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Plaid – cost III
Jan 29th
Craig Armstrong – Choral Ending
Jan 29th
Shakedown – At Night
Jan 29th
Dimitri From Paris – Attente Musicale
Jan 29th
Michael Nyman – All Imperfect Things
Jan 29th
The Go! Team – Everyone's a V.I.P. to Someone
Jan 29th
alone. and surrounded by friends.
Jan 29th
ok last.fm. just one more.
Jan 29th
I’m thinking I’m on school run duty again on the morning. I should probably be asleep...
Jan 29th
oh, last.fm, you handsome bastard. the pretenders - don’t get me wrong.
Jan 29th
“Ladies, you’re hired.” http://tinyurl.com/bgay2g
Jan 29th
michael nyman is a nut.
Jan 29th
Jan 29th
john cage looks like ( … ) norman wisdom.
Jan 29th
what the hell am I listening to? oh, right, plaid///
Jan 29th
oh - here we go: deepest blue - give it away.
Jan 29th
good to have goals: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brook/3236914821/ ( I have none. no goals. no...
Jan 29th
WONKY LAUGH
Jan 29th
thank you for not touching: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mray/3236626991/
Jan 29th
sweden: http://www.flickr.com/photos/armangi/3236697203/
Jan 29th
dusty springfield. oh yes.
Jan 29th
north korea upping it?
Jan 29th
now, where was I? oh yes. ( presses keys )
Jan 29th
oooh - harps!
Jan 29th
louder? yes, louder would work for me.
Jan 29th
so - can n korea really get itself together to whack the south?
Jan 29th
Koop – Introduktion
Jan 29th
Dusty Springfield – Anyone Who Had a Heart
Jan 29th
Seu Jorge – Cuidar de Mim
Jan 29th
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Christmas Tree
Jan 29th
Sparks – This Town Ain't Big Enough for the...
Jan 29th
Röyksopp – In Space
Jan 29th
The Soft Pink Truth – Everybody's Soft
Jan 29th
that smell again - a taste.
Jan 29th
shall I just give up and go to bed?
Jan 29th
( checking up on ill wife )
Jan 29th
dishwasher! your ass is MINE!
Jan 29th
António Chainho & Filipa Pais – Fado da...
Jan 29th
Ana Moura – amor em tons de sol maior
Jan 29th
Seu Jorge – Voz Da Massa
Jan 29th
Katia Guerreiro – Amor De Mel, Amor De Fel
Jan 29th
Seu Jorge – Samba Rock
Jan 29th
Seu Jorge – Eterna Busca
Jan 29th
Seu Jorge – Seu Olhar
Jan 29th
Joana Amendoeira – amor mais que perfeito
Jan 29th
watching @austinsveryown in a car with @cote talking about someone called ‘Mike’ and...
Jan 29th
I have the opportunity to be what I never was before
Jan 29th
hah - great daily video at http://www.davidlynch.com/ !
Jan 29th
qi gong - I can’t getting into the yang-style stuff at all
Jan 29th
( how did these people run an empire? )
Jan 29th
battling opensearch responses with javascript
Jan 29th
what *is* that smell? familiar / unfamiliar —-
Jan 29th
huh. idea.
Jan 29th
I really don’t think this music is going to cheer me up
Jan 29th
Wayne Smith – Under Me Sleng Teng
Jan 29th
interesting: a country abandons its currency: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7859033.stm
Jan 29th
another screenshot on a major news site top story: bbc this time
Jan 29th
not having a shave
Jan 29th
not ironing a shirt
Jan 29th
singing with the boy
Jan 29th
The Canadian Brass – Overture From The Magic...
Jan 29th
Franz Schubert – Rast
Jan 29th
Old things / new things
Jan 29th
Accelerating.
Jan 29th
off to search for snakes
Jan 29th
Woman asked to take a photo of me. This doesn’t usually happen.
Jan 29th
off to portcullis house for a tea, then a meeting with $third_party_supplier
Jan 29th
you feeling okay? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7857824.stm
Jan 29th
“I first learned about the Ukrainian rapist last year” http://tinyurl.com/d3f8vu
Jan 29th
if not ‘ombudsperson’, perhaps ‘ombudsdroid’?
Jan 29th
thesvrl: .
Jan 29th
http://httparty.rubyforge.org/
Jan 29th
doh - deployed to wrong aws credentials. let’s try that again.
Jan 29th
Searched Twitter for “digital britain”: http://tinyurl.com/cluhso
Jan 29th
hello @heathrowtower
Jan 29th
unsubscribed from all greader feeds not updated in 2009
Jan 29th
and this is the part of the day where we read out our corp email
Jan 29th
we’re doomed. what next? http://tinyurl.com/bp2lmj
Jan 29th
facebook screenshot front page of cnn.com (?!)
Jan 29th
fighting mysql language settings. I’m am *so* not swedish. and neither is my data.
Jan 29th
“Illegal mix of collations”! woo!
Jan 29th
today I will be mostly building servers - thanks @elasticserver !
Jan 29th
2600 deobfuscating scripting languages / fatpages / textpattern plugins / anyone else?
Jan 29th
( life would be a whole lot easier if I cared a whole lot less )
Jan 29th
hm. should probably buy a second nokia e71 charger.
Jan 29th
above the trees: http://flickr.com/photos/theverypage/3235174969/
Jan 29th
this is not the droid I was looking for : http://tinyurl.com/3xmx35
Jan 29th
( sailed through 28k updates - didn’t notice! )
Jan 29th
Decamping from portcullis house into the tunnels under Norman shaw.
Jan 29th
Rt @swardley “execution is more important than being original”
Jan 29th
Must find out more about the Quakers before tomorrow’s meeting.
Jan 29th
Taj mahal / fio maravilha / pais tropical
Jan 29th
Blue lights and solid traffic on victoria st. Bailing.
Jan 29th
*waves* to selborne house folk
Jan 29th
Nodding my head. Slightly. This is as near as I get to dancing.
Jan 29th
Camped out in portcullis house
Jan 29th
I have fingernails!
Jan 29th
Wondering if I dare visit millbank today. I’m thinking not.
Jan 29th
Seems I can piss people off with very little effort. Must find a way to use my powers for good...
Jan 29th
Sony profits down 95%!
Jan 29th
Humming ‘electric avenue’ again. Not sure why.
Jan 29th
Feasting on the blood of freshly slaughtered … No, wait, this is toast.
Jan 29th
Not having coffee. Let’s see how long this lasts.
Jan 29th
( something is missing )
Jan 28th
crashing
Jan 28th
and bed.
Jan 28th
no longer competent enough to make decisions. time for a shave.
Jan 28th
the week in cycling
Jan 28th
Little Snitch
Jan 28th
via Ezra Zygmuntowicz’s tumblr.
Jan 28th
Jingi naki tatakai: The Press Sheet...
Jan 28th
huh - http://tinyurl.com/amlhak
Jan 28th
maddeningly fatigued
Jan 28th
okay - time to hack a bit on http://www.depositedpapers.com/
Jan 28th
cardsorter for mac: http://www.xsortapp.com/
Jan 28th
absolutely no idea what to talk about at BarcampUKGovWeb - work is too weird / obscure / unsexy
Jan 28th
I have nothing to say. NOTHING. TO. SAY.
Jan 28th
stealth ship vid: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7856247.stm
Jan 28th
// her eyes, flickering beneath the lids, despite herself, venemous //
Jan 28th
Alexis Weissenberg – Piano Sonata in E...
Jan 28th
HASYMO – the city of light
Jan 28th
Art of Noise – Continued in Colour
Jan 28th
A Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Ray
Jan 28th
The Go! Team – Feelgood by Numbers
Jan 28th
Erik Satie – Prelude
Jan 28th
N.W.A – Express Yourself
Jan 28th
starbucks closing stores, making 6k redundant. well, this is it, people.
Jan 28th
eating yoghurt with a tiny spoon
Jan 28th
unplugging the internet in order to iron a shirt
Jan 28th
extracting software
Jan 28th
watching an interview with Goshka Macuga - and qi gong-ing
Jan 28th
Long list of things I have to do. Where’s the list of things I want to do? No such list...
Jan 28th
Thought I was on the phone to japan. Turned out he was in Leicester. Also, not Japanese.
Jan 28th
This rye bread has the consistency of freshly laid Tarmac
Jan 28th
The boy has a little desk from habitat. Yes, we are middle class.
Jan 28th
If you’re interested in who tells me what to do at work, @innismontgomery is your only man.
Jan 28th
Eating noods. Actually, mostly chunks of Ginger and chili.
Jan 28th
Shepherds bush green: there is no escape!
Jan 28th
Must learn to give without wish for reward. Or, failing that, REDACTED.
Jan 28th
That has to be the least mexican “mexican” restaurant anywhere this side of the rio...
Jan 28th
Isaac hayes = proto-disco?
Jan 28th
I have the teeth of the hydra upon me.
Jan 28th
Sighted three eeepcs in portcullis house. Woman on the bus with a sony ereader. Its like...
Jan 28th
Descending into the queensway quadrant.
Jan 28th
Timmy thomas - why can’t we live together? - amazing tune
Jan 28th
Tired. Pretty intense day.
Jan 28th
not going down the tube unescorted - 148 it is.
Jan 28th
svn up / git pull / autotest all green - done done done
Jan 28th
I think I’ve made my first real enemy. unless, of course, there are others out there just...
Jan 28th
“anyway that’s all off the record so no twittering that”
Jan 28th
dreading opening corp email
Jan 28th
“Alistair McGowan? I don’t know who she is.”
Jan 28th
oh, that reminds me - just met http://tinyurl.com/ca2oc8
Jan 28th
happily observing interactions between @webgnu and @elasticserver
Jan 28th
photo on http://news.bbc.co.uk/ top story looks like one of mine: http://flickr.com/photos/brook/
Jan 28th
ok, here we go - email!
Jan 28th
Just had my first serious argument at work. Oh dear.
Jan 28th
Well at least I didn’t get stuck in the lift
Jan 28th
First floor
Jan 28th
Ground floor
Jan 28th
Fifth floor
Jan 28th
Fourth floor
Jan 28th
Third floor
Jan 28th
Second floor
Jan 28th
Sixth floor
Jan 28th
Hm. Been asked to report back on ukgovweb.
Jan 28th
( phone call )
Jan 28th
Walking through old palace yard. Should probably do up my shoelace.
Jan 28th
off to millbank to talk to @jackieahrens about xml schemas - and someone-not-on-twitter about...
Jan 28th
just got off the phone with someone. already forgotten their name. not on email, or - er - twitter.
Jan 28th
any unions on twitter? prospect? fda?
Jan 28th
28/01/2009
Jan 28th
Piccadilly. Still raining.
Jan 28th
Much happier in these trousers
Jan 28th
Trying again after forgetting my oyster - gah!
Jan 28th
Listening to a life of margot fonteyn
Jan 28th
down to following 700. must push on.
Jan 28th
preparing wet weather gear
Jan 28th
ok - let’s rock and/or roll
Jan 28th
( that makes no sense. but then, these sorts of things rarely do. )
Jan 28th
is there any way to subscribe to @hotdogsladies video in itunes? I’m getting ‘not...
Jan 28th
happy with http://www.isthehousesitting.com/ - need to massage the text presentation a bit now.
Jan 28th
Actually, this Wednesday might be better than Friday.
Jan 28th
Fished out of the bath this morning: mainly sticklebricks.
Jan 28th
Thought it was Friday. It’s not. It’s Wednesday.
Jan 28th
Let’s do this.
Jan 28th
Ironed. Shaved. Qi gonged. Must be bed time.
Jan 27th
right. time to apply the blade.
Jan 27th
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/search/dishwasher
Jan 27th
I think http://www.parliament.uk/ and http://news.parliament.uk/ should be rewritten in the YUI grid
Jan 27th
removing facebook friend recommendations is like playing tetris
Jan 27th
I love the sound of passing prop planes
Jan 27th
I should have more fun. okay - I should have *some* fun. ( wait: do I even *like* fun? )
Jan 27th
http://howtousetwitterformarketingandpr.com/
Jan 27th
let’s get minimal. http://www.isthehousesitting.com/
Jan 27th
bbc pay freeze until 2010? so, er, a year then?
Jan 27th
BBC 6 Music – AdamAndJoe: Pull Your Finger...
Jan 27th
Fabric – fabric podcast 16: Zed Bias
Jan 27th
Steptoe and son on BBC 7
Jan 27th
I rather like approaching 40.
Jan 27th
back to the ironing
Jan 27th
deleting some DMs. some I don’t.
Jan 27th
ginger tea, some type of greek pasta thing, oranges with the boy
Jan 27th
Anyone else in london on virgin media having connection issues?
Jan 27th
wireless seems to be back. panic over.
Jan 27th
john updike’s gone.
Jan 27th
my dad is here. he’s talking about blood tests. in detail. thanks dad.
Jan 27th
My neck is getting scrawny. Like an aged chicken.
Jan 27th
Logistics
Jan 27th
Whistling otis redding
Jan 27th
27/01/2009
Jan 27th
Will be glad to get back into the grey suit tomorrow. I don’t think I can carry dark blue very...
Jan 27th
submerging for a while. see you later.
Jan 27th
use monster for jobs? http://tinyurl.com/avjj8y
Jan 27th
dude whistling “only love can break your heart”
Jan 27th
“no such file to load — mkmf”
Jan 27th
building another server
Jan 27th
looking for a sitemap
Jan 27th
Artsy Money Merger
Jan 27th
off to portcullis house to talk to @delineator about … “things”.
Jan 27th
through 9k visits a day for the first time: http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/
Jan 27th
27/01/2009
Jan 27th
One dog, two leads!
Jan 27th
“more beautiful than tilda swinton”??
Jan 27th
Woman behind me huffing like she’s on stage.
Jan 27th
Weird disco tune in my head. Not sure what it is.
Jan 27th
crazy day. london and twitter delight me. ( I feel I owe people - big time. ) goodnight all.
Jan 26th
so, who’s going to show this guy a good time? http://twitter.com/bryce/status/1150475634
Jan 26th
( replying )
Jan 26th
( googling )
Jan 26th
( reading )
Jan 26th
I assume facebook is deserted now.
Jan 26th
me and @rustyrockets have the same icon. take that, naysayers!
Jan 26th
odd feeling today - that I might, actually, have a point.
Jan 26th
I’ll tell you one thing, she has one hell of a chin.
Jan 26th
one day, this will all make sense: http://twitpic.com/17l42
Jan 26th
checking out YUI 3 while everyone else checks out russell brand
Jan 26th
well well.
Jan 26th
lovely seamless tiles from @aubergene http://www.flickr.com/photos/aubergene/tags/seamless/
Jan 26th
again, I have failed to eat enough today.
Jan 26th
delightful photos from lovemaus on flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/lovemaus/
Jan 26th
I am easily the cleanest dude in w12. Physically.
Jan 26th
baghdad battery: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2804257.stm
Jan 26th
work folk now contacting me via twitter and gmail! OMFG!!
Jan 26th
Taken out of the bath before I get in: two kinds of Lego, plastic meccano, a killer whale and a...
Jan 26th
long series of qi gong / bagua - now promoted to ironing
Jan 26th
Surprised that kiehls is a minority pursuit in the UK.
Jan 26th
Choosing from a long list of tasks. Its a bit like being a monk.
Jan 26th
friends in ealing report a power cut
Jan 26th
just realised that - now virgin media suck less - I could actually watch something on iplayer
Jan 26th
( something untwitterable in greek )
Jan 26th
deleted all greader subs that haven’t updated since december 08
Jan 26th
did I go too far today? I think I went too far.
Jan 26th
Crazy Penis – Bad Dismount
Jan 26th
James Lileks – Up Your Shaft
Jan 26th
Vangelis – Blade Runner Blues
Jan 26th
Moloko – Familiar Feeling
Jan 26th
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Behind the Mask (The...
Jan 26th
Steve Reich – Section XI
Jan 26th
DJ Shadow – You Can't Go Home Again (Album...
Jan 26th
“and here’s a story about …. Being free!”
Jan 26th
Park lane into marble arch is a jam
Jan 26th
Shorter is better. Once you know, you know.
Jan 26th
Hyde park corner / park lane / pacific 202 / loving london
Jan 26th
Candido!
Jan 26th
( Am I really following andi peters? )
Jan 26th
Buses should have railguns. for cars in bus lanes.
Jan 26th
Oh boy looks slow north of hyde park
Jan 26th
Ah, the spiral galaxy of shepherds bush green approaches
Jan 26th
Oyster cards in the air!
Jan 26th
unclenching somewhat
Jan 26th
managing a dns zone file
Jan 26th
new release at http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/ just gone live, mostly improvements to name...
Jan 26th
hmm. must remember yang-style low-hand shaolin.
Jan 26th
“wearing Court Dress” http://tinyurl.com/dbwyq5
Jan 26th
http://tinyurl.com/b7d8vz “Overtures from France and Russia”
Jan 26th
inciting
Jan 26th
fans down
Jan 26th
all up to date with svn and git
Jan 26th
A Designer’s Portfolio, 16th Century-Style
Jan 26th
Hydro-Pharmacology
Jan 26th
Bradford Cross: GTD Distilled
Jan 26th
Artsy Money Merger
Jan 26th
Searched Twitter for bloomberg: http://tinyurl.com/6djfdc - what, less finance news??
Jan 26th
“Pig wing? Pig wing’s off.” http://tinyurl.com/d8q3sa
Jan 26th
off to meet @swardley - taking a notebook and the best brain I can find.
Jan 26th
juggling networks
Jan 26th
For me, today’s going to be hard.
Jan 26th
Bad syntax? Bad person!
Jan 26th
Blanking myself
Jan 26th
Traffic light up notting hill
Jan 26th
Listening to @cowboyd addressing @cote re: wangage
Jan 26th
Off and away
Jan 26th
Watching the australians emerging from the tunnels under shepherds bush green
Jan 26th
Really tired. Anyway: making coffee.
Jan 26th
Making several sins of omission. Something’s got to give.
Jan 26th
retiring to perform domestic duties
Jan 25th
meh. table? http://www.isthehousesitting.com/
Jan 25th
http://www.tweetstats.com/graphs/robertbrook
Jan 25th
The top 5 words I’ve tweeted: www, uk, oh, good, flickr. http://tinyurl.com/bzpvzh
Jan 25th