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• @simonmhawkins your child has extra heads? #
• @robinhouston you should see some of the personas that @torchbox has come up with in past. They had pictures and backstories and everything. #
• @didlix during redecorating, we take UHT milk round to new house to avoid buying from Tesco's. We always say UHT stands for "U Hate Tesco's" #
• just voted "NO" on "Do you belive that the NHS is a bad thing?" vote too ? http://bit.ly/ul8KQ #
• @robinhouston the idea is to improve both Jeremy and Verity's lot, rather than prioritizing hard-core developers: let's call them "J-P" #
• Photo: Half a Billy: eustatius posted a photo:

  One of our full-height Ikea Billy bookcases fell over las.. http://bit.ly/fmNMJ #

• #R5 grudgingly implies @bloggerheads is journalism (although Tom Mangold 'breaks' story) - will Private Eye or Nick Davies be next? #
• Wow, though, Donal's show on #r5 rather fell short over Usmanov, though, didn't it? They should've got @CraigMurrayOrg in to speak. #
• Idea for #R5 series: hard-working blogger researches primary sources on blog; "journalist" cries "Mazel Tov," breaks a glass, blesses story. #
• @robinhouston original post on #d7ux "personas" well worth a read regarding Jeremy's own opinion of the word "consultant"...! #
• BE03 BFZ silver SUV overtakes on blind corner, ONCOMING TRAFFIC, panics, swerves, rocks on suspension. Who'd have guessed? #cagerfail #
• @magicsnaps oh, I always pull over. I did wonder whether I could dictaphone them, but probably more trouble than worth wobble wobble agh..! #
• @didlix we have a freezer, but as we're only there one day in five it isn't switched on yet. Prob from this evening, though. Carpets today! #
• @Cheap_Gas_Bills and @CheapGasBills have both followed me in quick succession for no reason. Tweets are cheap, guys. #mocknblock #
• @rhodri's valve has closed after the MV Dixie Queen has passed downstream. #
• #reasonstobecheerful Bugfixing has changed over the years from a by-eye trawl through code to interesting unit-test coding in its own right. #
• @rhodri's valve has re-opened for the SB Gladys, which is passing upstream. #
• @rhodri gah, and there was me coding the twitterbot already. NOT ACTUALLY TRUE. #
• @timmillwood we find spreadsheets lead to non-CCK reqs appearing in field spec e.g. workflow, perms. Better sol'n, or build-as-spec? #drupal #
• @robertDouglass I don't think I'll forget "Nice Lobster gets unexpected Viking love" as long as I live (http://bit.ly/1iKC2l , @horncologne) #
• Link: Why Users Dumped Your Open Source App for Proprietary Software | ITworld http://bit.ly/AX39Y #
• "/foo/bar".split(/\//) in FF gives three elements (first blank); in IE7 it gives two. That can't be right. #javascript #
• @robinhouston yeah, horrid: self-inconsistent too. See solution by @dracos - use non-regex or http://bit.ly/44EfH #javascript #ie #
• @greg_harvey #ubercart panel at #drupalcon suggested that will be consistent with letter of PCI DSS but rely on company workflows for spirit #
• Photo: New sofa, new carpet...: eustatius posted a photo:

  ... wife just as novel and lovely as ever. Phew. http://bit.ly/19qgax #

• @greg_harvey we're moving slowly as we had to decorate new place. But that means we're sick of living in two houses. Roll on Sat. #
• Please RT: late, invalid objection to Witney Town Green - Oxfordshire County Council is 'embarrassed' by own officers http://bit.ly/CtBPA #
• "Creationists and #climatechange deniers have this in common: they don’t answer their critics." http://bit.ly/WEHtG , http://bit.ly/EdEac #
• @ImLondonBridge does the rivalry between you and @towerbridge actually stem from the lovely Millau Viaduct spurning your advances for his? #
• If someone at a company reads a complaining tweet, then searches for the tweeter's personal email and contacts them: good or bad behaviour? #
• @didlix it's fair game, yeah. Trying to think if behaviour is good (personal treatment) or bad (poor etiquette, trying to squash criticism) #
• @alpower true but what motivates companies (that have tried so hard to distances themselves from customer hoi polloi) to be responsive here? #
• @alpower I think this is a switched-on individual like you and @argle have mentioned. Still fed up with the company (not BT: down, @BTcare!) #
• Trying to compare Dyson and Miele cleaners (down, spambots); I like Dysons but they're confusing me by looking more like robots than vacs #
• @whatishen That's terrible. Get well soon! I'd say rest up and don't train - I thought that a lot of exercise was bad for glandular fever. #
• this unintentional lazyweb thing is great - thanks @htfb @julietk @_mmat_ @bangpound @j4 @davecranwell #
• @maddisondavid Ha! I have turned a large region of my Twitter network middle-class and middle-aged, or at any rate exposed them as such. #
• Link: Views 2: Basic Page View Flow | Angry Donuts: Programmatic breakdown of views http://bit.ly/HfVHz #
• @griffinkate because you're a perfectionist and I love that. #
• Time for some... card sorting! Who doesn't like card sorting? But who would really do it for their own site....? Pity me. #
• @greg_harvey you can change what gets sent over with hooks. solr wants a key/value array, and apachesolr chews a node down into that. #
• @greg_harvey in the alpha-5 we've used, hook_apachesolr_update_index(&$document, $node) #
• RT @purserhallard: Why are absolutely all male TV chefs giant cocks? http://bit.ly/XKOfZ #cycling #cagerfail #jamesmartinisacock #
• @greg_harvey the &$document is the key/value blob that gets sent over to Solr to decompose, passed by ref. $document['link'] ? #
• @greg_harvey we strip text from PDFs with #Tika and append to $document->text for indexing and it works great. #apachesolr #drupal #
• #reasonstobecheerful sharply defined problems with a range of technical solutions, some of which at least are really exciting to implement. #
• @griffinkate go on, tell them about how the @BTcare bot rang you up with Mariella Frostrup's voice. Does she also do religious predictions? #
• @jwebster ah, that old Inuit advice: "don't eat the yellow done-done." #
• @griffinkate has been waiting for 4h55m for a promised BT engineer - I wonder if he'll turn up in the next five minutes. #
• Shockingly bad behaviour from BT as @griffinkate waits FIVE HOURS for the promised engineer to not turn up. Second inconvenient lie from BT. #
• @j4 @griffinkate the @BTCare bot has indeed tried to ping me, despite last week's #mocknblock. #
• If BT's call centre staff and engineers were as reliable as the @BTCare bot's generic first-person tweets then we might have a line by now. #
• Radcliffe and Maconie have been doing this radio show for, what, over two years now? And it's still wonderfully the opposite of seamless #r2 #
• @robinhouston ding dong! #
• Bugger. Just finished upgrading a stack of #drupal modules on a new site to find that 6.14 has just been released. I mean, er, thanks, guys! #
• @sillage I don't generally tip deliveries of any sort: I don't know if there's logic there so much as lack of my perception of their effort. #
• Please RT #ogn 14 in a week's time: now sponsored by @openplatform, @torchbox and @apress and @overheardatmoo. More soon http://bit.ly/oUccS #
• Five hours of life wasted RT @griffinkate Just rang BT.... we *do* have a landline now; the "engineer" "installed" it by flicking a switch. #
• @griffinkate good job BT's previous incompetence and lying meant they were already waiving the £100 or so fee for that 5-hour switch-flick. #
• RT @bengoldacre: please RT to help find the cyclists injured by James Martin and ensure a prosecution http://bit.ly/3h72s3 #
• @griffinkate, in other words, while correlation is not causation, it sure as hell is correlation, so expect it to correlate and BEWARE. #
• @j4 I've just sent you an email, so I'm just tweeting to let you know I'll be ringing you in a sec to ask you if you've got it. #
• @robertDouglass I'm never completely sure about private methods myself. My pythonic background suggests: let other classes call and beware! #
• @robertDouglass had some clients really impressed with #Apache #Solr and #Drupal today. Serious props to everyone on the apachesolr project. #
• Scott Walker's Jackie on Marc Riley's show on #6music. Always forget how differently mental each Walker song is from every other Walker song #
• The rat control the cook! How is it possible the rat control the cook? #adambuxton http://bit.ly/SZRsX #
• @jamieandrews let's hear it for Team Bee! @ollywillans you all OK? Bees placid? Any possibility they can be saved without the queen? #
• @griffinkate what a lovely story #
• @griffinkate I'm ain't hatin'. I'm just, er, contemplatin'? #
• @garrettc screenshots of the copywriting for next S&T? (also for @kategriffin as she might be interested) #
• (Raises hand, obv) RT @Hicksdesign: Hands up who's heading over to Oxford Geek Night next Wednesday? http://bit.ly/4cFrb #
• @benwerd Twitter is to the traditional web what small ideas are to big ideas: building blocks, available for anyone to use. #
• @benwerd for inspiration, @glinner wrote this, directed at commentators who don't get Twitter but won't shut up about it http://bit.ly/X5wf4 #
• @didlix I'm not convinced OO is the way to go. If PHP did OO as well as Python... but PHP's laziness + Drupal's naming conventions suffices. #
• @didlix OO isn't always the right, or quickest, route. Interfaces prevent things like ducktyping, and sometimes functional is the way to go. #
• @didlix PHP objects always feel like Java objects: clunky and over-spec'd. PHP function declarations in .module files OTOH are lightweight. #
• "Here's a Word doc: please sign and return". @davecranwell, my guess is that they don't mean with your public PGP key. #
• @didlix deffo #
• @andrewl if you're a PHP dev and you sit in front of a mirror and say "backslash" three times in a row then the Devil eats your namespace. #
• If I say someone's not at their desk, then ringing someone else, to ring me, to ask me if they're at their desk, will have the same result. #
• Link: A shorthand for designing UI flows: UI flows on the web are necessarily sketchy, as users wander off .. http://bit.ly/wz8nZ #
• I've just fallen victim to a classic bluff: replace "I have no idea about the HTTP spec" with "there's a firefox extension you could try." #
• Since when did refusing to answer a straight question about API syntax, but pointing people at Firefox plugin constitute a desire to engage? #
• #reasonstobecheerful afternoon toast and tea #
• @garrettc they aspartamed Vimto, I think: even the full-fat version. It did for it, unfortunately, although it's still better than Ribena. #
• @griffinkate you can bypass that extra security stuff and just refuse to submit it. Questions DECREASE security: http://bit.ly/FbTLU #
• O2 won't let you have hyphens in your first name, or punctuation in your password. I mean, what? Do they do this sort of thing on purpose? #
• Except O2 doesn't call it punctuation: it calls it "special characters". Is that specifically to make the login less secure? Bravo! #
• More 02 #fail: "please enter a valid security answer. An answer can be alphanumeric with no special character." Also less secure! Well done! #
• O2 have even TEXTED me my password. Why not just email it to me too, in plain text, so it's REALLY insecure? #
• Yet *more* O2 fail - your direct debit account name CAN'T BE TOO LONG. They truncate your name if they don't like it. #
• Right at the very end, O2 call my current mobile an "O2 mobile". Scared that they'll try to take it over from Vodafone I START AGAIN. Jesus. #
• Ahh, O2 won 't LET you not give them a mobile number. Good job nobody will ever want broadband if they don't have a mobile. #
• @j4 I'm not saying your mum's an idiot, but she totally built the O2 website #
• @j4 you see O2's red, garish error reporting which causes the form contents to spill out like spuds from a bag? That's your makeup, that is. #
• @j4 O2 is called O2 because that's what your mother scores: "oh... two out of ten." #
• Right. That's that barrelload of O2 #fail out of the way. No estimated arrival time but we all know how badly that went with BT. #
• @stevejalim it might be. Before you do - just for reference - are you a good healer, or do you bruise easily? #
• Almost everything is in boxes, and my back isn't too painful after some stretches. Ready for tomorrow's move. God, are we ready. #
• Can't tell if insomnia is from excitement, worry or just staying up late. Regardless, it ain't going to help me drive a van. #
• Photo: Black Squadron command: "Pan hat!": eustatius posted a photo: http://bit.ly/OoFXj #
• Waking up for first time in our new house. Lovely it was, but a shame I now have to return the van by 8.30am. #

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• @hatmandu so THAT'S who's stealing all the bread #
• A child could do better than this, and DID http://bit.ly/CVYfY #hirstisacock (via @bengoldacre, @charltonbrooker) #
• Link: Automating web site deployment with Fabric: Fabric, the Python tool for website deployment http://bit.ly/geNPe #
• Anyone still at #drupalcon or nearabouts: I lost a notebook. Is there a lost property list? Might it be... online...? #
• @brighty @wesayso the word "Nazi" actually comes from the phrase "needs sauce", which people always remarked about their underspiced cuisine #
• @waako got email from Isabell - apparently everyone's gone but she's got the pile of stuff #
• Link: Read Regular - a typeface to help dyslexics: Read Regular is a typeface designed to improve the readi.. http://bit.ly/THEnQ #
• RT @TomRaftery: Seriously people, the correct order is planet first, then people, then profit. http://j.mp/11jKOv #climatechange #
• #fabric easy_inst barfs cryptically at pycrypto stage if you don't have python-dev installed. How do I report this? http://bit.ly/13UoJ0 #
• @alonpeer that photo's not so bad. You should see some of the ones I *didn't* upload. #
• Link: Madeleine Bunting on cutting carbon consumption and 10:10: "Carbon cutting is about a more hones.. http://bit.ly/3N1PUg #
• @alonpeer yeah, none of that rings a bell. Was that your umbrella though? #
• @brighty "Win a camper, fishface (dot com)" #
• All evening at the new house, making ready for carpets next Mon and moving in shortly thereafter. Too much on plate right now. #
• @murgeys thanks: no sign of notebook but at least I made it home with computer and phone! #
• Dixons staff who can actually use Facebook are probably a cut above the average.... #
• @brighty Camper Than Fishhoven? I don't know where I'm going with this. #
• OH: "Jesus..." "What?" "... I just installed #drupal 7" #
• Link: Glum Councillors http://bit.ly/EBxMw #
• @greg_harvey I think the lack of blue was a bit of a shock #
• @greg_harvey you can only see the non-blue Drupal with your third eye. Peyote might help, or possibly salvia #
• My first ever #drupal #ubercart shipping module - seems to be working so far. #
• @galooph no user options: it lets admins taxonomize as being e.g. "royal mail", "man with van", then only charges 1x most expensive shipping #
• @galooph also has free shipping option if your basket total is over a particular threshold #
• Good luck, @andrewgodwin . It'll be fine. Just take a deep breath, then another, and another... and then keel over backwards with hyperoxia! #
• @galooph the trick with shipping is in registering extra uc_quote actions. f in doubt trim uc_flatrate down to last 3 fns and rejig #drupal #
• Rediscovered placeholder postcode lookup code: click on "find my address", get "You live in a SHOE!" Better remove that before staging. #
• What *is* @bloggerheads counting down to? And what has it got to do with the usual UK Toryblog suspects? #
• @petecooper @griffinkate has noticed people having trouble with 2nd 't' in 'text' e.g. 'I got a couple of texes', 'Tex me', 'He tex-ed me' #
• @leisa disregarding developers OS matters for clients because it solves a trust issue: little supplier lockin and easier supplier comparison #
• Whenever I start to complain about #php admin I try to picture how misery-making #coldfusion servers can be. And you pay for the privilege. #
• "Apparently, suddenly, it's not a stopped line after all" Renationalization is too good for BT: they should be broken up and sold as scrap. #
• Now *I'm* being stalked by the @BTCare bot. Why would a company otherwise desperate to avoid communication with customers use Twitter? #
• Maybe if BT didn't hide behind 0845 numbers, understaffed call centres and poor automated phone systems it wouldn't need @BTCare at all #
• @BTCare have BT changed their security policy so that I can give out sensitive account data to any Twitter user with "BT" in their name? #
• @BTCare if not, then maybe BT money would be better spent hiring engineers and call-centre staff rather than an autoresponding Twitter bot. #
• In short, @BTCare bot: no, you CAN'T help. Unless you plan to become the @GPOot any time in the near future. #
• Goodbye, @BTCare. Hope you have fun convincing strangers to DM you their account details and teaching them to get phished. #mocknblock #
• @psd Theoretically the call centres should be staffed with real people who can help. Once I see evidence of that I'll check out @BTCare. #
• @psd @griffinkate's encountered @BTCare before so I was wondering why they hadn't pounced on me yet. #
• @psd thanks anyway: a rocket up a bum turned BT's repeated "stop on your line" to "oh, no actual line." Engineer booked but ADSL obv delayed #
• @andrewl @greg_harvey ask @garrettc all about Barclays ePDQ and the eleven pounds and eleven pence #
• The #drupal epicycles required for my code to act like it's orbiting nodeprofile, which itself orbits user, are making my head spin. #
• #google #gmail has just recently stopped remembering my plain-text-response preference. Bug in a recent update? #
• @greg_harvey yeah, none of that's mine. A tatty Pukka Pad with incomprehensible notes isn't on the list.... #
• We're ready to move, but the rest of the world doesn't seem to be as ready. Then suddenly we get an unexpectedly lovely offer from friends! #
• @sillage BT's 0800 is free from an existing BT phone. It's the most expensive number I can call from my mobile. BT line bootstrap #fail. #
• What a beautiful morning, though. Golden sunshine and crisp green-smelling air. Rabbits up by Perrotts Hill Farm! #
• Wow. Tweet "salvia" and a considerable time later @buysalviaonline follows you. Stop breaking into your own stash, dudes. #mocknblock #
• @sillage that was a bit hyperbolic: excluding premium rate lines and foreign countries, I mean #
• Blarney-polishing anti-#climatechange Uncle Tom Wogan followed me to #R3 this morning! Can Sarah Kennedy be far behind? Is there no escape? #
• @wesayso did you send Wogan over to R3, just to freak me out? #
• Setting up this new client crashed @jwebster's software. Looks like the "Bobby Tables Trust" project is on hold for now. (via @davecranwell) #
• RT @timetric: Graphing Oxford weather using Timetric! http://bit.ly/6op0U #climatechange #
• Frustration at the automated phone systems I've had to use to change address is mitigated by often hilarious mispronunciations of "Cogges" #
• @Mark_Radcliffe and @StuartMaconie are walking Hadrian's Wall: it's their last day today but they've been tweeting their progress. Vivat #r2 #
• @julietteculver that's terrible! #
• A shovelful of fail for me tonight: surprised at how many call centres close before 7, and foxed by work iStockPhoto account *again*. #
• @glinner a certain breed of fourteen-year-old customer? #
• @wesayso Bambi's gotten quite hard-bitten over the years, hasn't he? #
• #reasonstobecheerful the problems I work with are complex and interesting enough that it generally doesn't matter what the tech actually is. #
• Ahh! #mssql throws a "device off-line" error on database restore if you've scp'ed the file with #cygwin and its Win permissions are screwy. #
• RT @griffinkate Anti-coal vigil outside Ed Miliband's dept, 4:30pm Monday: http://qurl.com/72kbt #climatechange #
• @robinhouston could #CiF be improved by tracking pingbacks rather than comments on sensitive articles? Would raise the bar for reply quality #
• I always read "your browser has been updated and needs to be restarted" to rhythm of "the people! united! will never be defeated!" #firefox #
• Navigador! Renovado! Debe ser recomenzado! #
• @greg_harvey I use #chrome a bit, but it's still occasionally buggy. Even Google Apps have prodded bugs in it in the past. #
• @greg_harvey maybe it's improved. Now I use it more for xbrowser testing (Webkit) than every day. Firefox needs to get worse for me to move! #
• If your only rhetorical trick is to eat your opponent's head, is that an ad hominomnomnomnom argument? #
• How on earth does one work out what vacuum cleaner to buy? How does one work out how to work that out? Ah, the homebuyer's burden! #
• @wesayso @dracos Miele look very good but I can't work out why I shouldn't just buy a Henry. What doesn't it do? @adamamyl a possibility... #
• I'm sensing a lot of Miele love from @simonmhawkins and @wesayso, and that one Simon mentioned was already in my sights.... #
• #reasonstobecheerful I live in a country with traditions of providing public lending libraries and of promoting literacy. #
• Any good resources (online or other) for identifying trees or shrubs? Several came with house and need tlc #gardening #
• @simonmhawkins that Miele you linked to is actually a Cat and Dog vacuum http://bit.ly/iCh7P #
• @simonmhawkins was that the actual model you got? I guess it'll be just a generally good cleaner #
• Thanks for all the tree-based suggestions. The next step is to take a handy photo if only so that I can do what @socks did and Google terms. #
• #reasonstobecheerful The Beatles, let's be honest: even after all the currently mental hype. #
• Midcounties #coop has special offers for skiing but you HAVE to fly to Berne to qualify: train travellers can fuck off. #climatechange #fail #
• RT @bloggerheads ONE thing you must do today is listen to Donal MacIntyre on Radio 5 Live at 7:30pm http://bit.ly/10q4OF #
• Link: Custom SSH port with svnserve at bcg: How to configure svn+ssh with custom variations http://bit.ly/2fg6lT #
• "We need a [#drupal] theme for testing, however simple, that looks like a proper website. " Can *you* help #d7ux ? http://bit.ly/VTUjs #
• @greg_harvey don't tell me BT's @BTCare bot-that-is-not has started following French residents. Where will this madness end? #

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• @damiancugley maybe it's showing the Google Map pin through from the other side of the earth, and the camera angle is just wrong. #
• RT @matason: yay, London to Paris in 3 days on a Brompton - DONE #drupalcon #tourdedrupal #
• RT @robertDouglass: Still 1 #drupalcon ticket that needs an owner! Early bird price of 295EUR #
• Our big futon is gone: I suspect @tomd has stolen it. We're just going to put the rug down with some cushions, and pretend nothing happened. #
• @whatishen glad to hear it. Hope you're feeling better soon #
• One more conflict on my schedule! RT @TheRealCrell: #drupal design patterns are back on the #drupalcon schedule: http://is.gd/2IYZo #
• Hiding upstairs from in-laws, arriving with perfect timing at around the point I want to leave to have relaxed lunch in Oxford. Gah. #
• @greg_harvey another option is solely to use main #drupalcon schedule, and eyeball greens v the reds. Easier to spot clashes then. #ux #hack #
• #stagecoach S1 has been ten minutes away for ten minutes. Must be terrible bank holiday traffic in, er, Witney. #fail #
• Oxford train ticket staff are a bit surly-bored, but they're efficient and they know their onions. By which I mean tickets. #win #
• Are we at Slough yet? Bad night's sleep and immersion in Designing for the Web means I've lost track. Wake me at Paddington. #
• Any #drupalcon attendees on 1625 Eurostar, come along and say hi: 14/23. #
• RT @greg_harvey "http://bit.ly/LMTtp Nice piece by @markboulton. #drupal folk should read it." #d7ux #
• Photo: St Pancras elevates me: eustatius posted a photo:

  Just passing over the threshold lifts my heart. http://bit.ly/S3J0v #

• @greg_harvey Gare d'Austerlitz isn't much to crow about either. Like a cross between a coach station and an iron foundry. #
• Out of weird post-Eurostar tunnel and into the future: wind turbines, metal piping, frightening speeds. #
• Arrived in Paris for #drupalcon. Off to Financier (r du Depart near Montp-Bienv) and Le Select (b du Montp) for a drink. Any other plans? #
• @whatishen I'll do what I can while in Paris. I mean, it's hard to find any examples of bad driving here. #
• @waako sorry I've only just got this: roaming wifi isn't as good as we'd hoped. We had a quickie at Financier: bit dingy. #
• @waako may switch Twiiter dm SMSes back on for duration of con - will look at mobile plan #
• Le Financier OK for @ukdrupal meetup but pretty dingy and dark. If weather good nicer cafe-bars round on Edgar Quinet / d'Odessa. #drupalcon #
• Photo: Boulevard Edgar Quinet: eustatius posted a photo:

  Edgar Quinet all lit up http://bit.ly/3x2N #

• Wait: to attend Views 2 tutorial session at #drupalcon you have to register for #drupalcamp, even though they're listed separately on site? #
• Despite what site implies, you DO need to tell #drupalcon about ticket changes in advance, or there's a lot of fandangling. #
• Even then, you'll get someone else's name badge. But at least you'll get one #
• Anyone coordinating #drupalcon code sprints anywhere? #
• On codesprint at #drupalconparis - why do we end up with the patch that's 90% discussion? :) #
• @guaka and anyone else getting errors: could try re-logging in at http://192.168.71.253:8000/ Still slow, though #drupalcon #
• Up in #openatrium talk at #drupalconparis: a good, solid, integrated product. User-desire-led development a robust way to improve #Drupal. #
• Multi-domain sites #drupalcamp talk at #drupalcon - feel like I've suddenly hit the motherlode. Also, wifi sorted now! #win #
• @add1sun will docs sprint be still going on Sat? Would like to contrib but schedule is so full, and didn't realise docs sprint was p.m. too #
• @didlix at #drupalcon you have to provide your own milk. How you do that is a test of your resourcefulness. BEGIN THE CHALLENGE! #
• @ihatemornings How about "Musicians: get a day job?" #
• @jojototh are Honnorat #1-4 the informal groups in the room with the chandeliers? Not that I'm yr missing speaker: just trying to work out. #
• Alon has lost his umbrella at #drupalcon . Can we raise an issue on d.o for that? #
• Live blogging of #drupalcon Day 1 at http://bit.ly/3OUUvk . Now, where was that pub meet again? #
• Back to Sophie Germain's ludicrously unreliable wifi to find that Google Mail is giving 502 errors. Google! Been a day of connectivity woes. #
• I think there's still people drinking in Rue des Cannettes; or, as we started calling it: Drupal Alley #drupalcon #
• @alonpeer every Parisian alley can be Drupal Alley. It's the sign of a successful conference. #
• Photo: Jardins et Palais de Luxembourg: eustatius posted a photo:

  et une fleur http://bit.ly/G0ZKS #

• Listening to @webchick's incredibly fast-paced D7 talk at #drupalcon. I'm sort of relying on the video recording for filling in gaps later. #
• @alonpeer those blue drinks in your photos look frightening. Rather glad I missed them! #
• @torchbox Bryan's been working ever so hard while he's been here http://bit.ly/ztb0T #
• Anyone able to get a list of @Dries' 10 major exceptions to the code freeze? Would be a good springboard to get Sat sprint moving #drupalcon #
• @wesayso "It's my city" is a Go Ahead Oxford Bus Company corporate special, isn't it? #
• @wesayso it's a mistaken attempt at empathising with the reader of the marketing material, isn't it? Empathickie? Empafail? #
• @wesayso "mybollox" would probably mean something altogether different #
• #drupalcon Saturday code sprint: hit ground running? Could get issue nos based on 10 exceptions: dm if interested http://bit.ly/4cEPn9 #
• I just picked up some really great #drupalcon biscuits, but I've lost them. I'm a bit worried I've put them in a random pocket of my bag. #
• Wireless went all funny in Isobar room at #drupalcon so need to write up Views 2 notes. About to start geo tools talk, though. #
• @greg_harvey I'll throw something at you when I get a chance. I'm in the pingvision room and the windows are open onto that bit of lawn. #
• The true test of a virtuoso is finding inspiration from formal constraints. I note that you can't get good vegetarian food in Paris. #
• Heartburn keeping me awake; writing list of suggestions for #drupalcon code sprint on Saturday: 15 juicy issues so far! http://bit.ly/4cEPn9 #
• The university cafe at #drupalcon has stopped selling croissants. Curses. #
• wifi at #drupalcon is "good" but in a fundamental sense unreliable: you can't be sure it won't die when you click send on an important email #
• @chrisheuer social media success is attitude: d.o is weak-ish in social media impl, yet it fosters a strong, emotive community. #drupalcon #
• By all means *let's* start with catering: it's some of the worst vegetarian food I've ever eaten with the longest queues for it. #drupalcon #
• @ihatemornings lots of companies which have spent years avoiding contact with 0870 and webforms are scared of Twitter: we were stalked by BT #
• "thanks to @MarkBoulton for helping to drive change/focus on the outsider" @chrisheuer++ at #drupalcon #
• ten micro typography tips in @markboulton's #drupalcon talk. It's a coincidence, but tips come in groups of ten, 80% of the time. #funfact #
• @markboulton's wrong quotation marks: primes are a pragmatic rather than lazy choice; years of Microsoft smart quotes defeated us #drupalcon #
• @brankru you need to get the darker cookies. They contain more fibre. Also chocolate milk to replenish lack of milk with coffee. #drupalcon #
• j'ai faim! #drupalconparis #drupalcon (please RT) #
• @ukdrupal are all in the back room behind the Maison Internationale cafetiere (NOT the restaurant) at #drupalcon. Good, cheap food. #
• "Wrap your arms around the therapy llama" http://twitpic.com/gal3w #
• @j4 ici il n'y a rien du lait pour du thé. Rien du lait! Pour du *thé*! Crapauds! #
• @Wesayso @ihatemornings fed now, but thank you for your concern. We were trying to get a rolling wave of faim rewteets #
• @garrettc @_mmat_ has been a total camera-head all #drupalcon, but he's taken some good pictures so he may be onto something. #
• @j4 AM IAM MIAM MAOAM? Hic haec hoc hunc hovis bovis vovis wunc. #
• RT @kkaefer: #drupalcon: PHP is the only language where "15" == "0xF" (both strings) is true (via @chx1975) #
• #ubercart talk at #drupalcon interesting but stymied by lack of PA and quiet speakers: crosstalk with another session's wireless microphone! #
• Drifted off during #Ubercart panel - too hard to hear - so started looking at #drupal bug queue. #drupalcon #
• @j4 how about Chinese Whispering Gallery Room? You can thank me later #
• Wondering if there's demand for non-boozy coffee-oriented post-#drupalcon socializing thing tonight. Leave 6ish, finish by 9. #kaffeeklatsch #
• Saturday code sprint: want your tickets tackled? We're making a list and checking it twice: here! http://bit.ly/4cEPn9 #drupalcon #
• RT @Propeople Reinventing #Journalism with #Drupal - #DrupalCon Paris live blogging http://bit.ly/peJGg #
• @greg_harvey is a +1 for post-#drupalcon non-alcoholic socializing. Anyone else? Any @ukdrupal people? @alonpeer? #
• @greg_harvey @alonpeer @steveparks and I will be off for coffee post-#drupalcon today. Follow #drupalcoffee if you want to tag along. #
• Link: Style Stripper | drupal.org: "Allow configuration of which module CSS files that should be loade.. http://bit.ly/2IyaGG #
• @winston_d I'm up for that. Let's discuss a bit after six on the lawn #drupalcoffee #
• @mcjim we'll see what we can do. I have unleashed coffee-based forces beyond my control #
• Cache stampeding - could we call it cachecading instead? [wait for applause] #drupalcon #
• #drupalcoffee meet at 6pm-ish on the left of Adenauer / Acquia room . We'll look at maps and then set off for coffee. #drupalcon #
• RT @matason: just switch the MySQL storage engine to InnoDB for Drupal 5/6 sites for a performance boost - who knew? #drupalcon #
• Major tickets for Lock API in D7 now on the suggestion list for Saturday's code sprint http://bit.ly/4cEPn9 #drupalcon #
• RT @_mmat_: first batch of #drupalcon photos online (pre-tidy!) http://bit.ly/GQ0ZU #
• ApacheSolr talk impressive as always - search that WORKS - but think I'll get more new detail out of case study of RFI/France24 #drupalcon #
• @winston_d might be nice to sit. I'm up for cheapo food (if at all) as veggie food quality does not scale with price in Paris! #drupalcoffee #
• RT @galooph: #drupalcon proves to be too much for @mcjim http://twitpic.com/gbf8u #
• #drupalcoffee Reminder: meet on left of Adenauer / Acquia room a bit after 6pm, leave by 6.30. I'll be wearing an orange T-shirt. #drupalcon #
• Man, I love CCK, but why are none of the top hits for "suitability callback" in Google anything to do with ACTUAL DOCUMENTATION? #drupalcon #
• #drupalcoffee getting itchy - lack of caffeine does that. We'll leave soon prob for the cafe on the corner of Parc Monsouris. #drupalcon #
• @greg_harvey Ow, harsh. if you don't think it's too ick then you're welcome to borrow my other pair of shoes. What size are you? I'm an 11. #
• @winston_d good to meet you too. Hope you and Marc didn't feel out of place with what turned out to be entirely @ukdrupal folks! #
• @bangpound if DIVitis throws a SPANner in your work, do you get #drupalcramp? #drupalcon #
• @robinhouston I managed around a 30% drop (but our awful landlady removed all our curtains and we're worse than before) #
• @robinhouston so moving into our own house could see another huge drop, independent of #tentenuk #
• @robinhouston that said, as dark-green I don't find the fact that public discourse is now light green excluding. I find it uplifting. Bravo! #
• @robinhouston three years ago we were all emerging shell-shocked from a Monbiot talk, worried nobody else would ever accept the science. #
• @greg_harvey no way! I could pop over yours with some comfy shoes first thing, then. What hotel are you at? #
• @robinhouston we moved house, reduced heating 20->15, stopped using car & crap freezer, put in energy-saver lightbulbs. Was quite hard tho. #
• @techsoldaten I thought the keynote on the second day was like a whiff of smelling salts: offputting but ultimately welcome. #drupalcon in reply to techsoldaten #
• @jbingold I'd like to go to that: more pertinent for me than keynote. Can you put a reminder on Twitter just beforehand? I'm not awake yet. #
• Attention, developers! Come to CTools with @merlinofchaos. Attention, non-developers! Consider seeing something else, tbh. #drupalcon #
• @_mmat_ I dare you to give Druplicon a push. See if he falls over and can't get up. #drupalcon #
• I didn't know you could get those from Oxfam. Shouldn't they be listed as "hospitality"? http://bit.ly/KFb9f #
• @purrin surely #flupal ? Achoo! #drupalcon #
• @alonpeer I suddenly get this weird feeling like I'm being watched...! Will try 6th row for post-keynote. #
• @drupalcon it would be really great if all the videos and slides that are available are listed somewhere centrally after #drupalcon finishes #
• Hey, everyone! @ihatemornings spotted the mythical Palais de Didecot on the way to #unconvention! http://twitpic.com/gejjh #
• RT @JBingold: Drupal and NGO BOF in @10AM in danone.communities room #drupalcon http://ff.im/7DrDy #
• Plugins BOF - code and tutorial at 1.40 in Satsuma #drupalcon #
• NGO BOF at #drupalcon seems to have turned into Danone, OpenAtrium and Features Funtime Hour. #
• Power, power in Adenauer, otherwise I've got an hour. Any plug sockets here? #drupalcon #
• @greg_harvey thanks - I got power from @domesticat on bottom left. She has a magic protean any-country gangplug. Fear her power(s)! #
• Hope we're reaching a rapprochement between the two recently arguing camps at #drupalcon - think devs and UXers understand each other better #
• @merlinofchaos talking about panels 3: feels like blocks+ which still plays nicely alongside blocks. Thanks for the work, merlin! #drupalcon #
• Creamer now available in decent amounts at #drupalcon, but unless you want your coffee to taste like a panini, avoid the goat's milk. #
• @hatmandu no, aixpresso #
• In CTools plugins BOF. Don't stop to tweet, whatever you do: you look back at the screen to find everything's 10 stages on... #drupalcon #
• Whew. Hectic BOF presentation on CTools plugins from @randyfay. Props to him and of course @merlinofchaos . #drupalcon #
• Book of Kells might be poor typography but is beautiful. As art, that is: I wouldn't want to have to read it #drupalcon http://bit.ly/13ZGwR #
• As a non-designer with a tin eye, committed to UX and trying for good design, I'm finding @markboulton's talk amazing. #drupalcon #
• @andrewl you totally saw an elephant? That's crazy. I only got to see @markboulton over in the Adenauer. He's OK but no elephant. #drupalcon #
• A possibility? RT @mirko_haaser Going to see the Eiffel Tower tonight. Join us at 9:30 pm #drupalcon #drupaleiffel #
• Another possibility RT @NikLP @ericg Come to Butte aux Cailles tonight man? Shit bars serving Erdinger, drinking on the street. #drupalcon #
• @robpurdie great to catch up with you. Safe journey back for you both! #
• Saturday code sprint suyggestions http://bit.ly/4cEPn9 now folded into drupal.org wiki page! http://bit.ly/UNJsl (via @drupalcon) #drupalcon #
• #thxisabell ! #drupalcon #
• @alonpeer currently Butte Aux Cailles winning out but will keep you in loop. #
• I'll be avoiding the Hotel Sophie Germain in future. Their showers have no holders and run at same time as the bath. Sploosh! #
• My dad sent me a "hilarious" forward about the "C-NILE" virus. Twice. I don't think it was a joke. #
• Any of the Butte des Cailles splitters know wtf is going on? @mcjim says several still grounded #drupalcon #
• #drupalcon code sprint progressing steadily. Lots of activity up here. I forgot how much I hate l10n and translation.... http://bit.ly/UNJsl #
• Public don't agree with James Murdoch's obsession with "choice" http://tinyurl.com/lj792y #welovetheBBC (via @Martynnorris) #
• Thanks to all at #drupalcon for a great week and good luck to sprinters. Off to catch my Eurostar. (No, @greg_harvey, I'm NOT in "steerage") #
• Back in the UK, just trekking from St Paddas to St Pancrington. Think I need some sleep. #
• Photo: Alon in Drupal Alley: eustatius posted a photo: http://bit.ly/Ktg5W #
• @hatmandu there was one old house on our road that had that dozens of times. A40 joyriders love popping into Eynsham for some reason. #
• My back's killing me but I want to see how our new house looks after my in-laws decorated. And put together Ikea flatpacks. Ow. Ow. Ow. #
• Tweets which would confuse my parents: RT @simonw: Since installing Snow Leopard I seem to spend most if my time staring at a beach ball #
• Over to the new house to survey the fruits of my in-laws' labours with Project Manager @griffinkate . Can't wait. #

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• Photo: The Rosina Emma: eustatius posted a photo: http://bit.ly/uXKC0 #
• Photo: Wiring at old house: eustatius posted a photo:

  We had a surprise visit from an electrician today... http://bit.ly/6AyOo #

• RT @j4 ... week begins with #cagerfail, road rage, & cycle-phobic abuse from St Giles Cafe staff #
• Buses every 15mins, delayed by 12mins, are each effectively 3mins early, surprising everybody. Way to go, #stagecoach #fail #
• Photo: Three colours: blue: eustatius posted a photo:

  That right-hand wall looks white when you put it o.. http://bit.ly/j0Cy8 #

• Eynsham in the late evening sun, bells pealing, warm summer air. Cameras cannot capture such an idyll. #
• Back at work while @griffinkate celebrates her actual birthday by just chilling. I love my job but not so much that I'm not dead jealous...! #
• RT @wesayso I think @shitmydadsays might well be the find of the week. (via @rhodri) #
• @mapkyca in the end I handed them a wrapped Ikea sofa rather than a brush. It kept them busy unwrapping it and checking all the bits wer ... #
• @robinhouston RT @drewm: If you like puffins, you'll love these.. um.. puffin photos. http://flic.kr/p/6SHPSA #
• My dad would never have allowed me to have a drawerful of knives when I was a kid. Now I can own as many as I want. #brokenbritain #
• @j4 my rings go to and from the chain round my neck depending: last time I forgot the engagement ring ended up packed with no-sanding filler #
• "It seems that every time we have a protest the police turn up and start hitting people" http://bit.ly/1cJwk #climatecamp (@canterburygeeks) #
• RT @jonnelledge Under a Tory government I never saw a single naked woman. Under Labour I have seen several #brokenbritain (reciprocal RT!) #
• Link: Top 10 UX Myths http://bit.ly/hGv8W #
• @hatmandu I think 31 exclamation marks just an expression of slightly under-literate panic. How passive-aggressive it is depends on context. #
• @hatmandu e.g. "COMMUNAL FRIDGES DO NOT CLEAN THEMSELVES!!!" in Comic Sans is passive-aggressive #
• RT @andrewl: help! need business cards delivered to a uk address by sat am. have been let down by vistaprint. please RT #
• @garrettc maybe they think you need all the help you can get #
• @griffinkate @j4 curses! You've found out that my real name is Trisomy X! #
• RT @orangejon: #climatecamp location announced: Blackheath (next to Greenwich Park). If you're free, get down there (via @jamieandrews) #
• T767 PTG overtook this a.m. on single track between passing places, squeezed past dangerously only to pull up at house in Finstock. #cag ... #
• Two #Freecycle requests for the same thing: one gave a disconnected mobile number; one gave a landline that goes straight to voicemail #fail #
• #Vodafone subscribed me to mailing lists without my consent, then the unsubscribe URL broke in text-only browsers / mail clients. #fail #dpa #
• @damiancugley on Windows 7, files edit YOU #
• Tomcat is such a huge, labyrinthine, enigmatic, confusing, counter-intuitive application. I mean it's more stable than the Rock of Gib, but. #
• RT @markboulton ... the HTML that Views (Drupal module) produces is beyond bad. It may as well be tables it's that bad. Seriously dreadful. #
• Views in #Drupal is a tremendous achievement, and initiatives like #d7ux mean we can take it to the next level in accessibility and ux. #
• I'd love to be able to order the sessions I've bookmarked in a schedule similar to the main ones, so I know what I'm seeing when. #drupalcon #
• @htfb ratatouille is the question; *this* is the answer: http://bit.ly/X6324 #
• Yes! The problem wasn't with #Tomcat; nor was it with #Drupal, but somewhere in between. Handful of records not written to tracking table. #
• RT @bengoldacre: Documentary on the awesome Hans Rosling: he so rules http://bit.ly/9Pt41 #
• #drupalcon keeps me away from @climatecamp this year, which is doubly embarrassing as @torchbox designed their new site: http://bit.ly/HYC6a #
• @j4 one says to the other "is this some kind of joke?" #
• Link: iPhone copycats are a modern day cargo cult - Boing Boing: 5-minute Ignite talk on iPhone copycats http://bit.ly/1WVwcI #
• A conversation for #drupalcon? RT @garrettc: Drupal is at a crossroads with design. http://bit.ly/axW7w (via @leisa) #
• @benwerd there's something really stirring about driving rain on big windows, isn't there? The semi-white noise and the random dramatic fx. #
• Ace post from Chris Calicott about how we can embrace change and move ahead with #drupal : http://bit.ly/kxK6h . The drop must keep moving! #
• RT @ipwa ...design/dev divide in Drupal is being blown out of proportion, I never felt the tension that's being conveyed on blogs and tweets #
• Armadillo Cam from the Museum of Animal Perspectives: http://bit.ly/pgRjL #
• @Dries I think they could be a usability expert, not necessarily a designer. Look how creative tension helped The Smiths! Er, briefly. #
• Gloss paint is a nightmare from which, with the help of a sandwich from @griffinkate, I am trying to awake. #
• Wish I had a numerable pre-con checklist like @robertdouglass: ringing HSBC to ensure cards OK abroad felt like item 5+3i. #
• Trick for HSBC: ring geo equiv for phone banking, choose 'inquire about commercial loan' then act all flustered when human answers. #
• Free #wifi in Parisian parks, incl. Parc Monsouris just opposite #drupalcon venue http://bit.ly/u7sHw My French suggests no serious catches. #
• RT @ukdrupal Hello UK Drupallers: @NikLP here. Took the liberty of making this account for #Drupalcon (etc) co-ordination. Follow or perish. #
• @torchbox chums: can't find Bryan G on Twitter - did he squish his account? I'm sure I'd friended him once. #
• Druplicon sets off for for #drupalcon, hitch-hiking. Like having a bad trip after someone spiked your blueberry muffin: http://bit.ly/ou0PN #
• @griffinkate your nightmare about #thatcher - did it look anything like "Ja Da" ? http://www2.b3ta.com/jada/ #
• Surely if they call themselves "The Weather Girls" then they should have *weather* for us, not news. #r2 #
• Link: A musical challenge: The 9 Album: Writing and recording nine songs from 9am till 9pm on 09/09/09, wit.. http://bit.ly/4zwcX7 #
• For those who don't know, then: @_mmat_ is also coming from @torchbox to #drupalcon. Bryan, follow @ukdrupal in case we get lost in Paris... #
• Avoiding the desire to potter in Oxford bookshops for another hour. It's just avoidance of less fun packing and sorting. #
• @markboulton @garrettc suggested a few of us turn up in suits, sunglasses and earpieces and just surround you. Well, I can see no drawbacks. #
• @markboulton remember that offence easily taken in OS communs is generally as easily abandoned, and that what #d7ux is doing is *important*. #
• @didlix ferry? why no Eurostar? #
• #drupalcon calendar / schedule display now looking much better. Looks like I have an entire conference of schedule clashes ahead of me! #

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• @htfb can you have chips? We just had chips. #
• The new bedroom is now more or less half painted; the carpet is part-removed; some livingroom holes filled. Not half bad. #
• My sinuses have gone ballistic, though, maybe with paint fumes. At least my head still feels more or less clear today. #
• Not sure how I feel about either "socialnomics" or the overexcited visuals/audio, but: #socialmedia food for thought: http://bit.ly/2DDCCH #
• Photo: Happy couple and mother: eustatius posted a photo:

  Russell, Elaine and Russell's mum http://bit.ly/DrjHO #

• @wesayso you'd need to chase up on the site. Still dizzy from the visuals. More reliable: what @darwin sent to @torchbox http://bit.ly/dC20V #
• Cup of coffee, lovely (if gentle) ride in, defined problem set, whizzy JS UI work on top of it. Did I die and go to heaven? #
• Belated "aye" of vague support to @rhodri. It would've come sooner but @griffinkate and I have had teh #swineflu. #
• http://chippingnorton.net/ styles itself the "gateway to the Cotswolds" pointedly missing Witney off its map. We've got your number, Chippy. #
• Not only does #Flash mean we must revisit all our accessibility battles, we also have to rediscover privacy protocols. http://bit.ly/3apGlN #
• @claypole you starting? Bar Izi, now. Bring your broken Smirnoff Ice bottle and your 'ardest mate. #
• @griffinkate we've had nothing RT-worthy from @glinner recently so we're reduced to hanging off your every word. #
• @wesayso is it really *snobbish* to want to keep the plebs out of our playground? Well, yes, it probably is. #
• @wesayso the beauty of Twitter is that it's a self-assembling set of networks so we need never know of the existence of people not quite OKD #
• @hatmandu Leafield of Dreams #
• @hatmandu The Blair Wychwood Project #
• @htfb @hatmandu All Swell that Lower Swell #
• @griffinkate you mean they're more than just an iTunes playlist after all? #
• @wesayso unfortunately you can't get self-assembling networks from Ikea. They all have to have instructions with that little cartoon man on. #
• @robertDouglass we've found OR-based subq's with #apachesolr module hooks work OK but the overall q logic can get quite convoluted. #drupal #
• @robertDouglass giving the visitor the power of #apachesolr AND/OR/extended syntax at frontend is great right up to their first syntax error #
• #nhsideas ask lowest levels of staff what the most annoying parts of their days are. Collate 10 "popular" problems and solve them. Repeat. #
• @j4 it's not, but the NHS is notoriously top-down in its initiatives (witness the disastrous NHS Spine) just because it's the way govt works #
• Eschewing instant messenger statuses as too easy to ignore, I'm going to get a placard saying "ON LUNCH" and put it round my neck like a bib #
• @griffinkate @vigornian "oh, the sandwich board are meeting here today, ha ha ha. The room's really *filling* up, ha ha ha." #
• The fact that @twfeed won't let you convert a non-OpenID a/c to an OpenID one means I've already had to re-request my password. #fail #
• Now to wait quarter of an hour while the email finally plops through my SPF-protected mail host before I can actually cocking log in #
• Delicious Ernest Marples frees the postcode with Drupal: Project to provide free postcode services to t.. http://bit.ly/2vSyfS #
• gg.google.com, once again slowing down the entire map-based web. #google #fail #
• @dracos I'm not disabling Firebug while I'm developing. Google Maps can play nicely with development environments or it can... oh, I dunno. #
• @dracos think I'm on the most recent version. But you're right: I can disable only the script debugging and it looks OK. Ta! #
• @damiancugley we came up with some decent Form API conventions http://bit.ly/RIQ4F But not for hooks within hooks, sadly. Several diagrams? #
• Link: Free and Commercial Stock Photography Sites: Collection of stock photography sites http://bit.ly/RZu87 #
• OH: "Oh, yeah: *that's* what the Nazis were all about! Free health care for all!" #
• Photo: 20082009108: eustatius posted a photo: http://bit.ly/Ivl3d #
• Photo: Winners don't do bamboo: eustatius posted a photo:

  This is how it starts. Tiny shoots. Next thing.. http://bit.ly/17kkhJ #

• Sick of people wanting to give me a break from painting. If I had fewer breaks from painting I might have got some painting done by now. #
• Getting boat fever in anticipation of tomorrow. #
• Photo: It's too early: eustatius posted a photo:

  I mean, it's nice and everything, but it's too early. http://bit.ly/10bt64 #

• Photo: 22082009112: eustatius posted a photo: http://bit.ly/3WSBAT #
• Photo: Focaccia frenzy!: eustatius posted a photo: http://bit.ly/17mCPs #
• Three-point turn in a narrowboat: bada-bing, bada-boom. #
• Photo: The fourth PowerPuff Girl!: eustatius posted a photo: http://bit.ly/414QfM #
• @stevejalim we'd have to throw Kate overboard to simulate a handbrake. Not really a birthday event. Could do bumps, badly? #
• They don't tell you the worst hazard on river is know-it-all other boaters who advise you on the right path through channels. #

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• 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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• Congrats to Tim & @cleanskies. The disco last night made me feel like I was a teenager again. Not quite on top form this morning, though. #
• @darwin @torchbox is changing its name to Cotswolds Media Solutions (CMS), an asteroid hit Unit 5 and we've all got swine flu. Welcome back! #
• Bats! RT @sambowlerr: @jpstacey rescuing bats in the @torchbox office http://twitpic.com/cm2bt #
• @alpower - I think we might get in trouble if I tried that. And @hatmandu - @batmandu, more like. #
• @whatishen where the plate meets the skirting-board there's a tiny patch of brown about the size of my thumb #
• I've been meta-rickrolled. After avoiding a rickrolling I nonetheless now have "Never Gonna Give You Up" going round my head #
• @whatishen it got dehydrated over the weekend and couldn't get back up to a perch. Once they hit the ground they have to climb a tree to fly #
• RSPCA can't make it; @darwin hunting for batman; anyone know of bat rescuers in west Oxon? #
• @whatishen it keeps chewing on the paper towel with water in it. I think it actually wants food now. #
• @whatishen http://bit.ly/jIgSm the *other* photo linked on that page is the dead bat we found elsewhere, so maybe don't click that.... #
• Local voluntary batperson has retrieved the bat, which became much more lively when she picked it up. Wings good, fur good, release tonight. #
• @argle I'm not sure if that would have helped. After putting the bat in a bag, she dropped the bat. Small animals can fall a long way, but. #
• RT @add1sun Drupal 7 docs depend on you http://tinyurl.com/mbxyml #drupal #
• @galooph any recordings of the @drupalcamp UK sessions? Would like to point @add1sun at what we said in the documentation roundtable #drupal #
• @galooph brilliant, thank you. @garrettc *did* mention archive.org and I completely forgot - he's currently at home with lurgi. #
• Discovery of the day: coeliac and coelacanth have related etymologies, with a shared origin in the Greek "koilos" meaning (and like) hollow. #
• Whee. Subdomain module for organic groups in #drupal takes a bit of patience but eventually "just works". Well, so far. #
• @damiancugley the most annoying thing is that if there's a unique match via AJAX at api.drupal.org, you have to press enter twice to submit. #
• HM Revenue & Customs recorded messages desperate to get me off the phone and onto their awful website. I came to you from there, you dolts. #
• A million years ago Oxfordshire Libraries gave me a PIN so that I could renew books online. I couldn't even tell you how many digits it had. #
• RT @griffinkate Citizenship test shocking. The prescriptions question assumes UK=England. Just the start of the fail. http://qurl.com/yf34f #
• Oh, God. The UK citizenship test is in Flash. They've reinvented HTML questionnaires in Flash. The apotheosis of pointless technology. #fail #
• UK citizenship test begins: <body scroll="no"><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> http://qurl.com/yf34f #fail #
• @griffinkate has just appeared with a tiny slip of paper with my library PIN on it. She passes *my* citizenship test. 1858. No, 1882. 1830? #
• Would like to see Twitter augmented reality http://tinyurl.com/mgxrjp, with repeated faces of Aphex Twin tweeting "Come to Daddy." #
• Evening of house, Focus and DIY turns into evening of #fail: missing Focus being open drains me of hwyl. Now sat in pants listening to #R2. #
• @brighty @victoriachan bluefin is a comparative delicacy and rarely tinned. Check tins for "pole and line caught". http://bit.ly/1tLtnm #
• @victoriachan @brighty but all stocks of all tuna species now fished to full capacity: http://bit.ly/h2QO4 Eat non-tuna: http://bit.ly/6YE5J #
• @rhodri it feels like it's Workman Thursday today. Half a dozen separate vans in the village, all up piously early and blocking pavements. #
• Beautiful day for cycling though, apart from the usual. Cloudy-bright all the way up to the back of Wilcote whereupon the sun burst through. #
• Typing this from my hand-me-down E71, thanks to @tomd #
• @benwerd @garrettc not whizzed by: washed down the drain by the downpour at the end of the night. Couldn't have been better apart from Beck. #
• @hatmandu @serafinowicz I still can't get over Cheryl Baker. Heart-rending. #
• @adrianwalmsley there are a couple of free #twitter apps on this #e71 already, but I'll look at that one if they turn out rubbish. Cheers! #
• Oxfordshire Library's Quick Renew function has no confirmation step after putting in card # / PIN. A bit too quick.... #
• Charlbury gets darker, darker, darker.... now the rain. #
• @califer what @garrettc said: #ogn is Oxford Geek Nights, next one Wed 23 Sep http://bit.ly/21IwR @presleysylwia - any social media confs? #
• I've not been able to send a single tweet this morning, he tweeted, which will probably be submitted fine. #
• #Twitter is blocking tweets with both the town that #CNET have ignorantly made up re: yesterday and its actual name #
• http://bit.ly/27YKR0 #
• @robinhouston can't diagnose properly: when web/API decides I'm bad then it kicks me off for a while. So only just replying to you now! #
• @robinhouston might be the hashtag - dee dee oh ess - in combination with the name of this service? Dunno. #
• RT @polljack Daily Mail poll asks why politicians don't deny climate change. Let's hijack it! Vote "no" here: http://bit.ly/1gUvX #
• Ahh, gg.google.com. Slowing down the internets. #
• @damiancugley try #Ubercart instead: we've found it a MUCH easier install #drupal. #
• I can't help feel that the Economist have done this on purpose http://bit.ly/TGdKI (via @dariengs, Reddit) #
• Come, everyone: envy my choice of ladder, compliant to European Standard EN131: http://bit.ly/Rvdf6 #
• Recovering from yesterday's ceiling painting and furniture assembly. Feels like flu. #
• @nfolson yes, new house in west Oxon. Feels less like flu now and more like ceiling-painting cramps and paint-fume sinuses! #

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• Why is @Lon2012don now following me, given I consider the 2012 Olympics to be a sorry waste of potentially useful arts funding? #mocknblock #
• Sounds like practically everyone I know had a great weekend at #truck09 . Ultimately glad we didn't get tickets this year, but next year.... #
• Woh. Weird post-sneeze rattling noises from inside my sinuses. At least they're not emitting high-pitched whines again. #
• Anyone else want to see Tickell, Lynas and Miliband at the #foe #climatechange event at the Town Hall in #OX1 tonight? 7.30pm, free entry. #
• Just seen Ed being interviewed at station. #climatechange #
• And Energy Savings Trust inside station. Gosh. Green-themed Oxford. #climatechange #
• Town hall full; had to swap rooms. Tickell and Lynas both present; where's the Milisaur? #climatechange #OX1 #
• Vestas workforce now represented on the panel discussing #climatechange. #
• Miliband on the run over carbon capture. R&D does not need a new Kingsnorth. #climatechange #
• Still, Miliband holding his own. But what if there is no inspiring story for the masses? #climatechange #
• Uh-oh. This guy's brought notes. 'All you need to do is fund my perpetual motion machine.' #
• Hellay. My name's Sesan and I'm a plant. Jist hay levely will the Carbon Capture Snuffleupagus be? #climatechange #
• Nuclear success story France recently closed several power stations... Because the coolant sea water was too warm. #climatechange #fail #
• V854 NWC pavement-mounting bumpybump ignorant indicatorless Park End Street wideboy #cagerfail #
• When your day's fail culminates in cutting your lip on a piece of toast, it's probably time to go back to bed. #
• RT @jamieandrews Big Green Gathering festival canceled after 'political pressure' from police http://bit.ly/16eKrs #
• @covert [applause] he's here all week, folks! Try the fish! #
• How does one tell the difference between a gradually more irritated hole made in one's hand to dig out a splinter, and an actual splinter? #
• Gosh, @BridgeHealth saw your tweet and it piqued their interest, they’re a medical travel company and they’d love to connect! #mocknblock #
• RT @stefanoscalia The Middle East according to Fox News - see "Egypt" http://twitpic.com/bum2w #
• @ihatemornings just as unit 9 have been stealing our cutlery, so unit 8 have been stealing the heat out of your fridge, to make our tea with #
• @wesayso I recommend Gobi or, at a pinch, Atacama. [picks self off floor; wipes tears from eyes] #
• Just bit my already mangled lip, and discovered we'd cracked a Wychwood half-pint glass some time previously. It never rains but etc. #
• #twitviewer is apparently a scam. But as far as I can see twitpic.com still uses the password anti-pattern. Is it integrated with Twitter? #
• @wesayso you've always struck me as the umble illiterate cockernee urchin type gorblimey guvnor up the chimernee wiv me poor sewf. Tiramisu? #
• RT @sillage Guardian [journo] makes anti-racist @Herring1967 seem racist http://bit.ly/4fxlkB #richardherringisnotaracist #brianloganisadick #
• @wesayso hello-hurray, there's a price to pay for an Eton trifle (Eton trifle!) #
• RT @sillage Guardian [journo] makes anti-racist @Herring1967 seem racist http://bit.ly/4fxlkB #richardherringisnotaracist #brianloganisadick #
• @robinhouston well, Gorman *quotes* two sentences, not one; there's a hell of a lot more in the original article. Also: http://bit.ly/OkEjV #
• @hatmandu honour is more contextual than that. Or: pick the fight you think is worth fighting and don't get miserable over other battles. #
• #thameswater managed to misspell "Stacey", "John" and "Griffin". Griffins outnumber Griffens by 25:1, unless you're a utility company. #fail #
• RT @wesayso My new favourite site: http://businessguysonbusinesstrips.com #
• @robinhouston you read my mind: we were just having a, er, heated exchange in the office about how awful pie charts can be. #
• RT @leisa can't believe I haven't had a single UI or module suggestion on the in-place-CRUD demo for #drupal/economist http://bit.ly/1UA7H #
• @hatmandu @griffinkate once worked in a nursery where an assistant made up "The lion is very very um, roary: he couldn't be anything else!" #
• RT @greenpeaceuk flight of the conchords'... rhys "murray" darby's ode to climate change. problem solved! http://bit.ly/OW1NX #
• @damiancugley Neal and I have just been discussing mysql_escape_string versus mysql_real_escape_string. We feel your pain. #php #drupal #
• RT @ihatemornings Ending every sentence with an ellipsis doesn't make your copywriting kid-friendly. It makes you look slow. #freetip #
• Hacking around in #Drupal 5's global $_menu. Feels strangely satisfying when something that oughtn't to work, works. Like rewiring your pet. #
• British Chiropractic Association sue science writer over critical article; internet decides to regulate BCA http://bit.ly/JpITU #fail #win #
• Of course, the BCA should already be regulated: by the GCC, who refused to accept a single complaint covering 500 chiropractors. Bravo! #
• @davecranwell we're already having to move with a dozen bottles of cheap French red or I'd try and make space. #
• RT everyone: When the technology ruins the customer experience, with bonus cute puppy: http://su.pr/99xOFX #
• Fancy doing a 5-minute microslot at #ogn 14 on Wed 23 September? Submit your talk details http://bit.ly/zcT7v We're a friendly bunch really. #
• #Ocado van "drinks biodiesel"; affectedly talks in first person. Its driver cannot drive safely on single-track roads. #cagerfail #
• @hatmandu you have a child: if your carpet and upholstery isn't glistering then you're not giving them enough fluids and essential nutrients #
• Writing custom hook_form_alter for #drupal node editing is easier than spending hours messing with CCK. Should revisit KarenS' ace tutorial. #
• @didlix whoops, ran out of space: creating custom #CCK fields in #Drupal http://bit.ly/TAltJ #
• via @robinhouston, hardware hacking and #dorkbot for those who heard about it at #ogn 13 http://tr.im/uKSq #
• Looks like our vendor has returned to snarf the spare patio slabs she decided were still hers; we think she might also have used the loo. #
• @natbat they were extolling the virtues of Eurostar on R2 panel show last night. It's like magic that gets you to France. #yayforeurostar #
• @helenroper well, yeah, it's trespass and theft. And er, toiletry. Not much we can do except change the locks, though, which we're planning. #
• XML, HTML, #XHTML2, XHTML1.1, #HTML5 and all that: in Scott McCloud-esque cartoon form http://bit.ly/c3wu2 #ogn #
• @peteaylward she takes that tree over my cold, dead, rake-clutching hand. #
• RT @serafinowicz: #
• Sad to see my first ever site for @torchbox is scheduled for demolition. Four and a half years is a good run, though. Ave atque vale. #
• @wesayso darnit, you guessed. It was grumioestcoquus.ln and it never really recovered from that whole volcano thing. #
• @sambowler I really need to blog about that, don't I? Well, we need to release it first. #
• Feeling drained and full to the brim with bloody houses and bloody driving. #
• Apparently on Sundays Witney's Focus DIY is open 10-4pm in England and Wales and 9-6pm in Scotland. Another reason to keep the Act of Union. #
• Every now and then TweetDeck seems to just sort of forget that the internet is there, and I have to tweet something to wake it up again. #
• Anyone who knows me and doesn't yet subscribe: want a free LRB subscription for a year? Anyone who's already tried one and given up: shush. #
• @benwerd the catch is you actually have to want to read the LRB - which I love - and not just go "mm, free stuff!" No other catch. #
• @robertdouglass the admin toolbar in #drupal core is ideal: CMS should tread lightly on its content. Seen @leisa's vid? http://bit.ly/1UA7H #
• @benwerd it's yours. @htfb apologies - whenever they send us another I'll earmark it for you. #
• @leisa "disguise self as Druplicon"? now your secret's out: this was YOU! http://bit.ly/q33jS #
• "Birds, lakes, rivers, fish and glaciers have no political agenda; but climate deniers and their wealthy sponsors do." http://bit.ly/awOWE #
• LA51 VLL are taxis really exempt from traffic laws on Broad Street? #cagerfail #
• Our compost bin produces no compost but it consumes kitchen/garden waste like some sort of enormous concrete pet rabbit. I daren't reach in. #
• Kieran Webb (Movemakers) tried to buy our house: not just after it went STC, nor after exchange, but so late that *we* got his letter. #fail #
• Working out how to get to the wedding. Public transport #fail at least means we'll be able to get a coffee waiting in Oxford. #stagecoach #

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• Join #Ikea family; not logged in; login attempt; Gateway Timeout; browser back button: "This secure site is unavailable." Repeatable #fail #
• @wesayso I'd like to say it's an experiment in real-time user testing, but really it's just horribly addictive, like picking at a scab. #
• @j4 that would involve re-searching for every item of furniture we've already decided on, plus making a loss on vouchers, plus higher costs. #
• @j4 we're probably just going to bite the bullet and go to the MK branch to buy it all in one go. Anything not in stock K's parents can get. #

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• Downgrading again. Sometimes it feels like TinyMCE 2.1.3 was last version that behaved with third-party systems like #drupal WYSIWYG. #
• Multiple upgrades, downgrades, uninstalls, patches and dev versions later, got #drupal Image Assist, TinyMCE 3.x and WYSIWYG API talking. #
• I don't want to sound pathetic but Saturday's drive to Ikea and back has left me with tendonitis... in my big toe. Wait... I sound pathetic. #
• @stevejalim Wait: how did you know our window frames needed refilling? Oh. Is this the substance of that talk my parents never had with me? #
• Actual street #scam: car driver asks for £3 for petrol http://qurl.com/6b2sz . @robmanuel fell for it to the tune of £10, but got her photo. #
• @griffinkate warning: if you're in a petrol station and @robmanuel asks you to smell some perfume, you'll wake up and your pillow'll be gone #
• Googling for hoaxes, I found that mobiles at petrol pumps are safer than, er, staticky shoes: http://qurl.com/jk8jl Why aren't both banned? #
• Stolen @jwebster's new @torchbox monitor. He seems happy standing his existing monitors up on their sides. Best leave him to it, I think. #
• @paulcarr almost as good as someone else's first thought being "ooh, I must maintain Wikipedia's spotless reputation as a beacon of truth." #
• Finding Tweetdeck confusingly nonlinear. Am I getting old? #
• @ihatemorning grouping twitterers is definitely the main use I hope to get out of it. It's just a lot to take in, horizontally. #
• Should be planning #ogn 13 on Wednesday, but I just want to sit outside and listen to the bellringers practising. I'll miss Eynsham. #
• Want to pitch an idea in 60 seconds at #ogn 13 ? Add your request to this Google group thread http://qurl.com/f1jj3 or dm me here. #
• HN08 PXO #Argos van, blind corner, overtake, HELL'S BELLS ONCOMING TRAFFIC #cagerfail #
• @whatishen were you eyeing up the contents of the stationery cupboard at the time? #
• @gamdel "If you follow ME, then I will follow YOU" but you just followed ME without me following YOU #mocknblock #
• Thanks to @westdotcodottt, @torchbox is currently enjoying some láze?ské oplatky. They're a bit like communion wafers with caramel filling. #
• @griffinkate the muffled, bored-sounding recorded voice at the start of the call seemed to say "This is Friends Provident Fails Centre." #
• About to exchange. A long and ultimately fruitless Critical Illness conversation with a call-centre droid has rather taken the joy out of it #
• @griffinkate well done you for taking care of everything else, though. #
• @argle I know the feeling. Friends Provident are currently recalculating whether or not I'm worth more in the form of extruded meat patties. #
• Open process != transparent process. Killer list of unanswered #GPL questions and ultimately unilluminating comments: http://qurl.com/ygdzl #
• @argle @griffinkate I'm not meant to have visions of Daryl Hannah manning the phones now, am I? Her cartwheeling her way to the watercooler. #
• @griffinkate well that certainly has the *form* of a joke. #
• "How hetero are you?" Well, if you'd built your poll site in HTML rather than (pointlessly) in Flash, I'd be able to find out. #fail #
• @covert for #ogn 13 tomorrow evening you could remove jacket and tie and rip your shirt a bit. It *is* the Jericho Tavern, after all. #
• Last-minute bits and pieces for #ogn 13 at the JT tomorrow: @torchbox, @openplatform, @friendsofed and @overheardatmoo sponsoring. Be there! #
• Today, at around 4pm, contracts were exchanged with the vendors. Then @griffinkate and I spent two hours waiting for each other to tweet it. #
• @j4 complete next Tuesday. We're just relieved the paperwork stage is over. Now it's the era of Ikea. #
• bravo to @argle for his results. At least part of him is now actually first class. #
• Any twitterers thinking of going to #ogn 13 tonight:bring your tweeting interfaces, and note the generic hashtag (not #ogn13!) #
• Almost all set up at #ogn 13. Refuelling with nachos. We have internets through a pipe this big: . #
• Why is it that I never drink at an #ogn, but always wake up the next day feeling hungover? #
• @griffinkate @j4 that does explain it. And at least the damage to my shin isn't a mystery drinking bruise: I remember falling off the stage. #
• Thanks again though to @torchbox, @openplatform, @friendsofed, @overheardatmoo, @covert, @brucel and all the other speakers for a great #ogn #
• @claypole thanks for that; @j4 - define "stupid" #
• RT @griffinkate Boris, keep your promise! http://qurl.com/n33ts (via @thegreenparty) #
• RT @simonwillison I wonder how big a factor "will developers ever trust our platforms again" is in decisions to shut .. services like Popfly #
• Did @garrettc just accidentally scrobbled the Fraggle Rock theme tune? That'll teach him to inflict earworms on us all. #
• @addedentry I'm just waiting for Terry Wogan to express annual surprise at typically rainy July weather: "summer's over for another year!" #
• @griffinkate Sigh. I notice Wogan's gone quiet about how #swineflu warnings are nannyish health-and-safety scaremongering, though #radio2 #
• @sambowlerr Dukt looks good for immediate timesheet tracking... what was the non-TweetDeck AIR app you mentioned? #
• @rhodri maybe *she's* meant to look proud. The interlocking semicircles look satisfied to me. Smug bastards. #
• When did Taylor's on St Giles get rubbish? Half as much stock, over-organized counters, no non-Tyrrell's crisps. Where'd the cornucopia go? #
• "All patients have a right to free healthcare that is based on their clinical needs, not the size of their bank balance. " http://bit.l ... #
• "We feel there's no point keeping the planet habitable unless we've still got quick access to Disney World and Ibiza." http://bit.ly/IRbqR #
• Gah, #Wordpress installs compromised AGAIN. The software is just full of holes. If I had infinite time I'd switch all my blogs to #drupal. #
• @petecooper it says at the bottom of the article that he's on #desertislanddiscs in fifteen minutes. Might have to listen again tho #radio4 #
• #Ikea secure site unavailable: so much for shopping online. It doesn't have all the actual store stock on it anyway #fail #
• @robinhouston I was trying to buy in the *absence* of coffee; that was probably part of the problem. Kettle on! #
• @robinhouston my eye for design isn't great. It looks ace, but maybe 5-line strapline needs iconography/simplifying? 3 points with graphics. #
• @robinhouston is each individual tweet's layout intuitive? As a user I don't know how clicking on a # is different from clicking on name. #
• @robinhouston title attributes on <a> tags might help. But multiple different URLs linked by same repeating text (#) is accessibility bad. #
• Oh, wow: #Ikea account area is working! I can now register a new profile - Create one here! - and - oh. Server 500 error. #fail #
• Three server errors later, #Ikea's left nav thinks I'm logged in, top nav that I'm logged out, and clicking on "Become a family member" 500s #
• #Ikea example page titles: "none", "# not used". Doesn't exactly fill one with confidence. #fail #
• Want to join #Ikea family? "This secure site is unavailable." Want to pay online using a gift card? Tough! #fail #
• Delete a product from your #Ikea basket: "Sorry, an error has occurred <br><br>Please take one of the following actions." Great HTML. #fail #

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