On This Day, 12 February
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RT @colorschemez: fuzzier very pale green unreceptive hot magenta record-breaking greyish purple https://t.co/sVhjEtelgW
RT @mwichary: To celebrate the Kickstarter for Shift Happens going well, I thought I would show you 50 keyboards from my collection of real…
2022
@garethlpowell I remember when this was all moisture farms.
2021
RT @jephjacques: RT if u can solve this. I'm trying to prove something https://t.co/0LSfqRkOH9
@CuddlePotato @jephjacques That's how I got there.
Basin gulls #hotwells https://t.co/c666Uwj0od
RT @simonindelicate: Honestly, the things I'll do to avoid working. https://t.co/KvosLp622F Short Folk/Hauntology/Electronica album that yo…
BRISTOL MARINA https://t.co/DN7ilvpfzs
2020
RT @SPIN: They Might Be Giants’ Flood Turns 30: Musicians Extol the Landmark Album https://t.co/tjEI75zaMD https://t.co/ViFeZ9cQ19
RT @bengoldacre: If you are of a... certain age you must view every tweet by @bbcmicrobot It runs any code you throw at it. 10 MODE2 20…
RT @DailyHMHBLyrics: Do you switch the kitchen light off with your chin? Do you switch the kitchen light off with your chin? When you're ho…
2019
@toddmotto Which one is it? Was going to get the IKEA one but they were out of stock when I went...
@toddmotto Ta!
Gawd, I thought for a minute they'd made a film of the series Quincy, M.E. https://t.co/h3ej1Hrj8E
@ismh @MaxTemkin SOUND ENGINEER: No, no, stop it, guys. That wasn't a count-in. My sequencer drive just has the Click of Death.
Snaps from today's wander. https://t.co/id42qXwJkL
@saltwateritch @jakepjohnson "Poppy With a Hint of Cock".
Christ, can you keep it down at Ashton Gate? I’m trying to watch Bones over here in Hotwells.
@adamgasson WHO WOULDN’T?
2018
@zeldman That’s a *real* long game they’re playing :)
2017
That’ll do. https://t.co/PT5irMPTsL
Traverse board. https://t.co/E4KzdyHqhB https://t.co/ZM3dXI5SXV
Windswept - https://t.co/2LGShcdXQL https://t.co/bH3rRZ8jnf
2016
@shezza_t Yeah; I'm slowly putting more of my own pictures up :)
What the hell, @adobecare? Stop deleting my files! https://t.co/HgKNjrCAUs
2015
Green/brown barrier #bristol http://t.co/CTRV2cXKk9
2014
Woah. *Chases recycling bins down the street in attempt to catch them before they end up in Weston*
This afternoon I have mostly been playing with smoke, thanks to a tutorial by my friend @floyduk http://t.co/nucjdzqyrj
RT @dhh: I'm doing a live chat with @mijustin about why we became Basecamp. We'll take live questions. http://t.co/mIOEUsjFFp
RT @jukesie: Not saying I am expecting trouble on the trains tomorrow but I’ve charged my iPad, kindle, phone, external battery & packed wa…
2013
RT @petapixel: Greek police under fire after 'shopping injuries out of mug shots: http://t.co/5yScXLb9
Brr. It's bloody freezing in here, but I won't be here long enough to bother lighting the fire.
@6Sync You didn't suddenly make R1Soft storage free, did you? My latest invoice is $10 lighter than usual...
@ahnlak Have you checked yours? Or do you not bother with backups? :D
@6sync Cool, just thought I'd mention it!
@ahnlak Hosting tart.
@danielpunkass What? No, I didn't say "iDisk". I was just coughing. Honest.
Bowl. http://t.co/gGjsBSSE
Yeah, yeah. http://t.co/WfCXTjwq
@ahnlak They were not. I had no beer, and it was a bit of a last-minute decision!
Random photography setup. http://t.co/jIml5vWT
Getting more serious. http://t.co/pvzlrzak
2012
@simondebrux I've been wondering that. Not sure if I'm on new new Twitter or new new new Twitter.
RT @JohannaBurrows: LOOKING FOR COUPLES WHO MET ON TWITTER! For a paper - small piece with a good fee...get in touch if you can help #jo ...
@simondebrux Does yours look like mine? https://t.co/6yM95erP
Anyone who's recently been switched to "new" Twitter -- what does it look like? How can you tell?
@simondebrux I'm guessing we're the bleeding edge, trailblazing a path through the New Twitter Frontier.
@utterben So, presumably this means I *am* on the "new" Twitter? https://t.co/cBvhGFc1
@simondebrux Seeing indications in replies to my question that we are, indeed, on the new Twitter.
@utterben Aha. Cool. Mine's been like that for long enough that I can't remember when it changed. Hrm.
Thanks, Bens :) @utterben @BenPark have confirmed that I appear to be on the latest new new new Twitter.
@simondebrux Aha. So the new Twitter started rolling out on 8 December http://t.co/oV8UzWOA
@Cookwitch When did that happen for you? Mine's been like it since early December, which is why I thought I was behind, rather than ahead...
@Cookwitch I'll probably not get round to learning the new Twitter until the new new Twitter comes out. I'm mostly on Tweetbot or Echofon...
@simondebrux "iPhone, android, and *web* clients". By which he means the website.
@rbrwr Yup, turns out I've been on the new Twitter since early December, so it just doesn't seem very new!
@simondebrux It's all coming back to me now. They rolled out the web site changes giving priority to people who'd updated their phone app.
@MrsVeee Yur. Turns out I've been on the new Twitter since December, which is why I didn't think it was new!
Iron Age. http://t.co/HThHCQqA
Just nipped out for a 10K jog through Leigh Woods. Slow, but it did involve much uphill climb... http://t.co/APg0WdMh
@elliotjaystocks MASTERCARDMASTERCARDMASTERCARDMASTERCARDMASTERCARDNope.MASTERCARDMASTERCARDMASTERCARDMASTERCARDMASTERCARDMASTERCARD
@jorence Well, it's a pretty nice day for it. "Might as well," I thought to myself...
@rbrwr It's all coming back to me now. I installed the latest Twitter app at the time to trigger the web upgrade so I could play with it.
2011
Recommendations for a Cocoa programming book (target: desktop Mac app dev.) for a decent programmer with no Objective C experience, anyone?
@ahnlak You saw a couple, but they're quite old now. I didn't have a project in mind back then, so I didn't have enough impetus to learn...
@ahnlak I personally embrace our new alien overlords, especially now I've not had to remember to null-terminate a string for ten years.
@ahnlak Nah. Garbage collectors, like free(), are just for people who haven't bought enough memory yet :)
@ahnlak These days most of my optimisations involve shouting hints at Oracle loud enough that it actually uses the obvious fscking index :(
@pilky Thanks! Will check it out right now.
@pilky Buying now (such is the retail danger of the Kindle!)
@lovemindfulness A cushion. This one, in fact! http://yfrog.com/h0n1dqaj
I'm only cooking these for dinner because I thought they were so pretty when I saw them in Chandos deli earlier :) http://flic.kr/p/9hFCNs
2010
So, a quick commit before I break it. I declare the evening's programming a success.
Right. Dentist this morning, and massage this evening. That's definitely the right way round, at least.
@boagworld Spend an hour a day training yourself to kick sideways at the sound of the alarm. Until you can do it in your sleep.
@hayles One girl, two cups. That's definitely the way around I prefer these things.
@ArryMatt I know a lot of tools who do that. Oh, wait, that's not what you meant, is it?
The fact that my disparaging comment about auto-tweets was re-tweeted by an auto-tweet bot does rather confirm my opinion of them.
@Joy_James Whom are you sticking to what?
@hayles Actually, that might work for me, too. *sigh*
Okay. So, one and a half hours to do something difficult with Google Maps. Cue the Mission Impossible music.
@mjh53 Yes. Yes, I can.
@Lillput Why thank you. That actually seemed to work.
Bwa-ha-ha! Looks like I have myself a custom Google Maps tile layer. With Flickr data. http://twitpic.com/12nugy
Goodness, I'm knackered. Bedtime.
@andybeebristol Cool. I'm drawing a heatmap of photography in Bristol :)
@floyduk Goodness. I read the instructions once, and it made my eyes water. Hate to think how many little plastic things I'd snap.
@floyduk For someone good with electronics, I'm really bad with stuff like that. Always have bits left over.
Right. Morning Pages, shower, work. Get on with it, Matt!
@benjohnbarnes It'll be some time. I've got to figure out the heatmap generation and tile caching first. And pull the data.
@benjohnbarnes But what was confusing? Ignore the grid overlay; that was just for debugging the tiling.
@talkie_tim No. And the most complicated bits are next. Was going to work on it this weekend, but someone gave me a song to remix :)
@benjohnbarnes Well, I enjoy Echofon for Mac.
@bananza And you know the only way to spot the mistakes is to hit "send", right?
Passed the Chinese. Then stopped and walked back. Sweet and sour pork on way. Sometimes, you just need a night off food preparation :)
2009
Come to think of it, there's only two weeks to go before I've been on Twitter for a year! Does that make me sad, or just an early adopter?
@Swishrelic Excellent. Funnily enough, Twitter is the one thing I don't use ShoZu for (except sometimes for TwitPic postings.)
Anyway. Was taking quick break from working on my portfolio site when all these photographers distracted me :) Back to work...
@hayles I just looked up your first tweet. How things have changed! :)
@hayles that would be me.
Wish webcocks would just write "webcock" in their profile. Would save on bandwidth, at least.
Right. That's it. It's too long. And it's too tempting to play with. Yes, I'm talking about my beard. It's just got to go.
Oooh. So, I guess it's snowing again, then? http://www.benmarsh.co.uk/snow/
@Lillput @talkie_tim @DrHairbear @swishrelic @nose_in_a_book Bloody hell, when did Twitter get so popular? Evenin' all.
Hmm. So, that gives me yet another idea for a web app. Hmm.
@gothick Oh, I tell a lie. Two years, apparently.
@Lillput That does explain quite a lot, yes :)
@hayles I find this date quite scary. I didn't remember Twitter even being this old until I just checked: http://tinyurl.com/akp4oy
@Swishrelic Young whipper-snappers. I was leveraging social media synergies while you lot were waiting for Facebook to be invented :)
@talkie_tim Just to clarify, what was your answer?
Should introduce the Twittering Bristol photographers to the Twittering Tips from the Top Floor photographers, but I can't fit the names in!