@djelibeybi_meg @ahnlak Snap!
Jesus. Bodie just got a round in, including a pint and a large vodka, for £1.35. This episode of the Professionals must be from 1963.
@thomasvenables To be fair, I tend to be a bit like that on every OS. http://plixi.com/p/88416…
“67 important updates are available”. And MSN wants to tell me about Eastenders and Cheryl Cole. Oh, Windows. How I’ve missed you.
@thomasvenables Gotta be Vista.
@thomasvenables If you’re referring to Steve Ballmer, I think you may be doing the devil a disservice.
@tsunimee Honest. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
@tsunimee Moi? Incidentally, had you heard that it’s also “send someone called Matt a naughty picture day” today?
@hayles That’s me. I swing both ways, baby.
@Squonk …mostly for annoying devices which only have Windows-based firmware update software. Grr.
@Squonk Nah. I have a VM specifically for IE testing, but this is boot camp. Sometimes you need a real machine, sadly.
@hayles Probably wise.
This feels a bit wrong. yfrog.com/h4vpzytj
@talkie_tim Well, I’ll bear it in mind. But really, just planning on getting familiar with the thing for work, really. No media involved.
@talkie_tim Erm. I can’t think of anything I’d want to do with it that would involve DRM…
@richardjfoster I’ll bear that in mind. Won’t have 64-bit issues, though, am installing on a first-generation MacBook!
@Lillput I have yet to experience tellytubby land.
@Lillput You’re a bad person.
@Swishrelic No. I don’t think I have ever so much as pressed a single key on a Vista machine.
@hayles YES DEAR.
@hayles Bad analogy, then. Oh well.
@hayles Although I take your point. Still haven’t watched _Revenge of the Sith_ despite being assured it’s the least bad new Star Wars film.
@hayles See! Good things! From a mostly sane person. Ish.
Also watching last night’s _Masterchef_. I’m really starting to root for Tim, in fact.
@hayles I’ve heard good things about 7, from from people whom I consider mostly sane.
Installing Windows 7, mostly just to see what it’s like. I’ve never used anything later than XP before.
@nickdonnelly (Sadly only at home, for fun. Work will still be on XP for ages. I was only moved from *IE6* last week — and by accident!)
@nickdonnelly I am, in fact, just about to install it :)
I think I shall refer to the feeling as an “out-of-book experience.”
Just had odd Kindle experience: read two pages of a Bill Bryson book while under the impression it was a Lovecraft novel. #totalmoodchange
@nickdonnelly Windows 8? Goodness. I’ve still not used anything later than XP yet. Really must try to catch up a bit.
@csoanes “Five years, 30 million quid. It’ll probably get lower once you start scoping things.”
@matthew_roach Couldn’t it simply be down to parking fragmentation?
.@petstourettes The Peak District was actually called the Trough District until 1967, when they hired Max Clifford to represent them.
@guriben Well, it’s not like I didn’t implicitly warn you :)
@hayles To be fair, though, that means you were 5 when Beetlejuice came out. Not sure I’d show it to a five-year-old!
@hayles Ah, a bit before your time. http://en.wikipedia.org/…)
@hayles As long as it’s not like Candyman.
@hayles GRRRRRRR.
Twitter should just auto-ban anyone after 3 consecutive reply-tweets with the word “iPad” in them. We could live with the false positives.
@codepo8 Clearly they had a hard time snagging one of your used coffee cups to get the required DNA sample…
Random Safari tip: want to quickly download the contents of a URL? Paste it straight into the “Downloads” window. #geek
@hannahnicklin Also, everything was in black and white and all the shops closed on Thursdays.
@hannahnicklin Even back when most shops took them, before debit cards existed, you usually needed a “cheque guarantee card” #amold
My initial reaction: “Well, it sounds like an amazing deal. But what would I *say* to them?” yfrog.com/h2r89ujj
@Caremur Are you in a sit-com?! I am both sympathetic and mildly sniggery :)
@sizemore Amen.
@hayles Sadly, I only have one. And it is particularly sad-looking, too: http://www.flickr.com/ph…
RT @dawbu: Anyone know of an Apple Store or any retailers in Bristol that have ipad 2 in stock?
RT @Support: Account settings are temporarily unavailable for some users. We’ll restore them shortly. @Kate_Butler
@ianoxley How?! How can it take so long to DELETE A FILE!
Sorry. I have sat staring at that message a tad too much recently.
matlock Why is the #masterchef challenge always for them to cook for posh people? Next week, can they take over a Greggs for the day?
@jemimakiss Cool! I was just thinking to myself, “What I need in my life right now is something that rivals Facebook’s ‘Like’ button.”
@Hicksdesign I don’t know. But in this time of extreme austerity, I’m *sure* they wouldn’t have spent a fortune on it, right?
Right?
@dontruncantrun …so I guess it depends which phone you’ve got and how fast you go :) I had the screen off, but RunKeeper Live on.
@dontruncantrun My 3GS gets me through a *half* marathon if I turn off Wi-Fi and 3G. But I am an extremely slow runner! http://bit.ly/i6VEzE
@vero I use it. Good for generating running playlists, I find. Don’t remember it doing much in the way of scanning, but set it up ages ago.
.@ahnlak No. I am not on a midnight run. If I were I’d be smoking cigarettes and being cheerfully aggressive at Charles Grodin, for a start.
Hurrah. Back from my first midweek evening run in quite a long time :D #getrunning
@bertpalmer What’s that painted on the side of it? I can’t quite make it out. He has a small… what?
@christianrt You know me better than you think. I actually *have* run to the chip shop before!
@KaveyF @christianrt @Jorence I’m seeing a pattern here.
I have put on my running gear. There’s probably a logical next step here, isn’t there? #getrunning
@hayles The funny thing is, I was reading your blog when you said that!
What is wrong with my internets?
@floyduk I *told* you not to try that “frisbee” app.
@OpinionatedGeek It’s someone’s birthday here. And the empty desk next to me is always the designated “cakes desk” :(. Will need to run 50K.
Yay! Pay-day music purchases have arrived. Mary Lorson & Billy Coté; Saint Low; David Sylvian. :D
@helsmartin Saw that with Rik Mayall leading once; all I remember is that it was fun and that the Bath Theatre Royal really needs aircon.
@hayles I am fearing the message, not the messenger.
@hayles SCARED.
Morning all. I am currently fearing @hayles’ royalweddingtat.posterous.com
@hayles I fear even ironic wedding coverage. But I have subscribed nonetheless.
@marcwan That is, unfortunately, how these things work out. Now you have to start saving for a bastard-expensive zoom lens.
@hayles The royal wedding stand? No, actually, something tells me I don’t want to know.
@hayles Glam!
@mhoulden All your licence fee are belong to me.
@hayles The BBC web sites went shopping with you, it seems.
@codepo8 I do fear that <MARQUEE> 2.0 may be approaching… :)
Who said GoDaddy were crap? I just bought bbc.co.uk for $1.99.
@thomasvenables Nah. Frank Spencer or the Daleks, that’s my bet.
@BlackDogDays Yes, good idea. Night!
.@Swishrelic They could have at least played the national anthem before switching it off. #bbc
My current mental image: Frank Spencer in a BBC server room, severed cable in hand. #bbcnone
@SaliWho Luckily I’m in Bristol. The only place I *can* run is the hills.
RellyAB I know the BBC are trying to ‘free up’ some top-level domains but this might be throwing the baby out with the bathwater, I think.
@DIMBLEBOT STATUS: DRUNK/SADFACE.
@benjohnbarnes mattgetsrunning.com and gothick.org.uk run on self-hosted WordPress installs. Have no contacts, though. Talk in morning?
@Jorence If I want to be particularly kind to my feet, my best plan would be to lose 5 stone, sadly :(
@Jorence Tried five different ones on treadmill in Moti. Wave Inspire close to Nikes for anticackfootedness effect; Muzunos more comfy.
@Lillput @xabl Ooh, controversy. My casting vote is likely to go Adam Ant’s way, though. Will always cut slack for inspiring musicians.
@Jorence Being cackfooted (I believe the actual term is “over-pronating”) I rock a Wave Inspire 6 at the mo.
@Jorence Oooh. What’ve you got? Probs time for me to buy the next Mizunos along soon…
@getrunningapp Well, personally, I’m going to join in! But it seemed like a party you might be able to bring something to ;)
@xabl What!? Adam Ant is doing On The Ropes? *dashes to computer*
RT @brianlayman: Automattic’s Worldwide WP 5k: wp.me/pf2B5-1JY <— Cool! (Attention @getrunningapp!)
@codepo8 Ooooh, sexy. Ta.
@R2UK I still say they’re “iPads 2”. Just as the laptops are “MacBooks Pro”. :)
@leigh Goodness. Do you know anyone from the eighties? Maybe you can borrow their 286.
@BinaryDad If I knew how to stop after two, I’d remember the answer to that question.
@BlackDogDays Personally I’m going for beer and an NCIS I’ve seen before. #rockandroll
@tsunimee Hmm. Time for a mnemonic, maybe? “FoWl have Wings”?
bigmediumjosh My favorite city never looked so good. Time-lapse film of Paris, built from 2000 still photos. Gorgeous: http://vimeo.com/17894033
@Dru_Marland @talkie_tim I love the detail these things go into. There’s a small section expounding the futility of banning rollerbladers…
@talkie_tim Yes, I generally go with the “steam gives way to sail” rule. I wonder if he does that with everyone?
@brianlayman And… there we go. Back at a computer, got it within seconds. Although it’s helpful I have a multisite install to hand :)
@BlackDogDays I haven’t achieved such heights of experimentation, though. It’s only recently I found out there are *any* nuts I like.
Thanks for the pedestrian/cyclist interaction reassurance, folks. Of course, I’ll go back tomorrow and see the new KEEP LEFT signs now…
@BlackDogDays Spunds like a good substitute for cashews, which I hate.
@archidave I’m paranoid anyway, otherwise I wouldn’t have asked. Fully expected to have missed a huge Big Society “Keep Left” campaign.
…says, “I’m keeping to the left.” Looks at me like I’m a moron. Am I a moron?
Q: Walking to extreme right of Pero’s Bridge. Space to left. Cyclist rides directly at me from other direction, stops, blocking me…
@brianlayman This is the thing about questions like this: in front of the computer, I’d be there in two mins. On “paper”, different story.
@brianlayman Well, to be fair to myself, the first thing I’d have checked would have been the column type.
@brianlayman That’s the first question? Well, I’ve failed, then.
@sazzy *but only in cultures known to have had exposure to David Jason.
@R2UK @ahnlak 3 texted before the last time I incurred extra charges with them. They texted my 3G dongle. Which couldn’t read texts. #doh
@R2UK @ahnlak …and my default position *before* then was that phone companies are generally shady organisations who are out to clip you.
@ahnlak @r2uk …bear in mind that I’m probably rather more paranoid since Vodafone charged me £800 extra one month for using data abroad!
@ahnlak @r2uk I average around 500MB. Just don’t like the worry of suddenly being charged feckloads if I accidentally breach a limit.
@bexxi Really? *hug*. Did I miss a disturbance in the Tworce?
EBOSS: Unexpected end of lunchtime. #damn
@tsunimee I know when I’m too heavy because I have to go to Marks and Spencer rather than Debenhams!
@archidave *cries* Actually, that’s probably better than some of the offers I’ve had.
@warrenellis Quack… quack…
Quack.
FFS. It’s getting so I can’t say anything on Twitter without some sodding spambot flinging its excrement at me.
@tsunimee Yes. That (hopefully) temporary phase…
@tsunimee I’m dieting at the mo, but I’m going to have to buy a few new clothes in the meantime :(
@R2UK Good to know, ta. My 3GS is definitely getting a bit ragged around the edges :)
@R2UK But now I’m crippled with fear that if I do anything at all to my plan (including anything involving buying an iPhone 4) I’ll lose it.
@R2UK Seems bloody expensive, bearing in mind I can get 5GB for £15/month with a Mi-Fi. Hrm. I want my unlimited plan to carry on, damn it!
@archidave I was starting with rough. I like rough.
@archidave I was in fantasy-land, making a playlist of singers sorted by voice roughness :)
@archidave Mornin’! *waves belatedly*
After a productive weekend, tonight I have barely got the energy to veg out.
If _Joanna Lumley’s Nile_ was both “unmissable” _and_ “unforgettable”, why are you repeating it?
madeupstats Drinking a glass of red wine every day is proven to reduce your risk of dying in a gangland turf war.
@KaveyF @bexxi Even if it did, it doesn’t do that! Don’t know much about Blackberry. Just checked the app I use; it’s iPhone/Android only :(
@RellyAB I just owned up on one of mine :) uniquesentence.com/about
wowser ‘Yours sincerely’ sounds a bit old-fashioned, so I now sign off formal letters *Sincereface*
@andybeebristol @DrHairbear Ahhhhh… Aaaaaahhhhh…. *AH-TWOOO*. *sniff*
@philipletts Take number of people arrested. Multiply by 1,000 under a Labour government, 2,500 under a Conservative government. Simple!
Oh, gawd. This is feeling less like hay fever and more like another bloody cold with every passing minute.
@bertpalmer To be fair, I have roughly as much in the ability of either to deliver.
@sizemore <waa>Bwa-da dah-*da*-dah!</waa>
@sowerbyandluff I’m *hoping* that’s Georgina…
Hmm. Interesting product, but marketing it to me by shouting things at me on Twitter is just going to put me off a bit.
Have you ever noticed how all the people who recommend computer dictation programs sound like speech synthesisers when they talk?
Okay, I guess it’s iTunes. On the plus side, using Radioshift to tune in has reminded me that there’s other @somafm stations to listen to :D
@rabidbee @talkie_tim @Nose_in_a_book Cool. And it its very likely that it was @iphonefool (plural!) who recommended it.
Damn it. Is it my route to @somafm that’s breaking my streaming, or this new version of bloody iTunes, where I can’t set the buffer size?
@almuddaththir This does not strike me as necessarily a bad thing, when it comes to entertainment.
Bloody hell, Wycliffe is in _Waking the Dead_. Now I don’t know if the crime will be solved by angry shouting or chronic depression.
@hayles Yes, Miss.
Hey, this corner’s rounded!
@hayles Just thinking outside the <div>.
@hayles Maybe you don’t need a sidebar!
In the end, my timeline was exactly split on _Juno_. My vote: good.
Okay, that’s two people in my timeline who didn’t like _Juno_ and one who did. I will now see if I’m with Twitter or the Academy people.
@hayles I didn’t even know it was meant to be a comedy. That may help.
I am about to watch _Juno_. Wish I could remember who recommended it.
@jonhickman *phew*. I really should have double-checked the bloody thing before I sealed it. I’m easily worried.
@jonhickman I don’t want to have to open up the envelope!
@jonhickman It’s not one of those that only applies if you’ve answered a previous question a certain way, is it?
@jonhickman I don’t remember answering that one. Don’t tell me I skipped a page!
@matthew_roach @rabidbee @LBQblog Mmm. I remember that. Might’ve been the Evening Post website.
I have cold feet. This is not a metaphor.
@hayles Oh. Odd. Erm. Maybe she just wants her zip to be really speedily available. For some reason.
@hayles I get an “unavailable photo” message on that one.
@ParkBen Yes, that was my toughest question, too. Even “Look, not even my boss actually knows *that*” is more than 34 characters.
@nickdonnelly Good to know. And to solve mystery of how anyone could be seeing FF work slower than it does on my creaky old work PC :)
@nickdonnelly What speed’s your box? Slowest thing I can try on is a 1.83GHz Core Duo.
@nickdonnelly Erm… Not seeing any noticeable slowdown in tab switching or typing into Facebook here. FF4.0/Mac.
@BradleyLaw I think you missed the “#badumtish” tag off that one.
Okay, that census form was actually not much work, despite its intimidating size. I still managed to fill it in wrong in about 5 places!
RT @LBQblog Any Bristonians out there? Can you recommend a good place for a mani/pedi in town on a wknd? <— Suggestions, Bristol peeps? Ta!
@tsunimee @LBQblog Unfortunately, I’ve never had a mani or a pedi. However, perhaps my followers can help!
@Narshada On the other hand, if they cock up like that every day, that’s £45 a month extra income for you…
@tsunimee Ah, missed that bit!
@tsunimee I think peeling it off would be quite painful on the beard ;)
@Jorence Wooooo! *applause*
@robinince Did you? I read “scientific endeavour’s” as “scientific endeavour has”…
7.5K run. Now a bit of telly with lunch, and on to the census form.
It’s another hazy day out here! @ Cumberland Basin http://instagr.am/p/ClXO…
.@ahnlak @r2uk What, no news stories about Apple being crap at DST changes? How am I going to remember to reset my clocks _now_?
@tsunimee It’s Sunday tomorrow. Who cares? Get out of bed when you feel like it and set your clock to whatever time the BBC says it is :)
Ridiculously awake. And it’s almost 1am. And also almost 2am. D’oh. #bst
@boagworld Grumpy. Honestly, it’s like you got into the wrong side of bed this evening.
@rabidbee The whole of an Essex postcode district? Actually, that’s fairly plausible.
@MichaelHolyk What? Which country are you in?
@stillawake @nineweeks Ouch. Didn’t step back fast enough?
PennyRed Protesters throwing bits of metal fence. Just got hit by one. Christ this is insane
@hbrumleve “Stand back”? Personally, I’m going take a load of tinned food and water and hide in the basement, just in case.
One more episode of _House_ before bed? Don’t mind if I do!
@Thehappyfatgirl You just know Brunel would have made it a swing bridge if he could have done! :)
@OpinionatedGeek Every time I see that hashtag I have to remember that version of WordPress hasn’t just dropped in here from the future.
Taking a break from email to do silly things with the Clifton Suspension Bridge. http://bit.ly/hUUmkk
@valioinc Aaaah! Thanks, thought I must have been missing something obvious!
RT @macworld: Oh no! @TheMacalope got into the advil and gin again… Or not: http://ow.ly/1sf5dp <- “Ubuntu Incontinent Ibex”? *snort*