Luke Hubbard: Creative hacker living in bangkok working for new media agency codegent. Always on the lookout for talent, checkout our jobs page for info.
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BTW.. those incorrect maths were delivered in an article with headline "GPO confident of enough flu drug" #irony
- 5/11, 1pm
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Alu-z were the only one we could find with "european" design/quality windows made in TH. Others either do the cheap style or imports.
- 5/9, 3am
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@smartbrain So the situation is worse than the official figures suggest.
- 5/6, 10pm
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QT "The Thai government and press are forever explaining away their national problems by pointing at the communists" ...
- 5/3, 6am
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"She said a "socialist" party could be defined as a "communist" party, and the commission ruled that the name may violate democracy." #FOOL
- 5/3, 6am
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whoops AZ was supposed to be AU <= australia
- 4/28, 11pm
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"The sources said the woman returned from Mexico early this month and became six." <= Go see a doctor if you become a number?
- 4/28, 1am
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With limited means she prioritized life experience over conforming and materialism. Skip the car, ride a bike. Fuck school, travel the world
- 4/18, 11pm
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think its time to replace khum's old laptop.. its over 5y old, with broken power button, couple of dodgy keys, and a splitting power cable.
- 4/18, 8pm
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back from inspection with architect and constructor.. bunch of changes, few fuckups, nothing too serious. still ahead of schedule
- 4/18, 6am
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@jdierks I guess the ones that use flash to provide useful information in a clear way, swf is better than dodgy gif if done right.
- 4/17, 12am
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@slumber_kraken I wouldn't worry about thailand, thai people are great, always feels safe here, most people don't care about politics.
- 4/16, 11pm
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@piriya so the idea is not really worked out yet. I suspect end result will be the same, people only change systems to benefit themselves
- 4/16, 8pm
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@id084895 the BOT has been and continues to play with the baht, it seems they have no intention of letting it weaken.
- 4/16, 1am
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grr.. 140 chars is not enough.. last tweet credit to #notthenation
- 4/14, 10am
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@thanr if you want the full speed you have to find a way out of thailand which bypasses the TRUE gateway or surf at 5am
- 4/5, 2am
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@31o5 yup I should be.. don't want to miss it. I will be leaving bangkok on the 25th I think.
- 4/5, 2am
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@loic fair enough, ting that really annoys me is fb put some picture of a random person next to my stream and ask me if i want to be a "fan"
- 3/29, 10pm
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Just found out twitter limits the number of people you can follow to 2000. In out code I had limited it 4500. So I can reduce. Nice.
- 3/29, 12pm
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Preliminary Thai Chamber of Commerce data suggest that exports in February may have fallen by as much as 42% to 81.75 billion baht. #notgood
- 3/13, 9am
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django templates suck im sorry.. endifequal <= just plain ugly.
- 3/5, 3am
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"He believed the economy will start to recover in the fourth quarter" ... keep drinking the kool aid.
- 3/5, 2am
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www.howhost.com has ripped off beanstalkapp.com design, css, even images.. why do people think they can get away with it. bad form. #ripoff
- 3/4, 4am
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A rather grim graph from ThaiCrisis to start the week, exports to ASEAN down 50% since July last year.. [ http]
- 3/1, 10pm
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Now time to relax for a bit, then get back to my side projects.
- 2/27, 8am
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@underexpose glad there is interest.. it will make recording video online as simple as accepting file uploads.
- 2/27, 12am
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@jutecht try getting a CAT connection they are better... or use a proxy server in a thai data center to get round the blockage.
- 2/10, 2am
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Construction progress.. [ http]
- 2/10, 12am
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Reading article in the Nation about condo projects being cancelled. Seems in TH its common to apply for permit after construction.
- 2/4, 11pm
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@erl an open standard where if you sign up for it you agree not to try to break the other protocols.
- 1/21, 3am
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@cloudberryman Put up a blog post about it here. [ http]
- 1/21, 12am
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Bucket Explorer = Success! :)
- 1/21, 12am
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Right AWS = FAIL, Cloudberry = FAIL, trying.. Bucket Explorer.
- 1/21, 12am
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A fool me can't get fooled again. [ http]
- 1/20, 11pm
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Doh.. I get an error when trying to copy between accounts, was going so well. Time to hack.
- 1/20, 10pm
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@sugree someone gave the order... this is a PR disaster for TH, after the airports, this will really hurt tourism, which hurts the economy.
- 1/20, 8pm
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RTMP to be open sourced... first they ignore you, then they fight you, then you win.. takes about 3 years.
- 1/20, 12pm
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Currency markets really busting my balls. China please unpeg the yuan and let things unravel. I think it will be better in the end.
- 1/20, 11am
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QT: "The only money that will retain its full value in the face of Chinese hyperinflation is gold."
- 1/19, 6am
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"I can confirm that the Thai armed forces never use any inhumane treatment," Gen Songkitti said.
- 1/19, 5am
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twitpic seems to be having a bit of trouble.. service has been slow / not responding for couple of days now.
- 1/18, 8pm
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@smartbrain are you saying you believe the generals.. they have a good track record of human rights and being transparent.
- 1/17, 8pm
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@chanwit I don't think jaiku is released as open source yet is it?
- 1/17, 8pm
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Are the poor burmese boat people considered less than human?
- 1/17, 8pm
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Why stop now, the pills were working. The cycle continues.
- 1/17, 6am
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What happens if you give your computer LSD? [ http]
- 1/16, 2am
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@goeast there are not supposed to eat after noon, so perhaps a starbucks coffee (with all the frills) is like a meal in a cup so to speak.
- 1/9, 12am
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I think they are just stuck in a rut of pegging the baht to the dollar... I know they say they don't, but just look at the graphs.
- 1/8, 11pm
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"technology x evangelist" == Narrow minded religious nut job. No thanks I don't want your worship your God.
- 1/8, 10am
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Ugh.. why does he have to "come off the meds" just as he is about to come and visit me.
- 1/8, 8am
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@baramunchies thats really good for someone new to skectchup... what is it a hard disk enclosure?
- 1/8, 12am
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For the geeks out there.. MAX_CAPACITY = Math.floor( EXIT_WIDTH_IN_METERS / 0.5 ) * 100
- 1/7, 10pm
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Taan (my boy) isn't even 1 and 1/2 years old.. but he is already playing games on the computer. Nice office chair! [ http]
- 1/7, 3am
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@31o5 checkout yutiti, its built for construction project planning but fits quite well for web too. [ http]
- 1/7, 3am
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@smartbrain well thats nice to know.. the MICT isn't just acting as a dumb censor they are actually spying on us too.
- 1/7, 12am
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@kamal_fariz Its pointless for designs though if you cannot see where somone is pointing. You might as well just both open the same file.
- 1/6, 10pm
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Registering for another bloody website is NOT "free and easy!" its a pain in the ass and a waste of time. I'm looking at you NYTimes.
- 1/6, 10pm
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Double speak. "The gov will not intervene in the foreign exchange policy but will help prevent it from fluctuating, Mr Kobsak insisted."
- 1/5, 4am
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Has the whole country fallen for some clever marketing thats bonds the concept of New Year to bird spit and chicken essence.
- 1/5, 12am
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Am I missing something about Google Friend Connect, I dont see how the website knows about the user.. its all sandboxed in the JS isnt it?
- 1/5, 12am
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The purpose of Login is to verify the identity of the user. That can be done using Google, Facebook Connect, OpenID, or even Twitter.
- 1/4, 9pm
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Any suggestions for things small kids like to watch.. other than teletubbies and bob the builder.
- 1/3, 8am
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loving smtp2web.. its so the right way to handle email in a web application.
- 1/2, 12am
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god my brain hurts.. time to take a break.
- 12/19, 3am
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@JoeCooley no, I was just testing twitpic with a demo image from dropbox, feel free to steel it though.
- 12/19, 1am
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tried out coralcdn, its dns seems to resolve to a random server each time... its supposed to find the closest host, but it aint working.
- 12/19, 12am
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Why do designs when things need wireframing and thinking out first.
- 12/18, 10pm
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With the pound almost == to the euro now, its time for the UK to adopt the euro. Lets get it over with.
- 12/18, 9pm
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Agh.. guys in fixing the aircon, very loud vacuum cleaner next to my head.
- 12/18, 8pm
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if this aint sorted soon, im just backing the db up and restoring from yesterdays image.
- 12/18, 2am
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@sirn on ram you need ECC server ram, which is quite expensive..
- 12/17, 9am
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@proteusguy having big issues with CAT today, True is working better for once.
- 12/17, 8am
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Bad form: "Channel4.com currently only supports Windows PCs using Internet Explorer 6 or 7." When will they learn.
- 12/13, 10am
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Been out all day with taan, got him a tricycle with peddles. Sure he will be cycling up and down the soi tomorrow.
- 12/13, 3am
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@bitsweat am I wrong? I have not problem with it in Rails. It just feels heavy when its used other ruby libs.
- yesterday, 12am
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Oh fuck I was hoping for a sum method on simple db. Ugh. Now I have to resort to map reduce.
- 11/20, 11pm
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@proteusguy im getting the same thing with CAT and google, WTF? is going on there.
- 11/15, 4am
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@robpenner taking a look of some of his other vids, this one is interesting [ http] as it shows the shooting
- 11/14, 11am
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Todays job.. build a twitter alerts app in a day, we have templates, so lets see if this is possible.
- 11/13, 10pm
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cherry picking code from github.. github + gem plugins = happy rails programmer
- 11/13, 2am
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testing with cucumber, webrat, rspec, autotest, and growl. thats a lot of tech to execute some plain text stories.
- 11/12, 10am
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Key to this project will be distributed searches and queued email sending. Perhaps a job for nanite?
- 11/12, 1am
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The weather was so darn nice today, makes me want to take tomorrow off work and go do something outside.
- 11/11, 4am
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Gmail really needs a friggin file browser, major PITA when you want to take a file from one email and attach to another thread.
- 11/10, 3am
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New sofa just arrived.. this room shaping up really nice now. Needs a mirror, some art, and a coffee table.
- 11/10, 12am
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@Maxart now I need to clone to an external disk, disconnect, connect to 2nd mac, boot into OSX dvd and use disk utility to restore from disk
- 11/9, 10pm
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@Maxart not the same way that target disk mode worked. Before you could connect one mac to another using firewire and clone it.
- 11/9, 10pm
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using carbon copy cloner to create disk images from old computers, every time I check its copying localization files it doesn't need.
- 11/9, 8am
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stupid TRUE, they are leaving their customers opened to being hacked. Now I have to go buy a real router.
- 11/8, 2am
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friggin true, the router is all configured, wont let me change even basic settings. its hard coded to use WEP. hugh security risk.
- 11/8, 2am
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definition of wrong... a rabbit humping a chicken.. with that said its beer-o-clock
- 11/7, 4am
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i am officially an armchair (more like sofa) designer.
- 11/7, 1am
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One issue I'm having is text size in safari keeps changing I think I'm accidently changing it with a gesture I just don't know what gesture.
- 11/6, 7pm
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@sugree try planting some chips perhaps we will have silicon valley
- 11/6, 10am
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@sugree but I would add that thailand needs better internet if it wants to be part of this future.
- 11/5, 9pm
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long term stable contracts start to look a lot more interesting in this climate.
- 10/10, 8pm
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@jfxberns yup, surly thats going to solve the economic problems of the world.
- 10/9, 8pm
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stocks free fall again. expect the SET to get a kicking today
- 10/9, 8pm
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dont think I can make it to beercamp tonight, have fun peeps
- 10/9, 5am
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@thanr wake up this is thailand.
- 10/9, 1am
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Grrr.. tried on the locked CAT router and I get the expected speed, but without the friggin passowrd how can I know which setting to change!
- 10/9, 12am
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Luckily I had exactly the same hardware so got him to set that up. I dont want CAT having access to snoop my network. Thats mad.
- 10/9, 12am
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@thaicoup are you awake? or have you retired?
- 10/6, 11pm
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turns out the only way is an erlang project started by bbc which is using some code I helped to write.. gotta love open source
- 10/6, 10pm
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no its ok now, I just checked and it ran away.
- 10/6, 7am
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ah not dead.. just out cold.. coming back to life? slowly.. think it got spun round by the fan and a bit ga ga now
- 10/6, 7am
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so sick of streaming videos, why dont people offer a choice with option for progressive. best of both worlds then.
- 10/5, 10am
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@sugree donated his space? 100mbps!!! tell me more
- 10/5, 10am
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actually they have 512 upload connections too.. its only 1000 baht for 4mbit down.
- 10/4, 4am
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Retweeting @maccman: Really good presentation: [ http] (@roofimon think you will like it)
- 10/3, 4am
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taan (my boy) is scared of only one thing.. [ http]
- 10/3, 1am
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you can prepare the idea, mochups, wireframes, etc ahead of time, and you can use plugins, but all app code and design is done during 2 days
- 10/2, 10am
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6 interviews in a row and now my brain is jam
- 10/2, 7am
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if you are interested in a PHP job at codegent we will be at bug and bee silom until 10pm.
- 10/2, 5am
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@roofimon its coming, bee is working on it. we just waiting on some more ram for our thai server.
- 10/2, 2am
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Last minute search for PHP developers in Bangkok. After this I can focus on other jobs.
- 10/1, 8am
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@dtinth as far as I know the only 2mbit consumer upload in thailand is with CAT ghdsl connection.
- 10/1, 7am
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@underexpose only reason im getting this CAT line is the 2mbit upload speed.
- 9/30, 7am
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it starts at midnight uk time.. which is about 7am here. so perhaps we have an advantage being in asia.
- 9/30, 6am
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@erl cool, of course we want you on the team.. wondering if we should have 3 team now.. hmm
- 9/30, 6am
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has just occured to me that the timezone might be totally out of whack and we might have to code into monday. will check
- 9/30, 6am
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@wiennat sure. just making the list
- 9/30, 3am
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ok who drugged the internet, its acting all silly
- 9/30, 12am
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@31o5 what kind of hosting do you need?
- 9/29, 9pm
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oh and some killer ideas that can be built in 48hrs
- 9/29, 9pm
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@31o5 food in bed ;)
- 9/29, 11am
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watching financial news, what happens now.
- 9/29, 11am
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