On This Day, 16 October
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@Glassworks18 @garethlpowell Sounds more like a @cstross number…
Why yes, it *does* smell just as amazing as you’d expect. #library #reservestock #books https://t.co/Ey0hU6BaU2
@chubbybannister Another in my series of "I forget Wordle exists until I see someone else do it" Wordle 484 4/6 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
@Glassworks18 @TheMcVariations Absolutely seconded. This and Echopraxia are among my favourites of "out there" SF that's probably too smart for me to be reading.
Sudden reference to the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo on a podcast and I find myself oddly transported back to Warwick Uni, where I must’ve first heard of them… memory is an odd thing.
@TheMcVariations @Glassworks18 Yes indeed. I liked it a lot but I’ve only read it once so far. Like Blindsight I think it’s going to take me a couple more reads to really appreciate it properly.
RT @yarden_shafir: My teenage brother’s coding teacher is telling them to keep variable names short - 1-2 characters, to make their code sh…
RT @MicroSFF: Once I was dead, it was curiously easy to accept it. "Where are you taking me?" I asked. Death extended a bony finger, pointi…
@MrWhoCapture @photography @iTheFelizer @JeriLile @JBrushertphoto1 @OutdoorPhotoMag @HaywainPhoto @Janas2110 @Lionsightphoto @GooglePixelFC @madebygoogle Clifton Suspension Bridge (with the Plough and a shooting star, if you look really closely 😀) https://t.co/GaStnJ9QQ7
Revisiting some old night shots. 1/2 (portrait) #bristol https://t.co/IYxhrUV9Wg
Revisiting some old night shots. 2/2 (landscape) #bristol https://t.co/yT41q0EinF
2021
Little blog post about this and another interesting old book I'm currently reading: https://t.co/nvBJz52bC6
2020
@ChristinaMcMc @alicej_t It's an odd one. Sometimes it seems like a terrible waste of time, other it seems very theraputic. There's not much making me laugh right now, but TikTok can manage it.
Portway pash. If you don't have a macro lens, pick a bloody enormous flower, that's what I say. https://t.co/z7gTaSoDfV
Ten minutes. https://t.co/Wq6LYaRtkg
2019
Some snaps from today’s wander with @Bingo_Little. https://t.co/jZW4hmWFT9
2018
RT @JimWatsonOttawa: Funny exchange at an apartment today while canvassing Me: knock Voter: thank God you're here Me: really? Why? Voter…
RT @AlexVarga_: @Georgie_Sull @OHayes1 @HighwaysEAST @BBCOxford Dash cam footage moments before it happened. Hope this is useful. https://t…
@ChuckWendig @SamSykesSwears @MykeCole I had to double-check to make sure this wasn’t a direct quote from Jim Morrison.
2017
Directors! Save millions in post-production by filming your apocalyptic disaster movie under today’s sky in Bristol. #toptip
Figurehead - https://t.co/iahKP1ESnL https://t.co/udzdQRh9gT
2016
@MarkTaylorFood I have no sense of scale here :D https://t.co/lF70nEBqDe
Teriyaki. https://t.co/MpQ8gDUABV
@cybermango IT'S A TRAP.
@hatsandbikes Couldn’t you just ask them not to stand so… Sorry. I’ll get my coat.
2015
Wessex bus driver cranes neck to face passengers, asks, “Am I going the right way?” #buslife
Passenger gets on 505 to Southmead Hospital. “Are you going to Southmead Hospital?” Driver turns to ask passengers. “Yes. You are.” #buslife
Opportunity missed, there. Think we could have conned him into taking us for a day trip to Weston. #buslife
Dukkah Eggs at @tradewind118. Tasty! http://t.co/O6gdiSy5Z7
RT @WordFactoryUK: Occultist dubbed “wickedest man in the world” 'due for reassessment as short-story writer': http://t.co/8tz7KCIkKT http:…
The Brewhouse "Ridiculous Burger". https://t.co/4ELdaOb2KC
That time of the night. https://t.co/UTMo0Wqvzg
2014
For someone who hates that newspaper, you sure spend a lot of time generating pageviews for them.
As a home worker, I miss the prettiness of my old #bristol commute. Today I “walked to work” via Brigstow Lounge. http://t.co/Pucg31rjnT
Privacy. http://t.co/gffyGOl4Sp
@ahnlak Oh yeah. My one regret is that I didn't decide until after breakfast, so I was too full for a croissant chaser :D
@sstarr Cool :D
RT @MrGreenGus: Great to see the People's Plant Collection project in Cumberlain Piazza is still going strong. Why not vote for them? http:…
Some commuters are luckier than others. #Bristol http://t.co/fSSS7v3LHt http://t.co/OFUENhCGMw
It's when Google send me marketing about the latest Take That album that I relax, because they clearly know *nothing* about me.
RT @mathowie: It's Been Far Too Long really is the theme of this Apple event, huh?
@marcoarment Fido: “Please make it stop.” http://t.co/NIiRYU8iiY
RT @Pinboard: Apple made something thinner! I wonder if their corportate cafeteria is allowed to cook any kind of pasta beyond angel hair
I've never bought an iPad. But now they're 18% thinner, I'm really tempted. Because it was the thickness that was putting me off. #maybenot
@robjmills Took about two and a half hours to install on my (elderly) Mac. And then I had to fix all the work stuff.
@robjmills Yeah, I know. But it's the weekend soon. Hang in there. (Plus, the font/rendering is worse, in my humble opinion.)
@robjmills Also: Why bother installing it on that old thing when you're going to buy a Retina Mac Pro Air tomorrow? :D
@AshleyEsqueda Was 8GB the max, or just what it ships with by defualt?
@AshleyEsqueda Although they're sadly not so self-upgradeable these days :(
2017: Apple and Gillette announce a razor whose blades are made of nine stacked iPad Ultra Airs.
@tapbot_paul You can still buy 500GB drives?
@_DavidSmith Yeah, but are we brave enough to buy the very first generation of something this new?
RT @TwitPic: It's with a heavy heart that we re-announce that Twitpic will be shutting down again. More details on our blog http://t.co/LCH…
Just downloaded my old TwitPic archive. Lots of nostalgia. Here's me with the first book I had an author credit in :D http://t.co/9hKQyqrATx
2013
Caduceus versus Asclepius http://t.co/92JOnatoqt
RT @OpinionatedGeek: Why does @Telegraph's 'Android: 10 hidden features' article have a picture of Ubuntu phones instead of Android? http:/…
A murky morning. Rolling with it: programming with the lights out and The National playing.
Now I've spent three hours working out exactly what the problem was, I now have enough info to find the answer easily on the web. #devwoes
2012
Temptations on the way to work... http://t.co/YdHqecpW
There’s a seriously high high tide today. Unless it’s not actually high tide. In which case… RUN! #bristol
A bag of spanners/ Emptied into a blender/ 506 bus sounds. #wessexconnect #haiku
RT @iBosNZ: I might, and this is just a preliminary estimate, be quite desperately sad: http://t.co/HFsQhGeB
RT @greenhaze: Are you KIDDING me Daily Mail? You do realise that Hilary Clinton is one of the most powerful ppl in the world? http://t. ...
@Mouse_House Yes. Sadly, I’m only going to get myself a room to use as an office and more light by moving further away :(
To sail beyond the sunset... http://t.co/2Tr7YrQl
RT @MarkSkinner_: Sigh, after a frustrating 'argument' with a couple of the Bristol Bath Cycle path, can someone clarify which side you ...
2011
@BlackDogDays Nope. Was just leaving Ely when you tweeted. Must have been my stunt double!
RT @rolldiggity: It's sad how Wile E. Coyote is remembered for his violence, and not for his brilliantly realistic paintings of tunnels.
@donmcallister My 3GS ran warm and died in three hours after iOS5 install. Manually killed all apps & rebooted and it's been fine since.
2010
RT @KaveyF The Jeff de Bruges bloke is HOT. Definitely chocolate unwrapped totty of the day. :) <-- Bad girl!
Using @ahnlak's PC. Which appears to have the keyboard from an IBM Selectric typewriter. *kachunk* *kachunk* *kachunk*
London special edition #commutergraphy http://yfrog.com/n5n4crj
@ratsass @matthew_roach He stands a good chance, though. FirstSniper are notoriously unreliable.
2009
@bexxi Awww!
@hayles Goodness, yes. Especially when it's only sunny during office hours :(
@hayles On the other hand, I seem to remember it going badly for Calvin and Hobbes.
@hayles A good rule of thumb in many situations, I find.
I do love the Boagworld podcast. I'm not that into web design, I just like hearing @marcus67 and Paul teasing each other.
Another Baristas public service http://twitpic.com/lpmu2
Today is "bring a teddy bear to work" day, apparently. I know mine's not technically a bear, but he is cute. http://twitpic.com/lpni0
@bertpalmer It's part of our fundraising for a neonatal care unit http://bit.ly/1yfhve http://bit.ly/2FBGWc
@bertpalmer plus, it's silly. And that's all the reason I need.
Just had lovely meal at Thai Edge. Heading home for kip.
God, how I hate doing anything at all with Oracle client software. It's always so tragically *hard*.
Hmm. Wish Radioshift wasn't quite so pricey.
Glad I brought a teddy in today. Everyone needs a hug when trying to get Oracle ODBC drivers to work. *sigh*
After four hours, have succeeded in copying a table from one DB to another. Considering just typing all the data in again for the next one.
@mhoulden The data transfer took about a millisecond. It was getting the Oracle ODBC driver working with SSIS that took 4 hours...
@mhoulden Also have three different Oracle clients and have three different versions of SQL Server. Not confused at all.
Going to Thai Edge tonight. Yum!
2008
@WilHarris what, all of them?
@bobbyllew I was at Glastonbury the year they accidentally turned one of those poo-sucker trucks to "blow". Beware!
Ill. Taking day off work. Doubt I'll be well enough for Greek lesson tonight. Bugger.
Gah. Just sent "sorry, I won't be coming to the lesson today" email to my Greek teacher (in Greek.) Took half an hour.
Heh. "Microsoft announces 20 editions of Windows 7" http://tinyurl.com/4qox2t
Time for lemsip and a bath. Then I might feel good enough to go buy some lunch. Should have prepared for sick day last night!
Enjoying @russelldavies' thoughts on urban spam: "living in Bladerunner brought to you by Cillit Bang would be horrible" http://is.gd/471l
@boagworld Curse you for putting cheese & chutney in my head just before lunch. Maybe sore throat will still put me off the calories...
Finally have the energy to drag myself up the hill to eat. May also buy chicken soup for dinner.
Anyone else having problems accessing audible.co.uk? Site seems almost there, but not quite.
@DaveHamilton In some areas, they're better investments than high-interest savings accounts :(
http://twitpic.com/gi0r - Somerfield are selling "Perfect for Christmas" cupcakes at 50% off. Because the best-before date is _today_.
@JockotheRocks Feeling very random today. Often do when I'm ill. I'm quite scattered at the best of times...
@hackery all computer costs are higher in Ireland because of the extra work needed to escape the apostrophes in the surnames.
Upgraded Mediawiki and Wordpress to latest versions. Good day for low-energy chores that involve lots of tea-break (ftp-ing) time.
@johnfbraun Alpha? You're saying @RandomMaccess is highly unstable and should only be released to a limited audience?
Just realised that an HTML table was the appropriate design solution for my problem. So used to avoiding them I'd forgotten they existed!
2007
@ floyduk She probably can't relax for all the stressed adults wandering around... (okay, I'll shut up now... )