On This Day, 29 March
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RT @MikeDrucker: if they say it's a cake I'm going to lose my mind https://t.co/f0KVzwFHnB
2021
RT @yayitsrob: TOTE BOAT AFLOAT, OPENING BLOATED TRADE MOAT
Well that didn't last long. https://t.co/ADt7F0MW5L
RT @doeeyedlettuce: Legal support for the Bristol protesters if anyone wants to donate. https://t.co/gUXigNfBSG
End of the road. https://t.co/xSS3SgnJzi
Soft. https://t.co/cBS1Z6XjOz
2020
@ahnlak All I know is that it didn’t like plain .org, either (I, of course, own both...) but it was fine with Gmail. Sigh.
Damn, but I do love Don’t Delete the Kisses. https://t.co/LToBfir2QW
RT @RachelSmethers: So pissed last night I can’t remember getting home from the living room
So far today I have accomplished with ease two high-importance items on my “to-do” list: ✅ Have a nice lie-in ✅ Enjoy the peace and quiet. Now onwards, to chore number three. #cruciverbalist https://t.co/Wsb8rWLBo6
Slightly spooky on this windy day to hear more recycling boxes wandering past one's house than actual people. #bristol
Zafu. https://t.co/rA7f43d6uZ
Pay day treat. I’ve been wanting one of these for years. Now to scan ALL OF THE THINGS BEEP BEEP BEEP https://t.co/NgqSuMfqe5
@Kavey This thing was sixteen quid and it's brilliant. Been using my phone for years, but I'm thinking of doing another big book declutter so—hang on a minute, I just need to scan some more things BEEP BEEP BEEEP
RT @Kavey: Also, it's easy to make homemade crumpets too, if you have the ingredients in (obviously). Here is Pete's recipe: https://t.co/G…
Pleased to find a Wikipedia article about all the places in the world called Bristol 😀 List of places called Bristol - Wikipedia https://t.co/vvDy2mQT9e
RT @sian_cosgrove: In other news... the cat over the road is called Walter https://t.co/loIHA2J4mH
2019
RT @simongerman600: This #map allows you to navigate every city. Hilarious piece of work by the fantastic @instachaaz (make sure you follow…
w00t! New record for the Times cryptic 😁#cruciverbalist https://t.co/Ilu1o8qI7g
@BarristerSecret @mrjamesob @DBanksy @DomUtton @GerardBattenMEP Sounds like a hardcore case.
It's a good job I bought a new guitar last year and got it out of my system for a while. Comfortably strum: David Gilmour's Black Strat goes on display https://t.co/YvlPaunXBm
@rbrwr Luckily for my wallet, I only feel the urge about once every five or ten years.
RT @bufferingcast: ICYMI: We had the absolute pleasure of talking with the brilliant @JamesMarstersOf about the patriarchy, Shakespeare, va…
RT @EmmaKennedy: Tell you what BBC, have a debate about whether children aged 5 should be taught any religion. If you worried about “indoc…
@ChuckWendig @robinhobb @nkjemisin @BrandSanderson @KevinHearne Yeah. Robin Hobb can make me well up and sob, and I’m a grumpy 46-year-old.
@waiyeehong @JannerTM Also: no actual vowels. Weird fucking word.
@meemalee @waiyeehong @JannerTM I cannot, however, dredge the ones I normally can't spell up from the depths of my memory, apart from "mien". I have a list of words to try to remember the spelling of for crosswords, but they're all weird shit like "shillelagh", "elegiac" and "Pleaides", so I don't feel so bad!
RT @khoi: Mankind is not just destroying the earth, we're doing it in the most ridiculous way possible. https://t.co/dtyd9TZLmT
RT @engadget: Apple officially cancels AirPower charging system https://t.co/S0IB2driwO https://t.co/ZeBJtadlTG
RT @jemjabella: Popular WordPress theme provider pipdig is using customer sites to DDoS competitors & harvesting user data (amongst other t…
@Kavey Well, to explain—hang on, do you own a seven-dimensional whiteboard?
@Kavey Ah, yes, but with the whiteboard I can show you that we’re fucked even if we go backwards in time or jump to a parallel universe...
“That nice lad from next door helped me take my shopping in. The one from the band.” “The band, Nan?” “Yes. I think they’re quite well-known. The Protegé?” “The *Prodigy*?” “Oh, yes. That’s them.” —Me, finding out my Nan lived next door to Keith Flint
2018
2017
When you move all your git repos to a different provider so the latest commit message on everything is, “Dunno. But it might be important.”
@Hello_Tailor @AlasdairStuart @deftly_admiral Corbyn: “Hang on lads, I’ve got a great idea…”
@ahnlak Nothing Bad, but Fog Creek are starting to charge $20/m for the previously-free Kiln tier. Too pricey for moi. Heading Githubwards.
@ahnlak I considered Bitbucket, but moving to someone else’s free plan because my current plan suddenly became un-free seemed fate-tempting!
@ahnlak …whereas GitHub clearly aren’t going anywhere, and $7/month seems reasonable for unlimited private repositories.
@ahnlak (I considered putting the repos on my own server, but as my own server is managed by chef, and the chef stuff is in a git repo…)
@ahnlak It’d still need managing! Happy to pay someone else for keeping it all working plus a nice web interface.
@Harkaway They’re unplugging UK Twitter from the EU connection. From midnight you won’t be able to use accented characters or smiling emoji.
RT @dangusset: The bus stop signs have changed to colour. #brexitday https://t.co/85h25h6Cyl
RT @dangusset: Well that didn't last long #brexitday https://t.co/FNUTUtL8TG
@robmanuel I would happily have learned French rather than deal with NPower that one time, so I'm not sure it's as high a bar as you reckon.
On Chocolate Path. Lovely smell of malt drifting over from Bristol Beer Factory, I reckon. 🍺
@chubbybannister There’s probably a hipster craft crossover beer that tastes of old boots.
Turns out there's a reason for those "no loading" stripes, drayman. https://t.co/SxTnpDFvYf
Christ. I think the neighbours might actually smoke their weed by just burning bales of it in the living room and inhaling. #stinky
Silky Smooth - https://t.co/ERX9vyrNf4 https://t.co/Ox8IucBlSm
Sometimes I wonder why a directory listing is single-column and find a sarcastic filename from a past moment of tra… https://t.co/JDjIlSBDih
Cauliflower cheese. Bubble bubble. https://t.co/W5Y5NQlWbR
2016
RT @thewritertype: The FBI have finally unlocked that terrorist’s iPhone. They’re still working on how to delete the Stocks app.
@therunningriver Pleasure!
RT @HeerJeet: You know how you start watching something like House of Cards but eventual get tired of all the implausible twists? https://t…
Last week I put my gloves away because I didn’t think I’d need until next winter. Now digging them back out again with frozen fingers.
@ismh If we don’t hear from you again, it was nice knowing you. I’m guessing the rest of your life will be re-entering passwords and crying.
@griffinkate :( Roll on Actual Spring.
“…huge amounts of potential to make it your own.” I was scared before I looked at the pics. https://t.co/CzfrPgVodD https://t.co/QWQ0RGpPg4
@jbrownridge And for only a smidge over a quarter of a million. Sigh.
@danbarker *Looks puzzled* Why is it selling Scott & Bailey? That’s an ITV show.
@danbarker …but thanks for pointing it out; I missed @ememess’s The Intruders, and closing down sale has it for £2.49. Bargain!
@danbarker *raises eyebrow*
@jakepjohnson Yeah, and that’s just the asking price.
2015
That time of year. https://t.co/6wIY8k7WkR
Lounge. https://t.co/BiszMFNHBT
@hayles Cool, ta. It’s now made it from the notebook to the LoveFilm list.
@wordsfromluke Sorry, won’t be around.
2014
@guriben Yo. We should probably formulate Some Kind of Plan for lending you t'50mm. Will you be anywhere near St Nick's market this morning?
RT @rsg: Politicians: using "cyber-attack", and "cyber-warfare" in sentences doesn't make you sound smart. It makes you sound like Grandpa …
@guriben No probs.
Ironically, these days Pavlov would be too distracted by dinging noises from his smartphone to plan his research.
@chubbybannister Emm did observe that I probably shouldn't look for office space in Temple Studios if I wanted to keep up my diet.
@betty_watson A perfect time to practise your "silent, yet all-knowing" look.
@charlie_cat_esq Your mother is entirely made of WIN.
@guriben Gah! I hadn't realised. Oh well, my bodyclock's already been fucked by booze and stuff this week anyway.
UK sysadmins: remember that tomorrow, the last Sunday in March, is the traditional time for your 1:30am cron job to be accidentally skipped.
Please make sure this leads to as much mayhem and chaos in your company as the job that runs twice on the last Sunday in October.
RT @shuckle: Original cast Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on Radio 4 right now. Go iPlayer it.
@benjohnbarnes I used JodaTime's LocalDate for Get Running for Android. Hurrah for a class that stores dates without times!
RT @Kavey: Survey on Ready Meals vs. Home Cooking http://t.co/dnxPdlBXct feat. @MissWhiplash @FussFreeHelen @Cookwitch @foodurchin @gothick
In the wake of @kavey’s survey, tonight I’ve made curry completely from scratch :) http://t.co/KAkgFKYtLS
@Kavey It’s very nice, and I found it here: http://t.co/nFpFyam4JV miss igs: Chickpea, Butternut Squash & Lemongrass Curry
2013
@somenewwill Yo. There's this one (music by Pulp, so you might want to change that for commercial use!) http://t.co/Y6iPhAwMkA
@somenewwill (and there's a couple of other things I did: https://t.co/7HstXx7G2d http://t.co/QZutP8kbTd )
Farewell, Henry Crabbe and Uncle Monty.
@chubbybannister I just read it, because of your tweet. I thought it was rather lovely.
2012
Item from my "to-do" list today: "Check." Given that I'm not American, I guess I got distracted while adding it. Gah. Check *what*? #worried
@hayles Many people didn't notice when I shaved off a beard I'd had for three years. Glasses are in a similar category. Brains ignore them.
I have taken the easy solution to my item that says "Check". I've checked it. #check
@hayles HMPH.
@AndyCarolan Ooopsie. We are so efficient.
@julienbob That would be a "cheque" for me, so I'm thinking not.
Working from home this afternoon. While an engineer is fixing/testing the fire alarm. #joy
Think I just discovered Henry VIII's printed circuit board. http://t.co/SZzg40ib
The way this fire alarm service is working out, I have no choice but to stand in the sun and do nothing. Could've been worse.
@hayles Break the mug. It'll be an important life lesson, *and* make a good photograph.
@csoanes This fire alarm board is at least half my age...
@rabidbee *checks* Yup. THEY'RE STILL STEEL.
Think I might head out for a walk while it's still sunny :D
Damn it. It's basically midsummer out. I was hoping there would be ice cream available at the SS Great Britain.
@BenPark Here is an independent report from my local petrol station. #OMGQUEUEZCRISISPANIC http://t.co/Sd3yTUKs
@chubbybannister Yes, I should have taken my chance when I could! Walking the other way. Ta for the suggestion, though :)
Just bumped into @jorence and @EmmaFurious :) They have biked on, healthily. I have stopped at the Cottage, not so healthily.
Beer in the evening. http://t.co/7Z3HZ0wZ
OH: (strident) "Mum, I can't top up if I've got a full tank. I've told you about five times now." #fuelcrisispanicworrygate
Whoo! Not only do I have beer, but company is on the way, too :D
This is John. We have just flagged him down from the water to come have a beer with us :) http://t.co/KsgxP32v
@guriben Night night, sweetie.
Oopsie. Accidentally had another half on the way home. It's all @missemmeline's fault.
Home. Oof. And I have to be up early tomorrow for a team breakfast. Can I have some extra hours tonight, please?
Snappity: A moment from this evening at the Cottage, with @missemmeline and John http://t.co/LZKYax8S
2011
@archidave Mornin'! *waves belatedly*
@archidave I was in fantasy-land, making a playlist of singers sorted by voice roughness :)
@archidave I was starting with rough. I like rough.
@R2UK Seems bloody expensive, bearing in mind I can get 5GB for £15/month with a Mi-Fi. Hrm. I want my unlimited plan to carry on, damn it!
@R2UK But now I'm crippled with fear that if I do anything at all to my plan (including anything involving buying an iPhone 4) I'll lose it.
@R2UK Good to know, ta. My 3GS is definitely getting a bit ragged around the edges :)
@tsunimee I'm dieting at the mo, but I'm going to have to buy a few new clothes in the meantime :(
@tsunimee Yes. That (hopefully) temporary phase...
FFS. It's getting so I can't say anything on Twitter without some sodding spambot flinging its excrement at me.
@warrenellis Quack... quack... Quack.
@archidave *cries* Actually, that's probably better than some of the offers I've had.
@tsunimee I know when I'm too heavy because I have to go to Marks and Spencer rather than Debenhams!
EBOSS: Unexpected end of lunchtime. #damn
@bexxi Really? *hug*. Did I miss a disturbance in the Tworce?
@ahnlak @r2uk I average around 500MB. Just don't like the worry of suddenly being charged feckloads if I accidentally breach a limit.
@ahnlak @r2uk ...bear in mind that I'm probably rather more paranoid since Vodafone charged me £800 extra one month for using data abroad!
@R2UK @ahnlak ...and my default position *before* then was that phone companies are generally shady organisations who are out to clip you.
@R2UK @ahnlak 3 texted before the last time I incurred extra charges with them. They texted my 3G dongle. Which couldn't read texts. #doh
@sazzy *but only in cultures known to have had exposure to David Jason.
@brianlayman That's the first question? Well, I've failed, then.
@brianlayman Well, to be fair to myself, the first thing I'd have checked would have been the column type.
@brianlayman This is the thing about questions like this: in front of the computer, I'd be there in two mins. On "paper", different story.
Q: Walking to extreme right of Pero's Bridge. Space to left. Cyclist rides directly at me from other direction, stops, blocking me...
...says, "I'm keeping to the left." Looks at me like I'm a moron. Am I a moron?
@archidave I'm paranoid anyway, otherwise I wouldn't have asked. Fully expected to have missed a huge Big Society "Keep Left" campaign.
@BlackDogDays Spunds like a good substitute for cashews, which I hate.
Thanks for the pedestrian/cyclist interaction reassurance, folks. Of course, I'll go back tomorrow and see the new KEEP LEFT signs now...
@BlackDogDays I haven't achieved such heights of experimentation, though. It's only recently I found out there are *any* nuts I like.
@brianlayman And... there we go. Back at a computer, got it within seconds. Although it's helpful I have a multisite install to hand :)
@talkie_tim Yes, I generally go with the "steam gives way to sail" rule. I wonder if he does that with everyone?
@Dru_Marland @talkie_tim I love the detail these things go into. There's a small section expounding the futility of banning rollerbladers...
RT @globalmoxie: My favorite city never looked so good. Time-lapse film of Paris, built from 2000 still photos. Gorgeous: http://vimeo.c ...
@tsunimee Hmm. Time for a mnemonic, maybe? "FoWl have Wings"?
@BlackDogDays Personally I'm going for beer and an NCIS I've seen before. #rockandroll
@BinaryDad If I knew how to stop after two, I'd remember the answer to that question.
@leigh Goodness. Do you know anyone from the eighties? Maybe you can borrow their 286.
@R2UK I still say they're "iPads 2". Just as the laptops are "MacBooks Pro". :)
@codepo8 Ooooh, sexy. Ta.
RT @brianlayman: Automattic’s Worldwide WP 5k: http://t.co/EXtUtY2 <-- Cool! (Attention @getrunningapp!)
@xabl What!? Adam Ant is doing On The Ropes? *dashes to computer*
@getrunningapp Well, personally, I'm going to join in! But it seemed like a party you might be able to bring something to ;)
@jorence Oooh. What've you got? Probs time for me to buy the next Mizunos along soon...
@jorence Being cackfooted (I believe the actual term is "over-pronating") I rock a Wave Inspire 6 at the mo.
@Lillput @xabl Ooh, controversy. My casting vote is likely to go Adam Ant's way, though. Will always cut slack for inspiring musicians.
@jorence Tried five different ones on treadmill in Moti. Wave Inspire close to Nikes for anticackfootedness effect; Muzunos more comfy.
@jorence If I want to be particularly kind to my feet, my best plan would be to lose 5 stone, sadly :(
@benjohnbarnes mattgetsrunning.com and gothick.org.uk run on self-hosted WordPress installs. Have no contacts, though. Talk in morning?
@DIMBLEBOT STATUS: DRUNK/SADFACE.
RT @RellyAB: I know the BBC are trying to 'free up' some top-level domains but this might be throwing the baby out with the bathwater, I ...
@SaliWho Luckily I'm in Bristol. The only place I *can* run is the hills.
My current mental image: Frank Spencer in a BBC server room, severed cable in hand. #bbcnone
.@Swishrelic They could have at least played the national anthem before switching it off. #bbc
@BlackDogDays Yes, good idea. Night!
@thomasvenables Nah. Frank Spencer or the Daleks, that's my bet.
Who said GoDaddy were crap? I just bought bbc.co.uk for $1.99.
@codepo8 I do fear that <MARQUEE> 2.0 may be approaching... :)
@hayles The BBC web sites went shopping with you, it seems.
@mhoulden All your licence fee are belong to me.
@hayles Glam!
2010
@thomasvenables http://instantrimshot.com required, I believe.
Pepsi: please stop redesigning your cans for long enough that I can learn to recognise them when put backwards in our dark vending machine.
@Lillput Mmm. This is one of the things I'm worried about. Windows 7 would probably be an interesting change, but Linux more me-compatible.
@Lillput @rbrwr @rabidbee They look good, but I'm so damn _bored_ of staring at Windows XP. And I want minimum fuss out of the box...
@Lillput ...although I may change my mind about OS choice, depending on the state of hardware and software at the moment.
@Lillput Looks good, but probably want something more easy to get hold of with a Linux distro of some kind pre-installed.
@bertpalmer A netbook. An iPad would also be nice, but for different reasons, and less pressing ones.
@megpickard I think you misunderstand my point :)
@megpickard I'm sure they did.
@goswoppit that would be an almost ideal solution, but I don't think I can justify the extra thousand pounds.
And no, I'm not buying Diet Coke instead, because according to the ad I saw this morning, it's only for girls.
This bag is way too heavy. I really should get myself a netbook.
@BTCare Nope, I've never had BT broadband.
@Phooto quite literally, apparently
@rabidbee Yay! This was mine. You can just about see the handle/cover.
@rabidbee Oh -- and try Bing for the image search. The infinite scrolling results interface is nicer than Google's.
@rabidbee If it was like mine, "100 film camera" gets much better results than "compact film camera".
@rabidbee Hmm. I had one of those. 110 film? Can't remember if mine was maybe a Hanimex...
@majicDave Hear, hear. CSSEdit has saved me hours and hours of working out what tiny mistake I've made, over and over again.
Oh, _that's_ why it's so cold. A clock I forgot: the central heating timer.
@Zinziii Hey, temptress, I've got to clean the bathroom and do my filing, stop trying to entice me with naughty websites!
@Squonk Goodness, did you have one of those things, too? Tiny little silver plastic thing?
@lilibaloo The bloke I voted for has emerged unscathed from expenses scandal, and also friended me on Facebook. Definitely in the lead!
@lilibaloo "Three way marginal", though quite a bit majority to LibDem last time. http://bit.ly/aesflM
@xabl it does seem to have been very quiet the last few weeks.
Hmm. Snow Leopard 10.6.3 is out. Anyway, yes, bathroom, clean, so forth. #zeroattentionspan
@Zinziii Yes, but I heard that if I loved it too often I'd go blind ;)
Just been phone canvassed by the Labour Party. Too late, I realised I should have pretended indecision and ask them "what's in it for me?"
@jcroft Yes, probably to stop us all feeling disappointed when we touch the iBooks icon and get told we're second-class citizens.
@Squonk Don't know if I've still got mine around, or if the sellotape holding the battery door finally gave out :)
@jcroft Is iBooks available in all countries? I thought it was even doubtful for the UK... Maybe they count it as an optional app.
@hayles Kin Yip Hon? Need to go there soon to pick up more green tea -- can check stock if you want, @talkie_tim!
@goswoppit Yeah, but that feels rather more tongue-in-cheek than the Coke ads!
@talkie_tim I think @hayles has mentioned a local Mountain Dew supplier?
@Ffion1108 mmmm. Haven't had a Yorkie for about a decade.
@tsunimee the whole damn thing looks pretty rubbish to me!
@chris_j_hughes anyway. Must go, there's a window-cleaner taking his shirt off outside.
@chris_j_hughes Apart from the way it tastes different and never appears in our building. Clearly we're all girls.
2009
@bertyc Excellent! Have added you, too.
@Narshada Sorry, way too much to do today; I know I'd end up staying out too long! Plus, my feet hurt, dammit. Ta for the invite, though!
Just back from a bit of a photographic wander.
http://twitpic.com/2khwr - I always wonder whether the choice of the The Prisoner-style foot on this sign was a conscious one.
Oh, so _that's_ why my RapidWeaver is screwed. Curse you, Safari 4 beta, and thank you, Real Mac, for already having a beta out to fix it.
Just realised that my N73 hasn't turned its irritating self off since I took it apart to replace its joystick. Win!
2008
Hmm. Should I buy Phhotoshop Elements, now Adobe have finally released a new Mac version?
2007
Just signed up for novel-writing course
Valiantly battling with Java at L:work=Victoria Street, Bristol