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January 2012

Daily Twitter Posts - 03/01/2012

10:31 and over to @rickeyrecricket for me #
10:17 Love the Samsung Galaxy Tab TV ad. Voiceover: "It's time for a better tablet" Fine print at bottom of screen: "than 2010 Galaxy Tab" #
10:05 TV switched on for first time since December 30, 2011. Haven't missed it at all! #
01:43 As an Australian I had to double-check when I saw the tweets about Gary Ablett's passing. Its the ex-Liverpool/Everton player. Very sad news #

Top 10 cricket stories of 2011

Here again is my annual selection of the biggest stories in world cricket in the 2011 calendar year. Unlike all the media agencies whose end-of-year lists have to be finalised in early December to meet deadlines, this list, which I have compiled on an intermittent basis since 1996, doesn’t go to deadline until after the Boxing Day Tests were completed in Melbourne and Durban.

Daily Twitter Posts - 02/01/2012

20:35 Ugh. #cricketmovies is morphing into #ALeagueMovies #
16:01 Impressed that a car rally staged in Argentina, Chile and Peru is still being named after the capital city of Senegal. #
14:23 Can "brady bunch" be used as a generic noun to describe two families of kids married together? Or have I just added to the English language? #
14:07 #environment The Sierra Club's @CarlPope sees optimism coming out of the last quarter of 2011 - http://t.co/ZOP5xLYb via @huffingtonpost #
13:52 Juche 101. It's not 2012. Happy Juche 101. #dprk #
10:04 The City of Sydney is moving on. The Chinese New Year banners are up already. #
08:35 If Newscorp confirm it then it must be true. RT @lizzy_davies: News intl confirm that @rupertmurdoch IS the real rupert murdoch #
08:28 Oh no. @wendi_deng on Twitter also? #

Daily Twitter Posts - 01/01/2012

23:51 This item from the NY Times baseball blog comes with one of 2011's most awesome corrections - http://t.co/G7PW9Ztv #baseball #LOTR #
23:06 A fairly pointless #nswpol #Newspoll. If anything it shows that Labor has had barely any rebound since the last election. #
21:47 There is no better way to follow the Vienna #newyearsconcert than with @BernardKeane's live-tweeting, and no sound or vision. #
21:01 The ANC's centenary is approaching RT @mailandguardian History may be written by the victors, but who gets top billing? http://t.co/XKDtGxWB #
20:51 A curious choice for the two people who @rupertmurdoch follows. No one from Newscorp! #
20:01 One good thing about New Year is that all those American NGOs have stopped emailing me asking for tax-deductible donations. #
19:01 From Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports): Final piece of year for @thenation 2011: The Year I Learned to Hate College Football http://t.co/5KxUfCPw #
18:47 Sad news. He led our qualifying campaign for the 1982 WC RT @abcgrandstand Former Socceroos captain Murray Barnes dies: http://t.co/aeSPdFCz #
18:44 I haven't switched the TV on since December 30 and thus have seen no HNY footage, and I don't feel deprived one little bit :) #
18:39 This is a parody account, obviously run by morons :( MT @CNNBREAKlNG #BREAKING Tsunami Alert for Japan #
18:23 The Olympics are this year? Blerrgh #
14:54 Wondering if John Howard obtained his Order of Merit on merit. #auspol #
12:00 70 full calendar years after his death, the works of James Joyce come out of copyright. Time for that Finnegan's Wake mashup... #
11:52 So how did @rupertmurdoch get a verified badge so quickly? #
09:45 Adam Shand's disturbing article on Peter Roebuck in today's Sunday Age paints a tragic picture indeed - http://t.co/Y9YATsG7 #
08:15 I love the peace and serenity of a glorious New Years morning while the metropolis sleeps. #
00:02 If you want three more verses the rest is at http://t.co/JB7xmDut #auldlangsyne #
00:02 And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp / and surely I'll be mine / and we'll tak a cup o'kindness yet / for auld lang syne. [rpt chorus] #
00:02 Ok, for those of you who require the second verse of Auld Lang Syne, here it comes: #
00:01 Happy new year! #

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