@boagworld I suggest a pseudonym. No one in the caravan club will suspect Hamish McBoag of having a secret identity as a cool web dude.
@BradleyLaw Presumably you were distracted by the delicacy of the finely-nuanced plot.
@gothick @KaveyF @chocablog Presumably, it would make life easier if people’s G+ profiles included a link to their Twitter, which is doable.
@KaveyF @chocablog FB can do both, at least. I am http://on.fb.me/oAXaAg, for example.
@AndyCarolan Yes. I shall wander down to the festival again later, only wearing much lighter clothes than yesterday!
It’s pretty scorching out there now. Post-run shower, then I think I shall chill in the backyard with a bagel and a Purdey’s.
Just run 10k. Feels pretty good. :D
@BristolBones I have never been known to jog quickly. Especially not at midday in late July :)
Right. I am going to jog, the long way round, to somewhere that has coffee.
Hrm. Took 400 photos yesterday. At some point, will have to winnow that down to the 10-20 good ones. Might go for jog instead now, though.
@RamonYouseph Morning! Did you enjoy yesterday, too? Nice to bump into you :)
Ooopsie. Up late. Morning, Twitter.
@Mouse_House Well, I have no other smart advice. I will eat a button for you. Sleep well, and feel better tomorrow.
@Mouse_House I’ve some giant Buttons and a virtual hug. How’s that? Also, don’t forget to include *you* on list of people you want to please
@Jorence Nope. Probably more harbour festivaling it for me.
@Mouse_House Same here, Mouse. I don’t think this is a terrible thing. Sometimes you just know a night isn’t going to be that special.
Wandering back homewards from the harbour festival.
@johnfbraun Thanks, working now ;)
@csoanes @thesafetybat The supersonic car people do not. The crazy trike people, however, do :) http://lockerz.com/s/125…
@slicknic I currently look like this(!). Say hi if you see me :) http://lockerz.com/s/125…
@csoanes Found one that might be more your speed :) http://instagr.am/p/I5Dg…
@csoanes Just seen someone uninterested in having a look round it: “Nah. Too many wheels, mate.”
Certainly the fastest car I’ve seen (with a Cosworth badge, too :) ) #bloodhoundssc http://instagr.am/p/I488…
Audioboo: Live music, Bristol Harbour Festival audioboo.fm/boos/425873-li…
When I came out, it was not sunny. Now I am boiling over, and have had to buy a pirate-themed hat to protect my baldness from sunburn!
More cheese, Gromit? http://instagr.am/p/I4wR…
Shipbuilding. http://instagr.am/p/I4nP…
@DrHairbear It always is. I’ll be heading in the Cottage/SSGB way, to gradually acclimatise to the crowds :)
Right. I might go for a bit of a photo-wander round the Harbour Festival.
@Fotoe Looks familiar! http://flic.kr/p/a7mt9F :)
@mattgemmell Those are traditionally followed by Official Unexpected Rain Times, right?
@betty_watson @moonbeatle Excellent. Stiff upper lips all round :)
@sean_robbins But I thought he was a rapper?
@Phooto Ah, so maybe it’ll work for me. Not so dumb of them to ask me, then. Odd, though.
@Phooto Really? Damn, I just opted to switch to that. And I have gas. If that’s the case, why did they ask me in the first place?
@betty_watson Well, at least you can be pretty damn sure the car had insurance.
@hayles @Alicia148 One day I will find one woman who doesn’t think dresses are too short these days. She will probably be a dress designer.
@MrGreenGus Oh yeah. Got some good bread and some comté for later :)
@MrGreenGus Lots of good stuff there. The baklava looked ace.
@DrHairbear Result! :)
Score! Found sharon fruit in the co-op.
Wandering down road wondering idly if I’ll see a person I know, and I see a completely different person I know. Odd!
Just posted a photo @ St. Andrew’s Churchyard http://instagr.am/p/I35K…
Grinderman. Bath. Interzone. Sorted. See you in a half hour or so, everyone.
RT @archidave: oh yay. Google+ has just provided it’s first picture of someone’s genitals <— Aww. Our little social network is all grown up
@tiny_teapot I wasn’t actually; half the plate was empty. #cunningcameraangle
@RamonYouseph “Do the Litmus configuration.”
@chrisphin We’ve *got* to get better at making cheap strong transparent stuff. #sheetdiamond
Right. Long bath, Interzone, pick up parcel from sorting office, laze a bit, down to Harbour Festival later.
@RamonYouseph I love that film so much that it’s probably what unconsciously prompted my breakfast choice. Marvin! Behind you! *slam*
@archidave Permission to re-tweet, sir?
Goodness, that was nice. #breakfast http://twitpic.com/5y4ljf
@Jorence Oooh, good point. I have eggs. And chorizo. And olive bread. Posh scrambled eggs it is!
@Jorence Stop being so cheerfully productive. You’re putting those of us whose entire morning plan is “read Interzone in the bath” look bad.
@Jorence Already? Christ, I’m still in bed.
@Jorence @RamonYouseph See? And any minute now someone’ll say they hated it.
@RamonYouseph But it’s also a real opinion-divider. So I think you’ll love it. Or hate it.
@RamonYouseph Ah. I should probably have said that a few hours ago, then. It’s gone halfway through now.
Damn, _Lost In Translation_ is *such* a good film.
@KaveyF Awwwwwww. *blush*
@stillawake :D
@stillawake IDUDAE.
@KaveyF That’s probably a unique sentence, you know.
@BristolBites That sounds… a tad odd.
@BristolBites Me and @ahnlak and @KaveyF went to @Rosemarino1 last time they were here. It was *lovely*.
@MacworldUK @simonjary If you’re just getting started, I’d suggest @getrunningapp. Mind you, I’m a bit biased :)
@ememess I hear it’s good in small doses. #sorry #badumtish
aedison Do you think the Germans have a word for the way that Germans always have a word for everything?
@thomasvenables Dunno. I saw a stall with a *lot* of garlic, but I assumed they were French.
@stillawake mmit’s Mmm mmmretty damnmmm mmmmnice, ta :D
@stillawake Chicken with chorizo and red wine, and a few other things. Chorizo, wine & olive bread from the French market in Queen Square :)
Job done. #cooking http://twitpic.com/5xt4wn
@Tom_Herbert_ @KaveyF Ooh, thanks!
Cookin’. http://lockerz.com/s/124…
Market goodies. Time to cook. http://instagr.am/p/Iz8f…
@Thehappyfatgirl @BristolHarbFest Not going back out now to get a programme, so if there’s something great on in morning will prob. miss it.
@kevinrj @alfredapp @callumchapman I’m fairly sure that’s always true, isn’t it? No point spending marketing money targeting 0.1% of users.
@Thehappyfatgirl @BristolHarbFest What? Where? I live and work in the centre and forgot to find out where the hell to get one tonight.
@KaveyF You know it’s only a little hill going down, though!
@jackofoodie Seems to be happening a lot recently. Used any strange computers? Clinked any odd links? Authorised any new apps?
@KaveyF @dave_buxton @BristolBites @ahnlak You’ll like this one — it’s *downhill* from my place!
@jackofoodie Yup (NB: I wouldn’t type in the link shown in pic; guessing it’s a phishing scam.) http://lockerz.com/s/124…
@jackofoodie I think your account’s been hacked. Just got a dodgy-looking DM from you with a link in it.
@dave_buxton @BristolBites Good to know, bearing in mind I’m five minutes’ walk away! (Note for next visit, @KaveyF &a@ahnlaknlak)
Have cheese, chorizo, merlot & olive bread. Harbourside French Market provides all#bristolstol
Quel fromage! http://instagr.am/p/Izo6…
DANGER! Baklava stall! #calories
Passing through the French Market on way home through Harbour Festival :) #fishies http://instagr.am/p/IzkJ…
#bristol is really hazy this evening.
@floyduk @trekkie @kellysibson Scroll on trackpad = hold entire arm in air and move while keeping two fingers down. Well, is for me, anyway.
@floyduk @trekkie @kellysibson Also, I’m *not* 100% sure it’s just practice. Scroll with mouse = hand resting on mouse, just moving fingers.
@floyduk @trekkie @kellysibson I went for trackpad because then I can use the same gestures on the desk & laptop; should be more efficient.
@floyduk @trekkie @kellysibson Depends how useful you find the gesturey bits, and whether you enjoy pretending to be in _Minority Report_ :)
@floyduk @trekkie @kellysibson I don’t know how much of mine is innate awkwardness and how much is 20 years of practice with a mouse!
@ahnlak And that is why you married @KaveyF, who will happily say anything you’re thinking. @tsunimee
RT @japanphotos: Twitter May Soon Flag Tweets With NSFW Content http://j.mp/rtbOrB Hmmmmm. <— Didn’t think 140 chars could fit so much fuc
@tsunimee Well, that’s appropriate. I am water :)
@KaveyF @Tom_Herbert_ But you did give me one of those plastic scrapey things to use when I made bread, at least :)
@ahnlak You got four for a pound? Well, it wasn’t far off that cheap, and I only wanted one.
@tsunimee Typical bloody Sagittarius.
@hayles Hah! Well, you won’t get demmaps too much with that one.
@KaveyF Oh. No, you didn’t. Never mind, I can still remember many of the tips from it :)
It’s astounding how you can’t mention a certain Scandanavian flat-pack furniture company on here without getting immediately spammed :(
@KaveyF Indeedey. So, ta :)
@KaveyF I was looking for one for baking after I watch that Hobbs House video with you :) Found cheapy one in IKEA.
@trekkie @floyduk @kellysibson I’m still not sure on the trackpad. My hand seems to be more tense/have to work harder than with a mouse. Hrm
@tyronem Good day. All is slightly grey and a bit headachey. All will be better in a couple of hours when I’m out of work :)
@tyronem Might I suggest a better set of filters for both? :)
Given my background, it’s amazing how often I fail to realise that things tend to work better when you turn them on.
daraobriain I doubt I’d agree with @LouiseMensch on a lot of things, but kudos to her, this is brilliant http://bit.ly/nzhxD9 (via @DavidAllenGreen)
Interesting! How NASA get a Nikon DSLR ready for space. http://bit.ly/n52e5O
@floyduk @ahnlak @toastroom And moaning about how the youngsters are changing things in your OS is an old man’s pleasure :)
@ahnlak @floyduk @toastroom It depends how you’re trying to extract happiness at the time! Many happy hours spent recompiling Linux kernel!
@floyduk @toastroom “I will try to live with the defaults and not try to configure this thing my way too much, otherwise I’ll go mad.”
@floyduk @toastroom It probably helps that I first bought a Mac after being a Linux user for years, and deliberately adopted the mindset…
@ChinaShopBull Could be worse? http://www.metro.co.uk/w…
@floyduk @KellySibson Yeah. Also, the “damn that’s annoying!” stuff in Lion seems different for every single person! But mostly it’s good.
@floyduk @toastroom I find a lot of things Apple does completely annoying and stupid. But like I say, it’s a “least worst” decision for me!
@floyduk @toastroom Agreed. Scrollbars convey information; disappearing them seems dumb. Think Apple got that one wrong.
@floyduk @toastroom Took me about a week; now I don’t even think about it. Honest. Turning scrollbars back on for a bit may help with that.
@floyduk @toastroom I use PC at work all day and a Mac all other times. Took longer to get used to the diff. keyboards than the new scroll.
@floyduk @toastroom Yes; the Chromium team are currently looking into hooking into the new Lion API stuff to do Full Screen, swipes, etc.
@toastroom @floyduk Interesting point. Yes, as a halfway house, they’re pretty much screwed either way if they want to be consistent.
@floyduk @toastroom That, I would say, is both annoying and a mistake. I hadn’t noticed that, because I’m using “natural” scrolling.
@floyduk Doubt it. But perhaps they would have, if MS had managed to release a wildly successful portable device.
@floyduk @toastroom So I’m not sure MS have any massive kudos over Apple in terms of keeping their user experience backward-compatible.
@floyduk @toastroom Perhaps a more apposite point is that there were plenty of big UI/experience changes to get used to from XP->Vista->Win7
@floyduk @toastroom Yes, and it works pretty terribly, in my experience. Anyway, sorry, mostly being a bit sarky there, sorry.
@floyduk @toastroom Yeah, but they won’t guarantee that the three new versions of IE are backwards-compatible :)
@floyduk @toastroom As someone forced to use IE6, I’m not sure how I feel about MS’s backwards compatibility.
@floyduk @toastroom Wonder if that’s because most businesses felt MS weren’t that good at new business OSes, either! #vista
@floyduk @toastroom Don’t know much about modern businesses and OS upgrades. Feels like I’ve been using Windows XP at work for decades now!
@floyduk Won’t bother with Launchpad, either. Finding Full Screen bloody handy on 11” Air, though.
@floyduk Ah. Well, I’m not generally using them. Noticing heavy Spaces users seem especially galled by changes; I never really used Spaces.
@toastroom @floyduk That’s my view, I think. Can understand it even if, as an old-school geek, some of the changes seem quite odd to me.
@floyduk @toastroom Well, it’s always an option, isn’t it? Sadly, I generally choose OSes based on “least worst” rather than “best” :)
@floyduk It may be nicer than you think; quite well thought-out. http://bit.ly/ov62nQ
@floyduk IYSWIM. Lion is also designed to quit apps it thinks you’re not using, but in a fairly transparent way.
@floyduk That feels like the way Lion is designed to be used, though; similar to way you don’t have to quit apps on iOS.
@floyduk Ah, you found it. Yeah, think it rearranges in similar way to app order when Cmd-Tabbing through apps. Doesn’t work so well in MC.
@callumchapman @HeathC @lukejonesme Installed on my iMac and ended up with 10-page Launchpad! Daunting to organise.
@callumchapman @HeathC @lukejonesme Pretty sure it’s designed for non-techy iOS users buying their first Mac.
@callumchapman I can’t see Launchpad being that attractive to the geeky crowd like me; we’re all using app launchers anyway! (@alfredapp)
@hayles (Autumn is a walk; there’s also pub meet last Thursday of each month.)
@hayles They’re just announced in the Bristol discussion group ( http://bit.ly/q6bP6b I think.) Autumn one just announced.
Oddly, I feel these would have looked better without flowers, as I might not have noticed the ugly things. http://lockerz.com/s/124…
Happy Friday. May you all have… Er… Cheeks of joy! #bristol #graffiti #random http://instagr.am/p/Ix-T…
@MarkTaylorFood Ah, okay. Maybe I’ll give that one a go at some point. Ta!
@MarkTaylorFood Which one’s Real Wrap? I’ve tried new one on Centre (dull) and heard bad things about one on Park Street (Mission B.?)
@MarkTaylorFood @BristolBites We had none, then three came along all at once….
Nice to see the harbour full of boats ready for the festival. #bristol
@andybeebristol *Thrrrrrp*
@juliavdw :) Good to know! Enjoy!
@michelledh @tsunimee Ha!
@tsunimee @michelledh For starters, you made me run Windows on my Mac. I feel dirty.
@KaveyF @ahnlak @jacintuk @marklesuk On the downside, browser is roughly on a par with Casio calculator watch. But I like my Kindle anyway.
@KaveyF @ahnlak @jacintuk @marklesuk I have done extensive research *and* checked my email from a taverna in Crete to make sure.
@KaveyF @ahnlak @jacintuk @marklesuk …all 3G features of Kindle have worked same at home and overseas since its release. Honest.
@KaveyF @ahnlak @jacintuk @marklesuk Yes. Browser is “experimental feature”, so could change at any time, but…
@michelledh @tsunimee @hooker1uk Mystery solved, at least!
@michelledh @tsunimee @hooker1uk Yup, if I switch to old Twitter, I get the problem too. Guess their custom colours don’t work with it.
@michelledh @tsunimee @hooker1uk There we go. Was just about to say, looks like old Twitter — can tell because first tweet is big.
@michelledh @tsunimee If you can’t see it (a) What happens if you press Ctrl+F5 on the page? (b) What antivirus software are you running?
@michelledh @tsunimee Dunno. So, where it’s not working, which bits can’t you see (working screenshot attached!) http://twitpic.com/5xcp8f
@tsunimee @michelledh Works fine for me in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, IE7 and IE8. (Can you tell I test web pages a lot?)
@jacintuk *grin* Thing is, I did research it fairly thoroughly… http://gothick.org.uk/20…
@jacintuk @marklesuk @KaveyF The 3G is completely free abroad, in my experience, and according to Amazon.
@marklesuk …but it’s a pretty awesome selling point for the 3G, considering it’s only £40 more.
@marklesuk Given the crapness of the browser, and lack of video capability, I don’t imagine it’s a _lot_ of data they’re using.
@marklesuk Not that the browser’s a great experience, mind. But the data is free, in 100 countries.
@marklesuk No it doesn’t. Downloaded books & browsed for free in at least three countries now. http://amzn.to/mZEZcA
@baratunde “…force them to watch me place contacts into my Google+ circles?” Hah!
@floyduk You try that, meanwhile I’m going to see if I can find some info in A Particular Place.
@floyduk Oh. Well, that’s odd, because that’s exactly what I did last Thursday.
@floyduk Seem to remember the feature appeared specifically with magic/mighty mice. Have you got one you could try with?
@floyduk Incidentally, what did you use it for? I’m tempted to turn it off now I’ve found it.
@floyduk Bah. Well, that’s broken, then. You’ll just have to buy a new everything.
@librarythingtim I played with doing that to my technical blog entries, as a visual indicator of how out-of-date the information was.
@marklesuk Not abroad it can’t. Not for free, anyway :)
@floyduk Try changing it to Cmd and see if that works?
@floyduk Ah. Erm. Well, I’m at a loss, then. Works fine on the Air and the iMac for me. Er. Have you tried turning it off and… *ducks*
@floyduk Aha! System Prefs->Universal Access->Seeing. Under “Options” in Zoom panel, I have “Use scroll wheel with modifier…” set to Cmd.
@floyduk Here’s freaky: searching System Prefs for “zoom” finds “mouse zoom” under “Mouse” — where I have nothing because I have no mouse.
@floyduk It’s Command for me. Maybe it varies depending on the hardware.
@floyduk Erm. Well, how you’d expect. I hold down Command, and scroll, using the normal two-finger scrolling gesture.
@floyduk Although, to be fair, I appear to be able to zoom pages with Cmd+scroll *and* drag scrollbars with my Trackpad. Whassup?
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OwensDamien WHAT DO WE WANT?!/APPALLING MIDDLE MANAGEMENT BUSINESS CLICHÉS!/WHEN DO WE WANT THEM?!/YESTERDAY!
So, summarising my responses, it would be appropriate, yet unwise, to watch _Inception_ when I might drift off to sleep. Ta.
Hmm. _Inception_ has just arrived from LoveFilm. How awake do I have to be to watch it?
SHUT UP SEAGULL.
Garden. Soma FM’s Lush playing. Rosemary chicken. Oh, yes, and beer. http://instagr.am/p/Iuub…
@hayles Good choice, ma’am.
@hayles I am officially too hot for coffee. I bought two bottles of Gem on the way home :D