@hayles I’m having brunch in Boston Tea Party (the Clifton Village one). @bertyc It’s a latte, the froth is part of the experience ;)
http://twitpic.com/1qymw - So difficult to cut back on the coffee when it’s so beautifully presented…
@brownstudies Hey, I watch about one film a year; don’t make me try to expand my attention span too far in one sitting!
Anyway. I’m choosing Lucky Number Slevin, and hoping that my power stays on for 109 minutes.
@hayles Maybe. I think I’d be even better off with something that I could use as a modem for the laptop, though.
@asic69 I now have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. And I think I’m quite glad.
@talkie_tim Hopefully it won’t become a full-on power cut here. I mean, I’ve got candles, but how long will I last without the internet?
@asic69 You could surely get more bids on _using_ it on Milton Keynes?
Will whomever is firing up a secret super-weapon in Bristol please power it from a private volcano, instead of the national grid? KTHXBAI.
On the other hand, that could be an unwise move, as we’ve just had another mini power cut.
Right. I declare it DVD evening. Lucky Number Slevin, Stranger than Fiction, or Run Lola Run?
@pjakobs I hope you used the phrase “I don’t wanna rock, DJ” when you called them.
Hmm. Two mini power-cuts in the last half-hour. Glad of my UPS.
@hayles Other options: go down to Coffee #1 and grab their carrot cake or cheesecake, or head into Chandos Deli and grab a fruit flapjack.
@hayles I arranged my first photography commission by phone, sitting on the bench in Victoria Square :)
@TwitPic just tried to send to twitpic by email and got an over-quota error.
@bertyc @hayles Good coffee and because of the bar-style seats upstairs I don’t guiltily take up whole table for coffee & coding :)
Mmm. This may be the perfect Boston Latte. Just enough froth to make the art, and fine latte underneath. Mmm.
@Lillput Might well not be caused by coffee, but I’ve just been diagnosed with a possible stomach ulcer, so best to cut back a bit for now!
@ahnlak http://twitpic.com/1q9gj - Ah, they must be using the famous Linksys WRT-54tea as a router.
@Lillput look, it’s bad enough I just bought coffee beans the day after my doctor told me to cut down on caffeine!
@talkie_tim yes, the running coffee roaster was my first clue :)
http://twitpic.com/1q746 - A dangerous discovery for someone who needs to cut his coffee consumption.
@martingoode my suspicion is that if the let you hear it running, you would no longer desire it in your living room.
http://twitpic.com/1q5ke - Combined barbershops and eateries have worried people since before the days of Sweeny Todd
@brownstudies me too. Will now take my copy of _Stories…_ there every time I go, forever, just in case :-)
http://twitpic.com/1q5ey - Retrotastic!
Hmm. Think I just passed PJ Harvey on the way into Boston Tea Party. Odd.
http://twitpic.com/1q2cc - Mmm. Spicy stew & cous cous in Baristas.
On the boat into town.
@missmcq hadn’t thought about Glasto at all. In all honesty, probably not, I’m afraid.
@pjakobs I’m thinking of just rotating a couple of 1TB disks between work and home, but I’ve got Mozy for worst-case off-site just-in-case.
@pjakobs I currently do an rsync to a debian box to make sure my photos are backed up, but snapshots would be extra level of safety. Cool.
@pjakobs Looking at the number of people I know who now actually do backups, I think that age old technology _needed_ a shiny GUI :/
@pjakobs rsnapshot? Never heard of it *looks*. Oooh, it’s Time Machine! Only configurable. Might have to swap that for my rsync setup…
@Pockless If you want to see better at the Fleece, wait until next time Thea Gilmore is down. She normally plays there & is excellent.
Oooh, fantastic. A new Black Cab Session is out. Quick listen before I go to bed, then. http://www.blackcabsessi…
@Pockless Liked the lyrics enough to buy the album, but the gig didn’t really gel. Wrong crowd, maybe, & maybe long tour has worn them down.
@Pockless We can’t have been very far from each other, then!
@KaveyF Yes, it’s normally all @chrismarquardt’s fault.
@sean_robbins Well, if I’d randomly liked a Durutti Column poster I’d seen in a coffee shop, I might have been there instead. Such is life.
@KaveyF Oooh, hello, dear! Come, join us, do not be afraid.
Back from Emmy the Great. Not bad, but probably would’ve been better if I’d known the music in advance (most stuff with good lyrics is…)
at some point, the act I came to see might be on…
@talkie_tim but then at month end / seven unexpected bills / financial winter
Ooh, luck. Got parking space ten paces from Fleece front door. Which then opened.
Hmm. Might drive to the gig tonight. One of the benefits of not drinking.
Tidying up slightly sidetracked by finding the record I bought at the weekend. Now listening to Going Underground on original 7” single.
Right. Going off-line to get some tidying up done. Then a nap before heading off to see Emmy the Great at the Fleece.
@bobbyllew I understand organic polenta can be an excellent substitute, though.
Metronomy’s Fascination Street not my cup of tea. Alkaline Trio’s Cut Here really splendid. Don’t worry, non-Cure fans, CD nearly over :)
@talkie_tim Dandy Warhols nothing to write home about. Close To Me by Get Up Kids better, Futureheads’ version of Lovecats even betterer.
But frankly, for the £2.30 cover price, I’d rate the covers CD as highly worthwhile so far. And you get a free copy of the NME…
@talkie_tim Coming up next!
Oooh, British Sea Power’s version of A Forest is stonking.
Ugh. Think I’m going to fast-forward through Marmaduke Duke’s Friday I’m In Love, though.
Hmm. Lostprophets’ version of Boys Don’t Cry is pretty faithful cover. Not thrilling, but interesting.
@ryancarson Although I personally have it turned on, too, as most people don’t send quite so many :S
@jesselavery @ryancarson It’s the “all @replies” setting on the Notices setting screen, if that helps.
@missmcq Am just about to spin it.
In a cafe reading latest NME. Want to get home so I can listen to the Cure covers CD that came with it :)
Hmm. I used an HTML entity in an earlier Tweet, but it didn’t show up in @TweetDeck. Wonder where the bug is?
Brrr! Where did spring go?
Every time I walk past the big TV in Millennium Square, I have the urge to hire a hammer-throwing woman from the eighties.
@hayles Hmm. We have one of those, too. Similar initials, as well.
@talkie_tim @Nose_in_a_book Unfortunately I’ll have to wait a little while to process my photos. Mac is going into the shop for a new drive.
Anyone yet to go to the Book Barn should try grabbing a photo of “Lightbox Lane” on the estate for the Bristol Street Names group. I forgot!
What lasts longer, a wine gum, or Twitter’s memory of me being logged in?
@ArryMatt No. Want to make my own, not buy one!
Okay,that’s three: ‘Warning: this T-shirt may not render properly for IE6 users.’
okay. Going hand-held so I can look for books and take pictures for last five mins :-)
http://twitpic.com/1om5g - Everything must go
At book barn. Is literary carnage
Must also remember to buy latest NME; apparently has an album of covers of Cure songs for free this week…
Heading off to the Bookbarn now. @Nose_in_a_book if you head there early at lunch, drop me a tweet :)
@Nose_in_a_book Seem to remember it’s near the far end, on the left. No big signs, but you’ll know if you’re there.
@Nose_in_a_book I have no idea where Paintworks is! It’s Unit C on the estate, if that helps.
Is it a bad thing that I only want to understand any technology well enough to be able to make bad puns about it?
Note to self: futher T-shirt idea — “HTML ROCKS”
Right. Off to bed again. Might unplug the phone first this time.
Holy penguin fridges, it’s cold. Only halfway home, too, dammit.
Interval at music & stories night. So far bored by one storyteller, entertained by one, and highly impressed by solo musician and band. Cool
Off to the Scout Hut for evening of music and stories, hopefully.
@talkie_tim Could at least save up some good stock images of empty shelves for when paper really start going out of fashion…
@Lillput I was. Then my Dad called.
Holy cow; the local Book Barn is holding a closing down give-away-everything-for-free “sale”. Ends tomorrow. This may change my plans…
@sean_robbins On the back it would say “UTF-8:You know it makes sense.”
Right. Am going to tidy up for the morning, then go to bed. Have a nice night, all.
@floyduk About three barrels of herring, these days.
@missmcq Yes, that would have to be some tough quiche. Good luck with the dentist…
@JockotheRocks Only to a very select audience :)
Want a T-shirt that says “I’ve forgotten to set my character encoding.”
@missmcq Yowch! :(
@MelKirk ooh, I could rip a tissue!
@lilibaloo Yes, not bad so far. Have been enjoying making plans and then not bothering following them through :)
Of course, for me to be smugly communicating while Gmail is down requires someone else on the frickin’ planet not to be with them, too.
How lucky I am to own devices I can use to record things I notice as I walk down the street with my iPod on, typing into my phone.
Hmm. Vodafone appear to have made all the graphics on their account screens prettier. Account screens still useless and broken, but prettier
Wish #YouTube would stop bloody asking me to set my Country Filter preference. Why can’t the remember from the last 50 times I set it?
Hmm. Just received a package from someone at the University of Leicester, who had trouble spelling “Leicester” on the return address.
@ianmcshane If I wasn’t too old to start snowboarding, you’re not too old to start rollerblading :)
@MitchBenn Worth it just for De Niro, but the rest of it’s pretty damn excellent, too.
@Whatleydude Will have to ask her to have another go. Not sure she’ll agree, she had visions of giving a human transcriber a heart attack :)
@hayles Gah. And that’s one of the reasons I’m thinking of switching to them, too :(
@Whatleydude It never arrived. That’s why I’ve been wondering how they’re dealt with! We had visions of someone collapsing in a call centre!
@hayles It worries me when I hear people say that about a company I might be moving to. Can’t be as bad as Vodafone, surely?
@Lillput Luckily they don’t take much butchering :)
@Whatleydude is SpinVox perturbed by obscenities? See, @ahnlak’s wife left me very rude message at the weekend to see how it would cope…
Blowtorching a creme brulee. If you’re going to have a day off, do it in style, that’s what I say.
@litmanlive Ta.
@litmanlive What’s that as a percentage? Am neither average, nor a family, so can’t put that into context…
@martingoode Too late for me. Might have bought one if they’d got their act together, but went for the Zi6 instead…
Why don’t Twitter new follower emails have a “block” link? The spammers are so obvious I don’t need to go to their pages.
@pjakobs Huh? Incremental block selection of what? Works for me with photos. Or are we still talking about keywords?
@pjakobs Yes, not saying I can’t do it. Saying that as a UI designer it offends my sensibilities for an otherwise well-designed program!
@Phooto Yah, but I was straightening with the grid, then looking later and thinking it was wonky, because my monitor was on a tilt! D’oh!
@pjakobs Yes, but still v. annoying if you don’t want to do it without losing your current picture set/selection, like I just had to. Meh.
Have just figured out why I sometimes have problems straightening photos. Probably helps if you desk is actually level!
@Phooto Duly entered. Must start taking part in the forums more regularly, so ta for the prod.
@pjakobs Horrible way of doing it though. Why not just some drag and drop method, or a “merge” command when you’ve got both selected? Grr.
@Phooto Oooh, good point! I was saying to Kavey that I often take the right photo and then find out what the challenge was afterwards :) Ta!
Oh, how the heck do I merge two keywords in Lightroom?
@zamon @DrHairbear Yes, looking nice out there today. Also, just broke 100,000 views on Flickr, so should probably take a photo to celebrate
Ugh. Have had sleep, but feel a bit rough. Still, have week off now. Should get out there and enjoy it.
@davidpatrick Clearly it does a generally good job for me: http://www.librarything…. :)
@davidpatrick You must have pretty bad luck; think it missed fewer than 20 of my 700-ish books on my first bulk upload…
Booddy-boom-boom-ba-buudy-buddy-boom… Baddi-buddi-booom. Yup, I’m about to watch The Equalizer.
#Librarything should have pictures of the _spines_ of books. Then they’d be easier to find on my randomly-sorted bookshelves.
Heck, I didn’t even know videos could get into Explore. Cool.
@foxc No, it’s just built into Safari. Think Firefox has a “recently closed tabs” menu that does something similar, though.
Yet again, I am grateful to the UI genius who added a “re-open the window you just stupidly closed without meaning to” button to my browser.
@sean_robbins In my experience, it may be quicker to rotate the building by 90 degrees than to close a set of recalcitrant venetian blinds.
@talkie_tim Excuse my empty tweeting. Bloody Adobe Air applications that don’t ever behave quite like native ones.
@sean_robbins Artistry? Witchcraft, more like.
@tweeny4 Might finally get around to going to Tyntesfield.
@tweeny4 @haven‘t decided yet. Have a few evening events lined up in Bristol, so won’t go too far afield.
Plus, of course, it appears to be Spring all of a sudden. Handy.
So, just about to start a week off, and what arrives in the post? A National Trust membership card. Think that might be a hint.
Just posted short video slice of last night’s Bristol Flickr city centre meet :) http://is.gd/kriK
So tired… Must… Drink coffee… Watershed…
http://twitpic.com/1mo70 - Kavey steals my hat.
Ugh. Remind me, why am I awake?
Just back from Cathay Rendezvous. Mmmmmmm. Much good food.
@hayles ???
@Phooto yes, I know.
@technex Normally in the local Flickr group discussion forums; Bristol’s here: http://flickr.com/groups…
Getting ready to join other Flickrites in Bristol City Centre for a walk-about photo shoot.
@technex @Phooto has a good point, though; not all phones will do it, so definitely check! Can always put ring cable back if you need it.
@Phooto Depends on the phone. My three phones all detect the extra-voltage ring signal on the main loop and ring without the bell wire.
@technex From my notes, looks like I got my instructions here: http://linkbun.ch/7ebn
@MelKirk There’s a joke here about falling of the back of a lorry, but I’m damned if I can find it right now…
@technex Disconnect at master socket (google for it - info on UK adsl fora), and generally not; modern phones don’t need bell-ring current.
@technex have you tried disconnecting your bell wire? Got me an extra half meg, anyway.
http://twitpic.com/1lx1z - Pete with Enough tea
http://twitpic.com/1lwmk - Kavey
Wandering St Nick’s Market with Pete & Kavey.
Off to the Royal hotel for brekkers
@chrismarquardt It’s amazing what people will resort to when they don’t have a TV :)
@ianmcshane http://is.gd/kkaE . Wasn’t sure about buying from Korea, but it arrived within a week with a little heart-shaped “thanks” note!
@JockotheRocks My favourite lens is the cheap 50mm 1.8 prime Canon. Amazing for the money.
@JockotheRocks For my good pictures, Canon 400D. For my point-and-shoot, old Konika DiMage X60. For my haven’t-got-a-camera, Nokia N73 :)
Oh God. Think Kavey has actually broken my SpinVox by leaving very rude message for me.
@JockotheRocks it was! :-)
http://twitpic.com/1lbkc - In Sands Lebanese :)
Hmm. Does SpinVox have a swearing filter? Kavey just left me a very rude message as a test and it’s taking a long time to come through :-)
@talkie_tim Oooh, ta. Will make a comment. Maybe I can get a discount on some Howies stuff.
Out from work and off to meet Pete and Kavey. Yay!
@sean_robbins
10 PRINT “SILLY BOY!”
20 GOTO 10
Finally had lunch (and breakfast.)
@Phooto was David Gunson quote, not from Hudson crew :)
@Phooto “…we will switch those *off*. There’s nothing more disconcerting when you’re panicking than red lights and klaxons going off…”
Enjoying @MitchBenn’s thoughts on the Miracle of the Hudson Plane Crash documentary http://is.gd/kcEv.
@MitchBenn FX: crickets. tumbleweed.
http://twitpic.com/10eo2 - “Scared now”, I meant to say.
@JockotheRocks The 50mm is under £100, amazing for portraits (http://is.gd/khA9) and good in low light (http://is.gd/khB4) Worth trying!
@KellyJanner Oh, okay. It’s just that that’s glide.co.uk, so I thought you must be making some kind of anti-aviation protest.
@KellyJanner ??? Not a fan of the Cambridge Gliding Centre?
@hayles I read that as men+tights+alcohol, which is a much weirder image.
@paulahillier Unless you have your own real people and know a photographer, difficult. You’d need model release for commercial use.
@chrismarquardt If you don’t find anyone by the morning, give me a shout :) Bedtime for now, though!
@sean_robbins So, they’re hiring lots of developers but losing the QA to save money? Expect lots of very flaky systems to appear next year!
Another little bout of zenpage education done. Maybe time now for an episode of MacGyver…
Hmm. Agents have started leaving messages. Either there are more IT jobs in Bristol than I thought, or fewer agent’s jobs…
Just been sent an email offering me 9 inches of rock-hard steel. Surely you’d want your steel to be, well, _steel_-hard..?
Taking the early ferry home. Nice.
@sean_robbins you know, that sounds just a touch sad, dear.
@Collingsa What’s it called?
@hayles No, one on the Hotwell Road. Same poster, I guess. I suppose I’m not Diet Coke’s target demographic, else I’d’ve heard of her…
@hayles mine has been replaced (hurrah!) with some odd Coke ad. Who’s Duffy?
Crap. Three hours left on this download. Think it’s probably bedtime.
I know Java apps can’t be consistent with your OS. But couldn’t they at least be consistently not PIG UGLY?
♬Hey, Lloyd, I’m ready to be heartbroken…♪
@Phooto Incidentally, dangerous to leave my PC on overnight. Work runs a job to power them all off during the evening to save money…
My job is challenging. Not challenging like running 100m, but challenging like walking 100m having just shot yourself in both feet.