- http://is.gd/198Gu <- An article attacking DAB for using more resources than AM/FM. Totally ignores spectrum usage as a resource. #
- http://is.gd/19bpg <- The DAB resource usage counter point. #
- Never read the #atheism #reddit . I have never seen such poor arguments (on both sides). #
- Feeling really quite ill :(. #
- http://is.gd/19jHu <- Ryanair CEO introduces the latest thing to encourage frequent flyers. #humour #
- Illness wavefunction has collapsed: It is a flare up of glandular fever - the disease that keeps on giving :). #
- http://is.gd/1ahNk <- 45 seconds in… That is my system! #
- Still unwell - Am manning through. #
- http://is.gd/1an8F <- #firtree powering a simple dynamic image processing program. Pretty video! #
- @mas90 Thanks! :) in reply to mas90 #
- Off to NaNo pubmeet at Cambridge Blue #
- Have just found out one of my friends was on Knightmare. Is this amazingly cool (Y/N)? #
- http://is.gd/1b96E <- @rebeccapayne: here you are. How cute you were aged 15 :). #
- http://is.gd/1cYxm <- #linkdump of an amazing optical illusion which is illustrative of how we perceive colour. #
- http://is.gd/1d4LB <- Crop circles: not aliens, just stoned kangaroos! #
- @jennielees: LOL - indeed it does. #
- @microsoft: Q: “There is no … consensus … about what subset of HTML is appropriate for use in e-mail for interoperability.” A: None #
- http://is.gd/1d5DU <- link missing from previous tweet. #
- http://is.gd/1d5MG <- who said white #robots couldn’t #dance? #
- Does anyone remember the /. proto-podcast Geeks in Space? Man that was good :) #
- Has anyone played with the awesome new wall and floor detection fu on #google #streetview? #
- “paper submissions must be in RTF or DOC format” Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! #
- Thanks to openoffice.org and tex4ht, I can write in LaTeX and send Word documents to the proles. I secretly hope they are corrupted though. #
- A fun night out with @jennielees - was surrounded with by the people and events of my past! Surreal. #
- So sad. So talented. Always going to be a part or my memory of the 70s an 80. RIP Farrah Fawcett. #
- If I put #iran and #michaeljackson in when I twat, does that make me cool? #
- @wastethesewords I’m so cool that only *I* know ‘twat’ really is the past tense of ‘tweet’. Witness all the people twatting on Twitter :). in reply to wastethesewords #
- Yay for rain! #
- http://is.gd/1emSG <- Facebook username fail. According to http://is.gd/1emUq she doesn’t know it though. #
- http://is.gd/1ewbw <- boy steals man’s car. Man reports it to police. Police catch boy. This, for some reason, is news? #
Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-28
Sunday, June 28th, 2009Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21
Sunday, June 21st, 2009- Reminding people that the best way to mail me electronically is via the invention called electronic mail. #
- http://is.gd/14n6M <- #linkdump of an ‘open source’ hydrogen car. #
- http://is.gd/17eYl <- When I rule the world I will make people like this illegal. #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-14
Sunday, June 14th, 2009- Bored, cold and hungry. Code doesn’t work. Boiler is broken and food makes me fat :(. #
- The Look East BBC election coverage is coming from my old school’s sports hall. They are standing outside my old RE classroom. Memories! #
- The BBC’s election graphics for #eu09 is bumping BBC R&D to the top of ‘where Rich applies if it all goes wrong’ list. #
- An issue with the PR in #eu09 is that one has to vote for the party, not the person. #
- @Iowa656 I’m happy with PR as a concept. I just feel that one loses something. in reply to Iowa656 #
- Are there any EU-wide equivalents to theyworkforyou.com which one could use to do informed voting in #eu09 ? #
- I’m not sure making Gordon Brown a scapegoat is necessarily productive. The in-fighting is beautiful #politics to behold however. #eu09 #
- @Iowa656 In the PR used in #eu09, the feeling that one votes directly for the people. It is not a fatal flaw, just a difference. in reply to Iowa656 #
- Sweden exit polls suggest the Pirate Party have a seat in #eu09. Perhaps now we can have a balanced debate on copyright and digital law? #
- Why have we heard nothing of the Pirate Party on the telly though? #eu09 #
- Why is it all these women cabinet members are being asked if they are ‘window dressing’? Even I find that a little annoying. #eu09 #
- http://is.gd/S5rY <- #gobject introspection. Perhaps this can remove the pain which is PyGObject and its ilk? #
- Massively overslept. That is what one gets for staying up ’til the bitter end! #
- http://is.gd/UtQZ <- Goddamn it. It is fricking #hammertime ! #
- Waiting for people in the pub and fiddling with the Intertubes. #
- @saf2285 You’ll get it. Welcome to the web twenty world. in reply to saf2285 #
- @mas90 I shall certainly hope to be there! in reply to mas90 #
- At the SRCF garden party. #
- Back from pub with SRCF-es. So much geekery. #
- Curry at 7:30pm, free until then. Anyy suggestions of what to do? #
- http://is.gd/XmXg <- Everything you ever wanted to know on the guts of the C64 + 6502 + SID. Brings back memories of assembly on the Beeb :) #
- Oh god. Sometimes tea hits just the right spot. #
- Engaged in a nefarious, subversive project. Can’t say more at the moment. #
- http://is.gd/Zfpq <- The first comment on this post is a fine example of everything that is wrong with geeky men. #
- sudo aptitude install python-clutter; python -c ‘import clutter’ <- Does anyone else get a segfault? (http://is.gd/ZOyZ) #
- http://is.gd/ZOQb is making my code fail the unit tests. Rage. #
- http://is.gd/ZWZA <- all together far too catchy #
- http://is.gd/ZXmo <- From #b3ta , made of immense awesome and uber win. #
- http://is.gd/ZXH0 <- A beer chiller. From the description: “This is made possible thanks to the principle of thermal conduction.” Really? #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-07
Sunday, June 7th, 2009- Built a tent from the Guardian on Jesus Green. #
- Went to a nice BBQ. Saw people I hadn’t seen in too long. #
- No-one must ever know I am secretly soppy. #
- Feeling accomplished. My inbox is now empty. It only took all day and 113 filters in GMail to do it! #
- Have pruned a load of stuff from Facebook. Thought it best not to FB-dump Saf just yet though :) #
- Having a #flamewar about top-posting vs doing it right. I blame the businessman in his suit-and-tie :). #
- http://bit.ly/r219h
<- #linkdump of Greasemonkey script to block some Facebook ads. # - http://audidude.com/blog/?p=225 <- #linkdump of a better GObject generator. #
- @evath With pure anger. in reply to evath #
- http://bit.ly/tdoS5
<- the best thing in my life. # - http://bit.ly/arKGL
<- starting to strip out the crufty C++ Firtree API and make it sleek and GObject-y. # - http://bit.ly/SDfNV
<- from @fanf, why CRSIDs rock. in reply to fanf # - http://bit.ly/CjU8F
<- #lazyweb - please fix my bug! # - http://is.gd/N50N <- multi-line C++-style comments in GCC rage. #
- http://is.gd/N5p5 <- #linkdump from The Times: CUSU yet again have to invent welfare issues a we’re all to comfortable and middle class. #
- I am going mad. I just *seriously* wondered if there was an UML tool for GObject. #
- @evath yes. It was how Cat found out her car was poorly. in reply to evath #
- #randomwonder - Does one write ‘a HRH’ or ‘an HRH’? #
- http://is.gd/Nks1 <- I can hear CJ crying from here. #
- It only took two hours but now my 1 object, 3 method API has Python bindings :). #
- audio.lugradio.org is down! Fail! #
- Bytemark makes small changes to backup config that needs a fiddle on temp.l4.me.uk. Rich realises how horrible his backup script is. #
- http://is.gd/NXD2 <- look at those hot geeks! Ladies, form a queue! :) #
- Lines of CMake magic (LOCM) to use doxygen: 134. For GtkDoc: 328. GtkDoc is an exercise in pain! #
- http://bit.ly/7eIFb
<- Google squared: Fun to play with. # - http://is.gd/P9E9 <- Total Eclipse of the Heart, literal version. I love these. #
- http://is.gd/Pdve <- I wish now my test harness wasn’t written in Python. I just added automatic valgrind support :(. #
- I hate coming back to an empty house. OTOH, made the journey in 30 mins. A new record! #
- I’ve just realised. This is the *first time ever* I’ve seen the start of Saturday Kitchen. That is quite depressing. #
- Rick Stein has just revealed the Secret of Restaurant Curries. We magicians should never reveal our secrets! #
- Indications of depression: Wathing the BBC News channel because all 600 other channels are crap. #
- My JIT-ed code is randomly corrupting memory :(. #
- http://bit.ly/w5iS3
< @Jon Harrop: I’m finding exactly this :(. # - I hate the MMX EMMS instruction. #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-31
Sunday, May 31st, 2009- Bored and lonely, the novelty of holiday soon wears off - how sad that without work it appears I have nothing :). #
- ‘On The Buses’ - an amazing study of working class life at the start of the seventies! #
- Just had a small wine-glass of my homemade cider. Already have a swirly head! #
- Has drunk one whole litre of home-cider. Is now quite drunk. This is bad since drinking alone makes me an alcoholic :(. #
- http://bit.ly/OpScf
<- The official Project Steve publicity photo. # - Argh! An evening of beer a heavy person makes! #
- Fiddling with AIHOAE flyers. Up to draft 6 already! #
- Playing with realistic grass rendering in Blender during some free cycles. #
- Definitely *not* watching the project students run around panicking with 30 seconds left to hand in the final report. #
- Making the telephone spam person repeat his script replacing all instances of ‘up to’ with ‘no more than’. #
- *sigh* watching ‘chavs get arrested by the police’ programmes always depress me. Why watch you ask? I guess I must hate myself :). #
- What a silly programme about weight loss. You don’t need dodgy science to know that eating less, moving more => weighing less. #
- Debating whether to go Speed Dating on the 4th June. ‘Twas fun last time… #
- *Finally* getting around to porting his latest feature detectors to CUDA. #
- http://www.youtube.com/html5 <- YouTube’s experiments in HTML5 (video element). Perhaps the Web Twenty lark is worthwhile? #
- Doing IA Computing supervisions - yet again explaining how to calculate the complexity of QuickSort. #
- It is too hot :(. #
- More fiddling with AIHOAE flyers. #
- About to go location scouting for a short film! #
- http://burtonini.com/cgi/gobject.py <- #linkdump of an online GObject skeleton generator. #
- Killing time outwide Great St Mary’s waiting for Cat. #
- There is an entire book in Borders about bicarbonate of soda! #
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8073734.stm <- #linkdump of new Doctor Who assistant. #
- Just had some very tasty pie. Screw the diet. #
- Reading an American tabloid Saf sent me. Centre story: Aliens stole all the gold from Fort Knox. #
- Just played a duet on the piano. I played all the right notes… #
- Watching Time Team after Take on the Takeaway. What do you mean I’m wasting my weekend? #
- Firtree has reached the fabled ’second re-write’ stage methinks. #
- @alexsteer I’m all the way up to Worst Jobs in History now. Almost reached the end of all TV. in reply to alexsteer #
- Watching the new Knight Rider. Unfortunately the makers don’t seem to realise the difference between the Fast and the Furious and KR. #
- Feeling unreasonably jealous of some people. #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-24
Sunday, May 24th, 2009- Sitting in the Ginistry in Oxford. Spent an extra hour on the X5 stuck in Bedford :(. #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-10
Sunday, May 10th, 2009- Ic eom gane to abeornum andbitan / I am going to a barbecue. #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-03
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009- Ic awilne nebboc in ealdre Englisca. #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-12
Sunday, April 12th, 2009- Behaving like a little girl by trying on clothes that haven’t fitted for years and giggling. #
- @jennielees only two orders of magnitude behind you in followers then :). in reply to jennielees #
- Writing GUIs in Matlab. An exercise in pain. #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-05
Sunday, April 5th, 2009- Down one size in trousers. Win. #
- Drinking coffee (typical Tweet, eh?). Oh and my leg hurts. #
- http://filecoreinuse.livejournal.com/191617.html <- Some thoughts on sampling BRDFs. #
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! #
- Installed Jaunty on my Macbook. Sound now works! #
- Some damn fool left all the Allo Allo in the house on DVD. Yay. #