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This morning I published (two) Wordles based on the content of my Twitter timeline for 2011 which I’ve been archiving to a SQLite database since July 2010.
Basic method:

Export tweets
Process into words
Count word frequency
Upload to Wordle

Wordle accepts data input in the form:

word1:55
word2:23
…

First output was:

This was a little skewed towards the various travel and weather related [...]

Two and a bit months ago, I started archiving my friends timeline on Twitter into a SQLite database for posterity (I didn’t really like the idea that it just vanishes after a while).
It then occurred to me earlier that I didn’t actually know how many tweets I read in two months… the answer appears to [...]

Another “let’s just cook something and see what happens” moment occurred so I thought I’d better document it for future reference

Red onion, diced
A soft apple (Braeburn or alike), diced
Carrots
Pork steak
Rosemary (fresh)
Pork Stock
New Potatoes

There are two options with cooking method, eat now (well, in a few hours) or eat later … for the former, [...]

A while ago, I acquired a G4 Cube off Canterbury Freecycle. Having tried to install Tiger and Leopard on it (all the PPC media I could find) and neither working, I decided to try Ubuntu.
As it’s rather old (2001) and doesn’t have much memory in it (128M) and is only a 450MHz G4 (slow!) [...]