@hayles Sack of New potatoes, then? Tube of Pringles? Oh, hang on, I’d never leave the bed.
@hayles Clearly you need a sack of potatoes the size and weight of t’other half to act as ballast when he’s not there.
Thank you, Seagate FreeAgent Pro, for your “usb or firewire” replaceable plug-in modules of joy.
@rabidbee That’s where I normally bugger something up, end up with 110,000 pictures, and clean duplicates all weekend…
@tweeny4 Good. Being you is a fab idea. Well, for you. :)
@laurashav Wait roughly 20 years. It’ll get old in the end.
Damn you, MacJournal! Every time I do anything which involves MobileMe synching, you lose data. That’s this morning’s Morning Pages gone.
Okay, 7K run. Quick shower, then it’s time for a few hours of spring cleaning. Feeling disgustingly virtuous today.
Okay, think I should probably go for a run while it’s not actually tipping it down.
@davidpatrick Very odd, especially as Apps have virtually no effect on the phone when they’re not running. Oh well.
Very impressed by first brush with Migration Assistant. Apart from deep system stuff, e.g. where I’ve installed MySQL, this _is_ my old Mac.
@davidpatrick None, never seen that with mine unless there really was no service. Erm. Tried taking the SIM out and putting it in again?
@davidpatrick Oh, cancel that, I’m reading back a few tweets.
@davidpatrick Which network are you with?
@dressjunkie Wow — you got the Full Narcissist Edition of Twitter? That’s quite an upgrade…
Migration Assistant has worked so well I’m wondering what twisty little problem it is I’ve yet to encounter.
Note to self: Not only is “klutziness” a fantastic word, it’s also in the OS X spelling dictionary. Win!
@chris_j_hughes Thank you! I did. It was great. But I may now have to watch it a few more times to figure out what the heck it was about.
Curse you, Apple. Please let developers have access to do plugin-y things in the 64-bit framework. I want iGlasses in 64-bit.
Sitting in view of car, waiting for someone to bring me coffee & lemon polenta. There really are worse places to break down!
Hmm. Jacobs prepared to meet in middle on web price, but don’t have the lens in stock.
@andybeebristol Mustn’t grumble! Have broken down next to cafés in Clifton Village in plenty of time to walk where I was going!
So much for ploughing through my todo list. Car just broke down. Abandoning it to go to physio appointment before I call RAC. :(
Okay, lots to do to day. Morning Pages done, now it’s time for Clifton Village chores, a physio appointment, and running shoe shopping.
@tsunimee It sort of worked for me today. Mostly it felt like I was throwing my to-do list at the world and seeing which bits stuck.
Right. Settling in for some David Lynch.
Speaking of films, though, think I may finally get around to watching Mulholland Drive this evening.
@hayles the entire experience that accompanies seeing a film at a mainstream cinema is the main reason I see about three films a year. :(
Someday, someone will rent the whole ad break and play their commercial at 1/32nd speed, and I’ll actually see it.
In a queue in Moti, waiting for shoe fitting.
@hayles Very possibly. But hey, it has been four whole years.
@hayles Clearly only some kind of Internet gossip flirt would do something like that. http://twitpic.com/15na31
@hayles I would look at what’s on myself, but am about 1% of way through Migration Assistant transfer between Macs :D
@hayles Watershed or Cube?
@Lillput Yup, they were, but not for the full £50-off web price, which is fair enough. Calling me Monday to let me know if they can get one.
RAC utterly splendid, by the way. Got to me in 25 minutes, car fixed in 20, friendly as ever. http://twitpic.com/15n1dh
@Nose_in_a_book I hate it when that happens. Still, is opportunity for nice new mug.
@KaveyF Cool. Thinking of checking it out in Jacobs, then ordering from them online — have £50 off at the moment, I think only online *grr*
@jemimakiss Works for me. Think I remember it being updated very recently - checked for updates?
@rabidbee oooh, nice one! They have a discount code for Jacobs, which was on my shortlist already. Bookmarked, ta.
If I see another bad progress bar today, I’ll find the coder, beat 99% of them to a pulp very quickly, then spend an hour finishing the job.
@ahnlak Cool, ta! Re:lens, it’s either that or the 24-70 2.8L. But: ow! My wallet!
@Scriblit Yup! When I redesign uniquesentence.com (the first active site I ever put together!) it’ll be Twitter-aware!
@Phooto ta!
Plus, any reason I shouldn’t go for the Canon EF-S 17-55 2.8 IS? Keep hearing good things about it, and have no plans to go full-frame.
@Swishrelic Heh. Sorry, mum was a proof-reader. Think it’s genetic!
Where do my UK photographer friends buy their (new) lenses, web-wise?
@Scriblit That is probably one of the shortest unique sentences in the history of English. #uniquesentence
@Swishrelic That’s “emanating”, you know… *ducks*
@rhodri I wonder if domainillneverfuckinguse.com is available?
@Scriblit Except, presumably, that ninjas rarely phone in advance, as that kind of showing-off is frowned upon in stealth assassin circles.
@talkie_tim Don’t know. Can’t remember if my cluster map exeriment is still working - try http://bit.ly/9NToA8 ?
Heh. Got the heatmapping working quite well on http://randombristol.got…
@mhoulden Yup :) http://bit.ly/cn5DPW
@dressjunkie Mmm, yeah, it probably only works for me because I know this view’s been done to death in nice bright colour :)
Hmm. Think I have a draw for my two favourite photos from yesterday. This: http://flic.kr/p/7FJEor or this: http://flic.kr/p/7FNvMY
Yes, I bought The Sun today. Note to self: always think through the implications of having someone sell your work.
@mjh53 There is pretty much nothing that can’t be bought as a USB stick these days, it seems.
@MrsPBoutique Maybe it was just too bloody dark. Spring often renews interesting in snapping…
Bleh. Morning all! *rubs eyes*
@benjohnbarnes Not sure. But it’s been six months, and the hip ache I’m getting reminds me of how I felt before I bought these.
@csoanes Heh. I may have to buy a few copies tomorrow.
Hmm. Think it’s possible I need new running shoes.
@KaveyF Yup, split between me and the agency. Still don’t know the figure yet, though!
@Narshada Definitely credited, don’t know the payment yet but it went through a pukka agency, so should get some dosh.
Well, that was quick. My flashmob photo made The Sun: http://bit.ly/agh90b
@benjohnbarnes There’s far fewer free songs, and far more alternative sources for them…
Doing some more fiddling with http://randombristol.got…
You know, I actually quite like Bing.
#collectivenouns A zero-sum of strategists?
…they seem perfectly legit; just wondering.
Anyone out there had a Flickr enquiry in the past from South West News Service offering to market pics? http://www.swns.com/
@daraobriain Moon or District 9, depending on your mood. Probably District 9.
Profiling some PHP code. I iz l337 haxxor.
@Swishrelic so shoot some portraits!
@ianmcshane “It’s not my fault! I was just cleaning GoDaddy, and it went off!”
@leigh It’s Just Wrong!
@leigh Just look her straight in the eye and tell her: “IJW!”
@tsunimee I thought it sounded French. The word, I mean, not necessarily the action :D
@asic69 It’s an electomagnetic guitar bow. It’s a bit odd. Erm. Hang on. Showing’s easier than describing: http://bit.ly/cmOujZ :)
@hannahnicklin Reset days are fab. And knowing when to take them is a highly underrated skill.
Playing with my new EBow :)
You seem to be buying a pint of milk. Would you like to install Microsoft Silverlight?
Sitting on ferry earwigging on people discussing my postcards :) Yay! They’re buying some!
Just popped a few photos from the shopping centre lightsabre flashmob into my photostream :) http://www.flickr.com/ph…
@benjohnbarnes Cool. Really must get one of those things to attach it to my laces at some point, so I can give it a proper go.
@benjohnbarnes Not that I remember. But I found it while I was tidying up yesterday, if you want me to experiment in any way…
@asic69 Which is for telling which string the field’s directed against, so unusually non-pointless, as blue gadget light go :)
@Lillput You must have fallen through some kind of hole in the fabric of space/time.
@Barb_G “Muffin-burgler” sounds like one of those phrases I normally have to look up on Urban Dictionary.
#ihavenever …seen _Psycho_.
@Lillput Cool. When you go client-side, Firefox/Firebug will help. http://getfirebug.com/
@Lillput Do it one bit at a time. You can get the javascript side of stuff with Google Maps going all locally without worrying about hosting
@AndyCarolan Well, domains are cheap. Unless Andyca Rolan has already bought the non-hyphenated one :)
Okay, maybe before I go out, I’ll wait for the Amazon mp3 download of The Fame Monster. £3 for 1 1/2 hours of good running music! Bargain!
Time to get out and jog to Clifton Village for lunch & coffee. Think I’ll take it nice and easy today, my hip is aching a bit.
@Lillput Cool. Was eyeing up sexy coffee makers in John Lewis last time I was there, but can’t really justify it for my one cup a day!
@Lillput On the other hand, once I’d made that decision, I’d attempt to drill out the stripped screw :)
@Lillput There are lots more astoundingly cheap coffee machines out there now than there were 10 years ago.
So. Midday. Probably time to stop slobbing around in pyjamas, then. Two out of four things on today’s “to-do” list underway or done, anyway.
@Lillput …a bit like choosing a body because you already know people with lots of lenses :)
@Lillput Any of these platforms/languages will work fine. You may just want to pick based on who you know you can borrow help/code from.
@TheLloydClan Don’t know. But if it’s any help, I’m here with you. Personally, am going to try Horlicks.
@Lillput On the other hand, if you’re coupling it with SQL Server, I know that even better than MySQL…
@Lillput “never _done_”, that should read.
@Lillput Ah. That makes it rather more difficult for me to help you out. Never down Microsoft web stuff.
Leaving lovely cocktail party just before they start on the espresso martinis. Sounds just a tad too dangerous. ;)
Hmm. Facebook just told me I didn’t have permission to add a comment. To a post I made. While I’m logged in. Who broke what?
@Lillput Sounds doable. PHP on the server side?
@Lillput If it’s any help, the Sitepoint.com e-books (PDF) are generally very good. Anything in particular you need/want to do?
Twitter has done to stop people putting two spaces after a full stop than _The Mac is Not a Typewriter_ ever did.
Final svn commit log: “Removed extraneous comment to make the code exactly 200 lines long. Because I could.”
All right. Now have an RSS feed for my tumblr dashboard. All my feeds are belong to… er, me.
Today I tried to find some colour to offset some of last night’s bleak black and white set. http://flic.kr/p/7ErJMw
@Jorence h, At that Emmeline, she’s a pusher, she is. Had me doing straight espresso shots last time I was there. Dangerous woman.
@Jorence May have to try that next time I’m there!
DRYing my code.
@shezza_t See this? This is me, looking thankful. http://twitpic.com/14bhxj
@shezza_t MY EYES!
@shezza_t I have the disturbing impression that you may be right.
In Clifton Village BTP, having avocado and olive thingy.
Oh, *dental* hospital. The next table’s conversation was more worrying when I though they were talking about biting in *mental* hospitals.
@benjohnbarnes Think I have a Nike+ thingy somewhere, but I’ve never given it a go.
…presumably, though, Pritt R&D couldn’t find a way of making it less phallic, so they had to settle for a simple pink conversion.
I never realised Pritt Stick was so terribly masculine that it warranted a Just 4 Girls version. http://twitpic.com/14bbkq
Right. Morning Pages time. While it’s still, like, _morning_.
Hacking myself up an RSS feed for my Tumblr dashboard.
Wow! Stargate Studios’ green-screen work showcase: http://bit.ly/85c11U (via @carsonified’s blog http://carsonified.com/b…)
@tsunimee Shame. I was going to ask you to DM me with some examples. :p
@tsunimee There’s really nothing that private or sensational among my DMs. Why? Are yours really salacious? ;)
@rabidbee Ah, you’ve been a victim of “keming” ;)
Circular ripples/
Hard sunlight on frosted wood/
The dock gently steams
#haiku
@tweeny4 Likewise. Personally am going for Horlicks (yes, am clearly now elderly.)
@tweeny4 You too?
Bah. So much for an early night. Worrying about work. Think I may need a new job.
@Playleimagery Thanks Mark! Just trying to get some decent shots before I run out of February!
@jbrownridge Yes indeedy. It’s probably my favourite lens.
This evening, I was mostly trying to use lines in my photography. This is my favourite result, I think: http://flic.kr/p/7EeQEv
I am going to bed. Yes, it’s only 10:30. I don’t care.
@tsunimee Erm. Flea?
Another beautiful spring day in Bristol. http://twitpic.com/13ws6w
I think I may be becoming dependent on coffee again. Must buy more green tea this lunchtime.
Apparently the procedure to connect to work’s VPN under Windows is “keep saying ‘yes’ to every single one of the 34,387 security warnings.”
Gah! My @Runkeeper voice prompts became WAY TOO LOUD BY DEFAULT WITH THAT LAST UPDATE. My ears hurt. Turned down now.
Right. I’m off for a jog. See you in 5K! #getrunning
@lbpirat That is usually true.
@bestform It was Firefox that was showing me a blank page! IE just gave an error message. I’m pretty sure it’s proxy weirdness.
Strikes me that if I spend the extra money on a waterproof camera, that will guarantee I never accidentally run it through the wash.
Never mind. At least I got Evernote working again. Now I just have to remember this oddity for the next time it happens.
@Narshada Except that DNS resolves both names to the same IP address.
@OpinionatedGeek @lbpirat Yeah, I’m starting to suspect the work proxy, but I don’t get why it’s only evernote.com that breaks.
@lbpirat …because it looks like it’s a simple htaccess redirect from non-www to www, and it works fine everywhere else.
@lbpirat Yeah, I understand that. I just don’t understand how it’s different on my work network from the way it works at home.
Weird. Why does evernote.com bring up a blank page, but www.evernote.com work, but only on my work PC? IP address is the same…
@ArryMatt You’re going to arm-wrestle everyone, one by one?
@ArryMatt I know you’re going to be carting suitcases around lots, but artificially boosting your shoulder muscles is going a bit far!
Having gyp upgrading Evernote. Grr.
Turns out the Lumix FP8 is now so cheap it’s not worth the insurance claim. But FP1/2/3 soon to be released, with sliding lens cover. Yay!
@hannahnicklin “Open your mouth and say ‘ah’.”
“ARRRRRR!”
“-?”
@hayles Oooh, ta. That was the bit I actually wanted to see, but missed because I was still watching _Dexter_ on DVD…
Ahh, the excellent XKCD is excellent. http://xkcd.com/703/
@hayles That would make a good chorus, I think.
@hayles Oh, I forgot; you’ve met me. For some unfathomable reason people who’ve met me rarely cower in fear when I threaten them.
@hayles Hmph! Any more of that talk, young lady, and I may have to assign you to a space in the middle of next week.
@hayles Yup. Preferences -> Expose & Spaces, add iTunes under Application Assignments list.
@foxc Oh, you’re right! I guess they stuck in all the cities without thinking about it too hard. D’oh!
If any of the rest of you are common verbs or nouns, bear in mind you may be off the Christmas list too.
Just deleted Paul Reading from my phonebook, purely to stop my sodding iPhone “correcting” “reading” to “Reading”. #techkillsfriendship
@Lillput and I respond very well to coffee, so we’re probably both onto a winner.
@Lillput whereas I am a hardcore SQL ninja. ([](-<
@Lillput @talkie_tim Can we not just shoot anyone who extracts megs of data from DB servers and then does relational ops on then in Excel?
Reading Excel formulas that other people have written is like reading Perl that other people have written. Only not as rewarding.
Fiddling with filters on the phone. http://twitpic.com/13jybp
@hayles You know me better than I do, apparently. Cool. When’s it on?
@majicDave It’s pleading with me to install Silverlight. Which is at least consistent with every other Microsoft site I trip over.
@hayles I don’t think I’ve watched them live since the Fleetwood/Fox debacle. Will I have heard of anyone, do you think?
RT @johnfbraun: I don’t know what’s more frightening, the website design or the candidate http://is.gd/8xb3Y <— Very, very scary.
@johnfbraun You not telling me that’s _real_, are you? Surely that’s a parody site.
Goodness. And he’s still going. Maybe I’ll make a cup of tea.
Well, at least I’ve heard of Robbie Williams. But I don’t think he was American the last time I heard him.
Who _are_ all these people?
Hmm. See what people mean about the amount of autotune around these days. It’s like the musical equivalent of overdone HDR.
Okay, not heard of this one, either, but that was a fab entrance. #brits
That’s more like it. Pop stars should dress insanely and have a definite air of instability.
@Nomme1 No. And by the looks of it so far, you can keep him to yourselves.
@davidpatrick The music doesn’t sound much worse than it did in my youth — I couldn’t stand 90% of it back then, either…
Have just switched on the Brits. Is the sound out of sync for everyone else? And who’s the club circuit comedian bloke?
@hayles GAH!
Hmm. The #brits tweets are putting me off switching it on in the first place.
@tweeny4 Am joining you in spirit right now
As is traditional, I get better and better at making pancakes until I’m brilliant. Then I spend a year forgetting how to do it again.
@tweeny4 Stay right there. I’ll join you.
Heh. Googling “Congratulations! you have found the hidden” finds many hidden pages. Wonder if any of them are interesting…
@archidave It comes and goes.
@Swishrelic if it helps, those empty follicles are a perfect 0.2mm hexagonal grid.
@csoanes One of my friends switched recently; the main drawback for me was that she doesn’t sound so sexy in the new voicemail message :)
@csoanes Maybe they’re trying to induce a pang of regret :)