On This Day, 26 February
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Bill found the ducks' lack of work ethic highly irksome. #bristol https://t.co/NSH1YizJpL
Decluttering. Finding odd things in the lower layers. #blakes7 https://t.co/srujNnJp4O
2021
RT @dramcgarry: My partner made a wall of books for me. It was a labour of love. Everyday for last few months Ive been at this desk writing…
Memories of Time Team as I pass someone using ground-penetrating radar to survey around the sinkhole in Canynge Square. Shame I can't tune in after the break to find out the results. https://t.co/nXofmysQy0
From above. https://t.co/moDyi4aM6h
RT @Avon_Stories: This light!! https://t.co/eJKSF8b3wP
@griffinkate Don’t tell anyone, bit it’s short for Rumpelstiltsquin.
2020
2019
RT @xkcdComic: .NORM Normal File Format https://t.co/qzafJMABJn https://t.co/JbM8uoTUlc https://t.co/N6psiMYkdP
RT @internetofshit: "the sneaker can’t be tightened or properly worn" because there's a bug in an update what a time to be alive https:…
Golden hour at Ashton Court. #bristol https://t.co/cJQsykZnv0
2018
2017
@daraobriain Of course, then there's the lurking fear that this may already have happened, and nobody told *us*.
RT @sbstryker: These 13 seconds of girls getting a rat out of the house have: — Character Development — Major Plot Twist — Pass Bechdel Tes…
I’m will Gill on Citizen Kane. Reminded me I’ve never seen The Third Man, though… #thearchers
@wonderbarn I’ll pop it on the list.
The panicky moment you come out of your #thearchers trance and dash around the house turning off Desert Island Discs. #verybritishproblems
RT @colleenhagerty: A full bottle of wine just rolled out from under a subway seat and now these 2 strangers popped it open & are drinking…
@EffBeeee I think that’s six more than I’ve managed.
@imyke When will you be watching Terminator 2? Hearing you talk about the original really made me want to re-watch T2 myself! #askupgrade
@beccamagnus Good old fashioned cough drops that taste of cinnamon & cloves. Friend of mine found some in vintage sweet shop recently. Ace.
@beccamagnus Not entirely sure. It was these, if that helps? https://t.co/k29s3by6V8
2016
@antichrista Yes, but only by spending far more of your time on list-writing and double-checking than you use by just going to the store.
Welcome to Clifton Village, whose aura of Georgian quaintness is so strong it repels all mobile phone data signals.
📷 Well played, Roo Bar. https://t.co/IUT5BqLNPm
RT @Longshanks1307: Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords seems increasingly appealing as a basis for a system of government.
@AshleyEsqueda I’m thinking there can’t be many opportunities in life to spontaneously buy a golden octopus. Go for it.
RT @ismh: Checking my to-do list after lunch on a Friday. https://t.co/H0nIhbiIYU
A 1902 rollercoaster versus one from a century further on. Progress, via @_FutilityCloset https://t.co/pitNCuBEO1
@dangusset !? Do they? *Posts test photo* https://t.co/hyZSGz8zrf
@dangusset Your original seemed to have an actual Vine attached as well as a picture?
@dangusset So it wasn’t your video? Because there was the same one on the same *hashtag* from someone else.
@dangusset Mystery solved. And the explanation was not paranormal. I feel just like Scully.
2015
Bridge. https://t.co/k9pEK36YhV
2014
Email: “Last chance to join our free webinar and help boost your brand recognition”. Gosh, last chance? Really? I’ll get right on that.
Virtute et Industria #bristol http://t.co/PdJHMF3oPs
RT @rbrwr: @gothick I love the fierceness of those unicorns http://t.co/wCAJZziW7Y
@Dru_Marland Farmers’ market deffo on.
Sourdough cafe brunch. Win. http://t.co/jBIxvlWnPx
RT @joeldev: “Programming language based on the one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger.” https://t.co/1zG5Ip9qyT http://t.co/8s93O001En
@Dru_Marland Cool. I have a hunk of nice tuna and some very fresh bread ;)
@Bristol52 Is that the one near the Gromit?
@CHLOEJASMINEW I get that a lot :D
@rem http://t.co/kEafIo9sbc <-- There's *always* a way in zsh.
@seb_ly This week’s version or next week’s? #shiftingsands
@6sync It seemed to wake back up after an hour or so. Not sure what was going on in the meantime, but it's working now, thanks.
@_pigeons_ Still up for tomorrow? Got somewhere in mind? I'm enjoying coming south of the river at the mo...
Alrighty. http://t.co/sq7xfndbWD
RT @petapixel: Lice expert says selfies are causing a big increase in lice among teens: http://t.co/LU7JS9Ozyx
2013
@toodledo Hi! Is there a way of stopping this popping up so often? Also: “information” is spelled wrong. Ta! http://t.co/wPD7XkVIgJ
My car is shiny and clean for the first time in... Well, it's probably counted in years. Car Wash place up on Gloucester Road did great job.
@amahnke Are you sure she just hasn't secretly learned Mandarin?
@Dru_Marland I am so glad there is other music playing in here to avoid t'earworm.
@ahnlak Mine too, but my car's *still* done fewer than 50,000 miles, so it's a long time between services!
@ahnlak (Also, I had the works done. Even the tyres are shiny, and the interior is in a state of glossy shock.)
@jukesie Which is a great advert for itself. I only took it in on the grounds that they must do a good job to be that full all the time.
@Copy_Katie Strategically, I wonder if it would be better to take as many as you can and then throw them away...
@Copy_Katie ...but that probably boosts the circulation figures.
A Nissan Almera “Hurricane”? Seems about as incongruous as the Black Ops Assassin edition of My Little Pony.
RT @shezza_t: Yes I did buy purely on label #fb http://t.co/AtHMlOW1uT
@teacherdude All that money, and the lamp isn't high enough to read a book by...
2012
@chris_j_hughes Possibly, but I'd done a full, apparently-successful sync before leaving the house, and this was half an hour later.
@chris_j_hughes I've never seen that state before, and I'd have thought an unsuccessful sync wouldn't have left it like that?
@chris_j_hughes Anyway. I have now done a "Restore", and it's happier. Though I don't know how to get my music back on the phone...
@chris_j_hughes ...rather than it all being "iCloudy". Which is fine until you get on a plane.
@KaveyF Some people just get tired of the spamming and idiots, and prefer to interact in other ways.
@KaveyF Maybe those people just got more. All it takes is one persistent troll to put people off.
@KaveyF Those are the ones of my blogs where I've got commenting turned off. The spammers still find them, so all I was getting was spam.
@KaveyF Also, depends why you're blogging, I guess. Some of my blogs are notes-to-self-that-might-be-helpful-for-others...
@KaveyF Maybe they hate innocuous comments :)
@KaveyF So, how many spam comments do you get in a month, say?
@ahnlak @KaveyF Yes, it's called "deliberate linkbait." Try a "Bearded CAMRA Tossers Know Nothing About Real Beer" article, and see it goes.
@KaveyF @goodshoeday Akismet is pretty good. Hang on a mo.
@KaveyF @goodshoeday Here, this should give an indication. https://t.co/IWLnecgU
@KaveyF @goodshoeday Yes. Which is why even a 99.97% accuracy rate still sometimes gets me annoyed.
@KaveyF @goodshoeday My site got 4,923 real visits that month, if it helps for comparison.
@KaveyF @goodshoeday @ahnlak There are CAPTCHA comment-guard plugins for WP, too. But I try to avoid CAPTCHA where I can.
@KaveyF @goodshoeday It may simply depend on whether the spambots find you. Luck/chance/links/keyword targetting/whatever.
@ahnlak @KaveyF @goodshoeday That's why I use on the Get Running forums for registration, and it's worked well so far. #touchwood
@KaveyF @goodshoeday Or I've just been blogging for too long :D
@ahnlak @KaveyF @goodshoeday Which I'd pay, because it kicks ass. But GR is forum, not blog, and we require registration + valid email...
@ahnlak @KaveyF @goodshoeday ...which reduces the problem quite a lot.
Right. I am off for a nice, short, flat jog in the sunshine. Will make a pleasant change.
Hello pretty bridge. http://t.co/4VmN6NSi
@rabidbee Oh! Yeah. I'd noticed that was coming up, then promptly forgot.
@andybeebristol @Lillput Sounds good to me.
@PrisRosen That's fab!
You know, I think it might be lunchtime.
Waiting for breakfast :) http://t.co/whLbJ1sh
@Phooto Cool! Hope you like them. And glad to hear I wasn't imagining Adidas's odd sizing.
RT @tomroyal: Glad that's done. Like being trapped in an airline overhead locker while someone plays the first bars of Placebo's Nancy B ...
(That last RT being the best description of an MRI scan I've ever heard :) )
@ahcstevens I believe @Phooto is planning on running up and down a touchline :)
@rabidbee It's just possible that you need to get more kip. Unless it was _Moneybox Live_.
@ShabbyBean If I were a king, I'd have the fool who forgot to buy milk executed.
@ShabbyBean Crunchy dry oddball.
@MrJonnyJones Oooh, are they talking about Saab? I might turn the telly on, then.
@danielpunkass @SasmitoAdibowo Cool, thanks!
RT @jamiesmart: Hoping this'll be the year that Hudson Hawk FINALLY wins something at the Oscars.
2011
Wow. How did it get to be five past one? Seems like I've only just got up.
@SiDawson Heh. Normally I am a morning person. Just moving very, very slowly today...
@SiDawson Good point *fetches water*.
Back from my last weekend jog before the Bath Half Marathon :) I'm running for the RNLI: http://bit.ly/mattbathhalf #getrunning
Adding Open Graph stuff and a "Like" button here and there... *tinkers*
@daraobriain Now, don't be giving him any thoughts about going for the hat-trick.
@SethMacFarlane @CorporalKitty Yes, and anyone who thinks it does is an ydyot.
If you kill page after page of repetitive Facebook dating adverts, eventually they start turning really weird. http://twitpic.com/444bns
2010
Where do my UK photographer friends buy their (new) lenses, web-wise?
@mhoulden Yup :) http://bit.ly/cn5DPW
Heh. Got the heatmapping working quite well on http://randombristol.gothick.org.uk/
@talkie_tim Don't know. Can't remember if my cluster map exeriment is still working - try http://bit.ly/9NToA8 ?
@Scriblit Except, presumably, that ninjas rarely phone in advance, as that kind of showing-off is frowned upon in stealth assassin circles.
@rhodri I wonder if domainillneverfuckinguse.com is available?
@Swishrelic That's "emanating", you know... *ducks*
@Scriblit That is probably one of the shortest unique sentences in the history of English. #uniquesentence
@KaveyF Cool. Thinking of checking it out in Jacobs, then ordering from them online -- have £50 off at the moment, I think only online *grr*
@Swishrelic Heh. Sorry, mum was a proof-reader. Think it's genetic!
Plus, any reason I shouldn't go for the Canon EF-S 17-55 2.8 IS? Keep hearing good things about it, and have no plans to go full-frame.
@Phooto ta!
@Scriblit Yup! When I redesign uniquesentence.com (the first active site I ever put together!) it'll be Twitter-aware!
@ahnlak Cool, ta! Re:lens, it's either that or the 24-70 2.8L. But: ow! My wallet!
If I see another bad progress bar today, I'll find the coder, beat 99% of them to a pulp very quickly, then spend an hour finishing the job.
@rabidbee oooh, nice one! They have a discount code for Jacobs, which was on my shortlist already. Bookmarked, ta.
@jemimakiss Works for me. Think I remember it being updated very recently - checked for updates?
2009
Right. Going off-line to get some tidying up done. Then a nap before heading off to see Emmy the Great at the Fleece.
In a cafe reading latest NME. Want to get home so I can listen to the Cure covers CD that came with it :)
@missmcq Am just about to spin it.
@jesselavery @ryancarson It's the "all @replies" setting on the Notices setting screen, if that helps.
@ryancarson Although I personally have it turned on, too, as most people don't send quite so many :S
Hmm. Lostprophets' version of Boys Don't Cry is pretty faithful cover. Not thrilling, but interesting.
Ugh. Think I'm going to fast-forward through Marmaduke Duke's Friday I'm In Love, though.
Oooh, British Sea Power's version of A Forest is stonking.
@talkie_tim Coming up next!
But frankly, for the £2.30 cover price, I'd rate the covers CD as highly worthwhile so far. And you get a free copy of the NME...
@talkie_tim Dandy Warhols nothing to write home about. Close To Me by Get Up Kids better, Futureheads' version of Lovecats even betterer.
Metronomy's Fascination Street not my cup of tea. Alkaline Trio's Cut Here really splendid. Don't worry, non-Cure fans, CD nearly over :)
@bobbyllew I understand organic polenta can be an excellent substitute, though.
Oooh, fantastic. A new Black Cab Session is out. Quick listen before I go to bed, then. http://www.blackcabsessions.com/
Tidying up slightly sidetracked by finding the record I bought at the weekend. Now listening to Going Underground on original 7" single.
Hmm. Might drive to the gig tonight. One of the benefits of not drinking.
Ooh, luck. Got parking space ten paces from Fleece front door. Which then opened.
@talkie_tim but then at month end / seven unexpected bills / financial winter
at some point, the act I came to see might be on...
Back from Emmy the Great. Not bad, but probably would've been better if I'd known the music in advance (most stuff with good lyrics is...)
@KaveyF Oooh, hello, dear! Come, join us, do not be afraid.
@sean_robbins Well, if I'd randomly liked a Durutti Column poster I'd seen in a coffee shop, I might have been there instead. Such is life.
@KaveyF Yes, it's normally all @chrismarquardt's fault.
@Pockless We can't have been very far from each other, then!
@Pockless Liked the lyrics enough to buy the album, but the gig didn't really gel. Wrong crowd, maybe, & maybe long tour has worn them down.