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Twitter problems.

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Today was my day with Twitter problems.

Some background – I am running Ubuntu on all my machines and have used Twirl as a Twitter client.  Now being on Linux also means that the version of Adobe Air that I run is very beta.  So this morning when I started Twirl, it just gave me an empty screen.  Being busy all day, I never had any time to really look at it.  When I got home, I tried Twirl again and it say that a new version is available and would I like to upgrade.  Like a good boy I upgraded and then the surprise.  Sorry but Twirl needs a newer version of Air which is not available on Linux.  So I am really snookered.

Then I decided to have a look at what native Linux Twitter clients is available and found gWibber (where does this name come from).  Installed it and when I run it I am greeted with this:
mariusb@mariusb-ubuntu:~$ gwibber
/home/mariusb/.gtkrc-2.0:10: Invalid symbolic color 'selected_bg_color'
/home/mariusb/.gtkrc-2.0:10: error: invalid identifier `selected_bg_color', expected valid identifier
error: duplicate REP tables used
Failure loading aff file /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_ZA.aff
console message: undefined @1: ReferenceError: Can't find variable: addMessages
console message: undefined @22: ReferenceError: Can't find variable: setGtkConfig
console message: undefined @1: ReferenceError: Can't find variable: setAccountConfig
console message: undefined @1: ReferenceError: Can't find variable: addMessages
console message: undefined @22: ReferenceError: Can't find variable: setGtkConfig
console message: undefined @1: ReferenceError: Can't find variable: setAccountConfig
Segmentation fault
mariusb@mariusb-ubuntu:~$

So the only way to follow Twitter at the moment is via the web client. Currently trying out gTwitter and but I do not really like it .. very limited.

So Mr/Miss/Mrs Lazyweb, any advice to get my Twitter addiction without the web client.

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RSS Feed update – 4 November 2007

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It is Sunday evening and it is raining cats and dogs here in Cape Town. Not that I complain about the rain but I had enough.  Summer where are you?

Some things a busy changing on the work front.  More about it later when things are finalized.  Suffice to say that I am currently doing 2 jobs.

Onto tidbits from my RSS reader:

What the new Greenpoint stadium will look like:
Sky View of the Stadium

RSS update – 27 October 2007

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Tidbits from my RSS reader:

Table mountain

Kimi F1 champion or NOT & RSS feed update – 22 October 2007

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What a last Formula 1 GP held in Brazil yesterday.  Kimi won the race with Alonso 4th and Hamilton 7th.  This gave Kimi enough points to win the World Championship by 1 point.  But did he win?  There is some dispute about the fuel temperature of BMW Sauber and Williams.  These teams were cleared but I am sure that McLaren will appeal this.  If the appeal is successful then Hamilton will move up to forth and have enough points to take the championship.  Waiting with abated breath to see how this will pan out.

Onto my RSS feed tidbits:

The V&A waterfront in Cape Town with the bay and Blouberg in the distance:
V&A

RWC DDay-1 and Ubuntu 7.10

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One day to go to the Rugby World Cup final between South Africa and England.  What can I say that has not been said before?  I, just like each and every South African out there, say that we will win the cup.  However what worries me is this over optimism. Is this a good thing?  It is good to be optimistic and patriotic, but we need to be realistic also.  This is not just another test match.  There is much more riding on this game.  For the next 4 years the team that win this will be known as the World Champions, does not matter how bad they are or how many games they loose after this one.  We also know what happened in the previous World Cup.  Emotions and big match temperament play such a big role in this.

Yesterday Ubuntu 7.10 was let loose on the public.  It is a great release and if you have not tried Linux then give this a spin.  It is worthwhile and at the same time you can say you moving away from the buggy Microsoft software.  Read here and here all about the features and some about the community that build it.  Congrats to the whole Ubuntu team and community that got a great release out the door again.

Something about this great city I live and work in.  Here is an aerial photo of Cape Town when the building of the new Greenpoint stadium was started.
Wow!!!

RWC final and RSS feed update – 17 October 2007

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It is half way to the weekend and I still do not know what I will do for watching the RWC final on Saturday evening. Need to get a group together so that we can either celebrate or drink our sorrows away after the game.  My money is on the celebration part.

Now for some stuff from my RSS feed reader:

The beauty of South Africa:

RWC which we going to win and RSS update – 15 October 2007

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How great was the win against Argentina last night?  Next week we can give the Poms a lesson in rugby again.  So my prediction was not spot on but I really do not care who we play in the final.  The main thing is that we there and that we will win it.

I have eventually cleared out all the backed up RSS entries in my feed reader.  Here is some interesting tidbits:

With summer getting nearer and just being a patriotic South African and Cape Townian.  How can one not love this place.