On This Day, 31 March
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I have just verified that it fits inside me though. Recommended, as of corse is the most excellent coffee. https://t.co/RPP7uSSgOB
@aajuk I’m afraid I’ve never eaten a pretzel in Bristol!
Guess the Adam & Eve's going to be flats, then... https://t.co/93V21xYmjR
2020
RT @danriversitv: This town ....ahah... is looking like a goat town 👻 https://t.co/BzAtjoj6aZ
@sql_williamd <Gregory House voice>It's never DNS.</Gregory House voice>
@dangusset Because it’s chenille and you need to plant your face in it to feel the softness. #ikeacushionbuddies
Current status: watching the first episode of Veronica Mars. @hayles
@hayles I got the starz thing so I could watch season 1. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
@hayles @VMIpod I have already subscribed! You’ll be shocked to know that Jenny has been cross-advertising on the @bufferingcast 😀
Oh, her dad's Elias from Person of Interest! This is going to be one of those series where I spend more time on IMDB than actually watching, isn't it?
@hayles Correct!
@talkie_tim Far more famous in this house for being Mathesar from Galaxy Quest.
@WeirdBristol I even spotted a Hotwells reference during my re-watch a couple of years back: https://t.co/efWRtP4Hvf
@hayles @talkie_tim It's 99p per month for the first three months, or it was back in February, anyway.
RT @floozyesq: i've doubted my own depression for years but after a couple weeks of seeing people churn out quirky quarantine content and h…
@nicalpi Oh yeah. And certain Peugeot brake lights, among other things. I was very pleased to find I wasn't alone.
RT @briscoepark: Photos taken at 5am https://t.co/0hmeN0j32g
RT @roundonefight: FINALLY I've received word from the company that gave me the finance for my sofa purchase 3 years ago about what they ar…
2019
RT @monadoboii: oh god oh fuck https://t.co/JmrilYLl3n
Oh man, why haven’t I seen In Bruges before? It’s like Withnail and I, but with hitmen.
@UrsulaWJ No, mine’s from Cinema Paradiso. Good enough that I might have to buy it, though.
2018
This cold I've come down with arrived pretty much in the same hour I started this long weekend of freedom from work. Bugger.
Something of an odd purchase in 2018, I’ll grant you, but nevertheless irresistible. #stationery #vintage https://t.co/HZeL4Z1e87 https://t.co/EF4630Dyuk
RT @c0mmunicants: I saw a bumper sticker that said “Make tea, not war”, and what a wild ride they are in for when they learn literally any…
@domwakeling I am actually quite stunned to find that there are services who'll convert graphics files into wax seal stamps. But so far I am resisting.
2017
RT @jasonrcombs: Each booth is an alternate reality. https://t.co/AosrzjFLOr
@bristol247 You make it sound like the traffic misery is going to end. Perhaps I'm a pessimist, but...
Friday afternoon diversion. #oldschool https://t.co/5rms9rgI2r
RT @SJCooke94: Well this has happened today... https://t.co/p1tPfGobif
RT @openculture: Hear the Prog-Rock Adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds: The 1978 Album That Sold 15 Million Copies Worldwide https…
@CarDesignNews @chrisphin I think it looks better in colour. https://t.co/fodMdFqtG5
Catching up on last night’s #richhousepoorhouse. Good show. Enjoying spotting people I know from local shops (@chandosdeli!)
2016
RT @AlasdairStuart: Odd research question; how much time, on average, would it take an industrial 3D printer to print a 1.5 foot long Roman…
Regent Street. https://t.co/HmYtyXwDWg
“Lovely. Now all it needs is a pint of frothed milk and some vanilla syrup. What?” https://t.co/j2rces14l8
@amahnke Well, it’s bloody huge, but I *think* you shuold be able to apply the latest Combo Update: https://t.co/7PiKlSD7bO …
@amahnke …even if you’re already on 10.11.4. But please don’t curse me if you spend ages installing it and it doesn’t fix things :)
@amahnke Yeah, there may be less enormous ways, but that’s the only “official” one that springs to mind. (Tried disabling Extensions?)
@amahnke @ZT01ZG Ugh. Gone through the normal troubleshooting stuff? https://t.co/EXDATTRJOl
Ironing and Cary Grant. Fairly standard Thursday night.
2015
2014
RT @downsy: I bet you’ve forgotten to put the central heating clock forward haven’t you …
RT @MikeIsaac: this is what you see when you go to http://t.co/bbrP8qxinW from the Firefox browser http://t.co/eWUQzppQLK
2013
On t'harbourside. http://t.co/GX5UEMLQyT
Swanage. https://t.co/TA4oDgsIzq
Trying to get over my man-flu by exposing it to fresh air. Oh. And beer.
@ahnlak Way ahead of you kid. http://t.co/MVHsWYrmD3
@ahnlak I’m mostly on the Spitfire, which is £1 is Sainsburys. But that have me enough savings for a Punk :)
A swan just spat in our salsa. This may be the ultimate #middleclassproblem
My view. http://t.co/9BhxD9u93D
@andybeebristol It’s a hard life, on the pontoon by the Arnolfini. Hard.
@Ninja_lynneja @Molewife *bows*
@Kavey I and Nestlé and Adidas and L’Oreal couldn’t agree more.
2012
Huzzah! Finally caught up on sleep, and woken up not feeling too bad. Now to gently laze until an evening of board games.
@tsunimee @ahnlak 1024/768 = 1.333. 297/210 = 1.414. To match 1024 pixels in A4 ratio you'd need 1024x724 (roughly.)
@tsunimee Erm. That says 768. Not 728 or 748.
@the3rdgirl That just sounds like the setup for an episode of Casualty. And I'm not *that* perverted.
@tsunimee Those ratios look pretty damn close to me. Is it the margins that are a problem? Can you turn them off/make them zero width?
@tsunimee There's your problem, mathematically. Taking 1cm off each edge actually changes the aspect ratio. Hang on.
@tsunimee A4, 210x297, with 1cm off each edge, is 190x277. Aspect = 0.686. So to match 1024, try 1024x702.
@tsunimee That's roughly right; 620/438 = 1.416. Probably a bit off from 1.414 simply because it's rounding to the nearest pixel.
@tsunimee For A4 with 1cm margins, yes.
@tsunimee *Sharpens knives meaningfully* *whistles innocently* Yes?
@tsunimee That'll be because, annoyingly, printer resolutions are normally in dots per inch (dpi) not metric.
@tsunimee It depends on the printer, but for a 300dpi (i.e. pretty good quality) printer, A3 (*without* margins) will be 3507x4960.
@tsunimee (Basically, take the size, in inches, of whatever you're printing, and multiply it by the printer dpi; 300dpi is decent guess.)
@jontangerine Oh, you mean *this* place? http://t.co/7W69G04n
@lizpscully It's hard, this rockstar lifestyle, but I do it as best I can.
@lizpscully My healthy green tea wasn't quite cutting it, in fact, so I am supplementing it a little :) http://t.co/jwDZLqJc
Rockstar lifestyle. http://t.co/5OxDzZF6
2011
@sizemore Amen.
@Caremur Are you in a sit-com?! I am both sympathetic and mildly sniggery :)
My initial reaction: "Well, it sounds like an amazing deal. But what would I *say* to them?" http://t.co/JYi9gLp
@hannahnicklin Even back when most shops took them, before debit cards existed, you usually needed a "cheque guarantee card" #amold
@hannahnicklin Also, everything was in black and white and all the shops closed on Thursdays.
Random Safari tip: want to quickly download the contents of a URL? Paste it straight into the "Downloads" window. #geek
@codepo8 Clearly they had a hard time snagging one of your used coffee cups to get the required DNA sample...
Twitter should just auto-ban anyone after 3 consecutive reply-tweets with the word "iPad" in them. We could live with the false positives.
@hayles GRRRRRRR.
@hayles As long as it's not like Candyman.
@hayles Ah, a bit before your time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candyman_(film)
@hayles To be fair, though, that means you were 5 when Beetlejuice came out. Not sure I'd show it to a five-year-old!
@guriben Well, it's not like I didn't implicitly warn you :)
.@petstourettes The Peak District was actually called the Trough District until 1967, when they hired Max Clifford to represent them.
@matthew_roach Couldn't it simply be down to parking fragmentation?
@csoanes "Five years, 30 million quid. It'll probably get lower once you start scoping things."
@nickdonnelly Windows 8? Goodness. I've still not used anything later than XP yet. Really must try to catch up a bit.
Just had odd Kindle experience: read two pages of a Bill Bryson book while under the impression it was a Lovecraft novel. #totalmoodchange
I think I shall refer to the feeling as an "out-of-book experience."
@nickdonnelly I am, in fact, just about to install it :)
@nickdonnelly (Sadly only at home, for fun. Work will still be on XP for ages. I was only moved from *IE6* last week -- and by accident!)
Installing Windows 7, mostly just to see what it's like. I've never used anything later than XP before.
@hayles I've heard good things about 7, from from people whom I consider mostly sane.
Also watching last night's _Masterchef_. I'm really starting to root for Tim, in fact.
@hayles See! Good things! From a mostly sane person. Ish.
@hayles Although I take your point. Still haven't watched _Revenge of the Sith_ despite being assured it's the least bad new Star Wars film.
@hayles Bad analogy, then. Oh well.
@hayles YES DEAR.
@Swishrelic No. I don't think I have ever so much as pressed a single key on a Vista machine.
@Lillput You're a bad person.
@Lillput I have yet to experience tellytubby land.
@richardjfoster I'll bear that in mind. Won't have 64-bit issues, though, am installing on a first-generation MacBook!
@talkie_tim Erm. I can't think of anything I'd want to do with it that would involve DRM...
@talkie_tim Well, I'll bear it in mind. But really, just planning on getting familiar with the thing for work, really. No media involved.
This feels a bit wrong. http://t.co/BXnUYmO
@hayles Probably wise.
@Squonk Nah. I have a VM specifically for IE testing, but this is boot camp. Sometimes you need a real machine, sadly.
@Squonk ...mostly for annoying devices which only have Windows-based firmware update software. Grr.
@hayles That's me. I swing both ways, baby.
@tsunimee Moi? Incidentally, had you heard that it's also "send someone called Matt a naughty picture day" today?
@tsunimee Honest. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
@thomasvenables If you're referring to Steve Ballmer, I think you may be doing the devil a disservice.
@thomasvenables Gotta be Vista.
"67 important updates are available". And MSN wants to tell me about Eastenders and Cheryl Cole. Oh, Windows. How I've missed you.
@thomasvenables To be fair, I tend to be a bit like that on every OS. http://plixi.com/p/88416399
Jesus. Bodie just got a round in, including a pint and a large vodka, for £1.35. This episode of the Professionals must be from 1963.
@djelibeybi_meg @ahnlak Snap!
2010
Borderline Asperger's lets me communicate with both managers and coders. To one, I am "Systems Analyst". To the other: "Speaker-to-Idiots".
Dining at Thali Cafe this evening :)
@benparkatbjs Oh, I'm sure it won't be boring. Not with the obvious inherent risk of crash and explosion.
@andybeebristol Are you wearing a beret?
@chrisphin Gibson's corrolary: the one that's not Mac-compatible will be the one with the feature you really need.
@andybeebristol If it's gyp with a particular doc, select all text before Review -> Set Language.
@andybeebristol Document properties? Document's language will override the default. Or to put it another way: are you using French letters?
@Zinziii How the hell do you have such good skin? That lot would bring me out in zits right now, let alone when I was your age!
@BrokenLogo that's what I was scared of. Was in bed by 11! Shame... was on songwriting course with Natalie, so wanted to hear her!
@BrokenLogo Yeah, wish I'd been awake enough, but definitely wasn't. No, haven't seen poster, unfortunately.
@KaveyF Henry has now left the building.
@benparkatbjs And read the comments on any online Evening Post story without getting despondent and angry :)
@ahnlak What I wish I had was a normal one to put it next to!
Desktop mini-Henry FTW! http://twitpic.com/1c5e0b
@jemimakiss Hmm. What email provider are you using, and what network (3G or WiFi) are you using?
@mjh53 @ahnlak It was Amazon who kicked them off the iPhone, sadly. http://bit.ly/bYOiRh
No, Java installer, I do not want the Yahoo toolbar. Nor will I wish to buy a comedy top hat along with my next petrol purchase. #justsayin'
@jemimakiss are you getting any error message? Change your password recently? Are you on someone else's WiFi network?
@Lillput Agreed. That's one thing I've learned about Mountain Dewdo far: I shouldn't drink it in the afternoon. Needed a Nytol at 1am.
@gary8345 Sorry; my fault: I took my glove out of my coat pocket yesterday morning. "I won't need _those_ any more..." #Brrrrrristol
@tsunimee Thing about bots is, they don't care how big your blog is. They're just bots. They see a WordPress install, and they spam it.
Maaaahhrnin' Awwwl.
@tsunimee I often double-check. Didn't tonight. Hey, maybe I'm wrong. Off back to bed to try again!
Balls. Something tells me that post-dinner coffee wasn't the decaf I asked for.
@hayles Mmmmm. I am about to go from my New Chair of Pleasure to my memory-foam-topped bed. Mmm. Softness.
@sharonecampbell Whereas a pub that has Langres on its chessboard is an unhygienic pub.
Nice little bit of "you must buy this" copy. http://twitpic.com/1c7ryx
@ThomasReggi May I suggest the rather cool Sleep Cycle app as an alternative? No affiliation; I just like it :)
@tsunimee yes. And the larger botnets can be made up of around half a million computers, normally infected home PCs. Each. Scary.
@tsunimee It's everything. They crawl the web, looking for anything they can spam, mostly based on the most popular blogging/forum software.
@neilhimself Oooh, that's lush. And something new to add to my "Songs With the Word 'Fuck' In Them" playlist, too.
@tsunimee And that's just the first few of the nine so far today. And I have fewer than 50 actual subscribers.
@tsunimee Oh yes. http://twitpic.com/1c7lpg
@tsunimee Current comment:spam ratio on my tiny-volume blog is 32:264. If I didn't use Akismet spam protection, I'd have to have a CAPTCHA
Ouch. Tens of thousands of London broadband & phone users suffer from results of fire and flood: http://bit.ly/c7oyhj
@tweeny4 ooh, is it?
@the_beacon They are just irritating noise, aren't they?
@matthew_roach Clifton Village. Had lunch there, never done dinner (in any of them.)
@jorence I have never tiffined. I probably should.
Playing while I wait for the ferry. http://twitpic.com/1c7ahc
2009
As inspired by @nyssapod, here's my last ten pages of tweets as a Wordle cloud: http://is.gd/pWJ5
Hadn't realised how alike Pulp's "The Mark of the Devil" is to the Damned's "Phantasmagoria"-era stuff. Jarvis could _be_ Dave Vanian!
http://twitpic.com/2mxfh - You know how I said the clouds were good this morning?
@pjakobs @bertpalmer oops! Meant to say look at what happened at magnol.ia!
@pjakobs @bertpalmer yeah, never mistake RAID for a good backup. Look at the main
Lovely clouds this morning!
Gah! Toodledo is down. Will have to resort to actual paper for today's shopping list.
@canthang "Here's three bands. Now form a chord."
2008
Hmm. 450D with 18-55, 400D with 17-85, or blow the bank on 450D/17-85? Hmm...
EOS 450D in stock at a few places now. Hmm. Hmm.