August 2009
106 posts
Shopping for pique nique sundries for lunch in Finsbury Park.
If you’re not too busy vote for the magnificent tablesurfing guys including @dimitrivh http://r09.railsrumble.com/entries
Lovely cool breeze today, bright sunshine and the worst of the summer heat over with.
Darn it. That’s the end of the Arran Malt. What’s my next go-to non-peaty whisky? H’land Park, Macallan, other? HALP @rmorg @FuriousPurpose
Is there anyone making better beer than Badger? Blandford Fly; ginger, maple syrup, FTW. Oh and it’s beer o’clock BTW.
Is this the Snow Leotard everyone’s banging on about? http://tinyurl.com/snowleotard
Spotify for iPhone - APPROVED - http://bit.ly/yFwGT
Already done the obligatory WFH “half-hour before 9am”. I wonder what’s on telly this morning. ;-)
Using Citrix access for remote working is just brilliant. But.. “Your farms do not support workspace control or do not trust the server.”
I tell you what, MySQL, why don’t YOU do the math.
A snap taken at the office - the V&A Metalwork Galleries http://www.flickr.com/photos/richbs/3830017970/
Gotta love Google’s Geocoder; England, Arkansas.
Leland Palmer has aged well, cf. Reaper.
Hefty performance tuning happening here at the V&A. Apache, mod_python, Django getting a serious hammering.
Today is going ridiculously well. Time to consolidate with a cup of tea.
Finally got me a ticket to #dconstruct Brighton Friday week. Who’s going?
Alone in the cool, dark Tapestry Gallery at the V&A. Marvellous.
Milk’s off; gruel for breakfast.
Reading advice on MySQL tuning and realising the default SLES set up would be ideal for a server with 128mb of RAM.
Big hairy spider on stairs, go to fetch container for said spider, on my return; no spider. He is doubtless in my underwear drawer by now.
Oh Goody! Sphinx supports a string to ordinal attribute out of the box for sorting results.
Saw ad for iPhone 3gs voice control. Tried it. I say, “Play songs by Mozart”. iPhone says, “Calling @simonrjones mobile” #fail
England’s top 4 run scorers: Strauss, Prior, Colly & Swanny. Interesting. #ashes
#ashes reclaimed
Lost my Oyster card today #londonerfail Should know better than to go south of the river.
Oh yes. Hot hot hot bagels.
That’s great synchronicity - listening to some Wendy Carlos from th Shining today and there’s the same theme in the Proms’ Berlioz.
Wow. Proms. Wagner, 19th Century anti-Semite, played by an Arab-Israeli orchestra. Ignore the politics, the music-making is excellent.
Someone should tell Broady that this is supposed to be Freddie’s test #ashes
Is it heresy to say that if all user comments, opinions and “what you reckoned” were removed from BBC, Guardian etc sites, I’d be happy.
Great - next week I’ll be experiencing coffee from Yemen and Guatemala, courtesy of @hasbean.
Well it’s been a over a week since I last had a drink. Such temperance - you’d think I’d be full of the joys of spring. Not a bit of it.
In the words of @bumblecricket, early doors sherbert time.
Not too unhappy about Australia missing the follow-on. Let them bat last on this surface with Swanny whirling and twirling. #ashes
Wow, so much to consider for deploying a collections search, DNS, Auth, Apache conf, DB, Python, PHP, AJAX, Media files.
I’m gonna miss @waarg on IRC and in person. Flying without a wingman for a coupla weeks.
Come on Colly and Belly.
WTF? My shirt is all wrinkly and I ironed it like 12 hours ago.
The @waarg and I are busy deploying our collections search into the real world (behind authentication for now).
Stop Press: Skinny Water is “low calorie water”. How’d they do it, I mean, like srsly?
Not as affected by the heat as I’d feared; a more forgiving level of humidity.
I’m an e-mail demon this morning - I feel better but no-one’s going to thank me.
Send a message to the nearest known Earth-like planet http://hellofromearth.net/ Hope they don’t come and eat us.
rt @richardsproject Why is a really productive day often followed by a day full of faff? <— so true
Windows open, short sleeves, lots of water. It’s gonna a be a scorcher. And a crane *definitely* just banged something into the wall.
Time to stop messing with iPhone and mobile stylesheets and get to bed!
Chilling with the sound of Ravi Shankar Ragas - most satisfying indeed.
Just had a sneak preview of our microsite for Maharaja. It looks gorgeous!
Dropping some load on my servers with httperf.
Good good, now Apache and Django are answering 30 requests per second instead of 3.