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Olly Betts Stewart Smith

@stewart squitter!

Olly Betts Stewart Smith

Why are there no aspirins in the jungle? Because the paracetamol.

Olly Betts

Jenny's at sea gathering data. At breakfast the weetbix box was infested with bugs. I said she must report the bugs if she wants them fixed.

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Video of my #osdc2011 talk last week "The Art of Writing Small Programs" is already up: http://ur1.ca/61j75

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I'm at #osdc11 this week - speaking later today about "The Art of Writing Small Programs"

Olly Betts Evan Prodromou

voted for "No"

Olly Betts Stewart Smith

ah well, enjoy the flight - i'll guess I'll catch up with you at OSDC

Olly Betts Stewart Smith

You should be able to find vegemite in larger UK supermarkets. I'm in the UK currently - are you still here?

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I'm at #kiwipycon this weekend - come and say hi if you're around too.

Olly Betts

Today I was somewhat surprised to learn that malaria is a problem for penguins!

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I feel I've somehow slipped from NZ to Narnia - always winter, never christmas

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I've written a new blog post about th Xapian 1.3.x development series: http://survex.com/~olly/blog/xapian/xapian-1.3-branched.html

Olly Betts Jonathan "Duke" Leto

@leto re estimating time, I had a boss who multiplied by 3, then shifted to the next larger units, so: 5 mins -> 15 hours; 2 days -> 6 weeks

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Olly Betts Andrew McMillan

@karora No "English (New Zealand)" option?

Olly Betts The Xapian Project

I (and other !xapian folk) will be at the "search event": CB2 coffee house, Cambridge, UK Tues evening http://searchevent.org/meetup-2011-1

Olly Betts Richard Boulton

Racing @rboulton to Dublin airport (we bought return tickets with different bus companies). Think he's winning.

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Getting ready for the final day of #ecir2011 in Dublin. Looks like there are some particularly interesting talks today.

Olly Betts Google's Summer of Code , The Xapian Project

Initial analysis of !gsoc applications to !xapian http://survex.com/~olly/blog/xapian/xapian-gsoc-applications-for-2011.html

Olly Betts Google's Summer of Code , The Xapian Project , The Xapian Project

♺ @xapian: !Xapian has been accepted as a mentoring org in !gsoc this year - head on over to #xapian on irc.freenode.net to get involved