On This Day, 7 October
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RT @RDRv3: iOS: yes we will automatically update the apps on your iPhone the app store, every time I bother to check it: you have 93 updat…
@danieldurrans It it possible that magpies are being reincarnated in silicon-based life forms now?
2021
Evening paddleboarder #bristol @supbristol https://t.co/v4ColnIb6T
@bexxi @supbristol Thanks!
2020
2019
@UrsulaWJ One of my favourite things about Amsterdam was the street cleaners using proper old-fashioned besoms. https://t.co/tyMLlKpapq
2018
It says a lot about humanity that our solution for “shorts don’t have pockets” is cellular-data-enabled smart watches.
Nigel would’ve organised a Christmas jail-break dressed as a pantomime cow by now. #thearchers
2017
This cross-section through a garlic bulb seems to be a mild trypophobia trigger for me... https://t.co/NoR51F5Bup https://t.co/YTDHqKj26k
I won £100 doing a survey for Adobe, and I figured this would probably be better for me than a new Harmony remote. https://t.co/5zU9rgtFnN
@talithahg Sorry!
RT @BeardyHowse: This is good, No 23 Leinster Gardens, front and back, from https://t.co/kW5dbXGRLp https://t.co/JNvUJDbXFQ
@Shonette Hah! You went with the dirndl! Well done :D
2016
@siracusa Lightroom tip for finding sensor dust: Develop->Spot healing tool->”Visualize Spots”. https://t.co/3BHegK1qQs
Bonds. https://t.co/4Av5XKT9VB
2015
Digital Heirlooms and Slow Interactions http://t.co/nRhMjMwZhq
@Pyrobrainiac Given that I just got the same mail and I've never ever used @RedFunnel, I'm guessing it's just someone phishing, not a hack.
PROTIP: Anchor your images by putting a bloody great anchor in your images. http://t.co/l9JPaLjaZa
@ChuckWendig That’s significantly more terrifying than the original.
Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Time of the Assassins is my new favourite tune. Okay, I’m five years behind the times, but that’s pretty new for me.
@benjohnbarnes Ah! No, this beast came with Windows 10. Last Windows box I owned was Windows XP, so I've skipped a lot of pain, I think...
RT @anandamide: GETTING PEOPLE TO DO THIS IS LITERALLY THE WHOLE POINT OF THE CHARGE YOU LOBOTOMISED SHITLARKS http://t.co/4LtEwT7Jat
2014
@benjjwilliams @melindiscott The Co-Op was out of Frank Coopers. This is *emergency* fair-trade, hand-knitted marmalade.
Being your own photographer's assistant. http://t.co/8jLaEpvvhg
Right. Photo session done. Furniture is surprisingly hard to take pictures of. http://t.co/Yk1dWpAiKF
@foxc Family heirloom :)
@benjohnbarnes Yeah, it's partly that, not helped by the fact the stuff is heavy and awkward to move around.
RT @BBCEngland: A Halfords lorry with the slogan "we fit" is stuck under a bridge in south-east London. http://t.co/2NajPepEXK http://t.co/…
@benjohnbarnes Unneeded alpha? What do you want to replace it with?
(But, probably, "pngcrush -c 2 <file>". pngcrush is available in Homebrew, or is packaged inside ImageOptim, which is a handy tool to have.)
@benjohnbarnes Looks like pngcrush would do the trick then.
@benjohnbarnes (What's the source of these images, by the way? Is it me? Because I often just leave alpha boxes ticked out of habit...)
RT @HeardinLondon: You say "tomato" & I say "tomato", you say "potato" & I say "potato", you say "webinar" & I say "I'm sorry, it's over, …
Something's brewing. #bristol http://t.co/mnJd0iloKf
Not sure I'd want my boat's name to be an anagram of the word "sink". http://t.co/lOaTbRhBqK
Baristas. http://t.co/BM93FBq3qQ
@Antimitch Sorry, in town now for an appointment!
@Antimitch I usually pay these days. But I do have an everlasting season ticket somewhere. Swapped for some photography work a while back.
@Antimitch Yeah. I miss it, as a commute.
Sydney Row. http://t.co/s98w7K8PIA
C Bond at sundown. http://t.co/kPZdfagCUr
Overflow. https://t.co/v43VIQkToE
@Antimitch Sadly I've only been on a few times this year. Yeah, it's the ultimate in friendly public transport, basically. And no traffic!
One day I'll learn to clear the old photos off my card before shooting more photos. One day.
Anyway. Also shot a roll full of film today, which doesn't suffer from that problem. No idea if I can still shoot film or not. We'll see...
Snappity snap: Waxing gibbous. http://t.co/clqpiqnXdA
@mousedogbaby Have you been outside in the last hour or so? It's HUGE.
@Bristolvor Sadly, its a bit hazy out there. And I don't have a telescope. But it was still worth a go.
Ah, red wine.
@Bristolvor I'd love to be able to do better, though. I wonder how much an actual telescope with a Canon mount costs?
@HollowayGossip @missmcq Pretty big over here, too. http://t.co/uPGv2EeMjl
The time of the Great Defrosting is upon me. Thus I am having fish finger sandwiches (and Shiraz) for dinner. #classy
@boagworld *Sympathy* Presumably it won't be too long before you're back home?
@bexxi Mmmmmmpizza. Don't know much about Corbières, though. I try to get into wine, but my memory for what I've tried is awful.
@bexxi (Though I can currently tell you that if you spot a bottle of this stuff anywhere, it's *lush*: http://t.co/jh6cYjKHxS )
@bexxi Nah. I just have a little man in a nice wine shop who has a better memory for what I like than I do :D
@netflixuk Where the hell did the "recently watched" section in the Apple TV app go?
Mitchell & Webb—The Apprentice. https://t.co/YwvenPpCSe
2013
RT @theheliocentric: Who could possibly resist http://t.co/HfMRJd5prU
@hayles Oh yeah. It’s like that spooky-yet-sometimes-helpful Google Now thing on Android. http://t.co/wkO3Lq5uvb
@derekarridge Nope.
"Millennium", damn it. Two "n"s.
Morning all.
I don't have to go to work this week. It's ace. I mean, I have to *work*, I just don't have to go somewhere to do it.
I might still be in my dressing gown, drinking coffee.
@Kavey @kitt3n This "not having been to the Lido" problem we share must be addressed the next time you're up here...
@benjohnbarnes @AthanSpod Ah. I use "the inevitability of my own failure" to avoid issues like that.
@kitt3n @Kavey I would definitely check out @lovelytart1. http://t.co/PBIcoi9mmo
So, what am I going to do with my new-found freedom today… http://t.co/N9Nmzdeh1O
Oh! @ClearlyAM is a *person*? Called Anne-Marie? I'd always assumed they were a radio station.
@Bristol52 Here y'go, then. http://t.co/8iZN6M3FGh #bloons
Ouch. Hadn't opened the Evening Post site on a normal computer for a while. Advertising popunders? *wipes sleaze off self* *closes windows*
Think that one will be joining a certain national daily on the OpenDNS block list.
@wood5y No, I generally don't. I just avoid sites with offensively awful adverts.
@wood5y I find the sleaziness level of the advertising on a site a useful gauge of its likely integrity.
@wood5y The Evening Post is now ranking somewhere in between a porn site run by the mafia and the Daily Mail.
@wood5y Oh yes, my rating there was definitely in descending order.
@benjohnbarnes @njj4 Government computers were paid for by hard-working taxpayers, you know. Can't waste CPU stripping spaces for proles.
@adamgasson Yeah, basically: sleazy.
@ratsass @wood5y Thing is, they *really* bothered crowbarring awful adverts into it that aren't on the mobile site. Odd.
RT @BabsBat: Today I have to buy stamps & post something just like our ancestors the dinosaurs.
S'pose I should get dressed. Maybe one more coffee. #dayoff
That sound? That was my respect for Android doubling after I read the constants defined in SensorManager :D http://t.co/mynLsLcuDh
@guriben So am I. Which is just as well, given that I’m using OpenGL ES 2… PS: particles! Under gravity! ;) http://t.co/xBrfHfl7S0
@guriben No, never felt the need to even investigate stuff like that.
@guriben Think I might wait until it gets cold before I start shopping for coats.
@jheftmann You realise you posted that on Google+, right?
Device. http://t.co/jT0HBeZZy9
@psidnell This thing. http://t.co/6rKsSKvdar It sounds AWFUL.
Maplin's "Crazy Music Generator" kit. "Crazy", I'll give them. "Music", I'm not so sure. http://t.co/cVr5hBsy7l @guriben
My soldering skills don't seem to have completely atrophied. (Thank you, Mr Moorshead, my GCSE electronics teacher.) http://t.co/v0VIWdoPpI
Mr Moorshead proposed the "Gibson Gate": Apply 2 volts. A week later, 1 volt comes out with an excuse why the other 1 isn't there yet.
I think he *may* have been commenting on my devotion to GCSE homework.
@guriben Big pad. That's the pins for the terminal block to connect the speaker.
@guriben I did a lot of practice when I was younger. Toughest thing I ever put together was a Velleman LCD oscilloscope. (Still works!)
Oooh. Shiny new @capoapp version 3, with automatic chord detection. http://t.co/U6nbA3dZzf
Actually, while I’ve got the gear out, I might just upgrade the speakers in the bathroom amp… http://t.co/yzpmge7eq0
Might be time to start in on the next part of my day off... http://t.co/FfpWuyctzz
@ahnlak Jeez. I really should have been up into your attic before, shouldn’t I?
@liveindetail I have considered these scary possibilities and signed up anyway. Go on. Worst case, you lose some money.
@liveindetail Oh, okay, new worst-case scenario: your credit card details are stolen and you end your life in a cardboard box.
Damn, this wine is nice.
2012
Plantain breakfast. http://t.co/7xdXqkJo
@Bristolvor Cinnamon. Will try nutmeg next time!
RT @TechnicallyRon: GLASTONBURY LINE UP ANNOUNCED: http://t.co/xXpPZLhn
Gah. Gardiner Haskins have those sodding annoying advertising TVs blaring away through their paint section. Might have to be B&Q next time.
@hatsandbikes Someone gave me their last Rolo recently. This made me very happy.
I am grumpy today, Twitter. Grumpity grump grump grump.
@Bristolvor Yup. Well, I need to paint it and then choose a nice complementary colour for a splashback. But all the big work's done.
@Bristolvor Sadly, this great reason to be cheerful doesn't appear to be making me cheerful.
@sidewalkfinds I'd quite like to see a war between the spelling police and the photography police.
Just spotted the huge spider web built across the steps to my flat while I was out in time to avoid becoming spider-food. #thatwasclose
@claireellent Ah. I strongly suggest that you don't follow the link to the Flickr picture that I'm about to post.
Arachnophobes, look away now.
Here's the industrious little fella: http://t.co/JsH9N1WM
Roight. Might be time to start preparing fish and (yam) chips.
@hayles Huh?
@hayles I'm not sure that will go so well with cod. Maybe I'll hold some back and candy them later on...
@hayles It has marshmallows in it! How can it not be pudding? #freakyfood
@hayles Ah. Yes, that explains everything.
@mhoulden Mine's a draughty old Georgian terrace, and I'm *in* the basement...
@mhoulden Though anything that's trying to eat the sodding mosquitos that are still plaguing the area is fine by me. *strokes spider*.
Randomly throwing stuff on a fish. *crosses fingers* http://t.co/b8Fa4s2F
@wood5y Oh, yes, I remember seeing that. Wasn't there a show with some video footage, too?
@FluffyMFC I am guessing and crossing my fingers a bit on the timing. Ah well, gotta experiment...
I'd call that a success. Hurrah! Thanks for the yam, Emm :) http://t.co/D0dGUwhn
RT @simon_tabor: oh shiiiiiiiit. RT “@henrycole: Uh oh. Orange UK have been hacked. http://t.co/uWOOspaK”
@MsMottram No, but I've told him he'll have to go unless he eats *all* the mosquitos.
2011
@Mouse_House This is a morning wake-up happy message for Mouse. Stretch, take a deep breath, and pound the day cheerfully into submission.
@Mouse_House That is a perfectly fine alternative, Mouse.
@Mouse_House Poor Mouse.
@bristolblogs If I say I'm a blogger, will I have to write blog posts more often? :) #lazymatt
@BlackDogDays Well, I've heard of Danny Baker. But apart from that, no.
@GreatGeorgeWMB I think you should probably stick to renting your profile out to statisticians as a bell curve template.
It's nearly 1pm. And I have accomplished bugger-all today. Sigh.
@Whatleydude Who's Karl Lagerfeld? Is this another attempt to convince me that I must be a girl if I drink Diet Coke?
@TippyTLawton @OpinionatedGeek I like you guys. Your standards are about the right height for me.
Ruthlessly deleting old one- and two-star rated photos from my Lightroom catalogue. #clearout
RT @TalesFromShop: 'Do you sell sandwiches?' Only if they were made before 1989! <-- Still doing better than First Great Western, then...
Yes. Yes, that's exactly how I remember the pub looking by the end of the night. #bristolflickrmeet @DrHairbear http://t.co/9M7zw6uq
@qikipedia Really intimidating Foreign Legion Army Ant Instructors?
RT @hayles: "Your parcel has been left in a safe place on the property" Safe from what, HDNL, sea monsters? http://t.co/5eVuUUBd
@rabidbee You should probably go claim ownership on any that I've thrown up in my photostream, too.
@rabidbee Though whether you can morally claim ownership of photos taken with my camera does bring recent case to mind. http://t.co/nX5CPu2J
RT @BrianCathcart: The ordeal of Christopher Jefferies. Exclusive, in-depth interview with the Bristol man vilified in the press. http:/ ...
@BlackDogDays Not noticed, but then I usually walk obliviously past friends in the street, let alone strangers!
Snappity: My gee-tar. http://t.co/3gMr5dx5
2010
@CasJam Oooh. Away from the Mac at the mo. Erm. Alt+Return?
@jacrats I suspect a conspiracy by tailors brought up on Carry On films. Suggest you never buy a bra from same shop.
@jbrownridge I missed the signs when the water people dug up my road. Found my car re-parked neatly just around the corner!
@benjohnbarnes They did that for the dialogue in the last episode of _Twin Peaks_, from what I remember...
@DrHairbear @archidave "Goodness. That was the _last_ place one expected to see a carbuncle."
Heading to work. http://yfrog.com/hq7xdnj
@Stephanie_Gunn You can borrow mine if you want. I don't appear to be using it this month.
@paulahillier Happy birthday, you!
@RellyAB Hear-bloody-hear. Which is why I found the 3G Kindle a refreshing change, annoying though the browsing experience is.
@majicDave What more do you need? :)
@hayles I don't know. It's as if a million voices were suddenly silenced... For about 17 minutes. Odd. #twiccup
So far today I've had six identical marketing emails about the new Apple TV. Bloody repeats.
I sense a disturbance in the tworce.
So far today I've had six identical marketing emails about the new Apple TV. Bloody repeats.
@floyduk They've Bern sending me a PAYE pack for six years now. *sigh*
@Ihnatko Also, the Apple TV probably won't go through your sock drawer while you're out.
2009
@hayles Hey, I was drinking _decaf coffee_. Surely that proves my motivation is mostly social :)
Gah. Cold feet. Note to self: running shoes not the best idea for walking in cold rain.
@collectivenouns will check it out. But on reflection, I think a "ripple" of rowers is better :)
RT @librarythingtim: If you're familiar with Etsy, check out http://bit.ly/Go09B
Just met @hayles. Cool!
@hayles Wandering. Look for big bald damp guy.
@hayles -y
@hayles aww. Am in waitrose. Could wander back?
Blegh. Making my way home through the drizzling gloaming.
Ooh. Snow Leopard PHP includes GD library. At last!
@benjohnbarnes Might be! I didn't try decoding it :). If it was me, I'd've made it a UPC code for Wrigley's gum - first barcoded thing sold!
The ferry passengers' language subcommittee has just decided that the collective noun for morning rowers is a "splash".
(I wrote the barcode article for Defining Moments in Science http://bit.ly/2ywDoC , so I didn't have to use the web to look that up!)
Google have a barcode as their graphic today. If you were wondering, the first patent for a barcode was granted on Oct 7, 1952
2008
Arranging a photoshoot for a band on Sunday. Rock and roll!
Having a chilled evening followed by an early night. The rest of the week is going to be manic.
Radio 4: "European governments are becoming very good at rescuing failing banks. Unfortunately, that's like being a good undertaker..."