June 2009
110 posts
Tuscan wildlife update: I adore these swallows dipping in the pool. Beautiful iridescent blue backs and red throats. Brilliant flight.
Tuscan wildlife update: I adore these swallows dipping in the pool. Beautiful iridescent blue backs and red throats. Brilliant flight.
rt @gentusmaximus @richbs you were having an issue with people stealing your ham? http://bit.ly/HKpiI
Last night, whilst sipping Limoncello, we were joined by bats, owl calls, fireflies and a toad the size of your foot.
Last night, whilst sipping Limoncello, we were joined by bats, owl calls, fireflies and a toad the size of your foot.
Thunder rumbles up the valley, watching swallows pluck bugs off the water. Later, the bats will do the same.
Vines, olive trees and internets - This is where I am http://is.gd/1hVFV Wish you were here - tira-miss-u all!
Even Apple have dodgy bits of PHP bolted on to their web site. http://is.gd/1i8tH Still, got to be better than WebObjects, right?
Can haz internetz in Tuscan villaz.
I hate holidays.
I hate holidays.
Losing the will to live preparing for short-haul Ryanair flight. The print outs will take me over my weight allowance.
lol the pc connected to the projector just went into hibernate. count on windows to let you down. #fail
Eric plugs his Mac in and we have visuals!
I am hacking in heaven.
Opening my *sixth* concurrent terminal window. Busy busy busy.
How much pasta do you reckon you could eat in a sitting? I’d start with 500g and pesto without looking up. Then we can talk pizza.
Moving my css, js etc. to a gzip-enabled Apache instance for http://viewfilm.net/. It’s the rock’n’roll lifestyle here.
Page loads seem a bit quicker on http://viewfilm.net now I’ve placed the media on an Apache server with GZIP.
I am hacking in heaven.
Remember, people are always impressed by an animation of a page turning.
Opening my *sixth* concurrent terminal window. Busy busy busy.
FFmpeg FAQ →
Darn it, Apple. The Airtunes, iPhone Remote Combo is very, very tempting.
A great conversation with @FuriousPurpose today is leading me to restore higher quality rips to my music library.
RT @gentusmaximus Zend Form is badly documented. Potentially this is because it’s total nonsense.
Ooh, banking’s moved on. The £100 cash I took out 50mins ago is showing up on my internet banking already.
I hate USB ports on the back of things. I’ve just mangled one whilst wedging in a cable blindly. #usbfail
Starting to piece together a day of work. Is it lunch time already?
Excellent. I hope the dentist’s drill/nails-on-blackboard noise outside continues all afternoon. They’re making a gallery, don’tcha know.
Museum counts: 4 slices of bread, 8 slices of cheese in fridge and 925,000 museum records imported in my db.
Just back from Ornette Coleman gig at #metltdown. Great sounds and suite of styles. Oh and Flea from the RHCP - good jazz chops.
Just back from Ornette Coleman gig at #meltdown. Great sounds and suite of styles. Oh and Flea from the RHCP - good jazz chops.
Right then. Time, I think, to write some proper exception handling for my import code !python
886,000 Museum records imported and the dodgy XML should no longer kill the whole process.
I was tutted at today for not getting on to the tube quick enough. TUTTED! It was brutal.
To normalise or not to normalise? That is the question.
Bed time - drenched at Holkham beach on Saturday, vicious hay fever this morning. An evening with Ornette Coleman to finish off.
The heron returns hunched to Finsbury park lake.
ls -l
Very strange few minutes of DNS there. Internets #fail
rt @ESAHerschel Finally, we can reveal … Herschel’s first images were taken on the 14th and are amazing. —- Show us!
First @ESAHerschel images http://is.gd/16nzZ - scroll to bottom for composite of Galaxy M51
Another CAPTCHA #fail - having a bad week with these. I’m a programmer with 20:20 vision but I can’t do CAPTCHA.
290,000 museum records imported overnight. This is good news - it’s still going but we’re 25% there. !python
Re-running some tests before checking in the code for the weekend.
The worst creative/geek book cover EVER http://is.gd/15ehz
Shoes off. Work to do.
Bloody atm cashpoint keypad latency. Wanted £20, got £200. It’s not even my round, so don’t ask.
Die CAPTCHA DIE!