Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16

  • More house stuff today, including getting rid of thistles at our rented place. Why do I always get a splinter off thistles. #
  • BD56 TNZ Kardos recovery van with digger on back, overtakes on blind bend, oncoming traffic, panics. O cruel, unpredictable fate! #cagerfail #
  • W838 RUJ wishes every morning for invention of the 'Hand Brake' so that he might pass Eynsham traffic lights not dangerously or illegall ... #
  • After 2wks of #R3 am, accidentally caught 5s of #Wogan's sarcasm on #R2: "Oh, no, they're birds, you can't shoot them." I ain't going back. #
  • I would like to upload a photo to #Flickr, not via email, and have its upload tweeted. Looks like I either have to use email or not tweet. #
  • @alpower @twfeed looks good, but wouldn't accept my self-hosted #OpenID at registration. Now I'm registered I can't switch to OpenID. Hrm. #
  • Photo: A patchy blue wall: eustatius posted a photo:

    The first wall to be painted in our house: first coat! http://bit.ly/EgM1D #

  • @purserhallard Congratulations to you, Bea and the wee mite. I don't know why I always call newborns that. #
  • RT @bengoldacre Best.Apology.Ever: via @mippy http://bit.ly/D55j5 #
  • @serafinowicz harnesses power of #twitterverse, gets show to 1 on #Amazon's hot future releases http://tinyurl.com/m8zzcf (via @minuferdows) #
  • @darwin @djharris my manbag is by Samsonite. I like to think that makes it harder than the average manbag. Please don't disillusion me. #
  • A combination of early finishes, TOIL, wfh, meetings and summer holidays has emptied out U8 of all but me. Time for some Rhythm And Stealth. #
  • @paulcarr on Murdoch: ... realises this... possible motive... attention seeking.... tedious effect... Michael O’Leary http://bit.ly/7aZLQ #
  • @stevejalim @djharris RRRRAGH! SAMSONITE SMASH...! [gunshot] #
  • Needle excavation + Germolene + 24-hour plaster good for getting rid of splinters, but try not to look at it the next day when you clean it. #
  • @jpstacey might what? Is this like The Little Engine That Could? #
  • @vigornian in Twitter, nobody can see you thread. #
  • On hold to #vodafone for what seems like years. Why does hold music go all crackly on mobile phones? Signal spots no voice & auto-degrades. #
  • #Vodafone won't be able to talk to me before the customer service dept closes at 8pm. Maybe they want to get more staff: that would do it. #
  • Wow: #Vodafone still doing considerably better than #O2, who have a Proxy Error on their .co.uk homepage #
  • #Vodafone's confirmation emails are in HTML with HTTPS URLs so you can't copy from a text email client and you can't click either. #fail #
  • and paste #
  • @BestsellerUK just because I tweet about #Amazon bestseller lists doesn't mean I shop there. Or want you to follow me. #mocknblock #
  • @Randy_Swanston is a chiropractor with the URL "ultimatewealthx.com/morecash". Maybe he should get in touch with @bengoldacre #mocknblock #
  • @Randy_Swanston follows me & is a chiropractor with site http://www.megawealthtraining.com . Maybe @bengoldacre could do with training? #mocknblock #
  • #Vodafone make it impossible to find how to change your address online. I might regret ever paying £10 for phone unlocking, but here we go. #
  • Curses. Sorry, everyone. #Tweetdeck sends a tweet if you do a search part-way through writing it. #fail #
  • Anyway, we've started actually paying for our house, as of today. A bit of a shock, but I can't wait for 10 July 2034! #
  • The Pit and the Pendulum is either a closely observed study of the experience of pure horror or the meandering plotting of a madhead. #poe #
  • RY06 CHO Uniheat are #gassafe but also #vanunsafe. Would you get your boiler checked by someone who can't overtake properly? #cagerfail #
  • Good luck to @j4 and @addedentry with #j2o-house moving today. #
  • RT @tomd my sister had a dream that she was an ipod touch. #
  • If your user has the ability to delete and re-add content, there's no point in trying to crowbar in a mythical hidden "added on" date. #cms #
  • RT @mapkyca ID Card security breaches before the system is already built. http://3la.cc/3k <- I'd hate to have an iceberg tip in *my* heart. #
  • Why is the enabler for file permissions under "Workflow Settings" on #drupal content types? That gets me every time. #
  • The splinter I thought I'd removed is still ow in there, but no longer ow so deep that it isn't ow being pushed ow out ow ow ow tweezers ow? #
  • Photo: North Leigh in the summer sun: eustatius posted a photo: http://bit.ly/nZLV3 #
  • "Not accidents... don't happen by chance. They happen because people drive carelessly." Safety notice bleeds when wet: http://bit.ly/Yy1hZ #
  • Trying to work out if my finger is now sore with a splinter, or just sore from being picked at. I could totally be a surgeon, you know. #
  • @brighty believe me, if there'd been Twitter in 1999, you'd all have heard the gory details about my broken scaphoid and Hilbert Screw. #
  • Among the grapefruity oranges last week Abel & Cole secreted an orangey grapefruit. I certainly feel like I've had my Vitamin C for the day. #
  • Surprise seminar! Heads down now to begin researching and writing illuminating code samples for second #drupal seminar in, er, 3.5hrs #
  • Trying to work out why @stevejalim thinks he needs a slap, and whether or not the "why" matters #
  • #welovethenhs because no man is an island, entire of itself; because any man's death diminishes me; because I am involved in mankind. #
  • @brighty @stevejalim Ned's were certainly unique. Two bassists, weren't they? I like 'em now more than then, like the Lemonheads #
  • #welovethenhs and we want to keep it from management consultants, and not *ourselves* be followed by them, @leanhealthcare #mocknblock #
  • #Vodafone UK 3g coverage map doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome. Funny #Orange and #O2 can manage it. #fail #
  • @j4 maps from this form look OK in Firefox - they're just images, although the site does do some tossy cookie thing http://bit.ly/fgbmy #
  • @drewm I think the backslash is an aesthetically bad decision. But it's dictated by the previous history of such in PHP. Embrace ugliness! #
  • When bloodloss meant a bone in my hand was in danger of dying in situ, the NHS fixed it even though I was a penniless student. #welovethenhs #
  • @drewm that *is* a mess. But PHP has used the arrow, braces, the dot, the double colin... what's left? The ellipsis? LEXER/PARSER ON FIRE. #
  • @serafinowicz it's not National Heroin Service, though, unless you're very lucky. Well, unlucky, given why they'd give you heroin. #
  • If any of @Torchbox are passing near Charlbury tomorrow at 830ish then I'd appreciate a lift from MOT garage. #
  • As I don't quite know why an unlock code from @UniquePhones would take two days to prepare, I'm unsurprised it's already taken an extra day. #
  • @djharris that would be smashing if you're going to be around. [pats pockets] Can you put it on my tab? #
  • @wesayso I think it's fair to say from @djharris' excellent driving (despite his game leg) that he's no cager.... #
  • Email arrives re: phone unlock code... and connection to my mail hosting dies. This is what life was like before Google. #
  • Oh. It was just confirming receipt of *my* email to them. Ho hum. #
  • Reached out absentmindedly to the fuzzy mug-shaped object at the edge of my glasses' field of vision... and picked up the toilet roll. #
  • RE52 VRT Thames Water van pulls out and turns left in one fluid, indicator-free movement. #cagerfail #
  • #E71 unlock code from @UniquePhones now definitely late. According to support staff should arrive by the estimated delivery date: yesterday. #
  • RT @torchbox http://twitpic.com/dq9ty - Bat Lady managed to nurse the ailing bat we found in the office last week back to full health. #
  • @nickrhind we were briefly a bit worried it might have ended up as a snack, actually #
  • Got to our new home / ready for three hours' painting / Keys in other house. #failku #
  • Feeling rough from early morning and what I hope is a bit of windows-open-all-night hayfever, but stepping into our new home lifted my mood. #
  • NHS informs: "The news is based on a scientific study commissioned by the Direct Line insurance company." http://bit.ly/LTW3q #welovethenhs #
  • Red Gate Software, Cambridge, sets up a #startup incubator / #hackhouse: free food, free desk http://bit.ly/5ZSvA #
  • How perverse does your coding have to be to prevent #drupal devel module query reporting from getting to the frontend? #fail #
  • My fever finally broke after 5mins of frightening sweating during yesterday's wedding. Weird how you don't notice the fog till it's gone. #
  • West Oxon #Freecycle denizens generally a pain. Considering changing "Please give mobile number" to "Please give number of *working* mobile" #
  • Recent wanteds on Witney Freecycle: conservatory suite, fridge-freezer, bed (x2), binoculars, laptop. Yes, laptop. You do NOT get Freecycle. #

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