October 2009
43 posts
Off to see the Reds at Fulham. As a Leeds fan, I might need to support the team in white.
Bluetooth input devices for desktop computing? Can’t see the attraction. Swapping cables for a world of interference and battery pain.
♫ This office is coming like a ghost town ♪
Cartmel Sticky Toffee Pudding and custard FTW
r @codepo8 here are some C64 SID cuts by a friend of mine: http://soundcloud.com/kafka-oh <- crunchy 8-bit goodness FTW
Turns out recycling legacy PHP and deciphering Percussion Rhythmyx errors isn’t as much fun as releasing APIs.
When an application server isn’t working, look through root’s command history and run anything that looks relevant.
Oooh, putting me through to the fraud departmant regarding my credit card…
Oh, my card has been cloned but not used! That’s cool. I wonder if cloned cards suffer from early onset genetic diseases.
Cawfee
Ran a quick iPhone demo in the Directorate one floor down and guess what? 3G, five bars, great service. In my office, a spit away? Nada.
Hosted, scalable MySQL from AWS? Yum, yum, yum, yum http://bit.ly/nSWzH
Messing with global $PATH and .bash_profiles to make V&A data importers available to all users on my Mac Pro.
Eating a scorpion. Simples!
Listening to a bit of Angelo Badalamenti’s Mulholland Drive OST. Superb.
Wow. Balmy sunny day.
Well, that’s me booked for the MCN Conference in Portland, Oregon! It’s going to be quite an adventure.
Yesterday was stir-up Sunday chez moi. Must I wait till Christmas to eat figgy pudding?
My Pure DAB Radio Alarm adjusts to GMT overnight automatically. Nice.
Enjoyed @annakime’s Mushroom Stroganoff with a glass of Maçon-Villages. Finally got my appetite back!
Jeez, Tchaikovsky has ALL the best tunes.
Technobox on iPhone: great Roland 303 808 909 emulator. Hours to be lost here.
totally confused by Flickr’s date pickr
Dry toast never tasted so good.
Yahoo Hack Day Taiwan. WTF? Cringe. http://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/19/hackday/ well said @simonw
Stupid IE. Have to put in http:// if I specify a port other than 80.
Please stop going on about it, BBC.
We’re saved! The heroes at @hasbean get our coffee to us before the postal strike and ensuing armageddon predicted by the press.
We’ve taken the beta label off our collections search today http://collections.vam.ac.uk Try dragging the image wall around!
My super doctor has a blog. He’s great http://ayanpanja.blogspot.com/ And he’s been on TV!
r @janson_h V&A’s new Search the collection incldg Provenance map and handy downloadable PDF great for schls. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/
Planning new developments with @waarg. Very exciting.
My friends’ Facebook avatars = red eye night club or holding up new born. Well done! You procreated! How clever.
So the Speck Candywotsit case had too small an aperture for Shure headphones. Back to the drawing board.
Fanboi alert: Apple Store is down.
If I wasn’t awake before, I am now. #bolero #ravel #sidedrum
First time visiting Dr. Panja was great. Awesome guy - didn’t feel rushed, put me at ease with an holistic approach. #westilllovethenhs
The close up of my cracked iPhone. Yes, it’s not really that bad but hmmmm http://bit.ly/y22UD
Oooh tut tut, small crack near the cable port on my iPhone. Think I need to get a case that covers that area a bit better.
Doesn’t look like the Magic Mouse does pinch zoom etc…
Since Sweden and Romania failed to qualify for World Cup 2010, who IN HECK will be in England’s group?
Oh - had my orthotics in the wrong way round.
I’ll take a new Mac Mini though, thank you very much.