Matt Gibson (@gothick)

Hotwells, Bristol

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November 2010

@KaveyF I did mention it a couple of times :)

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Kavey @gothick oh oh oh you didn’t tell me you’d been @irkafirka ‘d http://bit.ly/el8Z6w

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@ahnlak Well, the brand’s McAfee’s. Sounds Celtic enough. And presumably it’ll protect me from viruses, too.

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@ahnlak Don’t get excited, it’s cheap bourbon. Working my way back up to the expensive stuff :)

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Kavey Baby it’s cold outside. So make yourself something warming for dinner: http://bit.ly/dROxNE

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Looking through Aztec West’s photos of today’s student protest. http://www.flickr.com/ph…

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@guriben Well, I think I’d tend to put more faith in the figures from the news team who work in a tall building overlooking the route…

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@AdamofAlbion Don’t do it! I read that wood chippers give you cancer.

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@hayles Closest I’ve been is peering through the window. Let us know how it is!

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@EssexEating Patience! Perhaps this is artisan snow, carefully layered for a crisper texture and better long-term depth…

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Kavey A post for the Bristolians: dinner at @bathales Graze Bar & Chophouse in Bristol: http://bit.ly/gYBth2

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rhodri Search Twitter for “Lewisham” to see what’s kicking off at the council meeting. Riot police etc.

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@Jorence Susannah Harker, Louise Lombard _and_ Leslie Phillips. Casting doesn’t get much sexier than that :)

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@Jorence Always liked him, ever since _Chancer_.

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All this discussion I’m reading needs is for someone to bring up the class issue…

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Oh dear. @archidave is stuck in IKEA. Dave, best bet is to find the wardrobe department and then exit through the back of the NÅRNIÅ model.

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@penelopeelse I only managed to try them for a day last year before the thaw, but yes, especially on hills and on hard-packed snow.

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@penelopeelse Can’t snap em now, but search for YakTrax Walker :)

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@penelopeelse No, but I bought snow-chain style things for my boots last year. Can’t wait to try them :)

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Brrrrrrrr. Maybe today my heating engineer will actually be answering his phone…

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@andybeebristol Sadly I do have to work full time at my employer’s premises :(

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@becksldrt Careful; in my recent experience his risotto’s pretty generous

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Handy economic discovery: I can’t tell the difference between SD and HD content playing on my TV.

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Hmm. I am under a quilt on my sofa watching ST:TNG. The only thing missing is an actual illness.

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irkafirka - @gothick The bounding squirrel: nature’s cutest sine wave. http://twitpic.com/3b29d3

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The bounding squirrel: nature’s cutest sine wave.

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@libbymiller Yes; seems to be filling gap left by Fresh & Wild in a few ways.

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@andybeebristol Never eaten there. Looked & smelled good, though. Def. worth a try.

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Just been in Better Food Company for first time. Pleasant. Managed to stop self buying Hobbs House bread. “Matt, you already *have* bread.”

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Foiled from jam purchasing at Papadeli by my own shy unwillingness to shop by craning around someone eating their breakfast.

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@benparkatbjs My favourite is running the lid under a hot tap.

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Thought my Kindle was dead, but it turns out that you do actually have to charge it every now and again.

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Ugh. Think I and my headache are going to have a day off running today. Might go for a nice walk in the crisp air instead.

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Ugh. Still broken. On the plus side, Matthew Cook’s _The Shoe Factory_ in IZ 231 is a fantastic story.

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Right. Coffee. Bath. Interzone. See you this afternoon.

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Mpphmph. COFFEEEENOW.

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Ugh. Awake, yet very tired. Slept very badly last night.

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@thomasvenables I have half selected, half-random. Works okay.

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@hayles Yeah, but it’s twice as bad as normal this evening.

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@kellyoxford That should certainly cut things off quickly.

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Erm. Why has everyone in Bristol parked in Hotwells tonight?

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Thought for one horrible moment that my coffee grinder wasn’t working.

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Hah. Have been sucked into my own last.fm top fifteen. Goodness, I love _New Art for the People_ http://bit.ly/flldK2

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@djelibeybi_meg @Jorence Erm. Well, I don’t think it was me. Though I could probably do with some.

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@thomasvenables Though, having said that, since the last clear-out, my top 15 certainly looks believable. If odd. http://bit.ly/hGI0UC

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@thomasvenables …even though I’ve told it not to several times. So half my recommendations are for really odd “ambient” stuff.

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@thomasvenables No, just an iTunes playlist. Last.fm keeps on picking up my “writing” music, which is effectively Buddha-trance-Muzak…

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Looking for “good but cheap” place to eat in Bath for friends tonight - suggestions, folks? Ta!

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Playing my “400 most played” playlist Feel I may be creating some kind of odd feedback loop.

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@Jorence Excellent. Be careful, though, as I’ve said, with e-book quality. For paid ones, try sample _and_ check reviews.

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@tsunimee Calm down, you. No more train-fainting, okay? Deep breath.

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@Markgatiss Remembering Private Eye cartoon: “No. I’m not on the train. I’m in a glass box that smells of piss.”

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@hayles Impulse. It’s actually been on my shopping list since the _last_ snow, so I don’t think I’m going fast enough for it to be panic :)

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@Jorence Don’t make me come over there.

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@Jorence On the gripping hand, all these problems can be solved in one fell swoop by going somewhere warm for coffee and cake.

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My arms are still mildly trembling. Remind me not to impulse-buy large bags of rock salt when I’m out without the car in future, will you?

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Also saw first Tap! magazine. Sadly hidden behind chocolate, but put one front and centre before I left WHS :) http://twitpic.com/3an1pw

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Just spotted some @lahlootea in the Arch House Deli window display :) http://twitpic.com/3an0gu

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@technex There’s really not that much of it.

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@WildlifePhotog Most supermarkets sell them all year round. I know someone who has them as her favourite breakfast. Odd, I know.

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@adamrowney I’m confused. What do I have to do to get @zinziii to love my eyeballs and scratch my back?

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There has been a mild amount of quickly-melting snow in . I can tell by complete gridlock and chaos I walked home past.

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@talkie_tim Still having trouble with mine, for some reason.

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(Now expecting a slew of new “cable guy” followers from the wrong Cleveland…)

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@KaveyF What do you know about the Cleveland Cable Company that I don’t?

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Man in Cleveland Cable Company truck screaming profanities at top of voice at queue of evening traffic in front of him. Sounds unhinged.

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@alexjbutcher Yeah, it’s often kind of scary when you see the “industry” bit of the food industry rather than just the “food” bit…

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@alexjbutcher Indeed. Though looking at the ten-gallon tubs of artificial colour/flavour/MSG they stock makes me wonder about restaurants!

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@matthew_roach They apparently have strict rules on profane domains. Which is a refreshingly different approach…

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I did have a genuine reason for looking, by the way - struck me that go.thi.ck might be an appropriate name for me to own :)

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Surprised the Cook Islands business domain isn’t more popular. Who wouldn’t want to be a .co.ck?

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@RellyAB Huh? I just assumed you always wore that.

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TheDollSays Off to start Xmas shopping. By which I mean go into M&S, suddenly start hating everyone I know, sob loudly in homewares then buy some shoes.

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@stillawake Never mind. At least the money Red Bull will have paid the train company for that will lower future ticket prices. Right?

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Okay. Playing _Up The Bracket_ quite loud seems to have worked where coffee hadn’t. Time to get out the door.

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@ianoxley Looks convincing. But I think we all know that’s an Action Man in your freezer.

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@Jorence Sadly not possible today. Right, coffee time.

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@Jorence Is it? Maybe I’ll stay in bed.

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@twittl3s Yup, taken maybe a quarter mile further towards Hotwells.

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@bertyc I have never found that adding to the number of printers in my life reduces the amount of pain in it.

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@thomasvenables Depends on the photo/user’s setting, but often worth a look. Most of mine have the original available. Glad you like it :)

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@bertyc Sorry. Good luck… hard enough getting Windows to connect to a Windows printer wirelessly normally :(

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@twittl3s At the moment, the reeds have it. But that could change.

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@bertyc Ooop. Hang on, forget I said that. Bonjour for Windows works the other way round, doesn’t it? Windows to a Mac printer. D’oh.

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@bertyc Hmm. Have you got Bonjour running on the PC?

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@thomasvenables Magnifying glass icon/View All Sizes/Original. Should be plenty big enough, it’s pretty much straight from the 400D :)

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Speaking of photography, not sure which I prefer of this morning’s two snaps: 1) http://flic.kr/p/8WbhML 2) http://flic.kr/p/8W8eLv

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@TheLloydClan Itsh jusht posshible thaat yooou’re toooo latesh. *hic*

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@hayles Sounds like it’s already earmarked for someone over there. Ah well, it’s not the camera, it’s what you do with it…

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@Thehappyfatgirl I have the 400D, personally. Which is why I’m feeling slightly envious.

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Never mind. I’m not sad. Unrelated: I think I’ll drink Bailey’s until I pass out.

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My dad just bought a 5D and a couple of L lenses to go with it. I was already mildly envious of his _500D_.

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How nice to get out of the office and into the nice warm outdoors.

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@jemimakiss Honestly. Next you’ll ne saying it wasn’t a brilliant idea to privatise them in the first place.

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@hayles Yeah. My bleeeh count is quite high this morning. Luckily I’ve made it as far as the coffee shop.

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@HeikeM It is quite scummy. Seems to be the only place Alabama 3 play when they’re in town, though, so can’t boycott completely!

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@KaveyF Think I dropped you an email — if not can find link again in a bit.

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(On the other hand, I probably feel better emotionally-speaking, so hey, I’ll take what I can get…)

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Wow! Before I went for my run, I felt really tired. But _now_ I feel… really tired, and cold.

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Tired bunny. Nevertheless, I think it may be time for a jog.

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Colleague just came back from Primark with a full-size “onesie”-style tiger suit. I am jealous.

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@Jorence One of the things I like about jogging is that it’s astoundingly cheap, as sports go…

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@becskr No, she’s only 23. It’s just following her own nutritional advice that made her look like that.

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@hayles “Sorry, but if you can’t even manage to turn up to an interview on time, you’re clearly not the kind of employer I’m looking for…”

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Mornin’ all. Nice crispy day out!

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Okay. Bedtime. Catch you in the morning, all.

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@Newdrysdale What, like _Christmas_ presents? Stop being so damn organised! It’s still November!

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@ahnlak Ah, yes, those self-emptying wine bottles. Bastards.

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@ahnlak Are you seriously telling me that there isn’t LOTS OF CHOCOLATE where you are?

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In other news, the Square of Me continues to increase in size :) http://dailybooth.gothic…

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@Jorence : I have a box of _Charbonnel et Walker_ champagne truffles here, but they’re for someone else. Damn.

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The only problem with finishing a bottle of wine is that there is not LOTS OF CHOCOLATE right next to me.

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@IreneB9 Hey, it’s only one bottle of wine :) Bear in mind I have the body weight of a small elephant :)

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@Jorence Hey, things happen. It wasn’t much of a bump. And it’s led me in interesting directions.

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@IreneB9 @Jorence Hmm. Not sure. Tomorrow should be a running day. Guess we’ll see!

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@Jorence Thing is, since a car crash a couple of years ago, I get day-long hangover-style headaches *anyway*. Might as well drink!

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@Jorence Come to think of it, last time might have been the bottle of Cava I downed after my last completed NaNoWriMo :)

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@Jorence There’s no guarantee I won’t be. It’s been several years since I’ve downed a proper full-size bottle of the stuff. We’ll see.

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Towards the end of a bottle of wine. And newly-ripped _Machine Gun Etiquette_ playing. Nice. *sings* “Just for you, here’s a love song…”

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@hayles Given that I’m geeky yet polite, I’d probably have a generic TextExpander snippet that said “thanks, but no thanks”…

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@asic69 I see your Nissan Juke and raise you a Fiat Multipla.

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@BlackDogDays Nonsense. And I like the new pic. You look happy, in an only-slightly-crazy way. :)

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@BlackDogDays Have you been looking in a mirror too long? Everything looks strange after a while…

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@asic69 No? The man’s a massive techno-geek…

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Thought of something else I’d like to use the Mechanical Turk for. Which would be good if I were American. Sadly nobody else gets to use it.

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@matthew_roach Looked like it. Will ask tomorrow when I’m not in a hurry. I already want one, whatever it is :)

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@ahnlak Adobe is my limit. The Apple updates at least generally do the update right, even if you don’t like the results!

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…you know: “Have you got any equipment for processing meth?” “No, of course not! But, erm, we do have this ‘coffee syphon’” *wink* *wink*

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George has an odd box for something called a “coffee siphon” on counter in Baristas today. Looks like one of those “wink wink” products…

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@BradleyLaw Yeah, figured that out. Glad I checked this evening rather than once I’d started the walk to work tomorrow. Disconcerting!

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Anyway. Right. Bedtime. Again.

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@imacstu Upgrade looked like it’d gone fine, but I had to sync twice before the iPhone could actually see any of my music/podcasts, etc.

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Grr. Synced one more time and it’s all back. From nothing to 8GB of music in thirty seconds. Guess it just couldn’t find it for some reason.

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@BradleyLaw Update went fine, I idly checked the iPod app — nothing there at all. Trying to figure out whether it’s lying or not.

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Erm. Anyone who’s installed iOS 4.2 might want to make sure there is ANY AUDIO CONTENT AT ALL left on their iPhone before leaving the house.

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@ahnlak My guess would be that you preferred Cake because it cunningly includes “cake’ in its name.

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@jacrats *too, even. I blame the headache.

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@jacrats Ah, you to, huh? *sympathy*

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Of course, if I do go to bed now, my Dad’s pretty much guaranteed to ring.

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Bleh. Headache. Been with me all day, now getting worse. Maybe I’ll go to bed.

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@tyronem @tsunimee True. But make sure you pick up your blouse before you start running.

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@ahnlak My intention is to play with both. Last time I did, CI was a better fit with my brain than Cake, though.

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Playing with jQuery and CodeIgniter. *fiddle* *poke*

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@tsunimee @tyronem Unfortunately, I’m already at work, and lack access to beauty blogs :)

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@ArtistStudios Self-hosted WordPress? Tried the Bad Behavior plugin? Might help.

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@ArtistStudios Gawd, yes. Mostly from dodgy SEO sales morons.

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@hayles What, one-day delivery from America? Seems fairly unlikely, sadly.

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@m1ke_ellis I’d take a stab at “decimally-labelled hierarchical list”

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@twittl3s No. “Not enough time” is possible. “Too much chocolate cake” is not.

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@treblechamp Awesome :) Thanks for passing that on!

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@rbrwr Knew I shouldn’t have bought this iPhone from Swiss Tony. Been suspicious since he told me to hold upside down and shake to reboot.

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“been”, not “Bern”. Why did it autocorrect to *that*? Who’s “Bern” and why am I more likely to be naming him than using the verb “to be”?

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Just Bern on such an unusual clothes-shopping splurge that I’m quite surprised the card company didn’t panic and phone me up.

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@Jorence I didn’t have the time to make it shorter!

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@Jorence Presumably you saw my Stupidly Long Kindle 3 Review[tm]? http://bit.ly/cHqRnf

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*giggle* http://bit.ly/9U7qnu <— s’true, that.

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@Jorence Either way, beware of awful book conversions. There are plenty of them about for either platform :(

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@vbritish Hmm. But if you do that, have breakfast first, because Ibuprofen messes with your stomach lining.

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Handy: from my place, one-and-a-bit times round the Harbourside to Caffe Gusto is exactly 5K.

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@Jorence That would explain why you’re so much quicker than me. I find the bullion does weigh me down some :)

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@Jorence Nice! Don’t forget to stretch lots :) Am off for a simple once-round-the-harbour myself!

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@DrHairbear Just a shame it wasn’t introduced by the last Pope; think of the potential for “rubber johnny” jokes…

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The Vatican needs to get the merchandising sorted now. The Holy Infallible Condom is a brand just waiting to happen.

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Ahh, The Damned’s _Born to Kill_. Great track. Everyone should listen to punk instead of watching X Factor.

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I just dropped a book about overeating while reaching for some chocolate. It’s possible I’m being a tad contradictory here.

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Second attempt at rendering an Instant Movie in Premier Elements. Second crash. Piece of crap.

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@tsunimee Je croix que tu as raison, babes.

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@ahnlak @tsunimee Everything I know about the French accent I learned from the masters: Peter Sellers, John Cleese and Gorden Kaye.

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