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adriaanbloem

  1. Gus Halwani on the neurscience of music - and singing. Fascinating #TEDxAbuDhabi about 21 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
  2. @Jordanian_AD Flamengo. Flamingos are the pink birds standing on one foot near the Creek :) about 22 hours ago via Twitter for iPad in reply to Jordanian_AD
  3. Umf modern Twitter doesn't deal well with classic RTs. Just imagine my previous tweet DID contain RT before the @. about 22 hours ago via Gravity!
  4. Look forward to it! @boetter: @adriaanbloem English is due after summer. You can read ten pages in English here: unboss.com/english about 23 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
  5. Who can explain to me what's unique about saying hello as Marhaba Alsa مرحبا الساع and why it makes Emirati smile? #TEDxAbuDhabi about 23 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
  6. @ShaimaAlSayed very funny about Emirati stereotypes. "Abayas are not black because our men want to grill us in 51C sun" #tedxabudhabi about 23 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
  7. Fortunately followed by a good talk by @mohamad_mourad about 23 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
  8. Uhm, I'm not a climate scientist. And neither is Tarek Niazi. #disappointed #badscience #tedxabudhabi blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2… about 23 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
  9. Great witty talk by @NaylaAlkhaja. "A woman should not be deprived of her education". QED! #tedxabudhabi 6:39 AM May 26th via Twitter for iPad
  10. Wired is catching on. RT @WiredFeed: Is HP's Autonomy the Worst Place to Work On The Planet? bit.ly/LALLdG 1:28 AM May 26th via Flipboard
  11. @boetter Congrats on publishing the book! Want to read, but the intro alone takes me hours in Danish; how about an English translation? ;) 3:39 PM May 24th via Tweet Button in reply to boetter
  12. post.ly/7RYfr - Present from my colleagues: Vignette Content Upgrade Guide, v7.4, all 288 pages of it. Gee, thx :P 5:18 AM May 24th via Gravity!
  13. @apoorv Actually, yes, it did. Maybe not all tasks are equally reliable though. 6:12 AM May 23rd via TweetDeck in reply to apoorv
  14. Just created a task to archive my tweets in Google Calendar using ifttt ifttt.com Let's see if it works :) 5:23 AM May 23rd via TweetDeck
  15. Can't resist: started blogging again. "Getting 99% more traffic" onandoffline.net/getting-99-mor… 6:15 AM May 19th via Twitter for Mac
  • Name Adriaan Bloem
  • Location Dubai
  • Bio Dutch dude in Dubai. Broadcast media, content management, social, and the web in general. Think I'm less geeky than I tweet. Might be wrong.
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