January 2010
87 posts
Coffee first, questions later.
Found “Google Chrome Helper” process was hogging CPU and Memory. Killed it and all Flash embeds disabled.
I love TextMate licensing “A user is allowed to bring his personal license with him to work, should the company allow it, and use that.”
Studio 24 is hiring! We’re looking for a web designer and web developers - see http://bit.ly/8WTtts #jobs #cambridge (via @simonrjones)
I’ve never seen the web abused like this before.
Brutalising nested tables.
Oh boy, an SVN merge-athon here. No conflicts so far. This makes me wonder if I’ve done it right ;-)
more tea quicker
Quite an energetic day started with a run, then basketball but redeemed myself with pizza and gelato. Fine weather.
Pizzas currently in and out of the oven in 2 to 2.5 minutes here at Pappagone’s.
Great tutuorial on automatically hooking up Google Reader starred and Instapaper via iPhone apps. http://bit.ly/5yRrND
A bit late to Instapaper http://bit.ly/4yjub6 but it makes cached articles very readable.
Nearly thawed out here. The olive oil in our kitchen is almost transparent.
I’m with @waarg. Vincent Cassel has currently the most presence and charisma in all cinema.
Moved the old joanna downstairs, played a couple of bars of Bach badly.
Dreech.
RT @annakime Drinking Bolivian Machacamarca courtesy of @hasbean. Coffee heaven.
Well, this is a great web design tutorial using Pixelmator (Mac) http://bit.ly/5qy7iu which now has ace slicing.
Is there some kind of received wisdom in the e-marketing world that all email circulars should be sent on a Friday?
RT @maltpress @richbs received wisdom is Tuesday 10am for B2B, Friday for B2C. So yes. Yes there is.
#teaearlgreyhot
Lol. iPhone just offered me eastcoast-wifi as a train went past.
Woo hoo. Got my lecky blanket - toasty bedtimes from now on!
On whose planet do prams cost £500?
It’ll breathe in the glass.
Someone’s moved Pret’s database server to a different port #php #mysql http://www.pret.com/menu/
Today @waarg turned my day around with a Drupal services module he’d written. Worked 1st time in new application. #win
Hope Sheffield’s women of steel have had a nice day. http://bit.ly/75cCDK
Just been to Post Office and there are some pretty neat record cover stamps out. Parklife!
Apparently the content of an HTTP Request when displayed in a browser uses close to a gigabyte of memory. That’s a few packets. #php #fail
Programming but stopped in my tracks by Schubert’s A minor sonata D784.
I was so angry I @ replied to myself by accident
RARBOMB! Now all the files have just extracted into my Downloads folder without any directory structure!
Just received some work in a RAR archive. Who on earth uses RAR archives? Now I have to find an open source UNRAR binary. FFS.
Weird. The E4 announcer is obviously reading @simonpegg’s tweets #glee
Full listings of the Danny Boyle season on Film4 http://bit.ly/8OhmlQ including Slumdog Millionaire
There’s an inadvertent Chiwetel Ejiofor season on free UK TV too! http://bit.ly/51YL9t
Time to pop out and buy some fresh fruit for the week.
RT @sermad Why do ereader concepts I keep seeing *still* using page turning effects. It wasn’t cool ten years ago on the web. Please stop.
Got some PHP to do this week ;) RT @codinghorror PHP, the only language that makes Basic look like the work of geniuses http://bit.ly/7sGtJx
RT @jds Realised the date today is 110110 - 54 in decimal. Wow
Ironing women’s clothes is complicated. Still, needs must. Got nothing to wear next weekend otherwise.
Bachopaplyse now. Just bought loads of CDs from Crouch End Oxfam. Gould, Jarrett, Harnoncourt, King’s, Marriner AOSMITF. £13.
Appropriate weekend for this awesome woodwind transcription of Schubert’s Winterreise http://bit.ly/4MPkTA Brrrrrr.
Icicles on gutter have melted.
#MotionX Share: it was a cold new year’s day in Brussels http://bit.ly/7TPtIN
Bach Double Violin concertos FTW
Choice between gin in house and going to the shop made easy by horizontal snow.
Just posted a nice big #coffee order. Ethiopia, Bolivia, Guatemala. That’ll keep @hasbean busy.
I like the Kindle app for iPhone. It’s great to be able to read preview chapters of everything - geek books, novels, music.