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BECAUSE ALL THE MAJOR INFLUENCERS ARE THERE!11! - Andy Bakun

They are also on the public web. Your comment here reminds me I should turn off friendfeed. - Dave Beckett

"Juicy sweet burger and nicely spicy Cajun fries. Recommended" - Dave Beckett

Later resolved "except for fn:error, fn:round-half-to-even, the op:*, and fn:compare and including RAND() and RAND(X)" - Dave Beckett

Interesting article on the background and some of the details of the latest Zynga social gaming work and the game mechanics - Dave Beckett

Not for serving needs or data size, but for distribution and handing network partitions. - Dave Beckett

"Thanks. If people are interested in this kind of thing it will encourage me to write more." - Dave Beckett

"Thanks for the nice comment. I've done all of the SPARQL 1.1 syntax except property paths in GIT, mostly because it adds a dozen new rules and I'd need to invent a lot of new internal classes and API calls to represent them - it's really an entire new query language. I'll get to it sometime, so that 4store (and others) can use it. I'm still not planning to execute them anytime soon, ahead of the other items I mention in the post." - Dave Beckett

Crazy but true. macports fucked up my PATH and only this explained how rm ~/.profile would fix it. - Dave Beckett

cassandra 0.6 - Dave Beckett

Yet another scm+++ the world didn't need. Incredibly hard to check out sqlite source code now. - Dave Beckett

"Friend service and tasty crepes" - Dave Beckett

Based on Disqus - Dave Beckett from Bookmarklet

"Hamachi shots - great. Best burger in bay area. Great cocktails. But you are paying for it! Ate dinner in tshirt, shorts and sandals, so you can go very casual." - Dave Beckett

Auditioning: "We value intelligent contributions, respect for community etiquette, good grammar, and not feeding the trolls. Proper use of punctuation, capitalization and time taken in typing will earn you extra points. Ignoring any of the above will subtract considerably." - Dave Beckett from Bookmarklet

Massive co-ordinated use of Bury by haters. - Dave Beckett from Bookmarklet

"OMG chocolate eclair with caramel. Delicious and not too sweet" - Dave Beckett

"Tasty turkey foccacia salad lunch in a pleasant chilled environment." - Dave Beckett

Comments on a "A plethora of technical errors and misrepresentations in Leo Hickman’s article" in the Guardian. - Dave Beckett from Bookmarklet

Some require git 1.7.2 which is bleeding edge - Dave Beckett

Some require git 1.7.2 which is bleeding edge - Dave Beckett

"Queen Elizabeth II is joining other proud parents starting Monday in showing off and sharing her photo albums — and those of the House of Windsor — on the online Flickr photo site." - Dave Beckett from Bookmarklet

How Digg does continuous deployment Hudson + Gerrit for pre-approved/verified commits. Hmm. - Dave Beckett from Bookmarklet

This is from an article on the FT which I'm not going to bother to link to since it's behind a paywall. Just google for the title and you'll be able to read the article, and I do mean google. - Dave Beckett

Oops - I like big Botts

:( tried not working for a bit? you might even get better soon, an overall win for the employer! hope you feel better... - Dan Brickley

I was on vacation the previous week. This sneezing seems to have been triggered by grass allergies. - Dave Beckett

"From tomorrow, the Sun Chronicle, a Massachusetts paper, will charge would-be commenters a nominal one-off fee of 99 cents. But it has to be paid by credit card, which means providing a real name and address." - Dave Beckett from Bookmarklet

Speaking at OSCON 2010 - Dave Beckett from Bookmarklet

""I have been using the forums for over five years, reporting bugs and trying to be helpful. Now, to have the privilege to help people on the forums I have to reveal my real name; I'm dead against it," he said." - Dave Beckett from Bookmarklet

"To help create content for the blog, called The Upshot," (link included in article, elided here). -- REDACTED COMMENT. - Dave Beckett from Bookmarklet

I've often wondered that - I like big Botts

I haven't connected friendfeed to facebook, so they might all end up here. - Dave Beckett

I should note that it's the storytelling - full of humor and heart. The amazing visuals and music enhance well - Dave Beckett