Matt Gibson (@gothick)

Hotwells, Bristol

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March 31st, 2011

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.

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“67 important updates are available”. And MSN wants to tell me about Eastenders and Cheryl Cole. Oh, Windows. How I’ve missed you.

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@thomasvenables If you’re referring to Steve Ballmer, I think you may be doing the devil a disservice.

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@tsunimee Honest. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.

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@tsunimee Moi? Incidentally, had you heard that it’s also “send someone called Matt a naughty picture day” today?

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@hayles That’s me. I swing both ways, baby.

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@Squonk …mostly for annoying devices which only have Windows-based firmware update software. Grr.

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@Squonk Nah. I have a VM specifically for IE testing, but this is boot camp. Sometimes you need a real machine, sadly.

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@ahnlak @tsunimee Boobies? Who mentioned boobies? *perks up*

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@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.

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@talkie_tim Erm. I can’t think of anything I’d want to do with it that would involve DRM…

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@richardjfoster I’ll bear that in mind. Won’t have 64-bit issues, though, am installing on a first-generation MacBook!

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@Lillput I have yet to experience tellytubby land.

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@Swishrelic No. I don’t think I have ever so much as pressed a single key on a Vista machine.

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@hayles Bad analogy, then. Oh well.

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@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.

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@hayles See! Good things! From a mostly sane person. Ish.

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Also watching last night’s _Masterchef_. I’m really starting to root for Tim, in fact.

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@hayles I’ve heard good things about 7, from from people whom I consider mostly sane.

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Installing Windows 7, mostly just to see what it’s like. I’ve never used anything later than XP before.

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@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!)

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@nickdonnelly I am, in fact, just about to install it :)

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I think I shall refer to the feeling as an “out-of-book experience.”

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Just had odd Kindle experience: read two pages of a Bill Bryson book while under the impression it was a Lovecraft novel.

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@nickdonnelly Windows 8? Goodness. I’ve still not used anything later than XP yet. Really must try to catch up a bit.

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@csoanes “Five years, 30 million quid. It’ll probably get lower once you start scoping things.”

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@matthew_roach Couldn’t it simply be down to parking fragmentation?

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.@petstourettes The Peak District was actually called the Trough District until 1967, when they hired Max Clifford to represent them.

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@guriben Well, it’s not like I didn’t implicitly warn you :)

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@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!

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@hayles As long as it’s not like Candyman.

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Twitter should just auto-ban anyone after 3 consecutive reply-tweets with the word “iPad” in them. We could live with the false positives.

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@codepo8 Clearly they had a hard time snagging one of your used coffee cups to get the required DNA sample…

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Random Safari tip: want to quickly download the contents of a URL? Paste it straight into the “Downloads” window.

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@hannahnicklin Also, everything was in black and white and all the shops closed on Thursdays.

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@hannahnicklin Even back when most shops took them, before debit cards existed, you usually needed a “cheque guarantee card”

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My initial reaction: “Well, it sounds like an amazing deal. But what would I *say* to them?” yfrog.com/h2r89ujj

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@Caremur Are you in a sit-com?! I am both sympathetic and mildly sniggery :)

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