May 2008 Archives
(09:31:20) is stopping off for much neede caffeine before a 4 hour drive home...
(11:23:12) Slow progress on the A1M; apparently a shed load one junction south. I always wondered how much a shedload is.. now's my chance to find out.
(12:25:44) hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates traffic jams. The laws of physics & flow dynamics DO NOT apply and that angers me.
(18:57:09) thinks that this season of Doctor Who is definitely more betterer than the previous one. Oh, as the Doctor would say, yes.
(20:04:35) Trying Twitter Chat. Mmmm Tallulah Riley. Very very lovely.
(21:13:03) has gone to bed. Need that familiar horizontal feeling again...
(09:07:56) is still a little grumpy with Orange, since their interwebs has been really dodgy over the past couple of days (boo!)
(09:31:31) is off swimming with the children again. Another glorious day. I have no idea what's going on there.
(11:00:17) is, and always will be epic FAIL at the 2p pushers...
(12:36:37) is watching the children have a go at pony riding.. something I've never done... yay for vicarious living!
(14:20:32) feels that The Da Vinci Code is the book equivalent of The Sound Of Music in the definitive Charity Shop contents. Current Record: 4 copies.
(17:13:45) is playind 'dots and boxes' with Chris in Morrison's cafe. There is no more tedious game.
(18:33:41) wants to win a football (http://snipr.com/marballs . Is watching Alan Davies mocking the curling back in '99.. a fine one to talk..!
(21:15:23) has been a-blogging. http://tinyurl.com/5orc3t Away.. (and long overdue!)
(21:31:59) really happens to like Alanis Morissette. She's funny, feisty, gorgeous and a good singer.. win!
(13:24:01) isn't really doing anything of any consequence. Apart from being a little unsettled by driving licences in transit (but not A Transit).
(19:43:36) isn't sure what to attempt this evening. Wrestling uploading photos to mobile Flickr & blog-based FAIL.
(10:27:43) is back from a swim with the children; now it's hot chocolate, new bulbs and tide times. I should write my blog. Later..?
(14:26:00) is off to do a tour of the local supermarkets, not least to print out some of the children's photos... scrapbook!
(18:18:50) thinks The One Show is excrable middle-class worthiness. With the most irritating gruff human annoyance in the 'semi-detatched nature' bit.
(18:24:52) prefers the Gadget Show. Weak Lemon Drink style geekery. I'm becoming a TV cynic.. podcast withdrawal?
(06:35:50) is hiding under the duvet, as the sea breeze unremittingly chills everything else like a very effective fridge..
(09:03:05) is off to a Christening this morning. Can't remember if I'm on photography duties...
(16:35:17) is back at the seaside after an afternoon running around with the children. It's still windy.
(19:16:19) is back by the sea after a day running about with the children. It's still windy. Now? I feel doomed. http://snipr.com/doomd (Channel 4)
(08:19:47) can happily assert that The Doctor does not need a Tardis; a T-reg Vauxhall Astra Estate can do just as well :D
(11:38:42) There's a very large Tesco in a very small town called 'Clowne'. I know that because it's where we are. Lunch in the car.. simple but tasty.
(19:19:11) Hold my calls.. this evening's devoted to the Best Annual TV Event (in my calendar at least).. AND I can sea the see! Top quality UK effort!
(20:07:38) WITH A HI HI HO! win! So far it's been.. variable. Hopefully they've sorted the foldback issues..(?) Less off-key? Sweden: no.
(20:24:54) #eurovision (I keep forgetting to tag 'em) Why amost of the women (without beards) orange? GOLF CART! Is this about jam?
(20:29:47) is still not sure what Boogaloo Stu is for. He's all a bit.. BBCThree..? STOP SHREIKING Mr Azerbaijan, please. #eurovision
(20:33:25) Greece: first song of the evening that's got the Kiss Kiss (or Justify My Love?) beat.. something of a relief from the last couple of years.
(20:36:28) #eurovision ODDNESS! I happen to like, despite the .. flaws. And girating brightly coloured ladies. Actually, no, it's utter rubbish.
(20:40:32) goes and switches kettle on. I may just enjoy watching it boiling more than this tripe. #eurovision
(20:41:21) numa numa eh? #eurovision
(20:48:43) may have to call the sat-op boys at TVC to see if they can fast-forward to the voting.. the interval will doubtless be turgid. #eurovision
(20:59:21) is going to have to ditch the phone for a bit.. nice to have mobile interwebs but it kinda saps the battery.. enjoy, #eurovision lovers!
(07:53:11) is up and about.. ready to tell sleepy engineers about, well, how to break more stuff. I have a whiteboard, and I'm gonna use it. Grafitti!
(10:16:27) is hitting the final straight of the course.. just a brain dump really. At least they're awake this morning! Coffee...
(15:58:32) is back in Lutoncestershire (having listened to TWIT #143 on the way home.. high geek tolerance, me :D) and off to get the children now..
(16:51:17) has been told that "TWAIN" doesn't mean "tool without an interesting name".. nothing about it on Snopes. I mean.. "Never the Twain"..?
(18:09:03) has his family back under one roof.. all 6 mammals and 2 fish. Yay. Lenni is in bed listening to Rodriguo's Concerto D'Aranjuez. She's cool.
(19:24:24) will watch Heroes in a bit then go to bed. Health < 60%. Need perking up. No alcohol, no coffee.. no internets? Probably best. /coldt ...
(19:43:48) PIRATES! YARR! That is all.
(19:53:07) There is no place for shouty tramps on Eurovision. Or scratchy record players on sticks. Are they going to start singing at any point?
(19:59:06) #eurovision Dexy's Midnight Runners gone a bit Scandinavian? Denmark could benefit from some Van Dyke Cockerney accents.
(20:59:07) #eurovision Yay! Latvia's through! It's gone good again. Spain's entry is Tony Rudd meets Kid Carpet. France? Pop Yeti! Yay!
(21:39:49) is going to bed properly, though still at only 55% health, despite being on water all evening.. hopefully recovery will be swift tomorrow.
(06:07:56) is going on a long, long, horrible drive. And once I have reached M1 J10 (2 miles away), I will drive up to Worcestershire. To teach. Hmm.
(08:36:40) is in rural Worcestershire, topping up my caffeine levels before the course kicks off. This is going to be tough..
(16:46:34) welcomes careful drivers.
(16:47:30) is a bit worn out after teaching some sleepy engineers about exciting server failovers & other disastrous things... tempted to break stuff..
(17:31:50) might just go down to Evesham for something to eat. Walk or drive? Hmm... alcohol-based decisions.
(17:43:50) is tearing himself away from the big rectangular thing and going mobile. There's a big world out there (and I have the interwebs with me ;)
(21:31:22) is in the study centre.. the security guard is watching Chelsea and Manchester United do penalties. He seems somewhat.. edgy.
(22:14:18) has had nice beer with a giraffe on the label to settle my jangling bones after driving a Skoda with the LOUDEST DIESEL ENGINE IN THE WORLD.
(10:26:51) is back at work.. 15 more emails to look through. Distracted by wondering if screen polishy stuff actually works (http://snipr.com/scratchy)
(12:29:27) has a cup of tea but no biscuits. I know I shouldn't.. but my self-control is low today.
(16:14:53) has just discovered that the rolly thing on the side of this phone is also a pressy thing. Technology WOW! (any good, @Z80GameCoder?)
(17:05:53) is off home through the medium of coach, email and apple eating. Catch you on da flipsad, as the iZ would have it...
(19:18:24) Righty righty.. time to crank up the Zattoo.. time either to put Gok Wan or Eurovision Semi on. Decisions, decisions.
(20:31:36) WHO BORKED TWITTER? i worry it was i.
(21:14:53) is going to bed. Mind you, Eurovision's going to be GOOD this year. Ireland's Zig & Zag / Basil Brush chimera didn't make it through. Shame.
(08:10:43) school run done.. mind drifting on the way home.. I wonder how fast sound travels through brick. Probably about 0.25s for a 3 storey house..
(08:29:01) is off swimming.. looking forward to doing a few lengths.. thing is, I don't know when to stop.. I hope to be able to walk afterwards.
(09:43:50) 20 lengths done; I'm still (just about) alive.. only 500m, but one underwater, so I'm quite smug & pleased. Now.. Shopping/coffee. Shoffee.
(12:42:11) is back from St Albans... mildly disappointing. I shall compensate with a trip to the tidy tip. Yay for stuff-get-rid-of-age.
(12:43:04) is aware, though, that St Albans has - hands down - the cutest traffic warden in the world. She was gorgeous. Does not compute.
(15:46:02) is most perturbed that the i600 (and other Windows smartphones) don't do java. I mean.. this is SUCH a bodge.. http://snipr.com/nojava
(19:07:11) is in the studio, but not really getting much done. Again. I need something to stop me from being distracted. Pull that network cable out?..
(07:46:52) likes the idea of Stickam as a window to the wider world. Or at least a way of keeping an eye on my mate's car.. http://is.gd/i6F
(20:46:52) has, in tracky bottom pocket: an i600 quick start guide, a small crosspoint screwdriver, a small paintbrush, 5p, a marble and 2 screws.
(21:16:52) can has teh cheaps ezeebus tickets.
(11:48:21) has an antidote to the stinky smoke coming through the window from next door. COFFEE GRIND YUM! And closing the window. Not ideal, but hey..
(12:06:22) still enjoys a game of hide and seek, although it seems the police are getting better at playing. I think helicopters is cheating, though.
(15:19:12) thinks that the game of 'run in circles trying to kick each other's bottom' should be adopted by Gladiators. Bishop Brennan, READY?!
(18:50:12) has concluded: Doctor Who plus a ten-year-old Jura malt = utterly blissful entertainment.. despite the wasps.
(09:00:02) UPDATE! UPDATE! The broken light above my desk has now been removed. http://snipr.com/litegone How exciting? Yeah, I know.. not very.
(09:01:15) is ordering serial cards and mammary.. I mean memory. Look what you've done, Pete Cooper. :p
(09:03:42) is no good at this new technology. I clearly meant @petecooper. I'm still on web0.6a (running Netscape Navigator 2)
(16:56:49) has just seen an iPod touch. Which is LUFF. However what it can do is even more impressive: http://www.skyhookwireless.com/whoweare/faq.php
(09:22:11) has declared today: "Get a light fixed Thursday". Not the most creative of themes, but better than "fill in pointless forms Thursday."
(15:53:27) is listening to two engineers talking and talking and talking and talking. I need coffee and to go home.
(19:55:52) is doing that proper Thursday thing. Home-> Geekery-> Heroes-> Bed. Goodnight, interweb world (tempting though it is to stay, @ ...
(19:57:45) Darn those html metacharacters. Still, you'll never know, now. Nor, indeed, will I.
(10:33:05) is having a Bank Holiday today; an attempt to counter work-based stress by diong things people don't really understand.Seems to be working..
(08:36:38) must make every effort not to squander today. Caffeine, focus.. the studio's tidy enough to make some music. Yeah.. I work like that. Odd.
(08:48:39) still gets caught out by the Blue Screen Of Death screensaver on my laptop. Does anyone have that really cool Leitch clock LED screensaver?
(14:01:27) is off to collect the children from school. Amount of music recorded:0. I think I might be stressed. June will be caffeine-free month again.
(17:19:45) is helping out with the cubs.. This may well do my head in, but it's a good opportunity for father-son bonding. All teh outside now.
(07:14:00) was up early this morning.. expectant to see if half of R1's storage was entirely dead. Fortunately it survived some misplaced cables. Phew.
(08:04:58) is rationalising podcast subscriptions for use with HubDog (http://hubdog.com) .. three categories: favourites / the rest / dumper.
(10:30:49) has just seen Chris ride his bike for the first time.. one of those 'proud parent' moments. Now, off to Aldi for some hot SCART action(?!)
(14:38:10) wonders where the solar powered radio is.. it's that kind of gentle-neighbour-annoymencing weather. And I'm in that kind of mood, too. Top.
(16:23:18) is preparing frankfurter hotdogs and salad buffet after an afternoon in the garden. Only one minor casualty.. but the boy's gotta learn :D
(19:13:24) is having one more go at getting Hubdog to download a reasonable selection of podcasts. Then, tidying and putting things in boxes. And cake.
(19:49:54) The Onion Radio News; The Colonel ep 51; The Official Heroes Podcast & Topical Pish. On the iPaq (stoopid Hubdog!) and ready to go. Oh yeah!
(10:43:20) The first part of One Big System Failover is complete.. now if I can get this server suite back up by hometime tonight.. WIN!
(11:31:40) is giong to have to reboot. All I wanted to do was open a Word document and now the task bar thing is frozen. I blame.. er.. IT.
(16:51:20) does NOT want to stay any later than necessary. But that I've not heard from the engineers ten minutes before home time is worrying. Hmmm..
(18:18:13) isn't really comfortable with the database that's just come up. This may take a while..
(18:41:06) is really starting to get a bit grumpy about virgin media's continual POP3 failures.. should I move entirely to googlemail? Alternatives?
(18:43:02) is on the phone, and just doodled a snail going "RAR!" I have very poor drawing abilities. None of this moleskine business for me, then.
(18:52:21) likes the Frenc word "donc". It always stands out when I overhear conversations. The word "thus" is an underappreciated word, I feel. Thus.
(19:16:22) has now sold his email soul to Google, and is off home.. up the M1 before the Germans call back. This database won't fix itself, y'know...
(20:38:55) is home again, but still has work to do. And Doctor Who to watch. It may be inadvisable to do both concurrently, but hey... it's only TV.
(08:15:19) is off upstairs to get some noise to come out of a wire. I'm using a Krone tool- this is the most exciting thing I've done this week. WAHOO!
(09:49:14) right.. coffee break over. No more playing on the interwebs till lunchtime. Focus, man.
(07:45:43) is achey; a little better after coffee, though. Too many late nights & biscuits. I have tonight planned, though: Heroes -> bed. No me ...
(09:15:14) is having 'headspin' while reading up about Java Message Service. I get very easily overwhelmed by this sort of thing.. is XML no good?
(14:20:59) I don't watch enough BBC Three comedy. Facebook humour.. http://tinyurl.com/5k6ml6 .
(14:26:56) doesn't understand why some people who work with computers all day are still such rubbish typers. TWO fingers? I mean.. come on..
(21:23:32) Wow.. i600 + mac + VMware = kaplooiey!
(08:00:14) is drinking coffee while waiting for a desktop update.. a slightly underwhelming start to Meetingsday.
(14:02:13) has just come out of the first meeting I've ever attended with a piano accompaniment. For the office comedian: http://www.instantrimshot.com
(14:04:29) I have no sense of style (I want a wifi t-shirt!) So please, tell me this is wrong: http://snipr.com/geekchic (thanks for the link, @poots!)
(14:26:48) wonders.. is it rude for a colleague to make a loud phone call during a meeting? It's certainly irksome. What about tweeting? *sheepish*
(10:36:38) loves the bric-a-brac & rubbish CDs offered by charity shops. Thus I'm enjoying a gorgeous sunny but breezy morning in Letchworth with Beth.
(16:47:09) Once again, call me shorn. I have the phrase "..in twelve convenient monkey payments.." stuck in my head. I am WARM. Back to work tomorrow..
(09:28:25) Off up the M1 for the day.. Stopped for fuel & supplies in Loughborough. In other news, my tweety texts aren't coming through.. is it me?
(11:33:49) Yorkshire Sculpture Park is.. almost indescribably beautiful; it's a warm, humid day - perfect for some gentle countryside amblings.
(11:36:51) is off swimming with the chiddlers later.. I SO need to get more exercise. The internet makes me atrophy..
(17:02:10) has just watched Doctor Who Christmas Special 2006 with Lenni. On a mobile phone :D Loved the mention of Saxon at the end. Very very clever.
(11:47:33) Black & Gold - good bit of pop (http://snipr.com/sparro) But now I know Sparro's Australian I can't help imagining Jason Donovan singing it.
(14:03:03) There's something so much fun about climbing over a fallen-down tree trunk.. Natural climbing frames en route to the first geocache of 2008!
(16:50:14) Geocache was a FAIL, but we all had fun.. home, tired and in need of caffeine. Nearly Doctor Who time, though - yay!
(07:19:52) arrived early in the office today- obviously nobody else is working. In other news, I still have an annoying catch at the back of my throat.
(08:06:03) it seems there are walking tours of the sound mirrors in the summer.. http://snipr.com/rmcpwalk . Wanna go! Fancy joining us, @regularjen?
(19:08:33) A cool invention, even if it sounds like it should be an April Fool joke. But it was the 1st of May yesterday. http://snipr.com/memrister
(21:34:49) I've been a-blogging: Weekend away... http://tinyurl.com/5scdca
(09:45:07) Allrighty then. Time to make some phone calls. Still not sure where my work mobile is. In fact, I think I'm continually losing things..
(14:28:29) is feeling tired. Tired and anxious, with no reason for either, really. I think a cuppa tea & a brain reboot might help. And custard creams.
(16:20:41) There is a spotlight from the offices opposite shining straight at me. It was irksome during my nightshifts.. quite annoying now, too.
(16:51:30) likes Twitter as a free way to text people. I should do more linkying, though. Like this: 2GB micro SD for a tenner! http://snipr.com/2gbusd
(21:06:18) always finds the prospect of Graham Norton's show a good prompt to go to bed. I hope I achieve more tomorrow.It's a Bank Holiday in Germany.
