@benjohnbarnes There’s a firefox extension (or userscript) that’ll fade specified things out of Google results. Can’t remember which one!
@benjohnbarnes 2 Gig here, too; it’s the maximum in these old iMacs.
@benjohnbarnes 10-second freezes? Don’t notice mine doing that…
@dktom Haven’t installed it. Just figuring out what’ll break! Best compatibility list is http://snowleopard.wikid… I think.
Hmm. Looks like Parallels 3 isn’t Snow Leopard compatible. Bugger. Had hoped to avoid paying the hefty upgrade fee to go to 4.
@KaveyF Because once you’ve done it a few times, you get better at preparing and making the interview shorter :)
Heavens, my backup is still running. It seems I have no choice but to sit here and read classic science fiction instead of working. Shame.
@Nose_in_a_book well done! Still a good few weeks away from 5K myself.
@Whatleydude Bumpy, was it? :)
@floyduk Glad to see her looking so happy!
Ah, decisions, decisions. _28 Days Later_, or _Casino Royale_?
@KaveyF It takes practice! And if you’d deliberately gone with ask-and-listen it might have stalled; chat helps to relax people.
Just in from Week 6, run 1 of the #C25K. Today’s blog is mostly about buying new shoes, though :) http://bit.ly/13UtEK #getrunning
@KaveyF Well, I know your pain, having transcribed a few interviews in my time. Don’t forget to take a break; it can be absorbing work!
@KaveyF You know, audio typists can have to do that, too. They just have speed controls and foot switches to help…
@penelopeelse Park Street. About five minutes’ walk from where Fresh & Wild used to be.
@penelopeelse Kewl. If you go to BTP, don’t miss the back garden, if you can get a seat. Should be nice at the moment.
@penelopeelse Shame WIld Oats (Bristol’s rather older, and still-going organic store) doesn’t have a cafe.
@penelopeelse I still like Boston Tea Party myself, but sure there are more organic options.
@penelopeelse Ooh, months ago. Erm. Ah — last September, apparently: http://bit.ly/3rQPmF
@penelopeelse If it’s the one that was on the Triangle you’re thinking of, then yes, that’s now a Waitrose, sans cafe.
@penelopeelse You mean the Fresh and Wild that shut down?
@njj4 The relevant authorities being, presumably, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dustbunnies?
New shoes! http://twitpic.com/fp4tb
Bought new running shoes. Have been on a treadmill for the first time. Odd!
Yum. It’s a bank holiday weekend, and I’m taking this morning off. Nothing useful will be done. That is my vow. Now for a long bath.
@R2UK Goodness. *hug* Hope she’s okay.
Wow. One side of harbour: sunshine. Other side: thunderstorm!
Every time I take off my sunglasses I feel a strange need to deliver a one-liner. Too much CSI: Miami, methinks.
@shezza_t Not as far as I know!
@KaveyF thank you for that, dear.
Damn. Having severe carbohydrate cravings today.
@tsunimee I’m too many miles away for sampling, unfortunately!
Oh, so today’s going to be a sunglasses and umbrella day, is it?
@bananza I wasn’t, but I will be now :) Thanks!
@bananza cool, that sound close to what I’m managing.
@tsunimee yup, wish I could have gone. Not to offer moral support, you understand, just to sample as many things as I could get away with ;)
@bananza what’s the equivalent of 5.0 if you’re not using a treadmill? ;) Not sure I could get slower, anyway! http://bit.ly/6lEVt
@tsunimee @ahnlak and @KaveyF are doing this: http://bit.ly/umnSU ;)
Love the way skinnyr.com shows total weight for all users. They currently have 4,747,722lbs of humans signed up ;)
@KaveyF Good luck at the Covent Garden Real Food Market today! http://bit.ly/umnSU. London followers, please go say hi! ;)
Bugger. New microphone is faulty. I hate having to return stuff.
@jacrats I forgot to ask him how it worked out!
Thanks, but I bet someone who really could teach me to master Photoshop in two hours could also make an advert that didn’t look like arse.
Hotwell Road: Two police cars, five policemen, and a busful of people being transferred from one bus to a replacement. Odd.
Foot still quite hurty. Hope it holds up for today’s run. #getrunning #c25k
@AndyCarolan Your target audience is clearly bored people in a staid corporate environment, hence IE6. Bet Scott Adams has same problem!
@WilHarris you’re getting confused by namespaces, and I claim my £5!
@DrHairbear *grin* well, didn’t actually suggest the bleach to my colleague. Think he’s about to wash his hands with a spoon…
@seengee yes, I’d say UTF-8 all round is probably best bet. Won’t really be any overhead, anyway.
@seengee what are you web pages served as?
Ta all! summary of garlic-removing options: parsley, bleach, soap+nailbrush, lemon, milk, stainless steel. Will try those we have!
Hey, cooking followers: any tips for removing garlic smell from hands the morning after? Colleague just asked…
Gah. Hour-long business briefing. Might start planning my days off to coincide…
@benjohnbarnes fantastic!
Going home on the boat tonight. Then I might have a nap. Still fairly exhausted from weekend ;(
Whoooo hooo! Week five, run two done and dusted! #getrunning #c25k
@technex can you get to her? A model fixing a car should be an interesting shoot ;)
None of my podcasts are working today! Boagworld seems to be panned hard left, & TWiT is last week’s episode. Music time!
Oh, dearie me. A day at work. And I’ve still not unpacked from the wedding. Going to be a long day, I feel.
Oh dear God yes, just _yes_: http://xkcd.com/627/
@philmonger Yes, just teasing :) Interviewed PFH once, in fact. Lovely bloke; sure he’s got more personality than his F1 namesake.
Why is it so hard to buy stuff from Adobe? Here’s a clue, Adobe, I’ve already got a “download manager”. It’s called “my web browser”.
God, I’ve got through a lot of carbohydrates today. It’s a sign of extreme tiredness, but I’m a bit too wired to sleep. Bah.
(And yes, I know it was mostly used for GB excluding Ireland, but “Albion United” sounded like a football team…)
I propose we go back to calling the UK “Albion”, just so it appears at the _top_ of drop-down country lists on websites, not the bottom.
Done nothing since driving back from hotel this morning. Then again, did 12-hours of wedding photography yesterday. Unwind is necessary.
@KaveyF You’re a bit late :) http://twitpic.com/f0ggk
@philmonger Well, his books are very long. But I quite liked “Pandora’s Star”.
@Playleimagery Doubt I’ll ever buy Photoshop. Every time I can afford it, I’ll buy a new lens or body instead…
@Playleimagery Yeah, but mostly I don’t want to use either. Lightroom is all I need. May go for Noise Ninja; looks like it cooperates w/ LR.
@Playleimagery This may be why I’d narrowed the field down to Noise Ninja when I looked into this last year, come to think of it.
@Playleimagery Ah. Noiseware may be good, but it won’t work on a Mac except as a Photoshop plugin. And I don’t own Photoshop.
@Playleimagery cool, ta. Will check it out!
Taking a break with @sowerbyandluff ;) http://twitpic.com/ez7ve
@marklesuk You haven’t seen the back! They gave me an extra face :)
Who let the children loose with the face paint, then? http://twitpic.com/ew3dj
Wow. Wedding venue very dark indeed. May need to invest in a copy of Noise Ninja at last. And a 5D for next time ;)
@rabidbee Crap. I’d rather eat a sandwich on the central reservation. Plastic hole of doom.
Goodness, but Membury Services is a godawful hole.
@hannahnicklin What you can’t tell is that the bag contains _nothing but nails_…
@zamon think they’re both pretty bad, myself…
@rabidbee more likely to be offered GBH in the office.
Don’t normally do this. Today, though, so tired and headachey am resorting to Coke.
@girlygeekreview hi! Fancy reviewing my friend @benjohnbarnes’ iPhone app? http://bit.ly/1nh61M
@Phooto well, here’s hoping. Appointment for results week after next…
Didn’t know someone was replacing WildWalk with big aquarium and reopening the IMAX. Cool! #bristol
Just had three loads of blood drawn. Glad I don’t mind needles!
Nearly halfway through the #C25K. Next run will be week 5, run 2! #getrunning
@mapcard Yup, that was the problem. Will be in touch, ta!
@stephenfry back the heck away before they con you into changing supplier. Vultures.
Loving Pano. Damp ferry commuters. http://twitpic.com/ekh2q
Waiting for the boat. Bit damp today! http://twitpic.com/ekg7m
Hmm. Having problems with @mapcard this morning. Won’t update location…
One for @Swishrelic, I think: http://twitpic.com/ekd62
Heh. Basic Instructions is particularly funny today http://bit.ly/13dz8G
Heck, I’m getting so much extracurricular work that I may have to start charging just to put people off…
@benjohnbarnes Either that, or you need to follow more people :)
@benjohnbarnes Yup. You’re all alone in a tweetless universe.
Morning all! http://twitpic.com/eg5iz
Hmm. Why is fastmail’s web server dying every time I try to add a new rule?
@martingoode They’re not, for me. Something odd going on at your end?
Watching @bobbyllew taste Marmite :)
@ironicsans I thought it was an American thing!
The Kraken Wakes… every bloody half an hour#babyscififi
@sean_robbins #babyscifi Stairgate Atlantis
Crumpled and bemused
Shrinking downcast from the sun
Those Monday faces
Right. Now to get on with design stuff for work newsletter. Left this inf to the last minute, unfortunately.
Right. That’s B&Q, M&S, Boots and a running shop visited. Just recovering in Boston Tea Party.
@Dan_Christensen Well, Apple firearms would be prettier, but you’d only be able to shoot people that Steve Jobs didn’t like.
@bertpalmer Ah. That could be an issue.
@bertpalmer I’ve got a couple of weeks off in September. Hopefully it’ll be a bit quieter!
Bloody iMovie. Video now public :) http://bit.ly/1aaFCZ
The reason I decided not to go see Banksy yesterday: http://bit.ly/1aaFCZ
@DrHairbear Think it’s some strange satanic ritual. Has actually happened on two separate occasions. Third time, I may have to kill them.
Gah. Noisy Upstairs Neighbour is having a party. Last time this happened I was woken at 2:30am by Bonnie Tyler and stamping.
Right. Having an afternoon off. About to watch Ken Russell’s version of _The Rainbow_.
@zamon my doctor just recommended swimming to me, but I’m pretty sure that wasn’t what she had in mind!
@AndyCarolan Yes. I had one the other day that was so dumb it re-tweeted its own re-tweet because it found the keyword again!
Broody-looking day! http://bit.ly/2iNTK6
@kate_day I think Liz Taylor said that once…
Okay, that is desperately cute http://bit.ly/bN0TO #lego
@caffeinebomb Sometimes, you have to ignore your system, ignore worries about inefficiency, and Just Get On With Anything. Build momentum.
@caffeinebomb Surely it can’t be a bad thing if your downward spiral has ground to a halt? Now do five minutes of anything you need to do.
May not need to go out again this weekend.
Home to find a copy of Sowerby and Luff’s _Sex Tips for Pandas_, _The Rainbow_ from LoveFilm, and this month’s .net magazine on doormat.
Now going to drop by CREATE on way home to check out photo exhibition.
@wshed lovely as ever, thanks!
Post-trip lunch in the lovely Watershed. Mmm bolognaise!
I’ve got that sinking feeling. They’re just emptying the lock! http://twitpic.com/du82y
Curses. River trip busy, and all outside seats taken.
@zamon going to be a river trip. What I shoot very light-dependent.-
Yum. Someone just drove past in the other end of the beautiful car-design spectrum: E-type Jag.
Hmm. Weather so unsettled I have no idea what lenses to pack for the day.
@goatgirl74 I bought my Cinquecento from eBay for £500. It lasted two years, and I got £250 trade-in for it :) Bangertastic!
@goatgirl74 I recommend finding out about your local dealer first though, before buying FIAT. Some of their dealers are utterly awful.
@goatgirl74 I had a Cinquecento for a while and it was fab, in its own small, tinny and cheap way :)
Aww. Fiat 500s really are lovely little cars. Great design.
And into week four of my crazy plan to take up jogging. Hurrah! #getrunning http://bit.ly/H2Y8M
Do my legs look long in this? #gpsmapcard http://twitpic.com/dr1ps
@synox Not sure I can take full credit for that one. Think it was a discussion in the University of Warwick’s “fyshbowl” terminal room.
@missmcq it lives! Hello, you. Was just thinking about mailing you.
Yay! Day off tomorrow!
Looks like it’s going to stay nice and sunny for tonight’s run. Excellent!
http://twitpic.com/dpurs - Remind me never to write a progress bar that does this. For 35 minutes.
I used Shazam to discover Acid Tongue by Jenny Lewis #shazam
*sings* “A spoonful of miracles/A nostril full of dust/ a lungful of Virginia/the needs we have we must”
@hayles okay, I’ll let you off.
@hayles Not that I’m a huge fan — The Fields of the Nephilim are my particular gothic poison — but hey…
@hayles How can you not _know_? Youngster.
@KaveyF Neither are you!
(Fondu? Heck, I can’t spell.)
@tweeny4 Hrm. Cider fondue. Could work, that.
@philmonger is that the sound of someone drowning in spam follower requests I hear?
…(still quite glad she decided to ignore that bit of advice, mind!)
#welovetheNHS even though the NHS advised my mother not to have me! Was best advice for her - she had MS and the NHS looked after her well.
#welovethenhs Heck, I work for a private healthcare company, and _I_ love the NHS!
Support #welovetheNHS, add a #twibbon to your avatar now! - http://twibbon.com/join/…
The iPhone has many limitations, but perhaps the most serious is its inability to read the alt-text on xkcd.com.
@KaveyF we want to see you jars!
@wilshipley Are you still using that thing when Dropbox exists? Loving the fact I can reliably sync Scrivener docs at last. #fuckingidisk
@irishbelle2001 Congratulations!
Right. Going to bed now, in the hope that I actually get to bloody sleep. Not been good the last few nights.
Saw “Much Wenlock” on a map earlier on today. Is it just me, or does that sound like a good evening? “Arr, we had much wenlock last night!”
A Creative Commons pic of mine used in Stanfords, Bristol — thanks @philmonger! http://twitpic.com/dhlyt http://twitpic.com/dhm12
@KaveyF Could be a victim of the Seven Hour Meeting From Hell…
@Playleimagery Oh, did it post automatically? Not used ShoZu for that before…
Lacking a battery for my proper camera, I try my first pano on the iPhone. Not bad; it was stitched in camera… http://twitpic.com/dilwc
@KaveyF None of that would have got to me if I was at work without my phone. But I’d feel really guilty when I got back home…
@asic69 only have one spare, and it’s charging. Long weekend!
@KaveyF knowing me, I’d have forgotten my phone.
@zamon there’s a reason: trying to diagnose a flash fault that only happens on low battery…
http://twitpic.com/dilwc - pano
Damn. Kids are having a foam fight in the Centre fountain, and my camera’s out of battery!
Best thing about doing the awards night? People I’ve never met have been coming up all day and saying how they liked the photos :) #egoboost
Not desperately sure about #25, though :)
Wonderful images of Typhoon Morakot collected by Boston Globe’s _Big Picture_ http://cli.gs/QVPPXa. Love #29 and #13.
Nice! Looks like my time off work next month will start with the Organic Food Festival. Mmmm.
@Playleimagery Oooh, cool. Have already got one Cokin filter; maybe this is the impetus I need to get another one or two :)
Plotting data on rotatable 3D maps of UK. Feel like a weatherman.
Being gradually forced back into IE6 use by new corporate firewall. Grr.
@Narshada cool. Validate your markup as a first step. IE is surprisingly sensitive.
Polarising filters and lens hoods are an awkward combination.
Getting irritated by LoveFilm’s site adverts, which are (literally) getting in the way of its content.
@hayles Oh yeah. It does look quite nice, doesn’t it? Hope it stays until Friday — I’m having a day off to do a river trip…
@Kuru_Footwear Thanks, but do you have any UK dealers?
@Narshada Sorry, got called into meeting and am now a long way from IE8. Had any luck? I was wondering if there was margin/padding issues…
@Narshada stair step? Probably width related, then. Can’t say for sure, though - myspace is blocked here :(
@Narshada can you put the problem on the web anywhere?
@hayles presumably it’d be called “I’s Phone”, what with Bristolian not using the word “my”…
@paulahillier Customer Service awards. Went okay, considering it was my first time using a flashgun… Nothing special, though.
Grr. With the new firmware, my iPhone won’t go into airplane mode when I connect it to and old dock, and say “yes” when it asks.
@amandapalmer Forget the explanation. That’s just such a brilliant morning photograph! http://twitpic.com/d9epq
(…unch, I was going to say. Didn’t know TweetDeck sent anyway, if it was over the word count. Grr! All it needed to trim was a full stop!)
Okay, up and feeling far more bouncy than yesterday. Time to shower, tidy the flat, process some photos, and go up to Ashton Court for l …
Ooopsie. I was going to bed an hour ago. Night all!
@hayles …my luvver.
@hayles well, if you can figure out what it should do, I could have a go at writing it…
@hayles Well, still think you could be doing better than average. The mistakes I made at 27 made the ones I made at 17 seem pretty small.
@hayles are they the right mistakes, though?