@Kavey I and Nestlé and Adidas and L’Oreal couldn’t agree more.
@Ninja_lynneja @Molewife *bows*
@andybeebristol It’s a hard life, on the pontoon by the Arnolfini. Hard.
My view. instagram.com/p/XhqPdSJC-F/
A swan just spat in our salsa. This may be the ultimate #middleclassproblem
@ahnlak I’m mostly on the Spitfire, which is £1 is Sainsburys. But that have me enough savings for a Punk :)
@ahnlak Way ahead of you kid. pic.twitter.com/MVHsWYrmD3
Trying to get over my man-flu by exposing it to fresh air. Oh. And beer.
Swanage. vine.co/v/bIAX9hDq7aV
On t’harbourside. instagram.com/p/Xhg5j8JC_L/
My experimental Tweiger Counter peaked at about 800 tweets/min at the star of Doctor Who :) instagram.com/p/XfczVBpC8o/
Bleh. Green tea and Strepsils. Not a good combination.
Every bit as much fun as I remembered. vine.co/v/bjLUPbg7eEM
Paradise Lost. instagram.com/p/XetJkHJC-M/
St. Paul’s. instagram.com/p/Xer7O-JC9b/
Auto-tune synth dance-pop. The perfect accompaniment to any Post Office queue. *shoots self*
Stay classy, Clifton. instagram.com/p/XeoWHbJC63/
Ah. Monday, not Sunday. 8pm Monday. Sorry. Did I mention I was ill? #jonathancreek
Also: new Jonathan Creek on Sunday? Excellent. Shame they don’t send me extra DVDs for my box set when new ones come out :)
Sunshine. It won’t be quite so bad emerging from my pit of man-flu and going to the Post Office to send off these eBay parcels, then…
@chubbybannister @MarkleBomBarkle I know nothing about him, really. Only thing I’ve seen him in is Doctor Who, I think.
@chubbybannister I just read it, because of your tweet. I thought it was rather lovely.
Farewell, Henry Crabbe and Uncle Monty.
@somenewwill (and there’s a couple of other things I did: vimeo.com/24890711 youtube.com/watch?v=uTNu6H… )
@somenewwill Yo. There’s this one (music by Pulp, so you might want to change that for commercial use!) youtube.com/watch?v=xzp_pD…
porridgebrain Will you be needing a happy ghost to carry your shopping today, madam? pic.twitter.com/YRa9wmB0Rt
NeckbeardHacker No, programming is actually not that hard. Dealing with people is hard. Which is why I got into programming in the first place. Now go away.
Treating my man-flu in my traditional manner. instagram.com/p/XaiEAxJC3m/
@MartinSketchley @TTApress Whoa! I spoke too soon. Happy to lend. DM me your address and I’ll send it along. pic.twitter.com/0PtPczDXmD
@MartinSketchley @TTApress Sadly, no. Must have been before I first subscribed, as there are gaps. Have 21 and 23, but no 22.
@libbymiller Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
@libbymiller Stick it in a disposable VM.
@mhoulden You don’t have to if you don’t want to — tap on a week before you hit “Run” to start from there :D
@Thehappyfatgirl One what, exactly? One sasquatch?
@ShaneHudson Maybe you should make your next business card properly bookmark-shaped. At least you’d maximise your benefit :D
@doctorow Still better than “legal alien”. That was popularised by Sting.
Dru_Marland @gothick “Leave him, Justin, he is quite simply not worth it”
You can tell it’s Clifton as one of the screamers used the phrase “f-word” rather than actually swearing.
Wow. It’s all kicking off in Clifton Village. There are people screaming in the street.
@FluffyMFC I realise that I did, technically, ask for that… *giggles*
Finally struggled out of my man-flu-ridden lair to get lunch. #violinsplease
RinHamburgh Need to speak to a Bristolian who enjoys shopping in independent stores rather than chains - pls RT #journorequest
@benjohnbarnes @stevemarvell Nope, sorry, never had a mini. No spare boxen around at the mo.
@claireellent @rabidbee @andybeebristol Thanks. *drinks Lemsip*
@BenPark I suppose there’s a faint chance they’ll merge it in with analytics. More likely they’ll just kill it, though.
@mattgemmell I’m not trimming mine until there’s less damn wind-chill.
@lgladdy @juliancheal @hayles I try to get out for an hour of walking pretty much every day. Don’t always manage it, though.
@hayles @lgladdy @juliancheal So close, damn it. If I wasn’t feeling ill I’d try to beat you this week.
@hayles Hang on, let’s see. No, that doesn’t redirect anywhere near Feedburner. Should be fine.
@hayles (But Feedburner’s post-delete redirection seems to work, and should clue most feed-readers in to auto-update the feed for you.)
@hayles …make a post to let people know to update to the new feed location, just in case something doesn’t work.
@hayles 1) Turn off any FB plugin/redirection on blog. 2) Delete feed in FB; choose option for permanent redirect. 3) Maybe…
@hayles No, no, I don’t mean in general. I’m making a pre-emptive strike on all my sites, on the grounds it’ll probably go away.
*Waves goodbye to Feedburner*
@rabidbee @andybeebristol @claireellent Friday? Sorry, if this cold hasn’t turned into flu by then, I’m booked in for a housewarming dinner.
@TTApress Which reminds me. I have a collection of these “Interzone” things. I wonder if they’re worth anything..pic.twitter.com/QgXr5prpexex
@BenPark Nah, that’s definitely me, by the sounds of it.
@BlackDogDays Ah! Don’t feel quite so unaware now :D
@BlackDogDays !? Am I being blind? Sorry.
Oooh. So, the “futuristic space-bongo” I saw the other week is now available for pre-order… alphasphere.com/alphasphere/
I wondered who that was, filming on College Green as I wandered home. According to @BenPark, I’ve just been on Points West.
@BenPark Yeah, that was me. I didn’t know it was Points West. But someone definitely started a to-camera segment just as I walked behind.
@johnfbraun Never underestimate the power of the Anti-Knack.
@KellySibson I’m not going to tell them that.
@chubbybannister Yes. Cool decor. And, most importantly, the coffee was damn nice.
@mhoulden Damn it. I thought of something I wanted from my local hardware store yesterday. Completely gone from my mind now.
View onto Christmas Steps from Bristol Jelly co-working at Colston Office Centre. instagram.com/p/XXTeitJC52/
Trying my first @smallstespresso on the way back to Colston Jelly.
At the lovely Moroccan place. @ St. Nicholas Market instagram.com/p/XXH_VWJC-x/
@wood5y @waiyeehong Which at least made me feel better about the half-dozen errors left on the new Get Running site.
@wood5y @waiyeehong I can beat that. I checked Amazon yesterday. validator.w3.org/check?uri=http… (Trying again with right link…)
@hayles …would probably involve full-blown alcoholism. Sad, but I believe it’s true. Don’t want to go there.
@hayles If I could easily take it or leave it, or stop after a few, I’d have been there. But only way I’m going to support pubs regularly…
WildBeerCo Preparing for our tap takeover at @BrewDogBristol by being painted on a wall… pic.twitter.com/iaC6nMd4ug
@hayles …hoping to make the next one.
@hayles No, but I don’t do into any pubs often. Too fond of the booze, sadly. Their open mic and music nights were cool, though, was…
Oh, gawd. Has the Adam & Eve gone again? #bristol instagram.com/p/XWt6V7pC95/
For the first time in ages, I’ll be working in an office today, at the Colston Jelly. Very happy the sun’s come out for my walk to work!
@chubbybannister (I think it might actually still work for people who use Twitter via SMS, in fact…)
@chubbybannister No, you “D”d them. That’s the way you send Direct Messages. Holdover from when Twitter was SMS based.
@chubbybannister (Though there are exceptions to that rule.) But basically, “D Miliband” is trying to send a DM to (actual user) miliband.
@chubbybannister It’s when the recipient is not following you.
I saw a Craymobile in town at the weekend. Had fewer gun turrets and exhaust pipes than I was expecting. @waiyeehong
Hrm. Tough choice there. I wonder which is better value? pic.twitter.com/St72fNlX3T
@xabl Different kind of graph, luckily.
Don’t mind me. I’m just testing Twitter card support on my blog. gothick.org.uk/2013/03/16/ad9…
I see you baby, Openin’ that Graph…
@shezza_t That’s mostly because I was guilty about showing how much mash I’d put on the plate (next to salmon, dill, lemon & watercress :) )
@benjohnbarnes Cool, it worked! (You might want to view that tweet in an official Twitter client or on the web. twitter.com/gothick/status… )
@benjohnbarnes I’m just testing something. Don’t mind me. splendid-things.co.uk/getrunning/
Looking forward to this. instagram.com/p/XVXGgtpC7X/
Food with ‘tude. @ Baristas Coffee Collective instagram.com/p/XVXDwkpC7T/
Bought brandy on way home. Should’ve probably bought an electric blanket, too.
BristolFerry Always make time to feed the swans #bristolharbour #blueandyellowferry #swans pic.twitter.com/pQ3rNvCDC6
@SimpleLampoon Pretty much all developments in computer technology are driven forward by laziness.
US Postal Service biased against atheist parcels? RT @LeadHyperion: This is just astonishing… atheistberlin.com/study
@jesspants Unlike the food one, I had at least heard of most of those things…
Birdcagin’.
Restrung. instagram.com/p/XQFAcVJC5w/
@rbrwr @LifeCycleUKteam My pleasure!
We’ve come on adventure. But the pub we were going to eat in is now defunct! instagram.com/p/XP4KH2JCyI/
Tintern. instagram.com/p/XP4F2_pCyC/
@andybeebristol BrewDog, last night :)
I have assumed the recovery position. @ The Grain Barge instagram.com/p/XNJ_5-pC4S/
@tsunimee Oh, dear holy arse. *big hug*
@TippyNess Yeah. You wouldn’t think they’d be all that keen on resurrection, would you?
@Kavey @BrewDogBristol It was the stacking rather than the photography. And I can see how drunk people stacking glasses might not be ideal.
Oh, dearie me. #hotwellschicken&ribs
@ahnlak Yes. It is. This, though, is even awesomer. pic.twitter.com/avl8KbRmjh
@johnfbraun Oh yes. It’s very nice.
@malvernrunner They’re out. It’s actually what I asked for!
@foxc the Dead Pony was how I started :)
Oops. We got told off for trying to take an arty photo of a stack of Tactical Nuclear Penguin in @BrewDogBristol. pic.twitter.com/BSAJSmYdrR
Tactical. Nuclear. Penguin. @ BrewDog Bristol instagram.com/p/XLBI4rpCxA/
A rack of danger. instagram.com/p/XKvjHMpC5u/
The circle of danger. instagram.com/p/XKnhedpCwS/
Might be off to @BrewDogBristol this evening #danger
Cliftonwood. instagram.com/p/XKUXK8JC4R/
Nostalgia at the Watershed! (I had a BBC Master just the same…) @ Watershed instagram.com/p/XKM88LJCwm/
@Kavey Try turning your keyboard upside down.
@Kavey I just guessed. It’s vaguely intuitive on a Mac keyboard. Shift+1 = !, Alt+1 = ¡, other things are similar.
@Kavey I think you mean “¿me?”
@Kavey ¡Ha! ¡Strange lady!
In @BaristasBristol, which is lovely, but I appear to be sitting next to two people who were too annoying to get on _The Apprentice_.
@Kavey HUSH.
Confession: I didn’t know what a musette was until I met @ilsoigneur. Now quite tempted to “build a bag”… #bristol ilsoigneur.cc/build_a_bag
Dangerous start. instagram.com/p/XJ7wDdJC0D/
Bristol tradition. instagram.com/p/XJ4NZDJCyW/
The outside tables seem a touch optimistic today, Wetherspoons. instagram.com/p/XJ4KDRpCyP/
@Kavey She slept on the air mattress. Stop jumping to conclusions, you.
At some point I’ll start work.
Random day. Up early to cook a friend breakfast, nice long bath, now off for team meeting/breakfast down the pub.
@bathales Second vinegary Gem I’ve had from Clifton Waitrose in the space of two weeks… Might want to have someone check them out? Ta.
Priorities. instagram.com/p/XIg-J-JCxG/
@HeartInternet Searched for you on Twitter to check reputation; mostly seeing Twitter spam, which doesn’t reassure… pic.twitter.com/7DqWsFzT2H
ryan This is by far the best bit of user interface design I have ever seen. Ever. EVER. pic.twitter.com/zrRs4bDRH3
Gary_Bainbridge I have just been followed by a man called Richard Wilson. I wish there were a way I could express my surprise at this turn of events.
@jesspants Erm. I’m sure some do. Of that list, I’ve only tried tablet and yarg. I’ve never even heard of most of the rest…
reckless I’m assuming the cloth on the far right conceals a screwdriver set. RT @SamsungUK All a girl needs pic.twitter.com/dSgs6HSgqM
@tsunimee x
Saw fire engine and two Police forensics vans at foot of Avon Gorge cliff on my jog tonight. Hope that doesn’t mean someone’s died :(
benhammersley “@felixsalmon: Awesomely illegal science: census2012.sourceforge.net/paper.html” [[holy shit]]
@guriben Most of my design work on the German section of the Get Running site was accompanied by muttered German. I don’t speak German.
@guriben I just assumed you were saying the word in a French accent for effect.
And so ends my ride home. #lovelybristol @BristolFerry instagr.am/p/XFnwvtpC80/
Heading home. instagr.am/p/XFmrvZpC7q/
Paragraph. It’s really quite annoying. Stop.
This cafe would be a nicer environment to work if the only other customer wasn’t a lawyer dictating a very long letter into his phone.
@johnfbraun You probably do more with yours than test websites in IE, though :)
Sourdough Cafe for lunch and a read. Or maybe not, as friend just randomly turned up :) instagr.am/p/XFOj3tJCzi/
@johnfbraun This is for VirtualBox. It’s possible I hadn’t bothered changing the VM spec since I was running XP…
Thinking of taking same approach to micro-USB cables as plectrums: buy thirty so my chances of finding one just lying around are better.
Think I might wander into town for lunch.
@mattgemmell …as “permanent” as “until Feedburner dies” is, anyway :)
@mattgemmell You may have already spotted this, but if you delete feed in Feedburner it gives the option of adding perm. redirect…
@mattgemmell NetNewsWire. Though mostly because I never could stand Reader’s interface, so our UI tastes may not be overlapping.
@guriben Ta. You’re in the bug tracker :D
@guriben Heh. Odd.
@guriben …I should probably just grit my teeth and buy it and use it instead of that widget.
@guriben Kewl. To be honest, the only reason I had the widget rather than a picture was because the stock photo I wanted was £30 :) …
@michellepauli Yup, my kind of people, too :D
@guriben Oooh, interesting. You don’t happen to be behind a firewall that blocks Twitter, or anything, do you? Should be a widget on left.
@michellepauli Popped up in Spotify “Artist Radio” for Natalie Merchant. Which could be subtitled “women with edgy voices”.
Never heard the Indigo Girls’ cover of _Romeo and Juliet_ before. Cool.
@guriben It was a fun place. Hope UWE was, too :)
@guriben (Might depend on window width. The whole thing’s quite responsive…)
@guriben Hrm. Is this what it looks like for you? pic.twitter.com/mtgM97J0nj
No, I do not wish to make you my default browser. *Slaps Google*.
@guriben Ta. I’ll fiddle.
“Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons”. IE9, if you were that worried about them, why did you add them on in the first place? *slaps*
Well. I *think* the new Get Running website is live. *Pokes around, wondering what bits he forgot to do*. splendid-things.co.uk/getrunning/
@ahnlak I was doing an extra one, immediately before a big change. It happens automatically too. See? Tons of ‘em. pic.twitter.com/blt8Ff0Q7A
@mhoulden Going from 512 to 1024MB on this VM has made a hell of a difference. Plus ca change…
Turns out Windows 7 is a lot happier with more than 512MB of memory. Who’d have thought?
@Thehappyfatgirl *Waves angrily from the floor*
@waiyeehong Yeah.
Hrm. This website changeover I’m doing is going disturbingly well. *puts fire-foam and SWAT team on standby*
@Thehappyfatgirl Thrrrpt.
Doin’ backups. #goodboy
Oooh. @getrunningapp for Android has moved up into the “5,000-10,000” installs bracket on the Play Store. *Pats app on head.*
@says_arline Cryptotechnozoology for the win!
@says_arline Only the Lesser-Spotted Drive Chipmunk.
@says_arline No: hard drives are powered by chipmunks.
ExChildGenius My phone has been down for a week. After many phonecalls to Vodafone, I sent them an email. Their response… twitpic.com/ccdrms
Doing a little systems maintenance. instagr.am/p/XCbK3TpC3e/
@benjohnbarnes Thanks, by the way. Turns out that’s one thing I’m doing today: putting one of these drives in the old MacBook :D
@evildespot I’ve never actually gone from non-SSD to SSD in the same machine, but given how well the Air performs… #whoosh
@evildespot My main laptop’s a MacBook Air. This is for the backup that I was lending to a friend. Should only have to use it in emergency.
@evildespot My choice was mainly “did these drives arrive free in the post from a mate who didn’t need them any more?” :)
@evildespot …if it weren’t for the label, that might actually have affected my choice!
@evildespot Unlike the Hitachi drive I have here, the Toshiba actually rattles when shaken…
Rattle. instagr.am/p/XCVKC4pCyg/
@tyronem Yes. Yes, it is.
Hah! Never seen a job ad in an HTTP header before :D pic.twitter.com/bj6yKaiG1F
If there’s one thing more annoying than being a regular user of Windows, it’s being an occasional user of Windows. *reboots for 19th time*
@uliwitness In my imagination, you used a really interesting-looking tool from a Swiss Army knife to do that.
@Ninja_lynneja You’ve not been reading YouTube comments again, have you?