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Year 2010

Tweets for 2010-12-29

  • Well, I'm not going to get my five-a-day from a big bag of Bombay Mix. Nice though. #
  • Seems like everyone else thought to beat the queue's by going food shopping early. Seemed like a watertight plan. #
  • Deleted Arial, Verdana & Times from my fonts. The web looks so much better now. (Defaults are now Helvetica Neue and Georgia). #

Tweets for 2010-12-22

  • The Sweeny: brown suits, brown cars, brown phones – Colour TV was wasted on the 70's. #
  • Horizon have bitten off more than they can chew in trying to explain the proof of Fermats Last Theorem #
  • Gun of Naverone. Good Sunday film. :-) #
  • Watching "One Man and His Dog". Surely it would be easier to train the sheep to go in the pen? #
  • Carl Sagan once introduced Penn & Teller as "Madonna's husband & the father of the H-bomb" – Simon Singh #
  • Full marks to the BFI people for a no-quibble refund. #
  • 60 years of science and sci-fi on TV – Where's me cocoa? #
  • I have been thinking a lot about "2001: A Space Odyssey" recently. Just re-read a book on the making of the film. Love to see it on screen. #
  • Equation of the day from Radio 4: tragedy+time=tourism #
  • Whoah. I want one: http://j.mp/h7OJ2U #
  • Where the hell can I get Mystery Science Theatre 3000 DVDs in this country? #
  • Revising-up on what happened in the last Harry Potter film, so that I have half a chance in following this installment. he's a Jedi, right? #
  • Can someone tell me how changing your profile picture can help stop violence against children in any appreciable way. #
  • Normal rail service resumed this morning – train cancelled. (via @grahamsmith38) #
  • Watching Sarah testing Christmas tree lightbulbs. Quite hypnotic. Works. Works. Works. Works. Works… #
  • It's Groundhog Day on the phone to Sky technical support #
  • Winter bloody wonderland #
  • Doing my VAT return. What joy! #
  • One hell of a draft blowin' #
  • I hate having to go to the loo on a day when you are expecting a delivery. #
  • There's always something. #
  • Collating the entries for tonights photo competition #
  • Enjoying Day of the Dead – 70s style :-) Braiiinssss #
  • If the bloody Sky box is going to keep crashing, why can't they add an on/off button so I don't have to yank the power. #firstworldproblem #
  • I was so angry just then that I had to go for a run. And, anyone who knows me, knows that I would have had to be pretty mad. #
  • Whoah. Time to clean up my desktops (real and digital) #
  • I'm sorry Dave. I really can't allow you to do that. #
  • AEon Flux – more fun than it should be. Scores a one. #binaryreview #
  • That's it. I've got to clear three hours this week to watch 2001 again. #
  • Who else hated the use of Papyrus for subtitles in Avatar? Anyone? Anyone? #
  • In fact the only thing in all of 2001 that irks me is the choice of Alburtus for the subtitle "The Dawn of Man" Shoulda stuck to Futura. #
  • Glad to see The Guardian thinks 2001 A Space Odyssey is the best SciFi film. It is. #
  • Police are glad that Benoît Mandelbrot wasn't murdered. It would have taken them literally forever to draw the chalk line. #
  • I think it's sushi night at the Hamlyn's tonight. #
  • Oooh, I gotta buy Sony's new FPOS: http://bit.ly/89n4Sk (Do NOT visit if you are allergic to swearing, or are at work) :-) #
  • Am I the only one who thought they should've put numbers on those miners to make it an international lottery draw. #
  • I just love grey and orange together. If anyone disagrees with me can you send me your Pantone refills? I'll swap you for some greens. #
  • Bizarre. There's a floor zero in the Woking car park. #
  • Here's one more status update to add to the internet echo chamber. #
  • BTW: "The Social Network" scores top marks on the binary review scale – 1 #
  • Blimey, @leolaporte takes fifteen minutes to ramble out his review of "The Social Network" – like an awful segment on a shopping channel #
  • 42 #
  • 101010 #
  • It's fun meeting your pals as they leave work? Do they wear suits? Or, bright green boaters? #
  • That's it. I'm in tears: http://bit.ly/9P3qLx – Thanks Rob :-) #
  • In a nice coffee/sandwich place in #Woking called Fresch. I recommend the double espresso here. #
  • I'm used to be pulled from pillar to post. But, it seems as if someone moved the pillar and the post further apart this week. #
  • I've got those post diving furry hands. #
  • Talking of Speccy nerdery. There can only be a couple of people in the word exited by this: http://bit.ly/c8IvfY – I'm one of them. #
  • If you had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1982, you might get a kick out of watching 16K load: http://bit.ly/bKiT2N – It's music I tell you. #
  • Loved the fact that @profbriancox finished with this Carl Sagan passage: http://j.mp/chHlWd #
  • VLC for iPad – hooray. #
  • I am excited to be listening to @ProfBrianCox talk at the @britishlibrary today. Got Carl Sagan as a warm-up on the iPod. #
  • Listening to Adam &The Ants' "Dog Eat Dog" – Sounds great, gonna re-live the whole album. #
  • Stunning Image: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100917.html via #NASA_App #
  • Looking forward to sitting in on Professor Brian Cox's talk at the #britishlibrary on Monday. #
  • Blah blah, Pope, blah blah. Yawn. #
  • #Transmit from #Panic gives you the option to update itself on Quit. So simple. So polite. So why doesn't all software do this? #
  • "Thank you for smoking" gets a one. #binaryreview #
  • Do any of the Nike+ iPhone apps actually work? #
  • Blimey, Assalam Allekum (a dying man, apparently) has bequeathed £18m dollars to me. He just emailed me the good news. My lucky day. #
  • Homeopath's make terrible tea :-) #
  • Please spend five minutes of your day to take a look at these beautiful astronomy photos: http://bbc.in/a06ZqD #
  • and, if you thought that was pretty: http://j.mp/967s6J #
  • Absoloutley PAC-tastic: http://j.mp/9IAWpL #
  • Ooh. Conkers. #
  • Murphy and his bloody stupid law strikes. Not catastrophic just a niggling annoyance. #
  • Ouch: http://j.mp/c02YbL #
  • Whoa! There's gonna be a 2001: A Space Odyssey documentary: http://bit.ly/9sgybw – One of my top one films of all time. Simply gorgeous. #
  • Playing hundreds of versions of "Brazil" in Spotify. I love this song :-) #
  • Lesson in life #256 You should never suck a Fisherman's Friend while drinking a coffee. #
  • Adobe Illustrator quits on me after half an hour's work without saving. Really, is it necessary to have to remember to save in 2010? #
  • Shoot me now. I'm listening to show tunes and enjoying them. #
  • I often find that deadlines are a moveable feast. #
  • You know, it's worth saying that I am very happy I didn't live in London 70 years ago. Worst I have suffered is an economic downturn. #
  • Need. Coffee. Now. #
  • It's been a full on weekend, and tonights sleep is promising to be the best ever. No cheese required. #
  • Wow. http://j.mp/ay8PpY #
  • Check out — "Welcome to Seahouses" http://t.co/VtJcp4r via @youtube #
  • Sourcing images with that @DAVID_LYNCH "Eye of the Duck" quality. #
  • Urgh. Don't feel well. I don't like to complain though. Don't worry about me, I'll soldier on. Can. Barely. Lift Mouse… #
  • Back from a breakfast meeting, and it's not even nine! This is going to be a long day. #
  • I have just created the best desktop wallpaper ever :-) #
  • SuperDuper gets me out of real trouble. Dodged a bullet there. Phew! #
  • Put ten years worth of old coppers into one of those counting machines. very satisfying, and nearly fifty quid to boot. #
  • Dictating to my iPad using #Dragon – unbelievable, it actually works! #
  • OK, so #iOS4 has got copy/paste. Can I now humbly request an 'undo' command. #
  • In my break-out area. Contemplating a big website upgrade. Hand on chin. Pen behind ear. Propellor hat on. #
  • Running DiskWarrior to jhoosh-up my Mac. See you in an hour or two Internet. #
  • I want to back to the old days when copied text was just the plain text which would take on the style of the paste location. #
  • Blimey. An email deluge this morning. Nearly sixty! These will have to wait while I get on with something useful. #
  • Upsold during my haircut to include a tube of putty-stuff. Better be good. #
  • Hey. I just discovered my friend's (Graham Smith) digital paintings portfolio: http://bit.ly/aTT9Ae – Cool. #
  • Super proud of @sjhamlyn in attaining her accreditation. Updated my address book to 'Sarah Hamlyn MA Acr' – Ooooh. #
  • Listening to the "Inception" soundtrack while I work. If I am inspired will I know that it's my own idea? #
  • And, for nerds of about my age, there's Tron legacy: http://imdb.to/c7sgTF – End of Line. #
  • There is no way that I am going to watch Toy Story 3 in public. A film 'that makes grown men cry'. I hate staring at the 'Exit' sign. #
  • For the first time in years I am going to watch a film at the cinema twice – "Inception" #
  • Hmm. Preparing myself for a disappointment. #
  • Blimey. I just ate some "Stagg 'Dynamite Hot' Chilli" – A 'spicy' product that lives up to it's name. Ears are sweating. #
  • Name that tune: Dum dum dum dum-de-dum dum-de-dum… #
  • Just lost an estimate that I have been working on and have to start over again. Cloud bloody computing. #
  • If you ever need cheering up. Check out the phenomenon of leek swinging. #
  • Whoa. Rain. Lots of rain. Wow-wee #
  • When leaving the doctors surgery after she shone lights in my eyes I exited via the store cupboard. Embarrasing. #
  • 30 Days of Night. A proper horrible horror film :-) #
  • Is David Bowie on Twitter? #
  • Just noticed that I follow @boagworld and @designerpixel who's respective logo's share a common genesis. The @designerpixel is better. #
  • “I didn’t know the Scientologists had a church on Tottenham Court Road. Just hurried past in case the stupid rubs off.” (via @SLSingh) #
  • I have to go and see "Inception" again – It was that good. #
  • Thanks iOS4.01 for clarifying how poor O2 coverage is at my house. Orange is no better though. #
  • Two mind bending films today. Both score a 1 on the Binary Review scale: "Inception" and "Timecrimes". Now to eat some cheese and sleep. #
  • Foof. It's a bit blowey. #
  • On a tube line, a long, long time ago… http://bit.ly/a5ax85 #
  • It's now 12 – and I haven't done anything from my list. Arrrgh. #
  • Just found out about Microsoft Tags. What an innovative idea. #
  • The full English breakfast looked lovely at this mornings meeting. I stuck to toast (and therefore the diet). Turning into a bacon sniffer. #
  • ExpressionEngine 2.1 released! http://cot.ag/9CIeEG #eecms (via @EllisLab) #
  • Trying to get excited by a trip to Sainsbury's. 'Try something different today' they say. How about Waitrose? (Drum roll. Cymbals clash). #
  • What happened to Sunday? Mariusz' Polish vodka on Saturday put paid to that. #
  • Sitting in car alone before meeting. iPad emailing. Single serving coffee. I am Tyler Durden. #
  • Fascinating: Drowning doesn't look like drowning: http://bit.ly/b3gE7Q #
  • "Introducing 'Cat' – the new compact selfish dog" – Gotta love David Mitchell :-) #
  • No internet access all afternoon. Dark Ages again. Humph #
  • I love Clint's shirt. Beautiful. #
  • I love the Technicolor in these 70's films, and the 'not as slick as nowadays' camerawork. Feels authentic. #
  • Just sitting down to watch "Play Misty For Me". No idea if this is any good. Clint's in his big hair phase. #
  • Watching James Burke's "Connections". Or, am I? #
  • I have a 2cm butternut squash! #
  • Enjoyed "Daybreakers". #
  • I saw my first ever Red Squirrel. #
  • Well, now I'm suffering from post match blues. I am never ever going to put myself through that again. #
  • Blimey, I picked a hell of a game to start watching football. I'm having a heart attack. Come on England. #
  • Chuffed to have tickets to see Professor Brian Cox :-) #
  • I don't actually like the little folder icons that you get on iOS4. I want to choose from a bunch of folder icons (with different colours) #
  • It's gonna be a late start today. Long day yesterday. #
  • Enjoying a meeting with Macandrews #
  • Humph. People over the road have those monotone World Cup trumpet things. #
  • The world has gone really quiet. Nothing on the road outside. The phone has stopped ringing. I have no emails. Must be something up. #
  • I miss Carl Sagan: http://bit.ly/aCl5TX #
  • I really would like to watch "The Creeping Flesh" again. I love those old Peter Cushing horror flicks. #
  • Every time the World Cup is on TV I think we are being attacked by a swarm of killer bees. #
  • All these hard core sea fishermen look like Quint. #
  • Weird weather. #
  • O2 contracts for iPhone 4 are only 500MB – Arrgh! #
  • Looks like I might be dumping O2 for the iphone The new tariffs are a bad move on their part. #
  • I purchased a pack of 16 AAA batteries online. I seem to be getting an order confirmation for each battery. #
  • Just set up an irrigation system. #
  • The longer this day of accounts goes on, the worse my mood :-( #
  • Just buggered-up my first online VAT submission. Now facing on-hold torture with a 6-second loop of jazz noodling. I hate jazz. #
  • Bought myself a man-bag. #
  • It strikes me that at the bottom of one in fifteen 50L white bin bags is a bit of paper proclaiming 'fifteen 50L white bin bags'. #
  • Just bought a book on Kindle app on iPad. This thing is an awesome way to spend money. #
  • After today's diving I wanted to say that I have never seen bad visibility like that before. Is that an oxymoron? Or a tautology? #
  • I am going to say this once. I love this iPad :-) #
  • I've been abandonned in the shopping centre. Better find an adult. #
  • UPS is here. the wait is over. #
  • It won't be long before this is true: http://onion.com/d4rE4u #google #advertising #
  • Bugger, I have run out of coffee. Anyone in the Woking area drop me off a jar? #
  • Tapbots make the most gorgeous iPhone app user interfaces. A real pleasure to use – you want to use them even if you don't need to. #
  • Waiting for UPS delivery #
  • The perfect iPad accessory: http://bit.ly/b3lvLd #
  • It's my lucky day. A representative from the Bank of Ghana wants to transfer money. Just after a Nigerian Prince contacted me for the same. #
  • Out goes Yojimbo. Hello Evernote. #
  • Due to releasing the mouse button at the wrong time I have set the mac off opening hundreds of windows. Can this be stopped? Aargh. #
  • Sitting in the garden enjoying the morning sun before beaming aboard the Associate Design orbiting headquarters. #
  • It's optical illusion Friday. Take a look at this, it'll bend your brain: http://bit.ly/2cSAB #
  • Dissapointed that the Brian Cox doc about Carl Sagan is not on iPlayer. Copyright restrictions. #
  • Every now and then I have to watch '2001: A Space Odyssey' – If not the best film ever made, then the best SciFi film ever made. #
  • Got. To. Stop. Watching. Crap. SciFi. #
  • Hey, War of the Worlds 2 is directed by C Thomas Howel – He was the guy in The Hitcher. Weird. And, he grew up too… He's all craggy. #
  • Who the hell acclamed 'V'.worst kind of molodramatic tosh. Oh my god, it's followed by 'War of the Worlds 2' – SyFy the nadir of Sci Fi :-( #
  • Here's a nice little bit of optical illusion fun for a Friday: http://bit.ly/9loJI3 – Enjoy, and have a good weekend! #
  • The Mothercare logo doesn't look so great when it is covered in rows and rows of spikes to keep the pigeons off. #
  • The iPad with 3G is aesthetically inferior to the less feature-rich WiFi version. Apple thinks so too, all their marketing features the WiFi #
  • Anything I can sign to stop films bieng made in 3D? It's a childish idea and it looks crap. There isn't one film that's better for it. Fact. #
  • After hearing two interviews with the man, I conclude that Russell Crowe is seven different kinds of an insuferable arse. #
  • Prime Minister regenerated yesterday Who-style. Complete with a companion. Da da da da, da da da da. Ooooo ooo. Woo woo woo woo we wooo #
  • We've been Con Dem d :-) #
  • ipad ordered. Now to put my immaculate Macbook Air on eBay. #
  • http://j.mp/dvcGgU A lot to take in, and a unatural love of green, but well worth a look. A lover of Information is Beautiful. #
  • Weta Digital did these election graphics. That Andew Marr is all done with computers you know. #
  • Settling down to take in the Channel 4 graphic fest #
  • Im in a great big meeting room with just me in it. Time to check the date of this event. #
  • After all the fuss, the act of voting is a bit of a anticlinax. They should at least play some dramatic music and a drum roll. #
  • Stuck at Waterloo for fifty minutes until the last train to Woking. Humph. #
  • Got my sticky hands on an ipad. Verrry coool. #
  • I'm going to leave the Associate Design orbiting headquarters to make a coffee. Pound to a bucket of ferrets the phone will ring. #
  • Productive day. Chuffed. #
  • Now watching Brainstorm then Dark Star. I am so enjoying this evening #
  • Rewatching The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Episode 1 Earth destroyed. Take that V with you ponderous plodding boring story. #
  • That is the last episode of "V" that I am going to watch. The most boring invasion of earth ever. #
  • Today was the day that Gordon Brown lost the election for the Labour Party. Oh well, he can send in a video to "You've been Framed" for £100 #
  • It'd be great if they made an Election Edition set of Top Trumps. #
  • V – how the aliens invade earth in the most boring way possible. Week four: Nothing happens. Tune in next week… #
  • Just ate lunch in Gourmet Burger Kitchen in Wimbledon. Scores a one on the binary review scale. #
  • Massive multitasking faliure this morning. Boiled two eggs dry until they burned. The smell in here is something else. #
  • Blinkey Blimely. I wish I could work outdoors. #
  • My prediction for the fashionistos for this Summer: braces. You read it here first folks. #
  • I have now just witnessed the nadir of the 'low slung jeans' meme. The chap had to swing his legs really wide just to keep them up. #
  • Looks like Mr Jones will enjoy the iPad: http://bit.ly/98tzhT #
  • Every hour, somewhere in this house there is a device that emits a single annoying beep. When I find it I am going to introduce it to water #
  • Oh, there's the ash. Blimey. It looks post apocolyptic out there. #
  • It is funny looking up without airplane contrails. #
  • Got to be brave now and find out what is scuttling around in the loft. #
  • Well that was a morning wasted #
  • Got power now. But no Internet. #
  • I had better go out and check that the robots haven't taken over. #
  • Power cut. Boom, I'm in the 19th century. Not a great place to be for a digital designer on a deadline. #
  • Humph: The start of a day of corrections, changes and alternative versions. #
  • I still can't love the UK 2012 Olympic logo. It's just too ugly. #
  • They sell a gooey Creme Egg ice cream here which looks bloody horrible. Coffee is not bad though. #
  • Anyone In the Croydon area who wants to speak with a top notch designer about a project? I'm having a coffee in a McDonalds on Purley Way #
  • At my meeting an hour early. Just can't seem to estimate the weight of traffic on the M25. Are the kids on holiday? #
  • Watching horror film. Now super scared and telling you this as a displacement activity. #
  • #Apple #iPad in the UK: An invisible and revolutionary product at an unknown price. #
  • May! #
  • Hairdresser just told me that I am "going for the silver fox look" – the cheek! #
  • When people say that such and such a person is a bit "anal" is this derived from the word "analytical" I wonder? Just thaught of that. Bing. #
  • I really hope 3D goes away. #
  • Little pleasures in life: Shredding documents. Popping the seal on instant coffee jars. #
  • Why all the fuss over Easter Eggs? Hot Cross Buns are where it’s at. #
  • New Dr Who = 1 #
  • This is easy. "The fourth kind" scores a zero on the binary scale. #
  • Well, we will all have done it by this afternoon: http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1269946593280RA72 – thanks to @designerpixel – God I look ill #
  • I'll bet a pound to a bucket of ferrets that I am going to be asked to Photoshop out this lions genitals before this brochure goes to print #
  • Dark matter, dark energy, dark flow. Blimey Horizion let's see you do this in an hour… #
  • I think I have turned the corner in my fight against rhinovirus. Hurrah. #
  • Took a minute to register for organ donation. If you have a minute, and are like minded, go here: http://bit.ly/18sgsS #
  • Congested. Headache. Achey – On the bright side I can drink Night Nurse, lovely. #
  • I am gonna beat this bug by the power of my mind. I will now stare into space and wobble my head to some Pink Floyd.. Take that rhinovirus. #
  • Tonight: Last two episodes of "Doll House". Loving the direction this series took. Could have dragged it out in an episodic way for ages. #
  • I've got a headache. I never get headaches :-( #
  • BT hijacked my entire internet connection today to try and foist some software on me (that is not even Mac compatible). Unbelivable. #
  • Morning Monday. What's it gonna be then eh? #
  • Look in the illustrated dictionary of my life, under "hypochondriac" you will find a full colour photo of my wife. Hide the thermometer! #
  • Whatever it is I'm doing. I'd rather be diving. #
  • Sunday: Working. Comping a mouse onto the end of a lions nose. Who'da thought it. #
  • My magazine arrived in a plastic wrap that claimed that it "dissolved in warm water". Well it kind of "broke down" into little bits. #
  • Woking are getting a smart new Apple Reseller Store just in time to sell me an iPad. #
  • I am getting more and more frustrated at not bieng able to find out what the painting depicts in my bedroom: Girl, floor, letter, open door. #
  • Last year I tried an impirical(ish) test on a washing powder that "reduced drying time". It didn't. How could it? #
  • Shutter Island is a one on the good old Binary Review scale. A good bit of hokum, with a "twist" you can see a mile off. #
  • Vanish have now got "Stain Seeking Technology" – Blimey #
  • What exactly is Vanish(tm) Dirt Detecting Technology(tm) #
  • Today, a beloved client referred to a drop-down menu as 'a little door'. Sweet. #
  • I am confident that I am going to win 'best vegetable'. Well, not me personally – my butternut squash (just a seed at the moment) #
  • Oooh. Tron Legacy. That's all. End of line. #
  • Logorama. Genius: http://bit.ly/cDXgWL #
  • Apparently the UK price for their 'magical device' is so 'unbelievable' that they don't tell us what it is #apple #ipad http://bit.ly/cLlPvs #
  • I have dug around my veg patch in preparation for spring (come on) and put a box of mushroom spores in the dark under the stairs. #
  • I've just been up on the roof. There's something I'll never be doing again. Period. #
  • Seems to me that William Borroughs has started to send me spam. #
  • Playing "Heavy Rain" on the PS3 is like an adult version of "BopIt" #heavyrain #ps3 #charltonbrooker #
  • Today I got abused by some old people, one with an oxygen kit and tubes up her nose and everything. A real David Lynch moment. #
  • Found out today that the lyrics in David Bowie's "Little Wonder" contain the names of all the seven dwarves. Bonkers. #
  • I see "The Lives of Others" is on TV this week. A heartfelt recomendation. #
  • Binary Reviews: Up in the Air: 1. Inglorious Basterds: 0. As ever, no explaination or elaboration. The Binary Review is a harsh mistress. #
  • Taking the hoover upstairs turned Into a Jaques Tati sequence: Bits fell off, the tube wrapped around my leg, the cat attacked the brush… #
  • Lady in Dixons asked me if she 'could help me', politley I said she could – She couldn't (unless my problem was reading off the packaging). #
  • "Moon" won a BAFTA! #
  • The Star Trek universe seems to be populated with thousands of aliens differentiated only by the shape of thiier nose (oh, and ears). #
  • I hate the user interface on the parking payment machines in Woking's car parks. I do not need an animated bee to tell me to pay £1.10 #
  • Kind of wishing I started this project on EE1 rather than EE2 (beta). #
  • There seems to be an infinite amount of Poirot episodes. #
  • …especilly after watching @aleksk on #bbcvirtualrevolutions – which I recommend (currently on iplayer). #
  • Quote from The Guardian today: "In the real world the Devil is in the details, online it's in the defaults" – I keep mulling that over… #
  • "Frost/Nixon" scores a '1' on the binary review scale. Now learning about the JML PaintPad Pro #
  • For days now, every time I hear the words "Gordon Brown…" a voice in my head adds "…texture like sun" I hate my left brain. #
  • Five blades (count 'em), Lubrastrip(R) & top-o-the range hydrovonic gel – and I still walk out of the bathroom with tissue stuck to my face #
  • Blimey, what a horrid, horrid person Enid Blyton turned out to be. No amount of Ginger Beer is going to make me forget what I have just seen #
  • Binary Review of Friday viewing: Terminator Salvation = 1. The Fog =1. Alan Carr = 0 #
  • Watching John Carpenter's "The Fog" – never saw this before… #
  • Oh, they've updated all the special effects on the original Star Trek. #
  • It's Pinot Grigio night. Settling down to watch Terminator Salvation. #
  • I'm gonna be working all weekend. Can't moan though in this economy :-) #
  • Question: Can you 'print' from an iPad? #
  • Laptops look so 'last year'. Anyone want to buy a little less loved MacBook Air in April? #
  • I am in the zone. #
  • I want to find the perfect glass cup to show off my preferred leaf-based beverage – weak green (gunpowder) tea. #
  • "Tax doesn't have to be taxing" my arse. #
  • I will not be contactable tomorrow from about five onwards as I will be stuck into the Apple hype machine. It's a hobby I suppose :-) #
  • Avatar: 3D visuals with a 2D story and 1D characters. Amazing to watch – Once. #
  • Avatar scores a 1 on the binary scale. #
  • Calling my creative friends – Got any suggestions of 'things clients say' to add to the new section of the website – http://bit.ly/5s95Ia #
  • The lack of any design effort on typical 'unsubscribe' pages illustrates the total destain that these email marketers have for recipients. #
  • Inexplicably tired today. I tried to lock the front door with the car remote central locking doofer. Beep boop. #
  • Found out why I wasn't getting meeting reminders. Theres a checkbox called 'Turn off all alarms' in iCal – But why would I have ticked it? #
  • Derren Brown is an amazing artist. Who knew? – http://bit.ly/NWG3H #
  • I have been playing a PS3 game called 'Fallout 3' on-and-off now for over a year. Just bought some add ons, so it'll keep going.. #
  • Listening to 'Space Oddity (Space Oddity 40th Anniversary Edition)'.Thanks to @realworldcs for reminding me that I had Spotify. #
  • I am fed up of hunting around the Illustrator tool palette for the bloody 'cut vector path' tool. It's all clogged up with stuff I never use #
  • My second joke the on @boagworld podcast :-) And, I'm not bloody northern! #
  • My front door to the Oval via car, train and tube – 45 minutes. Not bad. #
  • Listened-in on some lads down from 'up north' for their first day in the Army. All calling their mum's and chatting. They were so 'young'. #
  • You know what, after all these years I still enjoyed "Rocky". #
  • One hour ten minutes for a quarter of a mile round-trip (abandoned station run). Saw two accidents and a skid. #
  • Looks like four inches already, and still falling – can't see any Tarmac out there. #
  • I'm considering never responding to leads who use a hotmail address. #
  • Aargh! More bloody snow. Here we go again. #
  • The car park machine in Wimbledon just took £6.50 off my card without my having to enter a PIN. I just put it in and it popped out debited! #
  • This snow is staring to get on my nerves. No post or deliveries for four days. #
  • Perfect night in. QI and a pizza. Oh, and a bottle of Pinot Grigio and The Missis, and Mr Jones begging for food. #
  • Oooh, sold another 'instant brand' package. There might be something in this. #
  • Wow! – Frozen Britain seen from above http://bit.ly/4T3Mwn #
  • Has anyone clicked the 'I'm feeling Lucky' button on Google recently. Fireworks! #
  • Sorting out my font problem for once and all. Could take a bit of time… #
  • I am not going to try driving again until this ice goes away. #
  • Snowed in. Power-cuts. Time to stock-up with Spam and powdered eggs. #
  • Just dated my first cheque '2010' – The new year has officially started. #
  • I don't fancy Phil's chances for a sympathy when he gets home today. #
  • If I needed to 'phone a friend' due to a difficult bird-related question. I now know to call Corin Page. Twitch. #
  • Argh. I must learn to spell this year. #
  • So, THIS is 2010. Hovercars? Domestic robots? Living in a dome? Oh well, there's allways Dr Who. #
  • Off to play Wii. Hope that Ant & Dec don't hog the controller all night. #
  • Just thaught I'd get in before Twitter crashes and the mobile networks get overloaded. Happy New Year! #
  • If you have an iPhone or iPod touch download Apple's "12 Days" app – you get a free app for every day of Christmas. Cool. #
  • Best meal of Christmas; Leftovers. Fact. #
  • "Sherlock Holmes" scores a one on the binary review scale against all expectations. #
  • Setting the table now to "Dark Star". you can't help but do things in a very 'mysterious' and deliberate fashion. Place, a, fork.. #
  • Ooh, cooking to the theme music from "The Thing". An odd experience. Everyone shoud try it. #
  • Preparing the first of three consecutive Christmas dinners. Salad at the weekend :-) Happy Christmas to everyone. Ching ching ching.. #
  • If you're into Enigma and the code-breakers story you might like some photos I took at Bletchley Park this year – http://bit.ly/8XYpUj #
  • It's snowing. :-) #
  • So good to have found this again. Makes me laugh every time I watch it :-) http://bit.ly/R1VkL #
  • iTunes has started banging out some classical music, so I've come over all 'Inspector Morse'. #
  • A client's site was hacked yesterday. All sorts of grief. Who are these people? #
  • 8 out of ten listeners (who expressed a preference) love Radio 4's "More or Less" #
  • What are 'Gizmos' and how are they different to 'Gadgets'? #
  • If you have any idea what Apache, MySQL, PHP and Zend Optimizer are then you might be able to guess the kind of horror I have faced today. #
  • 'Cheese dreams' experiment inconclusive. Cheddar = dreams, mozzerella = dreams, control (no cheese) = dreams. I need more funding. #
  • Woking away to the MOS 80's Anthems Album and loving it! Seriously, it's as if the last thirty years never happened. Here's Scritti Politti. #
  • Blimey. I had the most convolouted dream ever. And, I can confirm that I did eat some cheese before bed. I will run a control tonight. #
  • David Attenborough joins my list of TV heros: Carl Sagan, Tony Hart, Johnny Ball, Patrick Moore and that bloke who did 'Connections'. #
  • Watching these guys land on the moon for the first time is just truly awsome. Wish I could have been around back in the 60's to live it. #
  • RCA student radically improves the UK plug – http://bit.ly/1bdNkc – Beautiful #
  • It's the dive club dog and pony show #
  • Someone is impersonating my wife on Facebook. And, they don't want to be my friend. Hmm. #
  • Whoa. "spacer.gif" – this takes me back! #
  • Thanks to @realworldcs for making me laugh: How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell – The Oatmeal http://bit.ly/6XCosG #
  • Taking ownership of a website that was developed by someone else is proving 'interesting'. #
  • People wearing rucksacks should appreciate that they are, indeed, wearing a rucksack. #
  • Double Espresso. Now that's how to kick start your day. Can't stop shaking. #
  • Sounds like there will be a BluRay version of Barry Lyndon. A film that deserves the high definition treatment – http://bit.ly/7rsGRF #
  • Just re-read "A Fall of Moondust" by Arthur C Clarke. Scores a '1' on the binary scale. Really very good indeed. #

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