@csoanes Heh. Well, the street in question does offer other products: http://flic.kr/p/86qpwZ
Ah, good, it’s not my Dad’s birthday today. I can call him tomorrow. (It wasn’t the birthday I forgot, it was the number of days in May!)
You either love this window display in Clifton Village, or you hate it :) http://flic.kr/p/86tB1o
@hannahnicklin Seemed like good advice, anyway :)
@bananza that’s my feeling, too. I don’t feel too bad about that, either.
Finally out of the flat. Hurrah! http://twitpic.com/1sqxbq
@canofpopcom Nah. Just don’t show shadows on Chrome specifically. Eventually it’ll get better and you can turn them back on.
@djelibeybi_meg I’ve done naff all so far this morning. Besides, only supposed to have cake after jogging at the moment…
@djelibeybi_meg Too much cake at Saturday’s barbecue :)
Looks like a nice day, though. Once I’ve done the Morning Pages, I may go do more of this: http://flic.kr/p/86hPYf
Bleh. Headache.
Back in from a 5K run. Had to do _some_ running before the end of the weekend. Anyway. Here is a snap from my route: http://flic.kr/p/86uGCp
Is it still down for you? Because it’s up over here…
Ugh. Tired, and not in the mood for a run.
@hayles Hint: Put the hammer down when you can no longer pronounce “bookshelf construction” without slurring.
Chookooloonks Hysterical. And so clever. RT @georgiap: BP logo redesign contest! http://bit.ly/9qipCf
@canofpopcom But surely it would be better if they could start both parts of a two-part episode at the same bloody time? #whinge
@canofpopcom I think I may be rewiring some things. Can probably get HDMI to the telly and hook the sound up. *grumble*
@canofpopcom No, no and no.
@canofpopcom Not when I can’t easily connect it to my TV it’s not. Grr.
Gah! _Where_ is my Doctor Who, and what is this Weakest Link shite? Stop moving things, you BBC bastards!
Caption competition, anyone? http://twitpic.com/1sjcw9
Right. Back from seeing many friends in a couple of different counties. Anything happen in Bristol while I was gone?
@Jorence Well, getting one without the other does seem foolhardy.
Sunshine. Downs. Coffee. _Black Static_. Birdsong. Breeze. Yeah.
Just passed a man with a clipboard and a set of dowsing rods. Yup, I’m in Avebury again.
@benparkatbjs Were they called RyanCamp?
@dressjunkie Lucky. Damn stuff didn’t do a thing for me.
Also: Buoy oh buoy! http://flic.kr/p/85LJZW (sorry, had to get that out of my system.)
A bit of #commutergraphy http://flic.kr/p/85HwXB
@Jorence @stillawake Deciding to call them both The Mall has done nothing but bloody confuse people.
@hayles @emargee that tweet was probably all the better for not being able to see the one it was in reply to.
A blurry minute of my morning: the new lock gates being closed. http://www.youtube.com/w…
@mattgemmell I’d have thought an SD or CF card pouch would do nicely.
@rabidbee Cocoadamol? Some kind of sleeping tablet?
@talkie_tim @hayles It’s a good job I have a mature attitude to personal observations. You git.
Oop. Had breakfast. Then got reminder for team breakfast at the pub.
@hayles hmm. Without irony? Probably about 9.
@rabidbee I need more room and a view. But I’d have to move out of Hotwells to get that. Hmm. Or, you know, _work_ more. Hmm.
@rabidbee (but would you trust an estate agent who can’t spell “accommodation”?) #pedant #canthelpit #mumwasaproofreader
A photo from my commute to work: http://flic.kr/p/85v6s2 and one from my way back home: http://flic.kr/p/85ygsw
@Jorence Nice. I work around the corner. Fancied taking the long way round on the boat today!
Waiting for the ride home. http://twitpic.com/1rkdsh
@Narshada @chrisspooner Yup! Also, Little Snapper has a preference for “include cursor” when snapping full-screen screenshots.
@hannahnicklin So, you just passed the Kobayashi Maru test? Cool.
Morning all! http://twitpic.com/1r66gd
@moon Summer was last weekend. Did nobody send you a London calendar?
@hayles No, but I did spontaneously transform into a steaming pile of…
me.
EHILL: Hill overflow. CPU overheat. Core dumped. #Bristol #ParkStreet #summer
Walking to work this morning. It looks like this. http://twitpic.com/1qus9g
@stillawake Erm. Struggling to figure out where the link to the article on Sasquatch Jerky fits in, logically…
Article in today’s Times suggests that Twitter is undermining my social skills. This is clearly all _your_ fault, people.
…and then you look at the rest. *sigh*
Just the first picture is heartbreaking. http://www.boston.com/bi…
@csoanes I’m now thinking less Tony Hawk, and more Compo, Foggy & Clegg.
@csoanes You’re sizing it up for going down a mountain, aren’t you?
@richardjfoster Yup.
Ahh, Transvision Vamp’s _Honey Honey_. Glad I ripped this off the 7”.
@benparkatbjs Nope, Riverside.
It’s odd how indistinguishable some of The Damned’s stuff is from some of Pulp’s stuff.
Hmm. There should’ve been an apostrophe in there, shouldn’t there? Oh well.
Incidentally, ploughmans at Riverside == good. http://twitpic.com/1qn6zc
*sings* “Yellowing classics, canons at dawn, coffee wallahs, pith helmets, an English sun…” [Yes, I’m singing a lot today. Ner.]
@tyronem Scary. I actually thought “two coffee machines” before I clicked on that link.
@talkie_tim Is that the heaviest impact Orwell has had on the area?
@hayles To be fair, I have someone I do that with. But at least we take it in turns.
@hayles Guess it depends if there’s a steep hill nearby.
@hayles Tell her to turn that frown upside down! *runs*
What’s wrong with this picture? http://twitpic.com/1qmjd7
There is an undercurrent of uncaring in even the most dedicated employee of an outsourced café.
Yay! Made it. http://twitpic.com/1qls9z
Right. I am going Outside. There may be a popping sound and a small column of smoke.
@DrHairbear Well, there’s a long tradition of prison blues. However.
Right. Off to have lunch at the garden centre.
*sings* “U Don’t Dance 2 Tekno Anymore…” *sings*
@jamesclay Hmm. Got any stylesheet overrides in place, or any greasekit userscripts, or wotnot?
@jamesclay Looks fine in my Safari. Is that just http://news.bbc.co.uk/ ?
@Playleimagery Also, there are more Mac-like alternatives like Pixelmator and Acorn in the same niche on the Mac, so it’s harder to choose.
@Playleimagery I’ve got Elements, but waited ages for the Mac version to catch up with the PC version, so haven’t really used it much yet.
@stillawake Like I said, lucky. It’s hard to take an unusable photo of a professional model who jumps up and down for you :)
@Playleimagery Ahh, but it’s fiddly. And the colour depth isn’t there, right? Most of the alternatives are awkward in some way.
@stillawake You can get interesting shots if very luckly, though. This is still my most popular photo on Flickr: http://flic.kr/p/5mLVGm
@stillawake If it’s anything like it was next to our office the other day, the pictures will mostly be of very bored people standing around.
Every time I look at buying Photoshop or Illustrator, I think, “or I could get myself a really nice new digital SLR”, and stop looking.
Morning all!
Playing with Pixelmator http://flic.kr/p/84tqSf
This screengrab will mean something only to those of you with a taste for the finest films. http://twitpic.com/1qg2ov
@bertpalmer Yeah, just my usual Sunday stroll.
@bertpalmer Speedy! If I ever run with you, remind me to tie your laces together first.
@OpinionatedGeek Suit card characters here, in Echofon on a Mac. TweetDeck’s always been crap at character encodings.
Just went through several steps of audio software troubleshooting before realising I’d pulled a jack plug out when moving the printer.
@dottyteakettle Babyshambles album version. Got the chords, got the words, it’s just putting them together with conviction now…
Still learning _Albion_. Disappointing that at my best, I still can’t sing as well as a drug-addled Peter Doherty.
@Jorence Good good. Definitely going back at some point; only had twenty minutes or so before physio appointment yesterday…
It’s getting increasingly difficult to separate my RSS feeds into “work safe” and “if this pops up on my screen I’ll be fired immediately.”
@stillawake Ran past there a couple of hours ago :) http://mattgetsrunning.c…
@talkie_tim For extra value, run 7K around midday first. Makes it even better. Honest.
@RichNeville Hmm. Can’t actually see that photo. But on the assumption that it’s the London Olympics logo, two words: Lisa Simpson.
Okay, the next time it’s going to be 24C at midday, remind me to go running _early_. Nearly died doing 7K just now.
@Jorence Hope you enjoy it. If nothing else, it’s nice and cool in there #helphelpimmelting
@thomasvenables …and it’s better now. Still probably the best vector alternative to Illustrator.
@thomasvenables Inkscape good, but again was rather crashy under many OSX releases. Spent some time reporting bugs to the Mac X11 team…
@Playleimagery I’m Safari on Mac, Firefox on Windows/Linux.
@Playleimagery Yeah, and it’s still under active development. And it’s gorgeous. Think it may be the right bandwagon for me.
@Playleimagery I’m using VirtualBox. But only for testing websites in Internet “oh god, it’s annoying” Explorer so far :)
@Playleimagery Think I will probably try to learn Pixelmator. Looks like it’s in, or nearly in, the right place for me.
@Playleimagery Nah. Everything looks so _ugly_ in there! Besides, bet you a tenner the tablet pressure won’t get passed through properly.
@thomasvenables Tried it for years, on Windows LInux and Mac, and it’s always ended up hoovering up my time with technical issues, sadly.
@thomasvenables One of those tools that I love on principle, but spend too much of my time fixing, and not enough time creating stuff with.
@thomasvenables Painfully unstable at times with OSX, plus always an utter pain to get tablet (with pressure sensitivity) working with it.
@Playleimagery Also, it’s been painfully unstable with some OS X releases.
@Playleimagery I really like Gimp, but always have extreme pain getting my Wacom tablet and a mouse to work together sensibly with it.
@hayles You should see all three of its heads. And it’s big, too. Have you been to the exhibition? It’s great. #citymuseum #bristol
@RellyAB Ah, Fuck Me to the Moon, a Sinatra classic.
I actually may have to post a pageful of Tumblr just so this scary thing isn’t at the top and staring at me any more. http://bit.ly/b6LxBg
@hayles Clearly you should change your name in protest. Hayley Youthinkyou’refunnybutyou’renot Constantine?
Learning the chords for _Albion_. #babyshambles
@Narshada Funnily enough, Instapaper is one of two places where the note to check out “Clips” may be :)
@Narshada Ah, it’s probably on my “to check out” list. Somewhere. It’s a long list.
@Narshada Clips?
@hayles Indeed. Staying in my burrow. OK, it’s a basement flat. But I do bear some resemblance to a hobbit.
@hayles I had to go out. Physio appointment. Too hot. Grump.
Wow, and I thought that It’s A Knockout clone before #doctorwho was awful, it’s got nothing on #juniorapprentice. Frightening.
I am still constantly amazed by the applicability of “Have you tried turning it off an on again?” to any technical problem.
@Mister_Roy I nearly gave up on Ashes to Ashes after first episode. Last episode was best TV I’ve watched in ages.
caitlinmoran I’m not being funny, but you really won’t ever read a better interview with Lady Gaga than mine: http://bit.ly/aGHtxt
@chrismarquardt Is that a manly way of saying you’re knitting?
Odd things in the Art From the New World exhibition #297: Swarovski Cerberus. http://flic.kr/p/841qmp #Bristol
Yes, it’s sunny in Bristol today. But I feel the sombrero may be an overreaction. http://twitpic.com/1pyo8z
Art from the New World exhibition at the city museum is fantastic.
Trying to catch up on my unprocessed photos. It scares me that they stretch back to May last year… http://flic.kr/p/8437z5
@mistymaria Shh! Nobody else noticed!
Now _that_ was one of the best pieces of television I’ve seen in ages. #ashestoashes
@archidave Get Cartman #unlikelycrossovers
@kshack22 This one that’s shaped to my buttocks now is probably enough.
The Whole Nine Metres #lesserfilms
@rabidbee Yup. Oh, _fuck_, it makes noise? That’s NOT RIGHT, GOOGLE.
@rabidbee Minicab Driver #lesserfilms
Uncle Tom’s Garden Shed #lesserbooks
@philsherry Ah. Yes, even more annoying when it could be one’s own fault.
The Sofa is Not Enough #lesserfilms
@Jorence One stays indoors, with the blinds closed. And if one has to venture outside, one travels slowly, preferably with a punka wallah.
@chrismarquardt The English version — “2-4-6-8- Motorway” — is not quite the same.
I now have a significant amount of DailyBooth. http://bit.ly/cHg9bz <— Experimental web code; may look odd.
@matthew_roach Ooop. Sorry, must’ve missed each other. I was outside.
@philsherry Twitpic? That’s what’s giving me mine…
Royal York Crescent http://yfrog.com/eujohj
@tsunimee I don’t use Tweetdeck. Too complicated for my needs, and I don’t like the way it looks. Does it do British English spelling yet?
At Boston Tea Party. Current guest coffee really nice.
Okay. Lots of stuff done this morning. Boston Tea Party time.
@caffeinebomb You appear to be halfway between my work and my home :)
@6inchstilettos Well, it centres it for me. I’ve only tried in Firefox and Safari. Might give gyp in Internet Explorer. But what doesn’t?
@6inchstilettos @tsunimee Hmm… Try changing the width of #outer-wrapper to 1170px. But test in different browsers, that code’s a bit mad!
@twitttles Ta! Nope, virtually all my stuff is Creative Commons (non-commercial) licensed these days. Feel free!
@caffeinebomb I love going to work on the ferry :)
Oh, hallelujah, Google actually does something new I might like and enjoy for once.
My bit of Bristol was looking particularly nice this evening, on the way back from my jog: http://flic.kr/p/83uP2q
@benparkatbjs Won’t be long before there’s a TV recorder that records Twitter too and plays it back at the same time :)
“Wenlock and Mandeville… perfectly match the Olympics logo in terms of tendentious artery-hardening crapness.” http://bit.ly/cQUUur
Finally got around to reporting some nasty graffiti to the council. Street art, fine, swastikas, NO.
@benparkatbjs Every weekend? Heh. This stuff can be a pain to manage, especially if you interest is a lot bigger than your time. :(
@benparkatbjs Maybe all you need is a two-hour appointment with yourself at the weekend to go through all the faves!
@benparkatbjs I know what you mean, though. Sometimes I just want to save a link-less tweet. In emergencies, I email it to Instapaper!
@benparkatbjs In Tweetie for iPhone, it’ll save the text of the tweet, and the username. http://twitpic.com/1p7qti
@benparkatbjs Second suggestion, try http://twitter.com/favor… (2,3,4, etc.)
@benparkatbjs Ah, okay. Erm. First suggestion: use Instapaper instead. Tweetie for iPhone lets you instapaper something; does the Mac one?
@benparkatbjs Hmm. Not quite sure what you need, but maybe try favstar.fm?
D’oh. Something tells me that my iPhone didn’t get much of a GPS lock during that last run. http://bit.ly/cTFp4H
@benjohnbarnes Try search.php?keywords=foo
@getrunningapp Hit it again.
@Dan_Martin It does seem unlikely, doesn’t it?
@shezza_t Blood. It means something’s really wrong. #actuallyihavenoidea
@BradleyLaw @bertpalmer That’s not easy; you’d need to monitor for iTunes launch. Google “Linked Applications Launcher”; free & works, FWIR.
@BradleyLaw Bits of it. Why, what needs doing?
@ahnlak 123-reg have them for pre-order. Which is good news for my music shop, doremefasolati.co.
@ahnlak Unfortunately both that, and my potential decorating firm at artde.co are already gone.
@ahnlak Unfortunately, yes. As was my first choice, roco.co.
Also: very tempted by sebastian.co.
ScrivenerApp … join our ‘Scrivener for Windows’ newsletter: http://bit.ly/8fIid3. We *may* have some news sooner rather than later for recipients! ;-)
@jukesie Well, yeah. But; cocococo.co! I mean, how cool would the web app you’d have to invent for that be! #domainillneverfuckinguse
Oooh, a new TLD. And cocococo.co isn’t taken yet. Tempting…
My upside-down photos seem popular. Maybe I should learn to work the camera the other way up; it’d save time in post-processing.
Happy birthday @bexxi!
Holy crap, the new coffee beans are dark. And I misjudged quantity once ground. This may be a Very Strong Coffee.
@nyssapod Mmm, I guess live studio audience stuff has to be. Drama shoots appear to be all hi-vis jackets, sandwiches and waiting.
Although I think my favourite photo from today is a more mundane scene: http://flic.kr/p/83bMk2 The greedy feathered buggers.
A snap from today’s “Mistresses” filming in Bristol: http://flic.kr/p/83bKbB
@hayles …it’d serve me right.
@hayles “Dear waste of carbon,”…
Bleh. Just had one of those “you’ve not done anything with this domain for a whole year” emails I was ranting about t’other day.
@archidave Ask them. If lost, they’ll move. If British they’ll get flustered. If foreign, they’ll answer you in perfect English.
Honestly, I feel like David Lightman. “The OLAP engine is processing my dimensions!” “What’s that mean?” “I don’t know, but it’s _great_!”
Ah, Analysis Services, how I love the computery gobbledegook that streams past when I process a cube. #geek
Oooh, fake car crashes and smoke and all sorts. Cool. More interesting now.
@benjohnbarnes Yeah, sadly, looks like it’s died in the UK. Oh well, I did Lima expect it after all their troubles.
TV filming is one of the most boring spectator experiences in the world.