MikeIsaac this is what you see when you go to okCupid.com from the Firefox browser pic.twitter.com/eWUQzppQLK
downsy I bet you’ve forgotten to put the central heating clock forward haven’t you …
@OpinionatedGeek No worries. My timer’s meditationchimer.com :)
@OpinionatedGeek I’m using the one on ifttt.com. Seems pretty good for Bristol.
@Kavey It’s very nice, and I found it here: missigs.com/2012/01/chickp…
miss igs: Chickpea, Butternut Squash & Lemongrass Curry
In the wake of @Kavey’s survey, tonight I’ve made curry completely from scratch :) pic.twitter.com/KAkgFKYtLS
Kavey Survey on Ready Meals vs. Home Cooking kaveyeats.com/2014/03/a-litt… feat. @misswhiplash @FussFreeHelen @Cookwitch @foodurchin @gothick
@benjohnbarnes I used JodaTime’s LocalDate for Get Running for Android. Hurrah for a class that stores dates without times!
shuckle Original cast Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on Radio 4 right now. Go iPlayer it.
Please make sure this leads to as much mayhem and chaos in your company as the job that runs twice on the last Sunday in October.
UK sysadmins: remember that tomorrow, the last Sunday in March, is the traditional time for your 1:30am cron job to be accidentally skipped.
@guriben Gah! I hadn’t realised. Oh well, my bodyclock’s already been fucked by booze and stuff this week anyway.
@charlie_cat_esq Your mother is entirely made of WIN.
@betty_watson A perfect time to practise your “silent, yet all-knowing” look.
@chubbybannister Emm did observe that I probably shouldn’t look for office space in Temple Studios if I wanted to keep up my diet.
Ironically, these days Pavlov would be too distracted by dinging noises from his smartphone to plan his research.
@guriben No probs.
rsg Politicians: using “cyber-attack”, and “cyber-warfare” in sentences doesn’t make you sound smart. It makes you sound like Grandpa Simpson.
@guriben Yo. We should probably formulate Some Kind of Plan for lending you t’50mm. Will you be anywhere near St Nick’s market this morning?
Snappity: Rails down by @mshedbristol flickr.com/photos/matt_gi… #bristol
@hayles Well, I don’t work around the corner from there any more…
@WTF4Photography @SpikyZebra My work here is done.
@sstarr That came a very close second to the sourdough cheese toastie I actually had…
Finally made it to Harts Bakery :) instagram.com/p/mFHO20pC4c/
When does @HartsBakery open in the mornings, folks?
My friend Emm suddenly has short hair for the first time in her life! She’s still in shock. pic.twitter.com/hATuIKxUse
@mikelloydjones Just started using up some of my accrued @BristolPound balance in Southville Deli :)
@jakepjohnson Cool, ta.
@jakepjohnson @jukesie Likewise, Mr. J.
The best way to deal with an unexpected tax bill is to pay it as soon as it arrives, and then cry gently, I find. *cries gently*
@jukesie I can see how that could happen.
@jukesie Welcome to 41! Nice of you to join me. Sorry I didn’t make it over to your table last night!
Mornin’ all.
“It’s like exquisite seasoning for language.” mattgemmell.com/profanity/
JoannaG Police officer who Tasered a blind man after mistaking his white stick for a samurai sword ordered to apologise bbc.in/1gBxGhS
Broccoli and stilton and education at Sourdough Cafe. @ St Nicholas Market instagram.com/p/mAaMIRpC18/
@Kavey It looks pretty deactivated. But that doesn’t stop me typing it in from habit when I’m not actually doing a reply :D
@UrsulaWJ If I avoided trading with every company with a creepy CEO I’d be naked, hungry and homeless. Also, I’m buying £6 black t-shirts :)
@Kavey Oops! If you eventually find that tweet to @KaveyF, ignore it, I answered your email in the meantime :D
@BabsBat Tweetbot’s worth a go. It’s what I moved to from Echofon.
@KaveyF Yo. Your survey, are we just talking evening meal?
@UrsulaWJ Oh, Christ, is this yet *another* company I shouldn’t be buying stuff from? What’s wrong with them, in particular?
Is this just a “trying to be cool” thing, or do American Apparel really not know that the £ goes before the number? pic.twitter.com/v658vJwNe6
@ahnlak @tsunimee *Strokes new beard thoughtfully* pic.twitter.com/NLq72P1Z8L
evankirstel BREAKING: Yahoo buys ViewMaster pic.twitter.com/dbMtDq6rTd
Oh well. That’ll save me some money.
@doeeyedlettuce Has someone given you gin?
@tsunimee @cosmetic_candy I BLAME @hayles
@hayles BA-DUM TISH.
@hayles I’M GOING TO DIE IN A FREAK PERSIL AND TONER ACCIDENT.
@hayles I THINK IT MUST BE MATES WITH THE FUCKING PRINTER.
Washer/dryers that do their finishing “beep!” and flash “0:00” at you BUT DON’T LET YOU OPEN THE DOOR YET BECAUSE FUCKWITTERY.
Damn it, @Peculiar, I’m on a budget here, and you keep releasing new books like that’s not important to you.
@A_Porcupine No way I’m installing the thing.
@liz_buckley @mattleys “4291?”
@WTF4Photography I’m sure it’s incompetence rather than malice, but either way I’m shopping on North Street to save my £5 instead now :D
@WTF4Photography Yup. An actual Mac app, and not just a standalone drag-to-Applications app, but a full-on installer.
“Download and install the Coupon Printer?” Oh, for Christ’s sake, Waitrose. pic.twitter.com/ZINkYmLril
Raunchy guitars and Margo Timmins. It’s like sex in my ears. open.spotify.com/track/5h9WGQ3B…
ahnlak Much love to El Reg for pointing out that the size of an allotment, at 10 poles, is equal to 12.1721 NanoWales theregister.co.uk/2014/03/24/met…
@benjohnbarnes Yeah, assuming I don’t die in the attempt. This stuff looks *complicated*.
Okay. Today I will mostly be exploring background uploads in iOS 7. I may be some time.
@dottyteakettle Dwarf bread! Well done!
@AndyCarolan Thank you.
Last snap from today, I think: A Dream of Daffodils flickr.com/photos/matt_gi…
@tsunimee x :D
It was very pretty out today. Maybe next time it’ll be warm enough to sit out and read. pic.twitter.com/uXIX2eGo0g
.@benjohnbarnes RT @cultofmac: How an Under-Appreciated iOS 7 Feature Will Change the World cultm.ac/1jgy0V7 pic.twitter.com/ZSQsmvme5R
Whimsical Bristol. instagram.com/p/l46xNCJC17/
Not quite warm enough to sit out and read in the sunshine, though. Shame!
Apple crumble sundae with salted caramel and a view. Nice. instagram.com/p/l44lbkJCyG/
Yeah, it’s a very Brandon Hill afternoon in #bristol. instagram.com/p/l43CCqJC-5/
Heading for Vee Double Moo :) instagram.com/p/l42TfTpC9k/
Afternoon, Bristol. instagram.com/p/l41I6wJC7P/
Just watched _(500) Days of Summer_. Lovely film. Great soundtrack, too.
@liveindetail Useless bloody audience. Also: that bag of sweets under your coat, was that bought here, sir?
Experimenting. To view my latest #Bristol pic you’ll need red/cyan 3D glasses: flickr.com/photos/matt_gi…
@isaiah My oddly OCD approach to unit testing (and coverage) certainly seems to help me. Gotta test ‘em all!
@MarketingLiz Still doing fairly well since my January decluttering. This is definitely one of its better days :)
Only problem with finally getting nice speakers for my desk is that I keep on finding myself rocking out when I should be working. Oh well.
Everyone looked very cheerful on the @BristCitySights bus this morning. pic.twitter.com/4zWs4IMhur
@steevbishop Thanks. I think I’d still prefer a whole separate room—this a corner of my lounge—but it works well enough for now.
My teeny home office. pic.twitter.com/7air2VVZKe
@ShaneHudson I don’t generally play games. I don’t have any consoles. But I loved _Elite_ *so* much as a kid… Oculus might happen.
@benjohnbarnes Those two points are subtracted from the downvotees reputation.
@benjohnbarnes Bwa-ha-ha! Come, join us. Do not be afraid. Or I’ll downvote you.
@galfriday612 HURRAH!
New follower: “Accelerating wireless and business transformation by delivering end-to-end serv-” Dude, *I’m* looking for banter and kittens.
I have an @IFTTT rule set up to email me today’s weather every morning. This is why I went out early today. pic.twitter.com/qTcWy720XM
How do I manage to accidentally hit the “change playback speed” button in @downcastapp *so* often?
Anyway. Apart from ooohletsclosethattabrightnow incident, lunch was good. Eggs Benedict in BTP Clifton Village. And I avoided the downpour.
@anildash See also Apple’s “Numbers” and “Pages”.
@jakepjohnson I am in a cafe. I couldn’t tell you whether the nude people were in a cafe, because my tab-closing skills are exceptional.
Eep! Note to self: don’t click on the “profile” link of Flickr mails from contacts whose photostream may be a wall of nudes while in a cafe.
Oh, give it a rest, sniffy! #cafeworking
Starting to go through my Lightroom catalog, looking for good photos. First sigh-inducing moment: realising I have 44,247 photos in there.
@codinghorror Cool, ta.
@guriben I think the film script would involve both Bruce Willis and Bill Murray. Not sure who would play the third Bogdan, though.
If you’re *that* interested, here are *all* of my tweets: tweetnest.gothick.org.uk
@guriben *snigger*
technicalfault You know, everyone’s second tweet would probably be more interesting.
@guriben In my imagination, this is a euphemism for an assassination.
No, Warwick, nobody wants to go for a quick tour of your store.
“…we crawled the iOS app store and grabbed the top 5 app icons in each category and ran a histogram analysis…” blog.brandisty.com/brand-manageme…
@Harkaway Have you considered a career in software development?
Buffering: flickr.com/photos/matt_gi…
Dorianlynskey I hope Grant Shapps gets his own series. What scrapes will he get into each week? Catchphrase can be Cameron shouting “Shaaaaaapps!”
@waiyeehong Tiny tiny leprechauns with really good memories.
Dear @SanDisk: You may be taking small print a little too far. pic.twitter.com/dk6lM6lFy7
A 32GB USB flash drive. They’re getting a bit small these days, aren’t they? instagram.com/p/lwtThfJC7U/
@codinghorror I’m seeing your latest RSS entry truncated to first three words because of bad anchor in the html… pic.twitter.com/PtRI4Ew679
@psidnell Can’t wait.
@word_geek I am now digging into the last of the wine and the Christmas Specials :D
“Where is Jessica Hyde?”
Risotto, wine, episode of Jonathan Creek from back when Caroline Quentin was still in it. Might go whole hog and fetch a comfort blankie.
Dangerous thing about cooking risotto alone: “Well, now I’ve opened this bottle of wine…”
@charlie_cat_esq Rosotto here :) pic.twitter.com/KuDjQ9CqAj
@archidave Tell you what, you move your scenery down here and I’ll buy trees for you personally.
No matter how godawful the surroundings, new trees are still better than no trees. #bristol #cumberlandpiazza pic.twitter.com/vhZkZJPquX
Librarians carefully remove a hive of books, drained of knowledge, from Bristol Central Library. instagram.com/p/lurIvwpC_P/
@word_geek The excellent @20thCFlicks is not far from me. Helps to live in a very studenty area, I’m sure.
Oooh. Interesting addition to the bottom of Jacobs Wells Road #bristol pic.twitter.com/dBkQKIfK9z
@OpinionatedGeek …you don’t actually need a card to take stuff out if they’ve got enough details to ensure that you’re you.
@OpinionatedGeek The main difference on that score is that I can see why they might want to phone me, plus…
@OpinionatedGeek As it happens, they did double-check the number yesterday, so as far as that goes, they’re on a par.
@xabl @20thCFlicks It does indeed. The only downside of their user experience is the sodding great hill in between me and them.
I reinstated my membership of the local DVD shop the other day. They’re lovely, and have a far better UI than Amazon’s new LOVEFiLM by Post.
@rem Isn’t RSS fairly measurable? (I still get tons of shiny new information through RSS, but then I’m an old fogey.)
I know I’m getting serious about an app when I make my own placeholder icon :) gothick.org.uk/2014/03/19/pla…
@m1ke_ellis Heh. I was *going* to use it the other day, but I couldn’t remember what character to use! Got it wrong: twitter.com/getrunningapp/…
RobGilroy I’m not a fan of the new pound coin idea. But then, that’s always been my problem: I don’t like change.
@hayles Mmm. Toast. Might need to blog about that.
FallibleBabble My local school’s motto isn’t very inspiring. pic.twitter.com/SupHZTfJiN
simondebrux Question: if the sat nav on your hire car directs you down a narrow alley in which you get wedged,..instagram.com/p/lsp19-KT2G/YS
@tyronem I always rather liked it, myself.
carrozo Jonathan I’ve must really hate typing his name on an iPhone.
@6sync Cool.
@6sync I’m in a good position to leave it a half hour and try again, if you want?
@6sync …also tried totally different browser: can’t even log in on that one.
@6sync Got in to Cookie jar after a long delay; hanging while trying to switch to biscuit.6sync.com/backups/ now…
@6sync Okeydokey. Gimme a minute.
@6sync Not seeing any difference yet.
@6sync It wasn’t me! A big boy did it and ran away.
@hondanhon Some people will never know, because they won’t want to sign up for Google+ in order to buy one.
@6sync Don’t know if it’s any help with diagnosis, but it’s now progressed to a 500 “oh noes!” error.
@6sync Thanks :)
@6sync I’m now in a different area on a different network on a different machine, and still seeing this: pic.twitter.com/pMPNHCpevk
@6sync Everything okay over there? Getting timeouts trying to load up biscuit.6sync.com/backups/ and biscuit.6sync.com/cloud/vm/ Ta!
@simoneats @HartsBakery Damn it. I just had half a grapefruit and now I’m hungry all over again.
@OpinionatedGeek If I’m remembering correctly, my fave was probably the Psychopath Class ROU called “What Are the Civilian Applications?”
@hayles HEY I SAW YOUR TWEETED CV JUST NOW AND I HAVE A GREAT OPENING AS A CLEANER AT A COMPLEMENTARY THERAPY CLINIC FOR YOU.
@mattgemmell Luckily, I’m halfway through my second cup. *dances out of reach of absolute cutting, slightly hyperactively*
Oh, Microsoft, you wags. A shiny new Mac note-taking app in 2014 and you don’t support dragging in images from the Finder. *pats on head*
@OpinionatedGeek This is what I tend to think of as a “Sick Drone in Extreme Distress” signal #iainmbanks
@skeddy No, a locked-down install on the web, so I can access from anywhere.
@skeddy On the other hand, I’m just looking to replace a MediaWiki install, so the bar’s not set high. I use Evernote for other stuff.
@skeddy Pretty certain all the non-Microsoft Mac apps for this stuff will let you just drag a damn picture into them.
@skeddy It’ll probably do what I want, but its lack of support for simple drag & drop of URLs and images is already annoying me.
Mornin’ all. Up early this morning, for good reason: I have a massage booked at 4pm, so I’m shifting my day up an hour or so to make room :)
Oooh. I’ve often heard good things about Microsoft OneNote. Now it’s free on Mac & iOS: loopinsight.com/2014/03/17/mic… (via @theloop)
@compliciteve I used Tumblr to blog the last mobile app I developed: getrunningandroid.tumblr.com. Figured this time I’d try something different!
@benjohnbarnes That sounds like a lot more work than drawing around the top of a coffee mug.
I’ve been having a surprisingly hard time getting photos to resize and upload with the right aspect ratio. I have…
dayone.me/3qkzGM
This may be Bristol’s most precise street sign. pic.twitter.com/s2ibZlzgcb
@tomtaylor Was watching Photoshop video the other day; at 3:45 shows how to visualise saturation. Might give a clue? youtube.com/watch?v=WHvfVc…
Harkaway “@IvanBrandon: fascinating “why americans are the weirdest people in the world” bit.ly/PJdcZu (via @GWillowWilson)” {#mustread}
@tsunimee Non :) I think it might be a place in Rwanda.
I wonder how many cafe signs there *are* in Bristol? cafesigns.tumblr.com
@mikedunn I just hadn’t realised there were any elements of it at all that might appeal to me until this week!
@BenPark @emma_cossey Yeah. Looks like it’s been going on a while… techcrunch.com/2014/01/06/sha…
This is just as well, as I’m too fat to fit into hipster clothes. And I actually need the glass in these glasses.
I guess I don’t have to dress like a hipster to enjoy the music. I never dressed like a goth when I was into the Nephilim and the Cure…
I have recently discovered lots of good new music from… erm… a “hipster” playlist on Spotify.
@BenPark @emma_cossey That suggests that Apple Insider (among several others I’ve noticed) has some rather scuzzy “advertising” going on.
Luke Skywalker, Left Unity and the Stuttgart Megabrothel: interesting take on the effect of fiction on politics… richardkmorgan.com/news/1124/luke…
@OpinionatedGeek This device doesn’t actually have a phone. It’s more the total bullshit coming from Amazon that’s making me hrm.
Hrm.
AmazonVideoUK @gothick Most likely a security step, but check with your phone manufacturer if you’re concerned.
RT @gothick: Why does LOVEFiLM By Post need access to my phone status and identity, @AmazonVideoUK? pic.twitter.com/vjlVnhBFQz
I’m in an ENT clinic that’s run out of tissues. This is not a metaphor.
Just picked up some BUF beans from @TwoDayCoffee. Roasted about three hours ago :) #bristol
MooseAllain Very sad to hear about Nigel Farage. Nothing specific, just in general.
@AmazonVideoUK The latest Android app requires a new permission: “Read phone status and identity”. Wondering why…
Building a highly advanced photo aspect ratio validation tool. pic.twitter.com/wTYwT5hT7O
If this is your most helpful review, that might suggest your review system isn’t great. pic.twitter.com/nmRxjJVNDa
charlesarthur Email arrives with subject line “Drunk Irisih Zombies - retraction of previous email.” Did not receive previous email. Interest piqued.
@njj4 Hurrah!
@BenPark I have given it a stern talking to and it’s now stopped whining. I think the Extra Hard Stare may have helped.
Morning all.
“This accessory may not be supported.” IT’S AN IMAC YOU STUPID BLOODY IPHONE.
shazow Sometimes I worry the NSA might be spying on me through my desktop’s webcam. Then I remember it’s Linux and even I can’t get it to work.
@C_J_Fox “How is babby formed?”?
@talkie_tim Does this mean you’re radioactive?
@anna_debenham I’d completely forgotten those existed. *Sudden nostalgia burst*