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Most tweeted Columbo episodes

Sadly, Peter Falk died this week.  This means a lot of people are tweeting about Columbo.  Instead of doing all the things I ought to be doing today like exercising, working on an upcoming project and feeding myself I wrote … Continue reading

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Twitter rate limiting and Google App Engine

@markovator has been silent for some time. He’d been replying to people but he’d not been able to come up with his own original tweets. The reason for this is the that he was being rate limited by Twitter. Initially … Continue reading

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Markovator – Python + Google App Engine + Markov chains + Twitter

As a child a chat bot program called NIALL made quite an impression on me.  It came on one of those demo floppy disks from some PC magazine I forget the name of now.  NIALL stands for Non Intelligent Acquired … Continue reading

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Is Michael Arrington Lying To Us?

Michael Arrington of the popular tech blog TechCrunch just twittered the following: I’m now using the techcrunch toolbar to post to twitter. awesome http://www.techcrunch.com/t… However anyone familiar with Twitter will know that each tweet, when listed on the Twitter site, … Continue reading

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It’s who you follow, stupid

A while back David asked me which service I preferred for aggregating my social feeds, FriendFeed or Socialthing.  Both services aim to provide different ways to manage, consume and post to the different streams of information we receive and push … Continue reading

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