Monthly Archive for January, 2008
- Off to London Village today, and I’ve got up to catch the first bus. That’s harsh. #
- I think I need to look beyond Flash for my offline animation work. Any advice on a scriptable alternative? #
- Lotus f’ing notes. Why don’t you just have me carve the email design on a stone tablet with my off hand and my eyes shut? #
- Rewatching the X Files, I hadn’t realised that Smoking Man was in it from the beginning, even the pilot. #
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- I hate it when first line support staff reply with an assumption that I’m an idiot, without reading the previous evidence I’ve sent in. #
- By all means assume I’m an idiot, I may well be, but only after you’ve actually read what I’ve sent you. #
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- Watching the Activity Monitor while exporting a QuickTime movie from Flash, Flash is using 103% of the CPU… ?? #
- When did Flash start incorporating ActionScript into exported movies; or have I been missing a trick all these years? Particle effects ahoy! #
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- They’re cutting down the Acacia tree behind us; not great from an environmental viewpoint, but it will mean we get summer sun after 1pm. #
- Finished entering 134 receipts into a spreadsheet, one step closer to the completing my last minute tax return! #
- Oh no… just found another folder of receipts. Back to Excel then… #
- @tomsmith Maybe you could pitch the Radiohead model of payments to HMRC… we pay them how much we feel the government deserves? #
- HMRC website doesn’t work without the "www"… rubbish! #
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- An article about Soc Gen’s rogue trader ends: "His Facebook page had 11 friends, last night that was down to 4." An important detail. #
- Sitting in a restaurant and a woman has just run in, dropped a case by the stairs and run out again. Should I leave? #
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Published on
January 21, 2008 in
Quick thoughts.
Tags: alabama 3, aquaduct, chicken curry, credit card processor, experiencing technical difficulties, fink, live music, northern quarter, portishead, storage, tbc, test system, water carrier.
- "The PayPal site is currently experiencing technical difficulties with our credit card processor." This is on their test system… eh? #
- Spring ’08 is shaping up to be good for live music: I’ve booked for Fink in the Northern Quarter, Alabama 3 at the Academy, Portishead TBC. #
- Got an invite to Fork’d, Cooking 2.0. Thanks @tomsmith I’ve added a chicken curry http://tinyurl.com/2wbzkw #
- The Aquaduct is an interesting idea: bike, water carrier/filter/storage in a neat pedal powered package (http://tinyurl.com/ywl5vp) #
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- Good lord above getting Win98 onto Parallels is so ridiculously hard. #
- With Parallels, I do like the idea that Windows installs are contained… floating in a virtual bell jar filled with imaginary formaldehyde. #
- "Print and sign please" I hate writing on those delivery driver’s handhelds, it makes my writing look even more like a 5 yr old’s than usual #
- Extraordinarily blatantly sexual game of chess in the original Thomas Crown Affair. #
- The kissing scene which follows is just weird though, by modern standards. #
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- Is there a shortcut key to launch the IE Toolbar on a page where the various controls have been removed by JS? #
- Jealous of this man’s skills: benhammersley.com #
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Published on
January 16, 2008 in
Quick thoughts.
Tags: argh, basecamp, bbc, chess, gruber, leeds, leopard, radio, shellscript, statuses, wildcards.
- @samclark – If Leopard still freezes on boot with a non-existent drive then I’m not updating. #
- Very amusing tale from Gruber’s kid: http://twitter.com/AmyJane/statuses/603632882 #
- Darn, I was hoping to get over to Leeds GeekUp this evening, but Work is squatting on my life and it’s not going to happen. #
- Really interesting ideas from BBC Radio Labs on "visual" radio: http://tinyurl.com/2byw5w #
- Argh. Does anyone know how to escape the * character in Basecamp? I’m trying to document a shellscript with wildcards and it’s very annoying #
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- Just "invested" in Windows 2000 and Windows 98 for testing purposes. So much money just to test, still… it’s got to be done. #
- vi may be powerful, vi may be very very clever and better than anything else; that doesn’t alter the fact that it utterly mystifies me. #
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