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The Economist – More Audio
Oct 1st
BBC Radio 4 – iPM: court records online,...
Oct 1st
Until today, I’d heard of tilt-shift...
Oct 1st
: “New Related Link”
Oct 1st
Oct 1st
Oxford University Press – James Murray,...
Oct 1st
BBC World Service – BizDaily: Congress...
Oct 1st
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Oct 1st
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Oct 1st
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Oct 1st
Lining up podcasts for the bus home
Oct 1st
Nearly out
Oct 1st
off and away
Oct 1st
Not warm out
Oct 1st
rdf - are we there yet? http://tinyurl.com/4ld7ln
Oct 1st
http://tinyurl.com/4zgjwx - for new services, my first choice is the cloud. am I being stupid?
Oct 1st
calais marmoset: http://www.opencalais.com/Crawler
Oct 1st
“sunday papers”?? http://tinyurl.com/4qs6m3
Oct 1st
what the web is for: http://tinyurl.com/4kn9fz
Oct 1st
wet out
Oct 1st
in rails edge gem vortex. oh dear. let’s have lunch instead.
Oct 1st
need tea
Oct 1st
terrible news! google knows all. wonderful news! google knows all.
Oct 1st
“A £1m Bank of England note has fetched £78,300”...
Oct 1st
How to install the MySQL/Ruby gem on Mac OS X...
Oct 1st
MySQL ruby gem install problem on Mac OS X...
Oct 1st
The Future Is A Foreign Country
Oct 1st
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Oct 1st
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Oct 1st
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Oct 1st
BBC Radio 4 – WPR: Beyond Westminster 27 Sep...
Oct 1st
BBC World Service – BizDaily: NASA
Oct 1st
speechification.com – Hacker
Oct 1st
20 hours of aws box usage = USD 2. hmm. doing sums.
Sep 30th
so one month of aws box = USD 73. ok…
Sep 30th
aws 64-bit instances - not limited to 64-bit OS, right?
Sep 30th
trying http://www.stainlessapp.com/
Sep 30th
“Pray, how did you manage to do it?”
Sep 30th
sore frote
Sep 30th
solved my wordpress vs. mod_security problem, by “SecFilterEngine Off / SecFilterScanPOST...
Sep 30th
Counting them all out and counting them all back.
Sep 30th
fans down.
Sep 30th
Want foods
Sep 30th
“loads of plotters but no plot”
Sep 30th
“I’d spend less time and money on hiding/protecting your code & more time/money on...
Sep 30th
distributed lucene indexes: http://katta.wiki.sourceforge.net/
Sep 30th
flurry of meetings
Sep 30th
off to portcullis house
Sep 30th
the http://muxtape.com/ story - nod to @bobcatrock
Sep 30th
should I eat a nut?
Sep 30th
Ghetto Tesco: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicohogg/2901869076/
Sep 30th
What are some of your favorite command-line...
Sep 30th
CodeSnippets: bash code
Sep 30th
SOLR Presentation at Montreal On Rails
Sep 30th
FT: “It’s official - no one knows what’s going to happen”
Sep 30th
the bill: http://tinyurl.com/4rn6xd [PDF]
Sep 30th
Dan Benjamin and John Gruber – The Talk Show...
Sep 30th
BBC World Service – IG: The Instant Guide to...
Sep 30th
Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky –...
Sep 30th
BBC 6 Music – AdamAndJoe: Pirates ahoy!
Sep 30th
Dan Benjamin and John Gruber – The Talk Show...
Sep 30th
calming down
Sep 30th
My MobileMe subscription will end on Feb 25, 2009. I won’t be renewing.
Sep 30th
Jeff and joel seem to be arguing for open source.
Sep 30th
Rolling up the hill, listening to stack overflow podcast
Sep 30th
“good enough for enterprise code”
Sep 30th
firefox crashing when I print preview - trying opera instead
Sep 30th
I wonder if LinuxExpo will give me a ticket? http://www.flickr.com/photos/brook/2897720011/
Sep 30th
do any lenovo laptops come with ubuntu *preinstalled*?
Sep 30th
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=phorm
Sep 30th
The bells!
Sep 30th
( can hardly keep up with the helpful responses on twitter )
Sep 30th
one last email…
Sep 30th
delightful - http://mayamade.blogspot.com/
Sep 30th
enjoying capistrano 2.5.0
Sep 30th
crikey. that vote.
Sep 30th
Top draw?
Sep 30th
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Sep 29th
Sep 29th
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Sep 29th
Where are my shoes?
Sep 29th
Ankle deep in lego
Sep 29th
giving up mobileme. moving to amazon s3 for remote store.
Sep 28th
Unsatisfactory few hours trying to make an ubuntu bootable usb drive. Giving up.
Sep 28th
the morning: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brook/2894698002/
Sep 28th
wall-e still on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brook/2894413235/
Sep 28th
Into hammersmith. Giving up. Out of hammersmith.
Sep 28th
“(correctly applied momentum overcomes brute strength every time)”
Sep 28th
that senate vote is slipping later and later…
Sep 28th
“Zeppy” is a great name for an airship.
Sep 28th
forgot http://www.panic.com/transmit/ was so cool with amazon s3
Sep 28th
for this, I need a cotton bud.
Sep 28th
http://herdingcode.com/ - yes, but “Zune”??
Sep 28th
N.W.A – Gangsta Gangsta
Sep 28th
Spiritualized – Out Of Sight
Sep 28th
Stéphane Pompouganc – Café De Flore
Sep 28th
BBC Radio 5 Live – Pienaar: Brown's comeback...
Sep 28th
The Beatles – I Am the Walrus
Sep 28th
Groove Armada – Day Dreaming
Sep 28th
The Beach Boys – I Just Wasn't Made for These...
Sep 28th
Andrew Davis; BBC Symphony Orchestra –...
Sep 28th
Bee Gees – Night Fever
Sep 28th
Bee Gees – This Is Where I Came In
Sep 28th
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Sep 28th
macbook not shutting down cleanly after switching on filevault. hmmm.
Sep 28th
Compassion takes many forms.
Sep 28th
“we dont have the technology yet”
Sep 28th
Knocked out after bagua. Time for a sit down.
Sep 28th
Oh and rupert everett yesterday
Sep 28th
rushing!
Sep 28th
readying myself four three hours of qi gong and bagua
Sep 28th
hmm. can I mount amazon storage with a mac gui? ( googling )
Sep 28th
aha - mac s3 browser!
Sep 28th
Celeb spot! Mr brown off of the stone roses!
Sep 28th
Automatically backup your Mac to Amazon S3 |...
Sep 28th
Mac OS X S3 Browser
Sep 28th
following yesterday’s barcamp5 london spillover talk by @geeklawyer -...
Sep 28th
“I’m not interested in the moral position of this.”
Sep 28th
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Sep 28th
performing several duties
Sep 27th
reading about supercavitation and underwater express
Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
on 3? http://www.flickr.com/photos/brook/2892666688/
Sep 27th
Really enjoyed barcamp 5 London spillover: friendly and thoughtful discussion
Sep 27th
Back to the bush
Sep 27th
Here we go
Sep 27th
Last 500m in heavy traffic
Sep 27th
eating fedelini and kale with the boy
Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
Notting hill
Sep 27th
Oxford street is packed
Sep 27th
Loving london.
Sep 27th
Hoping to hear about drupal
Sep 27th
Dropping off wifi as battery drains
Sep 27th
Another fascinating discussion: geeklawyer
Sep 27th
Oh hai @steiny
Sep 27th
On a 94. Smells a bit.
Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
Enjoying the conversation in john Sheridan’s talk
Sep 27th
Listening to john sheridan
Sep 27th
Being humble is easier than being proud.
Sep 27th
En route to barcamplondon5 spillover
Sep 27th
Thinking about custom and tradition
Sep 27th
“tacit”
Sep 27th
Mist over hyde park
Sep 27th
Oxford street
Sep 27th
Strand
Sep 27th
At barcamplondon5 spillover
Sep 27th
Very international crowd at barcamp spillover. I feel like a yokel.
Sep 27th
Listening to @harrym
Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
“lucky it’s lego”
Sep 27th
need clothes
Sep 27th
“I no longer wish to pretend I agree with them.”
Sep 27th
running late for barcamp overspill
Sep 27th
“Um, you know what?” http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/09/26/chris.rock.lkl/index.html
Sep 26th
not taking the mac to barcamp london spillover. I’m going to rely on words. and handwaving. if...
Sep 26th
Icarus – Fijaka
Sep 26th
Johann Sebastian Bach – Allegro
Sep 26th
I have no idea what she’s watching, but the accents are *HILARIOUS*.
Sep 26th
it’s this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401445/
Sep 26th
mailing the Swedish Parliament about http://gettingreal.37signals.com/
Sep 26th
Where have all the twofinger kitkats gone?
Sep 26th
Wandering about
Sep 26th
Under bridge street
Sep 26th
right. to millbank. AND BEYOND!!
Sep 26th
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/craptastic/interesting/
Sep 26th
Down the hill
Sep 26th
Brilliant ringtone: accordion music.
Sep 26th
Goodness, its nearly ten past bong.
Sep 26th
Escaped from millbank
Sep 26th
Oh great. Traffic piling up into the bush.
Sep 26th
that swedish women on the M6 thing is very odd.
Sep 26th
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Sep 26th
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Sep 26th
flipping networks
Sep 26th
“Rich people are so annoying” http://www.flickr.com/photos/baratunde/2889185863/
Sep 26th
“Oh, the guy who looks like Frankenstein’s monster?” “Er … I suppose...
Sep 26th
hmm. time to tweak twitter with the greasy monkey once more, I think…
Sep 26th
estate agents: £100k drop on one place, other place wouldn’t take offers, whol thing fell...
Sep 26th
estate agents: £100k drop on one place, other place wouldn’t take offers, whole thing fell...
Sep 26th
Trying to calm down
Sep 26th
Feeling marginally less rubbish.
Sep 26th
Victoria. Onwards.
Sep 26th
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Sep 26th
Having a panic attack. Rather inconvenient at the moment.
Sep 26th
In a cafe on northcote road
Sep 26th
South of the river
Sep 26th
Feeling genuinely awful
Sep 26th
This is not fun.
Sep 26th
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Sep 26th
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Sep 26th
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Sep 26th
Cant wait for shepherds bush tube to reopen and get people off the buses.
Sep 26th
right. southbound.
Sep 26th
New plan. Off to clapham junction. Then victoria, whitehall, millbank. Probably.
Sep 26th
Lots to do today. First: both suits to dry cleaners.
Sep 26th
Strangely optimistic
Sep 26th
bailout plan not agreed, mortgage rates up, wamu down, hsbc cuts jobs, nz and ireland in recession....
Sep 26th
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Sep 26th
High st ken. Heading up to notting hill gate.
Sep 26th
Pret for a coffee
Sep 26th
crashing
Sep 26th
On the school run
Sep 26th
Sep 25th
Sep 25th
played with an x60 and x61 thinkpad today. kinda cool. can I get one running with ubuntu?
Sep 25th
oh hai twitter!
Sep 25th
BBC World Service – IG: The Instant Guide to...
Sep 25th
gore in UK, advocates civil disobedience:...
Sep 25th
goodness: http://blog.fawny.org/2008/03/02/emancipation/
Sep 25th
ipod x-plane is fantastic.
Sep 25th
note to self: inline CSS?
Sep 25th
need tea
Sep 25th
Bomb Tokyo – everything gone...
Sep 25th
Andante – Piano Concertos No. 25
Sep 25th
The Smiths – Theres a Light That Never Goes...
Sep 25th
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem aeternam
Sep 25th
Bad Loop – Kauniit Ihmiset
Sep 25th
MaximumFun.Org – Ep. 73: Another Bad Creation
Sep 25th
Andre Previn, Pinchas Zukerman, London...
Sep 25th
Bee Gees – Heartbreaker
Sep 25th
Kragle – Rolfy
Sep 25th
how do we make the fonts on http://hansard.millbanksystems.com look okay on IE/windows?
Sep 25th
just bought x-plane for the ipod touch.
Sep 25th
I’d be really unhappy if the US went to war with Pakistan.
Sep 25th
cisco T glitch: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brook/2887457148/
Sep 25th
cnn.com lead story: “What would you do with $700 billion?”
Sep 25th
Guy Decoux: http://hackety.org/2008/09/25/legendNeverToBeSolved.html
Sep 25th
I love it when people smile when they read text messages
Sep 25th
“just something they want to hook the poor with”
Sep 25th
eating cheese
Sep 25th
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Sep 25th
Nokia E71 + T-Mobile Flext 30 + Web N Walk...
Sep 25th
False alarm. Everyone back into the office.
Sep 25th
Cleared out of the office. Surrounded by security down by big ben.
Sep 25th
turned off mobileme. not worth the effort any more. will cancel subs.
Sep 25th
office evac pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brook/2886900727/sizes/o/
Sep 25th
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Sep 25th
Sep 25th
good god silverlight is a disaster
Sep 25th
“I hate touchpads with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns”...
Sep 25th
“opinions” http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/2886987952/
Sep 25th
“the flight attendant looked forlorn” http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/2886979086/
Sep 25th
“Yes … They’re so round … So firm … so fully packed”...
Sep 25th
Bomg!
Sep 25th
Hmmm. Turns out i am on a 94.
Sep 25th
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Sep 25th
Humming
Sep 25th
“plummeting from the sky in a firey ball of success”
Sep 25th
Really slow traffic going into marble arch. Still at queensway.
Sep 25th
Wondering how @delineator feels about the id card thing. Actually, i think i already know.
Sep 25th
Guy asked me for 50p. I gave him 50p. Nothing more to say about that.
Sep 25th
Humming the theme to the south bank show
Sep 25th
I think i need a hat
Sep 25th
flurry of info on email rather than spam!
Sep 25th
Coffee etc
Sep 25th
complaining about “world music lite”
Sep 24th
huh? http://www.oracle.com/exadata
Sep 24th
ROCK. apache + mod_rails on EC2. tomorrow, the world! now, bedtime.
Sep 24th
hum. failing to launch rails_nginx on ec2. looking at docs.
Sep 24th
building a rails 2 server with @elasticserver and hoping I’m going to see it run on Amazon EC2
Sep 24th
http://tinyurl.com/2aa3rk - good god
Sep 24th
I get Tampa and Tampere mixed up.
Sep 24th
Susan Cadogan – Feeling Is Right
Sep 24th
Penguin Cafe Orchestra – The Sound Of Someone
Sep 24th
Orbital – Acid Pants
Sep 24th
Dusty Springfield – Anyone Who Had a Heart
Sep 24th
so github gists are just pastes?
Sep 24th
“Ain’t She Sweet” http://tinyurl.com/439pjd
Sep 24th
Observing humans observing other humans in hyde park
Sep 24th
“The unpleasant orphanage matron, disillusioned, she hates children, but is fond of alcoholic...
Sep 24th
http://fitbit.com/ is a bit odd
Sep 24th
“The trained librarian was discovered in 1974 by Jerry Lewis.”
Sep 24th
only just realised how weird I am
Sep 24th
planning the fail whale pages for various parliamentary services
Sep 24th
“Anyone Who Had A Heart” - wonderful.
Sep 24th
Passing my favourite end of the serpentine
Sep 24th
“Who could do without this information?” http://tinyurl.com/5xyk78
Sep 24th
“don’t try to be smart because you aren’t”...
Sep 24th
“Reads like a drunken frat-boy afflicted with Tourette’s Syndrome”...
Sep 24th
“The farmer, who did not want to be named…”...
Sep 24th
toot on the old grey cable…
Sep 24th
braincrash. one last svn up and autotest run.
Sep 24th
gphone no nos: http://tinyurl.com/4asolz
Sep 24th
Somewhat melancholic
Sep 24th
In a stalled 159 on haymarket
Sep 24th