Matt Gibson (@gothick)

Hotwells, Bristol

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @gothick ever

April 30th, 2010

@DaveHamilton Well, mine are missing, too, breaking a couple of my existing Automator scripts. So if it’s not just you, maybe it’s @panic.

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@gary8345 Fixed amount of writing you do every morning, preferably without fail… http://paperartstudio.tr…

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@Collingsa I believe we now enter the fine British tradition of Six Days of Gaffes and Spin.

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It appears I have failed to do my Morning Pages. Arse.

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jcroft Awesome: http://www.whatthefucksh…

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@hayles Ahh. Well, take a camera and play “get the most awful photo of the bride.” :)

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@hayles No; I believe that’s technically known as a “fucking brilliant weekend”.

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@DaveHamilton Oh, hey, I just re-ran Transmit and then restarted automator, and I got Synchnronize, Download and Upload (under Internet).

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The UK is doomed, Greece is doomed, Louisiana’s doomed… This morning’s news, summarised: we’re all doomed, and the world is doomed with us

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@daffodil1979 Wow. Their news has really gone downhill.

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@hayles I have never seen this one before!

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@Kate_Butler Relatively sure that if she wrote it down and posted it in a stamped envelope with “Gordon Brown” on the front it’d get there.

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@tsunimee Yes. JPEG designed specifically for photos, and drops data the eye won’t notice. Ends up as smaller file looking the same.

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@tsunimee It’s a good choice for most things that aren’t actually photos (use JPEG for photos), especially now Internet Explorer 6 is dying.

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@tsunimee No. It’s got far better color handling than GIF. Generally, unless you actually need animation, use PNG.

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@tsunimee PNG is royalty-free, and handles colours and transparency better, too. That’s why it’s now so popular, and GIF is dying off.

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@tsunimee e.g. I wanted to release a free program that created GIFs about 15 years ago, but Unisys would have charged me a royalty per copy.

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@caffeinebomb Yeah, just walk away. Places can define their own rules for what gets plugged in anyway; the regs are just a minimum.

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Wow. Boston Globe’s “Big Picture” gives a taste of the scale of the Louisiana oil rig disaster http://bit.ly/9Ow5bs

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When it comes to user interface, Gordon Brown does at least seem the most WYSIWYG of the candidates.

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Thank you, DHL, for letting me know that my parcel left Hatfield at 5:11am. What I’d like, though, is an ETA, even to the nearest day.

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Grr. At what point did I say Tumblr should cross-post to Twitter? Grrrrrr.

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What? Microsoft shot the messenger?

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28 years of CDs, and it’s still utter pain to get booklet out of a jewel case. Unsurprised these people aren’t ready for digital innovation.

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@caffeinebomb @jamesclay I’m not entirely sure I want to know where one sticks pap test stickers…

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@caffeinebomb Some of them will have figured out that happy customers buy more stuff. Who’d’ve thought it?

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@tsunimee PNG came along as a free, better alternative to GIF when the patent owners started trying to charge a licence fee for GIF.

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@caffeinebomb …although the rules are more complicated, and nobody gets them right anyway. Jobsworth = jobsworth, rules notwithstanding.

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@caffeinebomb PAT; it’s the simple “will this thing kill someone?” electrical test for anything in a workplace with a plug on it.

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@caffeinebomb So, next time you see one of those stickers on something, peel it off and stick it on your power supply…

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Yay! My post-pay day shopping indulgence delivery has arrived :) http://twitpic.com/1jm36f

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@DrHairbear Now that’s a smart solution to my problem.

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Excel can’t open two different docs with the same name at once. “Hi! I’d like to join the Office dev team!” “Sorry, we already have a Matt.”

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Signs you may need to buy a new mug for work, #7: the tannin stains are significantly reducing the liquid capacity.

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Fuck. Reflection in shop window reveals man who may have dressed by having charity shop castoffs dumpster emptied over him.

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