In That London.
@mistymaria Was he a graduate? :)
@guriben Not bad for a first try, I recon :)
Well, that seems to work. #arduino #geek #video youtube.com/watch?v=FF1v8S…
@hayles SHAN’T. JOBZ = ☢☠
@hayles JEALOUSFACE.
TOO HOT >:(
@DaveHamilton Odd. Let me know if it’s a particular file type, and I’ll give it a go…
@jontangerine I used to work on Victoria Street; probably popped in there for morning coffee a few hundred times!
@DaveHamilton Don’t *think* I’ve seen that happen outside Private Browsing.
@jontangerine George would be the guy who owns the place (as pictured on the right-hand end of this photo of mine: flickr.com/photos/matt_gi… :) )
@jontangerine Purty. You doing some work for George?
@mskittypurry Thanks! They certainly *felt* well done by the time I’d finished :)
@KaveyF New year celebrations are two days, I think (you’d think I’d remember more of this stuff, having been brought up in Gants Hill!)
Charity update: Thanks, sponsors! Raised £272.50 running the Bristol Half Marathon for St. Peter’s Hospice. mattgetsrunning.com/2011/09/29/cha…
@RamonYouseph Sorted, geezer.
More discoveries from being at home during the day: our binmen all appear to have cockney accents. Maybe they’re issued with the job.
@Lillput They know you’ll have to give them the money anyway, so why waste their time making it easy for you?
@bexxi DELETE ALL.
@benjohnbarnes Yup. Certainly would be an interesting project. (Bet the audio stuff’s a bitch, mind.)
@benjohnbarnes It’s relevant to me — want to play with Android, and here’s an affordable device I might actually *use* as well! :)
@Easybourne Have you considered a system of hooks, ropes and pulleys that keeps it hanging just to the side of the monitor?
@iamdanw So, that’s narrowed down to two. At which point, for *books*, I’d buy the one with the 2 month battery life, rather than 8 hours.
@iamdanw Definitely without ads. The 3G has been awesome on my Kindle 3, in and out of the country, so 3G.
On amazon.com frontpage, Jeff Bezos’ message is nicely rendered text. amazon.co.uk gets a dodgy-looking PNG you can’t copy/paste from. Odd.
Bah. Tired and headachey again. Maybe I’m going down with something.
@MatStace Wouldn’t be much point, would there? They probably haven’t worked out how to use money yet.
@tiny_teapot SMUG MODE ENABLED. @t_pk
@Malarkey Bah. Probably about the time we get iCloud music sharing. I’m not holding my breath.
@tiny_teapot Have you turned it off and on again?
@RellyAB This is what mine looks like, if it’s any help. Mine’s 27” 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo. Hot, but not burning, to touch. lockerz.com/s/142712949
baratunde Let’s just be honest about what Facebook really is, guys: a birthday reminder service masquerading as a social network.
@BenPark Having similar issues. Now I’m home during the day I’m finding out how loud music lessons can be at the primary school opposite!
@daycoder Ah! Well, if you ever need to play with S3, Transmit can basically handle it okay, but Cyberduck does more clever things with it.
@hecticjeff That’s because it’s the worst keyboard ever made. Good riddance to it!
@daycoder I like it, but turn to Cyberduck more and more as its S3 capability is better and it’s also pretty cute.
@fakebaldur UK site just went live with the cheapy 6” one in last few minutes. £89. No sign of the others yet.
(Which is odd, bearing in mind that the keyboard is, by quite a long way, the Kindle 3’s worst feature.)
New 6” Wi-Fi #Kindle up on Amazon UK, for £89. Looks like existing Kindle renamed “Kindle Keyboard”. amazon.co.uk/Kindle-Wi-Fi-6…
@ahnlak This is normal. It’s probably upping that result based on your Google+ network, I’d guess. Never do ranking checks when logged in!
Score! New Bryant & May novel just fell through my letterbox@Peculiarllockerz.com/s/142705423PEnt
@mattgemmell My K3’s “good enough” for now compared to the Touch. Fire *might* tempt me, probably as an addition.
@ahnlak Ah, but does it do that if you’re not logged into Google?
@ahnlak Well, all the Kindle Touch stuff has been demoing with monochrome stuff on the screen, anyway, which I took as a clue :)
@ahnlak Looks to me like the Touch *is* e-Ink, and the Fire is not. Also a non-Touch which is just an even cheaper e-Ink one.
@ahnlak @mjh53 So unless they suddenly turn into Adobe, I’d hope to see some pretty damn cheap new UK Kindles.
@Runkeeper @szajbus Tip #1: Sleep in your jogging clothes. Much easier to get out the door if you’re a slow starter like me :D
@mjh53 @KaveyF @says_arline I’m not so worried about touch/non touch. I’d just like pages to turn faster!
@ahnlak Being announced at the moment. live.reuters.com/Event/Amazons_…
@mjh53 Their track record isn’t too bad, is it? Kindle 3 3G is $139/£109.
@mjh53 In that case, you can get the even cheaper non-touch one (apparently $79.)
Hmm. Kindle Touch. Looks like a nice incremental upgrade on the Kindle 3.
@KaveyF @meemalee @ahnlak Please note that all mentions of that song *must* be hashtagged appropriately. #awimbawe #twitterpolice
Tree. lockerz.com/s/142678797
Sitting on a bench on the Downs, listening to the susurration of wind through the trees.
Schofe Brilliant!! RT @AndrewRyan_: Best workplace sign I’ve seen so far. yfrog.com/o0ieforvj”
@cybermango Ha!
@Mouse_House Yes thanks. Reading, with a cat on my lap. You?
Me Me is a scaredycat, initially, who then turns into upside-down lap purball. instagr.am/p/OcYmL/
Hello, purr-monster :) @MissEmmeline instagr.am/p/OcXLI/
@djshandy Must be. I follow someone who’s at 95,000+, and I can’t imagine that’s the end of the bell curve.
@rhodri @scissorkicks Just wait till their deliveraptor bursts it through your door. After it’s been vannified, obviously.
@robohannah @hannahnicklin I wish there were a good way of favouriting an entire exchange on Twitter.
@talkie_tim I have it counting down (in a slightly sinister fashion) and triggering the EOS shutter :)
@talkie_tim HD44780.
@Jorence Playing with an Arduino. In the first instance, making a time-lapse intervalometer to control the Canon :)
Oooh, it speaks. #geek #progress instagr.am/p/OYk5B/
@benjohnbarnes Yes, but not every X seconds :D
Progress is being made. #geek #video youtube.com/watch?v=Hk5oNC…
@r0bb1eh Errr. Okay.
@r0bb1eh Who’s hoarding? I’m using this stuff…
@r0bb1eh What, you got some odd aversion to electronics?
@r0bb1eh That? That’s a relatively small chunk of this lot: lockerz.com/s/142029237 :D
Right. Thinks are about to get geeky round here. lockerz.com/s/142428916
@nickbrompton D’OH.
I just found a book called “30 Days to a Simpler Life” buried at the bottom of a stack of filing I’ve not looked at for a year. Hrm.
@umairh What, the one accompanying this BBC article? bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
robjmills I reckon its now quicker to walk to the cashpoint to check my balance than it is to access my HSBC internet banking
Saying hi to Me Me for @MissEmmeline instagr.am/p/OWT0b/
@codepo8 Has it? I can almost not bear to look…
Just got some post from Google addressed to “Head of Marketing, Basement Flat…”. Now less worried about their omniscience.
James1am Found out yesterday the Blue Peter dog (Barney) has his own security pass for BBC buildings. He’s listed in the system as a freelancer.
@mhoulden Oh yeah! I guess I didn’t try because that stuff normally only works on _CSI_ and _Spooks_ :)
@mhoulden Well found that man.
RT @mhoulden: @gothick It’s the DVD production company for the old Dr Who series: 2entertainvideo.co.uk/2evideo/releas… <— Ah! That explains it.
What is this building in London, and — for this is why I’m curious — why does it have a Dalek in the lobby? g.co/maps/yf6q4
@archidave *dance-steps off stage, waving hat*
@bpm140 Click on the arrows to expand; “Cached” is under the headline on the expanded view.
@thomasvenables I’m watching _The Prisoner_. I’m not sure it would benefit much from adding more technology.
@Pockless @Swishrelic Look at me closer when you say that, baby.
@Swishrelic @irkafirka To be firked once is fortunate. To be firked twice would probably diagnose me as a serious Twitter attention-whore.
.@archidave You say that almost like you expect me to have a swannee whistle to hand. lockerz.com/s/142253918
I just accidentally closed a window by dropping a kazoo on my trackpad. I am the Harold Lloyd of computing.
@hayles I will not be getting a Blu-Ray player then.
@hayles Ah, yes. That. Luckily I’m watching _The Prisoner_, which has a couple of seconds copyright notice and nothing else.
@archidave Have you identified the big metal cupboards in your kitchen yet? Remember to write down which does “cold” and which does “hot”.
God, I love watching DVDs. It’s so nice not having the end credits cut in half and spoken over.
Ah. An old Type 17 TARDIS. No, this is pre-invention of the Chameleon circuit. They were just a bit crap. instagr.am/p/OSX9h/
My mistake. Finding the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch in a drain would have been silly. It was actually a fire hydrant. thisislondon.co.uk/standard/artic…
Cambridge bomb scare: cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Universit… Last time there was a bomb in a drain, didn’t it turn out to be the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?
@KaveyF @BristolBites Ah, okay, one of these things, then. I think I’ve only bought them as “porcini” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus_e…
@KaveyF I dunno. What’s cep in English?
@chantalcoady @ahnlak It does seem to be quite a longwinded way of turning trees into yellow compost.
@AndyMcCarthyUK No parts yet. Waiting a display and an opto-isolator (sure Maplin used to be faster than this. Should’ve gone to the shop!)
RT @zeldman: At zeldman.com: Download in the Dumps is.gd/qqnI24 <— Yup, sounds like my usual kind of Adobe “experience”.
@AndyMcCarthyUK Yup. All of these calls are from overseas (& most pretending to be the type of call that isn’t covered by the TPS.)
shiflett I’ve never moderated my salt consumption, so it’s interesting to read that maybe it’s not so bad after all. j.mp/saltnotsobad
Wish caller ID worked properly when my dad called from Greece. Then I could just ban unknown numbers.
I hadn’t realised just how many scammy phone calls my home phone got until I stayed in for a few working days.
Hoping they don’t have to use this too often. @ Royal Mail Delivery Office (Clifton) instagr.am/p/OQTdA/
meemalee @gothick One day it will just be a sheet of paper saying “http://www.lmgtfy.com”
‘What’s a “Yellow Pages”, grandad?’ Can’t believe they’re still delivering these things.
@talkie_tim Just seems a bit mad spending money painting all this stuff on the roads if you can’t find out what it means…
@JamesCridland Ta. That’s fine; I’m on 15.
@emmafurious Whoo! Take some deep breaths and enjoy the enjoyable bits of all this :D
@JamesCridland Is the Full Screen proper Lion Full Screen now? *updates*
@says_arline Curtain geek. (They’re IKEA’s c̶h̶e̶a̶p̶e̶s̶t̶ finest, by the way.)
@talkie_tim Okay. Don’t think I’ve seen a chevron. Is there anywhere that actually tells you what they mean? *searches*
@talkie_tim Just tried the council cycle route planner from Hotwells to Victoria Street. Routes through Clifton Village & Tyndall’s Park Rd!
@talkie_tim (Because I don’t think I’ve seen any of those. Just green bars like a thick hyphen. I think.)
@talkie_tim Incidentally, am I getting confused? Are the chevrons you’re talking about actually >> chevrons?
@Gary_Bainbridge Oh, I dunno. “Have you tried…” *little dance* “…turning it off and on again? Olé!”
@missmcq Well done. :D
@talkie_tim There aren’t actually many ways that could have gone worse, then? Oh well. Still, I’ll be getting back on my bike soon anyway.
@talkie_tim Oh, is that what those coloured bars are under the pictures of cycles on Cotham Hill?
@mhoulden Argh! Oracle books! *makes cross with fingers to ward off evil*
@Mouse_House Bonsoir, Mouse.
@Mouse_House *prepares mouse-sized cattle-prod*
Doing a bit of an inventory. #geek lockerz.com/s/142029237
@redlegoman Well, I reckon I’d probably burn more calories chasing the buggers than eating them. #clumsy
@mskittypurry Too fast for me, damn it.
@doubledodge Have you seen #spooks before? You really think they *have* a technical advisor to fire? #technobabble
Gah. My healthy snack just rolled under a cupboard. Bloody grapes. A nice flat chocolate bar wouldn’t have done that.
@helencave Well done on the #raceforlife!
@nicepaul God, that’s blates obv. #downwiththekids
@hayles Yes, but let’s face it, you’d be happy eating a washing machine as long as it was with sweet chilli sauce. #addict
@benjohnbarnes Goodness. It’s almost like you’re saying that you want your printer to just *print stuff*. #crazytalk
@Thehappyfatgirl Well, he did use the sonic screwdriver quite a lot.
@CasJam Er. It doesn’t. Well, mine doesn’t, anyway.
Resistance is useless! #badumtish instagr.am/p/OKK3L/
@hayles I plan to take it fairly easy for the next few weeks. “Human” sounds quite an attractive step up.
@hayles I’m hoping it’s still ongoing shell-shock from doing a dull job for too long. Maybe one day I will have energy again.
Checking the output of my first Arduino sketch using an oscilloscope I built myself. Doesn’t get much geekier, fo instagr.am/p/OJ6xS/
@hayles Ah, you did go along. Sorry I didn’t join you, I think I overestimated my energy levels this weekend :(
@djelibeybi_meg :) It’s amazing the prettiness you find just growing out of a crack in the pavement…
Drops. instagr.am/p/OJB-F/
@IreneB9 Mornin’. I guess it must be particularly hot rain, then :(. Bah. Hope it stops, want to go for a run later.
@IreneB9 That noise I can hear must be someone having a shower in my back garden, then.
@johnfbraun However, by a startling coincidence… lockerz.com/s/141677086
@johnfbraun That tweet needed a lot more context.
Cyberman: Does my bum look big in this? #drwho
@helencave Awesome! Hope it goes splendidly. #GetRunning
@Nose_in_a_book Aw. Here, I just found this. It might cheer you up like it did me: http://en.wikipedia.org/…
@Nose_in_a_book Were your sniffles particularly sexy? #odd
@ahnlak I think that seems wise. Though I’m saving mine for teatime.
Randomly stopped to rearrange shopping outside Oddbins’ window display and ended up with two bottles of @BrisBeerFactory’s Southville Hop!
I have tidied up a bit, and made an Arduino blink. I think today is probably going to go downhill from this high point.
codepo8 Unexpected item in the bagging area: b3tards.com/u/baa16edb85eb…
@philsherry D’oh.
I have only been off work for a few days. My flat is starting to look like some kind of tramp’s nest. Need some energy.
@BenPark I intend to do camera controlly things, but you can make robots, and all sorts. Very flexible, quite easy to use. Apparently.
@BenPark Yeah. Easy interface for programming, and a shedload of handy inputs and outputs.
@tsunimee I didn’t realise you could *eat* that stuff. I’ve been throwing my No 7 vouchers away…
@BenPark Arduino board. arduino.cc Me makey flashy lighty buttony thingys.
@guriben Kewl. As far as soldering goes, at the height of my skills, I put this together. Been a long time, though. lockerz.com/s/141518843
@guriben Good to know, ta. Probably won’t be playing until end of month, but will shout in your direction if I get stuck :)
New toy: flic.kr/p/apUJHE
HeardinLondon The sat nav lady just said “bear left”. I mimed a frightened face out of the left window. I am an idiot.
Nothing like a big syringe full of drugs to get you started in the morning. #coffee #aeropress lockerz.com/s/141476851
@andybeebristol No, I’ve only just crawled out of bed. First #coffeetime is a home one today. #aeropress lockerz.com/s/141476558
@andybeebristol Agreed! #coffeetime
@Mouse_House Yup. I like Gruffalo-defeating mouse. Though I prefer doing the Gruffalo voice when reading to my honorary nephews :)
@Mouse_House Have you seen “The Mouse That Roared”? Though I guess it’s probably terrifyingly dated by now…
@hayles Oh. Okay. Odd.
@hayles Er. What’s a roast?
For @stillawake and others curious about lovely meal at @runciblespoon1 earlier on, here’s an idea of said loveliness. lockerz.com/s/141332993
@MrGreenGus the-runcible-spoon.com (And the rest of the meal was bloody nice, too!)
@stillawake That’ll have to wait until I see if the pictures from the big camera come out okay :)
Yogurt & pistachio cake with quinceinstagr.am/p/N8F2O/s04Q
Celeriac & apple free bonus starter :) @ The Runcible Spinstagr.am/p/N7wFE/Kbgg
@MissEmmeline Awwwww.
*prods* @MissEmmeline
@penelopeelse Yeah, standards are really slipping. I had to peel my own grapes earlier on.
@penelopeelse Don’t you have to swoon and be carried to those?
@johnfbraun There are more important things to be done with this technology. thedoghousediaries.com/?p=3029
stephen_abbott Best Guardian correction ever: ‘This article was amended to clarify the relevance of the speed of light to causality’ gu.com/p/3257m
Towards town. instagr.am/p/N6NJP/
Mmm. Naughty take-out falafel on the Centre :)
Emerging from my flat into… Er… Sunshine? What’s going on? I wrapped up warm…
MrsStephenFry I don’t know why people are worrying about being hit by a bus-sized #satellite. You’re far more likely to be hit by a satellite-sized bus.
m1ke_ellis “When bits of Skylab fell in Australia, no one was injured but the local authorities did fine NASA $400 for littering” nyti.ms/oYjwDN