're really
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day 4- a habit that you wish you didn’t have
soup? little bit of work to do the chopping but that's it.... ;)
Why samesex marriage is wrong
Very funny, and very effective as an argument
@ Dee Wallace
So you hike up to the Wallace monument only to turn your back on it and look at the view? Whoever designed the momument would be mightily brassed off with you, if he/she is still alive, otherwise indulging in the traditional sepulcular angular momentum.
Off topic; my favourite story about Stirling Castle.
"This Abbott tuik in hand to flie with wingis...and to that effect he causet mak ane pair of wingis of fedderis, quhilkis beand fessenit apoun him, he flew of the Castell wall of Striveling [Stirling], hot shortlie he fell to the ground and brak his thee-bane. Bot the wyt [blame] thairof he ascryvit to that thair was sum hen fedderis in the wingis, quhilk yarnit and covet the mydding [dunghill] and not the skyis.'
Another telling of the same story in verse has the bird-man falling into a bog "up to the eyne [eyes]"
A sad tale of over-reliance on technology and inadequate testing for bugs.
I love this witty, satirical list. It's way better to get the point across than serious arguments. I'm saving it to my "favourites" file. So, Wallace, eh? I'm in Canada but originally from Scotland. Have you visited the Wallace Monument near Stirling Castle in Scotland? It's at the top of a long climb, but worth it for the spectacular view of Stirlingshire. So much Scottish history there and quite stirring!
Thanks for the laugh!
Open Labour this Saturday
Are you planning to go it?
I am.
Are you planning to go to it?
I am.
Setting for SoCNoC
There's some further info @
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/tombeard/vicino/history_tearo_waimapihi...
I took a little stroll through Waimapihi Park over the weekend and was more intreaged by the windchimes, butterflies and ribbons.. at first I thought some young girls from the street must have turned the clearing into their little 'hangout spot' then i saw the flowers attached to the tree.. it was then somone who I was with whispered.. "I think somone died here". So I got closer and found a note saying Happy 4th birthday samantha..( I think her name was)..
That was it for me. For the past 24 hours I've thought hard on this little place.. when tonight I spent over an hour searching for answers.. So far all I've managed to pull up is that this place is called spirit hill and it's a pet cemetary? But who was Samantha?
how bad are the wellington trains?
Jville line seems to be pretty reliable. Sometimes it's late and rarely it's broken -- but they always send an SMS so you know.
There have be pre-scheduled switches to buses while they're doing the upgrades.
But, on average it just works and I love it. And I like the train people.
I hear the Hutt lines aren't as lucky and that's the source of a lot of the bad press they've gotten lately.
New trains are coming soon and maybe that solves everything.
meeting with womenintechnology.co.nz
I not that typing in the web address www.womenintechnology.co.nz now brings up a page saying that the domain name is parked.
Great technology eh?
Maybe they need a geek?
things i learned about corn recently
There's a science fiction book called The Death of Grass:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Death_of_Grass
Vik :v)
the weather on my birthday
Awww - Happy birthday.
Remember that, as comitted Wellingtonians, we live here despite the weather.
A Peaceful Moment
Oh good, that's precisely what I thought as soon as I saw taht photo. Even as I type in this box, I can see the angel's hand and bottom of wing*. I'm watching you, Angel! Don't try anything funny!
* note: *not* the eyes!
why the poor end up paying more for less
The law is perfectly clear - it is just as illegal for the wealthy to beg food and sleep under bridges as it is for the poor.
MPs on twitter
You may take all the data above. No need for attribution to me - i don't think i added enough.
I have further data - enough to calculate "interaction" % over time, if it's going up or down. i'm happy to provide this data to you as a postgres database table dump.
As for facebook, their api doesn't allow the same easy access (last i checked). I'll have a think about it, but really my todo list is pretty long already.
Hi Brenda, I find this very interesting as I am currently conducting research into how NZ MPs are using social networking sites for my Masters degree. I was wondering if you would be ok with me incorporating this information into my thesis? I was also wondering if you have ever considered doing anything similar to calculate how much interaction is occurring on MPs Facebook profiles? I look forward to hearing back from you.
What exactly indicates a 'broadcast'?
It is a crude measure yes.
I do see that 0% though, shows no engagement. (give it time to accumulate more tweet though). To be using the service but unable to find a single thing to reply to indicates they aren't reading it. It doesn't tell you why they're not reading as well as writing.
I reckon that what it indicates, more than anything else, is whether they are in government or in opposition. A government minister universally doesn't appear to have the time to read this service they're broadcasting to.
I question your premise (well, your wording) somewhat here Brenda. Using @-replies and saying that means "actually engaging" is probably the best that can be done automatically, but it's based on a hypothesis that that's a good way to operate. @-replies aren't seen by anybody except people following the person being replied to, so it cuts down on interaction in some way. It's still fairly difficult to follow conversations (particularly forwards) using Twitter, so it's not really a conversational medium that's anywhere near effective as, say, a group chat room.
@Darienfenton provides a good example of this. Her "reply" tweets are the least interesting part of her stream. It's the broadcast portion that provides interest. There's a human with a life behind those tweets. If I was to follow her, it would be interesting, even though I'm unlikely to be following many of the people she's replying to and thus, by your count, not seeing around 70% of her recent tweets.
I realise this comes down to a difference in perception in the way Twitter might be useful and how people read it, but this is a particular sore point of mine because I see a lot of commentary that people expect others to always reply, when that can very arguably decrease the value of the medium.
Still, an interesting piece of automation and I definitely agree that some of those accounts are nothing more than a token presence. That doesn't really correspond with your "'engagement" measure though.
done
you're right. i think i need to exclude @redalertblog
Infant Formula during Disasters.
link to research please? You appear to be referring to the same research i mention in the other post you commented on. The debunked IQ difference. In studies in developed countries most people who breastfeed are wealthy and/or have tertiary education - This is the biggest reason why breastfeed child perform well in IQ tests (which btw are not a good test of "intelligence" at all) - and also a very likely reason for the many other benefits that show up.
Breast feeding plays very important reole in child's progress. Even if infant can grow without it, it has been proved that child who is not grown up breast feeding milk, they don't have resistance power and clever brain. Their all activities are slow. They take more time in each activity. It's not possible to create milk by any formula.
Recently, research team declare that, there are stem cells included in 1st milk after the child birth. New Mom should give 1st breast feeding to baby immediately in 3 hours time to infant. This milk has excellent proteins and everything which needs to increase resistance power. Child become more healthy due to this milk. Breast feeding should be continue till child become 1 year old. This is good for child as well as mother. For Child this is the best proteinex and for mother it helps to reduce excess weight / obesity. other wise New moms has to take help of phentermine tablet to control obesity. Maximum period of breast feeding reduces risk of breast cancer.
On breastfeeding
If you're going to make claims like these, you'll need to cite some references -- As i said in the post, many of the studies have not been independantly verified, and attempts to do so often fail to find the same differences.
One thing for sure, new moms who don't breastfeed do not need to routinely take Phentermine to avoid becoming obese. Where the heck did you get that from?
Recently, research team declare that, there are stem cells included in 1st milk after the child birth. New Mom should give 1st breast feeding to baby immediately in 3 hours time to infant. This milk has excellent proteins and everything which needs to increase resistance power. Child become more healthy due to this milk. Breast feeding should be continue till child become 1 year old. This is good for child as well as mother. For Child this is the best proteinex and for mother it helps to reduce excess weight / obesity. other wise New moms has to take help of Phentermine tablet to control obesity. Maximum period of breast feeding reduces risk of breast cancer.
that's not how you make coffee
Well, if they're really intent on pulling a very long shot instead of doing the right thing, there's two steps they can take:
1) Grind slightly coarser
-and-
2) Use a triple basket and dose around 18-21 grams
Then at least it won't be ridiculously over extracted. I do something similar for my morning allongés, but I stop at about 60 mL and grind just a tad coarser then a double shot.