On This Day, 30 September
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RT @KimmyMonte: my glass coffin company “remains to be seen” is not doing as well as i thought it would.
@dangusset I missed the Wordle craze at the time but now I do it whenever someone else’s result pops up in my timeline :) Wordle 468 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ 🟨🟨🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
@camfassett My best moment was analysing medical insurance claims and realising just how many spelling variations of “diarrhoea” and “haemorrhoids” were in my data.
@4r7hr Are they, by any chance, experiencing an unusually high volume of calls right now?
RT @RonAmadeo: lol. The self-fulfilling prophecy is complete. Nobody bought Stadia because they assumed Google would kill it, and Google i…
RT @Kavey: For my birthday I'm fundraising again for the @TrusselTrust. I've chosen them because rising energy prices are just one more f…
@Kavey HAIKU BUTTERFAT
What's with all the noise in Hotwells? #bristol
2021
2020
@LoggingEnabled I'm going to see what I can do to support my favourite bands (who are usually impoverished at the best of times!)
Popped out to snap a pic before the rain set in and bumped into a friend. Here's one for @_pigeons_ 😀 #bristol https://t.co/Q76A17VEFv
Bonus pic: Basin Dawn. #brisol https://t.co/7ASCv5aUgP
And that concludes September's #PhotoADay project. https://t.co/c47wyIsXRQ
@shezza_t By the looks of the forecast here, that might be the last sunlight I see for some days, too.
@shezza_t @OpinionatedGeek Ooh, I was thinking of doing that with the work-from-home monitor I’ve temporarily had to bolt to the wall of the living room.
RT @jsnell: "You're the worst President America has ever had." Poor Millard Fillmore. It was all he had left.
RT @_MG_: No joke: a bunch of OMG Cables recently infected the USB cable supply chain. The manufacturer seems to have lost some OMG Cable…
@OpinionatedGeek @shezza_t Cool, ta. Because it's just a dumb monitor I'm considering splashing out on the new Raspberry Pi I wanted anyway and using https://t.co/ACP52adXDw on it, but I do also have a *lot* of Android devices lying around unused, come to think of it...
@Kavey Happy birthday, Kaveypie! 🎂
2019
2018
Private parking. https://t.co/da2fQjKPFU
@Kavey Happy birthday, poppet!
Basin sky. https://t.co/9RnM9e8kj0
@DigitalJonathan Not unpleasant to walk in, though!
2017
RT @VisitBristol: It's Docks Heritage Weekend, check out the events happening at Underfall Yard, M Shed and the SS Great Britain: https://t…
I say I say I say... Matt, did you take any photos of the #docksheritageweekend? I’m a frayed knot! #badumtish #ig…… https://t.co/sJLozDiw9R
Mitch Benn: Don’t F**k Up The Sequel To Blade Runner (SWEARY) https://t.co/igvoU5ynTZ
@ToniMcLellan @biz @monteiro @jack “If I turn the Klan away, they’ll just hold their weekly meeting in a different bar...”
2016
@Kavey Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy BIRTHDAY dear Kavey, happy not-doing-much birthday to yooooo.
“Work Chat”. “Presentation Mode”. GET OUT OF MY BLOODY WAY, EVERNOTE STUFF I WILL NEVER NEED.
Can I pay extra for a non-professional version of Evernote with all this extra clutter gone?
In more calming news, just mentioning Ringworld to @_pigeons_ seems to have started me on a re-reading marathon. https://t.co/uzIZEarjPa
@rustyshelf Are those chairs comfy? I’ve always wanted one.
@rustyshelf Good to know. (I watched _The Prisoner_ at an impressionable age, which is how they became an aspiratio… https://t.co/Hhkm41m8rH
Ickle trickle. https://t.co/GEogjylBgE
@B247Martin, meet @_pigeons_.
Factory. https://t.co/sjju434QgB
2015
RT @hotdogsladies: A new version of OS X comes out tomorrow, so this is the perfect time to do another (ANOTHER) full backup. Because I lo…
@hayles And don’t forget their website’s early closing day is Thursday.
@hayles It’ll be because of overnight mainframe batch processing window.
.@hayles “In one case the core system converts customer account data in and out of… pounds, shilling and pence” http://t.co/y3VKGamJub
@hayles Makes me wonder how they get new developers, though. Can’t be easy to find youngsters who want to deal with that stuff.
Late Wessex 505 bus further delayed by angry Southmead-bound customers trying to find out where the hell their version of it has got to.
@Bristolvor @hayles I’d like to not believe it, but having worked in IT for major financials for decades, I’m afraid it may be.
@hayles Yes, but it’s so secret the only news story I’ve seen about it was pulled within hours!
Yet more SUPER SEKRIT POLICING @hayles @PollyVVore http://t.co/tMZSw6p81A
@iamdanw Nearly all the employers I’ve had ban social media access from the office…
Command and conker. #dadjoke http://t.co/wHxL8XU1Zy
RT @MarianneBungo: Small is beautiful: My @heraldscotland column on the joys of @isleofislay airport... http://t.co/GoQSTNIxQZ http://t.co/…
@MarianneBungo @heraldscotland @isleofislay Hear hear! (And regards to Morag, who served my my bacon sarnie last time I was there :) )
@TwiceCircled @ahnlak’s PC is so old his keyboard’s got a “groat” symbol where the “£” should be.
RT @Fujifilm_UK: How do you #instax? Introducing the new #instaxMini7 http://t.co/PfAFfYCoqL @FujiInstaxUK http://t.co/DdkDpkMC9W
New T-shirt win :D http://t.co/EOEwVDUgCQ
@uliwitness Yup, fine here, too. (Seems significantly faster for iCloud photo access, too, if you suffer from delays)
I don’t want an ad blocker. I want a European Cookie Law popup blocker.
2014
Thank you, developers who write more than "bug fixes" in their updates. I'm a detail fan. @bohemiancoding http://t.co/KU3BsuJYB8
@floyduk Bash update out for OS X: http://t.co/W0KfERM7Zo
@floyduk Glad to hear it.
@floyduk Ooof.
RT @mynameischrisd: .@sainsburys not sure this is supposed to be in your window... http://t.co/Zk9GCliIWO
RT @robmanuel: The internet of things will mostly consist of leaving the house then panicking that you've left the oven on Facebook
It's lovely out, so I took some time from the start of my day to do some microgardening. Now on with programming... http://t.co/wBzb1xyzsY
@G2Bristol Thank you.
RT @JonCG: In WW1 the British Army included 500,000 cats...? Via @jeffsonstein @AnneBillson Also, http://t.co/AGXEGLwNCe http://t.co/EuqOI7…
Performing a little Kindle surgery. http://t.co/lmVfPIWztm
Incidentally, hardware hacker types, guitar plectra are cheap, come in a variety of thicknesses and bendinesses and make excellent spudgers.
@anna_debenham Aww! You wield the +1 Aubergine of Head-Patting.
Deploy the "I have nothing in" emergency lunch. http://t.co/m5ieg0RQ70
@psidnell The patient has already made a full recovery :) http://t.co/5WWiTZEKKE
@evilrobotbill @D_Hollingsworth @Andydrewz Gah. Well, they took my money, and they've not given it back yet... :(
Okay, so "2:54" is arguably a cool band name. But it's really hard to add one of your gigs with Fantastical text parsing, you bastards.
Fahrenheit!? I'm not David sodding Cameron, you know.
@ahnlak To be fair, that actually works pretty well: https://t.co/cEOowLAnUq
@boagworld Solution: have your drugs delivered by DHL.
@shezza_t My guess would be that they don't opt existing people into new bollocks, at least, and you joined early enough to avoid.
@robot_tiger No idea. I just parked up to go for photo walk on way home because I didn’t fancy chances of getting out again before sunset!
Evening walk snappity: Hampton Road Cyclist http://t.co/BWQNKfiqL3
@robot_tiger Hope you got home in the end!
Sheesh. CCTV. "Do you know this single giant pixel? Police want to talk to it."
Also a little fountain action: http://t.co/dl9gl49vMS
@chrisbrogan You probably just got randomly sampled for "ham" to disguise their spam with.
@robot_tiger *sympathy*
@Bufty_Grifter I love a story with a happy ending.
2013
@ampertastic That would be the wedding list. #cynic
@waiyeehong I can’t help it if they reach all the way to Eastville now I’ve hit 40.
@waiyeehong 41 in January.
@Kavey Heh. Happy birthday, sweetie.
Last night I watched the Buffy episode "The Body" for the first time since 2001. Just as shocking and good as I remembered it.
RT @JamesManning4: Farage removes @thetimes from his Christmas card list http://t.co/xYqdpqIYdb
2012
@guriben Yrah.
Happy birthday, @kaveyf!
Wandering down to #bristolhalf. Hotwells Pine have a Running Strictly Forbidden sign in window, the wags. http://t.co/ronmE3ke
Race leaders. #bristolhalf http://t.co/JrABjNBk
@VeraR2010 Yup. ;)
Good luck, all you lovely #bristolhalf runners. And thanks for support, cheering people. It really helps, especially in the home stretch!
Nervous first-timer/ Standing in a queue of one/ The runner prepares #haiku #bristolhalf
I'm British, so I find it help to think of it less as a half-marathon, more as a 13-mile queue. #bristolhalf http://t.co/afqk03Ys
@VeraR2010 Thanks!
@VeraR2010 @benjohnbarnes Also: nice! Just saw about your run yesterday! :)
@ajjmcd Ta!
Done it! http://t.co/CM8xbAsl
@jukesie *waves*
Just posted a photo http://t.co/PmlGeRzo
Traditional post-run 'Tillos. #bristolhalf http://t.co/q7o8nAw5
@NoWireHangers That and it’s students-come-back day as well…
@bestform @Indiechops @andybeebristol @curtismark @julienbob @daycoder @benjohnbarnes @Thehappyfatgirl Thanks all :D
Now: Serious Bath Time.
@xabl @StJamesPT @KeithGough1 @r0bb1eh Thanks!
@r0bb1eh And well done, speedy! About an hour faster than me :D
@BenPark Pretty!
@VeraR2010 @chris_j_hughes I couldn't decide. I love hot baths. So I started hot and finished off cold. Who knows whether that'll work...
@Mouse_House Sexeh. Yes, as long as they'll fit your calves okay.
@r0bb1eh I was foolish enough not to. But I reckon the walk to work and back will probably do me good.
@Mouse_House Then I'd say that's an unqualified "yes".
@Mouse_House Ah. Well, in that case, my "yes" gets qualified again. To "yes, as long as *I* don't have to pay for them :D".
@Mouse_House I'd probably err on the side of "yes" anyway; it's the right time of year to buy something like that. See you through winter.
@r0bb1eh I seem to be a lot better at coping with the "day after" these days. My leisurely pace probably helps :D
The #bristolhalf went pretty well. I could have done without Inane Shouty Bloke With Airhorn dogging my heels for last 10 miles, mind.
Official time: 02:47:33. Making that, *just*, my fastest ever half marathon. Clearly losing weight is helping some... #bristolhalf
@Thehappyfatgirl Thank you. I feel pretty good, it's true :D
@KaveyF Thank you, sweetie. How's the birthday going? That burger looked awesome.
@Thehappyfatgirl Careful now, I was already blushing after just the thirteen miles and a hot bath :D
Hrm. I would quite like a beer, but all my local shops are either uphill or downhill. Bah. #sorecalves
@KaveyF You are quite a *long* way downhill. And I need to be up for work tomorrow.
Problem solved by @adamandevebristol :) http://t.co/MtuEUNpF
@derekarridge Ta. Am now following your shining example!
Ah. Adjacent customer turns out to be compere. It’s under-18’s open mic night at Adam & Eve. Thought those mics were set low!
@Bristol52 I have a single, mild blister. Which I will not show you. And I started with the #C25K. Do it!
Got to say, I’m really liking the Adam & Eve. Good crowd. I should get to my local more often. #hotwells #bristol
That was a great cover of “Come Together”, especially considering the performers’ total height is roughly equivalent to 1.5 Beatles’.
The cutest band EVAH just did Song 2. Aww. #openmic #adamandeve #bristol
Lasagne, salad, Dr. Who. #holytrinity
@juliavdw Thanks!
@chrismarquardt It uses the rotation EXIF if set, from what I’ve seen. Rotated on the back of the camera during playback?
@tsunimee @charleymarley @al86shaw Any reports on whether he enjoyed it more than watching X Factor?
2011
Well, that seems to work. #arduino #geek #video http://t.co/Y4AwMDqq
@guriben Not bad for a first try, I recon :)
@mistymaria Was he a graduate? :)
In That London.
2010
@nickcloke @JasonInNJ I'm not sure it's relevant whether they get their money from subscription or advertising clicks...
@nickcloke @JasonInNJ ...this stuff is still bloody hard to get right 100% of the time for years on end.
And there goes my electricity, _again_. Arse.
@nickcloke @jasoninnj Last time there was a significant outage at fastmail, they added on extra subscription days to compensate, IIRC.
@nickcloke @jasoninnj Indeed. And if you wanted to ensure absolute, 100% uptime, you'd be paying a lot more. Diminishing returns.
@nickcloke No, I've just looked after super-fault-tolerant servers (for the stock exchange) and have an idea how hard/expensive it is!
You know, it's tough to buy a new UPS when your power keeps dying. Think I'll have a (luckily non-electric) shower instead.
Hey, everyone in the world, would you mind just stopping what you're doing for about three months, so I can catch up? Ta.
@talkie_tim I think I did, too. Luckily my alarm is exclusively battery-powered.
Aha. #fastmail SMTP seems to be back up.
@benjohnbarnes Other way around! I have about a month's worth of stuff I want to produce for the world by next Monday...
@talkie_tim Instapaper is teh awesome of "read later" services. Can be configured to send its articles to Kindle at set intervals.
@talkie_tim Cool. Marco (Instapaper's creator) is still looking into improvements for latest Kindles, as he just got his, FWIR :)
@lauzajane Surely you could get that done in a day? Slacker.
@OpinionatedGeek Yeesh. Elephant? Ever had to claim? I found them painfully unhelpful.
Hmm. Is there a way of telling @grazedotcom that I simply don't like nuts, but I'm not allergic to them, I wonder?
@Hicksdesign You'll need an obligatory sandwich quiz at lunchtimes, too :)
@bertpalmer They do know who you are. You're on the passenger manifest. They compare all the records with the unidentified people.
@BudgetsAreSexy Isn't the main difference that at the end of *one* of these processes, you own a house?
Three different services have barfed with password error messages today. It seems to be coincidence, but it's worrying when that happens.
@RamonY1970 I'm having a restricted-calorie October. I think my unconscious rebelled when I went shopping earlier. *loosens belt*
@tsunimee Er. Not as far as I know. But I could be wrong. What do you think it means?
Hmm. Is fastmail dead?
@tsunimee Not in common use if it is. I only know "weft" as the line of yarn you'd throw from side to side across a loom when weaving.
@jtamboli Ta. At least I know I'm not alone. I'll keep an eye on http://status.fastmail.fm/ then!
@tsunimee Oh, okay, then yeah, I guess it could be a technical term borrowed from weaving. But it's not one that most people would know.
@JasonInNJ @jtamboli @robhoare To be fair to them, though, this is probably the first time in two years I've noticed fastmail go down.
@Markgatiss I read that tweet to myself in ROBERT PESTON'S VOICE! It was EXCITING!
@jorence Oooh, it lives. *poke* Yup, it's definitely 'im.
@bananza You keep them under the shotgun? No wonder they have holes in the toes.
@jorence Fatter, since my visit to Crete. And therefore about to enter a Month of Austerity *shivers*. 'part from that, fine. :)
@ajblum @JasonInNJ @jtamboli @robhoare http://status.fastmail.fm/ now updated -- they're investigating.
@nixxbox Well, I was just saying this is the first downtime in years. Gmail's been dead at least twice since the last fastmail outage I saw.
@ChazzMatt http://status.fastmail.fm/ <-- They know :)
May I also say how unusual it is for a service to have a separate, working status page that gets promptly updated during downtime. #fastmail
@ajblum Nah, they just have to find the cleaner who unplugged the server rack to get the vacuum cleaner going and retrain him.
@libbymiller Oooooh.
@twitttles Damn. I thought you were winking at me.
@jorence Sounds like some kind of rite.
@mhoulden I was just wondering that.
@tomboates Hah! You tweeted that just as I hit "send" on my error report email! Give me a second, I'll try it again.
@tomboates Looking more promising... (Although the product description is clipped off at the bottom: http://bit.ly/9vh1cY )
@tomboates Yay! All good; money went through, and website says I'm signed up for the FitnessClass. Thanks!
@RyanRomeike Definitely not just you. #mobileme passwords acting odd for me, too.
Hmm. #mobileme suddenly started whining that I've entered the wrong password, even though I've not typed it in this week. Works on web.
@RyanRomeike You should tell them to search Twitter for "MobileMe password" and see whether they think _everyone's_ telling fibs.
@RyanRomeike I just tried the same password three times in a row (copy/paste) and it worked the third time!
@djelibeybi_meg Happy birthday!
@indiaknight Well, it's fantastic publicity. Any feeling that it's being staged?
Trying to buy one of these new FitnessClass things from @runkeeper, but it's falling into a (cutely-designed) heap: http://bit.ly/cJwBu5
@arlinelyons I'll put that on the "to-do" list. Gah!
@jonnaro I wondered when that would come along. Damn. That's going to get obnoxious, isn't it?
@jonnaro Sorry, you're not allowed to reply to me until you type "@gothick is highly perceptive and handsome" three times.
@penelopeelse oh, bugger, have I missed it?
@penelopeelse Aha! I can record it on 4+1. *sets video*
Owwie. I haz just eated too much. *Flounders on sofa*
Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy *birthday* dear @kaveyf Happy birthday to you!
Mmm. Toast and loganberry jam. #brekkers
@GreatDismal It's the UK keyboard layout. An oddity programmers and Twitter users bump up against quite quickly after they buy a Mac. #hash
Doing some typesetting for a rapper. I'm going to drop a cap in his pars.
@bertpalmer The police trace your dentist -- ask someone, search your paperwork, call the local dentists, whatever.
@bertpalmer Then all the records are sent to the forensic team who are trying to figure out who's who.
RT @talkie_tim: "dental records" are small pieces of microfiche that dentists hide in your teeth. NI number, DOB, Credit card etc. #TrueFact
@kredits Naff off, spamface.
@talkie_tim "Dear Tim -- BOO!" was my first guess.
@justinsane98 Did that, and it was a bit rubbish. I think not being in US limits the content rather. And found pausing & volume troublesome.
@justinsane98 Might depend on the source. I found some video I couldn't pause and later resume from same place.
@justinsane98 I also found some where the video volume was fixed, but the remote wouldn't let me change system vol instead. Annoying!
@parryphernalia Walk to a masseuse! Worked great for me after the half :)
@grazedotcom Fabulous! Ta!
@nyssapod Fab, isn't it? I take photos of business cards so a couple of months down the line I can search for "carpenter" and the like.
@parryphernalia I'm not really qualified to advise. Not tried enough things after long runs to know what works.
@roundonefight I thought they were mythical?
Queues in Sainsbury's/ Cars older than their drivers/ The students return
@hayles *giggle*
RT @DrSamuelJohnson: This new Twitter does take the Form of a Dash'd-Board; seemingly a cartographick Compendium of aquamarine-tinted FOLLY
@tsunimee Except the banana has tons of stuff in it that's good for you, and is less likely to dump you into a post-sugar slump.
Right. Off for a jog.
2009
@marklesuk If I'm going to move, I may have to go cable. Would like better upstream speed than ADSL would prob. offer in this area.
Happy birthday to you/ Happy birthday to you/ Happy birthday dear @KaveyF/ Happy birthday to you!
@Narshada Well done, genius!
@Narshada now I know you're there I may pop along. Only been in the Bristol Apple Store twice, though; much closer to Western Computers…
@Narshada goodness! So, we waited years for one and now two are coming along at once? ;)
@Whatleydude well, was very glad I did it on my old N73… Goodbye, elderly, bug-ridden Vodafone firmware...
@Whatleydude ah. Because the customer is always wrong.
Hmm. Looks like my Internet has gone away. Demon #fail, I wonder?
@MrsPBoutique Think of it as an anniversary present.
@KaveyF Think they're averaging less than one failure a year for me, so the inertia factor is still quite strong.
@bexxi I think you have to take suspension of disbelief pretty damn far for either plot!
Anyway. Not like I don't have several hours of stuff I can do sans internet. "Tidy lounge" on my to-do list, for starters...
@shezza_t Yes, well, when I say "sans internet", clearly I still have rather an overabundance of it. But I'm going to take it as a hint :)
@hayles Do you do all of those at once?
@missmcq I was just thinking earlier on how much I love Billy Bragg. Was listening to The Busy Girl Buys Beauty.
Someone appears to have left a dead tree called the "Yellow Pages" on my doorstep. Have they not heard of the web?
Hmm. Probably shouldn't have chosen Casino Royale as my while-tidying film. Total bollocks, but still too gripping for me to finish tidying.
Right time for bed. Too many late nights already this week.
@bexxi Craig. Don't think I've ever survived to the end of the Sellers one.
2008
Anyone into interesting bite-size audio chunks of Apple history should check out the Macintosh Folklore Radio podcast http://is.gd/3lM5 :)
Inbox Zero! Yay!
Listening to Groove Salad streaming ambient and trying to catch up on my email
@rstein Oh, come on -- there's only three hours until October...
@boagworld Let me know if there is. Think I looked for one and failed to find it.
@Artoo_UK No! Just buy matching exercise balls to sit on! At least running in to each other will be funnier :-)
@jacintuk How about we go into business selling battery and CF card cases with bells inside them? :)