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• Baking bread, full of home-made soup, listening to Fleet Foxes, with garden lights from @j4 + @addedentry twinkling away. This is the life. #
• @davecranwell the App Engine bug queue is quietly responsive if it's an actual conflict; the plain Google Group noisier but less useful. #
• Won't let the rain stop us walking to Godstow and into Ox. #
• @griffinkate perhaps they rickrolled you because you've known each other for so long: you know the rules and so do they. #
• Oxford Geek Night 12, May 27: all keynotes and microslots filled. Fancy volunteering for The Pitch? http://qurl.com/phgvn #ogn #
• @mattythorne didn't spot your @-reply earlier. Yes, we're doing The Pitch. Fancy it? #
• @j4 @addedentry happy birthday to you, happy birthday to your spouse, happy birthday to a library assista-a-a-nt, happy birthday to my mum. #
• @hatmandu fancy a round? @torchbox has a teapot in Unit 8, claims to be a six-cupper. #teatuesday #
• @DarienGS A kneeling ox! http://qurl.com/hd6hn #
• Trying to motivate myself to go for a jog #
• Firefox has done the motivation for me, by grinding to a halt. #
• Rabbits, ponies, sheep and lots of magpies this morning; last night's jog along Cassington Lane was practically a rabbit rock festival. #
• II have sweaty ears. That's an unventilated Skype headset for you. #
• #crapnamesforpubs The Delirium and Tremens #
• #crapnamesforpubs The Hidden Small Arms at Windsor #
• Every vegetable soup has its emetic cognate, and it's vitally important to be able to distinguish between the two. #
• Every vegetable soup has its emetic cognate, and it's vitally important to be able to distinguish between the two. #souporsick #
• "Co-Op golden vegetable soup" == "whole pot of Rachel's organic vanilla yoghurt proved too feisty for weakened convalescent" #souporsick #
• #crapnamesforpubs The Lobe Inn #
• #crapnamesforpubs The Pig and Lemsip #swineflu #
• #crapnamesforpubs The Collecting Alms #
• @j4 #crapnamesforpubs The For All Your Online Alcohol Consumption Needs Inn #
• #crapnamesforpubs The Spam and CAPTCHA #
• Feel exhausted after soul-destroying Day Of The Spreadsheet. Didn't realise @jwebster was planning to pick up where we left off tonight. #
• Back to workflows this morning. Phew. #
• You used to be able to navigate between multiple lists on #google #gmail Tasks: now that navigation seems to be oddly absent. Gah. #
• @garrettc you OK with @petecooper's plan re: beatboxing at #ogn 12 great kthxbai #
• RT @transparency_uk Thanks to @sylwiapresley the Barcamp Transparency sponsorship pack is ready! http://3la.cc/2e #bct09 #
• Dear @j4, @cleanskies have delete my Twitter from internet. Please help. #
• @griffinkate says she missed the Stern lecture on #climatechange in Ox, because of traffic jam consisting of 90+% private transport. Sigh. #
• @griffinkate says she made Stern after all. Slipped in the doors, just before the heavens opened, like the weird animals did on the ark. #
• Don't want to go to the Co-op in this grey sop of a rainshower, but if I don't there will be no tea for @griffinkate on her return. Yikes. #
• @hatmandu I still can't quite believe you met him. Does he still have a purple beard? #
• Hooray: my DPhil thesis is now preserved forever. Well, you know. Here's a link that doesn't wrap: http://is.gd/xH3A #
• @addedentry it doesn't help that they've disappeared the linebreaks in the abstract. At least they've not done anything to the actual PDF. #
• Last night I was repeatedly buzzed by a swift outside the local pub: it swooped in 10m-wide circles looking for insects. Chirping from nest. #
• @petecooper Speechification have a great Beardyman show archived, about bird calls and mimicry in nature. #
• @davecranwell maybe Ox Uni's branding implies: "alma mater amabilis, ORA pro nobis." You don't get this quality of wordplay from @stephenfry #
• Meeting @garrettc in KA for beer. Anyone else? dm if you like: on mob. #
• Second - or is it third - time found a pill on a seat of S1. Vitamin this time, from size. #
• Young boy chattering in Finnish on bus. Eynsham does do exotic, sort of. #
• On our way to @j4 and @addedentry 's party. #

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• Packing and planning; collating train tickets and train times; making lists of what's to be done the next few weeks; trying to stay cheery. #
• Why make toilets work on the #train when you can charge thirty pence for them at Birmingham NS? #fail #
• Home, thoroughly internetted, rang everyone, everyone rang me, and now trying to work out what on earth I have to do this week. #
• "I urge the Secretary of State to wait for it." Evan Harris MP, yesterday. http://qurl.com/l91tp #
• @j4 could your non-tat conference gift be a hug? Actually, that might get out of hand. Best stick to an iced bun and a cheery wave. #
• It's the wrong CCK, Gromit, and it's gone WRONG. #Google #fail of the morning: http://qurl.com/ycmsb #drupal #
• Doing something for free leaves you with a warm glow, which is just as well. #
• @rhodri How about The Frug? http://www.flickr.com/photos/trevira/59407915/ #
• @ollywillans The Third Man is one of the best films ever made. Hope you enjoy it. Got the novella too if you're interested, also brill. #
• Omigod omigod where's my P60 where's my P60 rescue the recycling throw it on the floor chase round the house panic - IN THE MORTGAGE FOLDER! #
• Happy birthday, @natbat. @garrettc says I'm a bad person, but I can't be all bad, right? #
• My car has no low-petrol warning light I can see, but the needle has been slumped on zero for some distance. What do I do? What do I do? #
• Listening to @AdamBuxton1 and Joe Cornish on the weekend-before-this-one podcast. It's giving me a fear of beards. #
• Celebrating workers' rights day by getting a mortgage. FIGHT THE POWER! #
• @wesayso I stopped listening to the Today Programme for that reason. Unfortunately it turns out Wogan's just as bad, but subtler. #
• Can we fight the pig-related filter failure on Twitter by tagging all of our tweets with #swineflu, thus rendering it useless? #swinefail #
• Mentioning #swineflu got me four automatic followers. #swinefail #
• @ihatemornings we might miss #bensbiggig tonight - we're both feeling a bit overhousebought. Can we buy tickets on the door? #swineflu #
• @mattmcd I don't think filter failure understands porcine puns, unfortunately. #swineflu #swinefail #
• @j4 I should have known that #swineflu would be an excuse to 'trot' out old gags like that one. #swinefail #
• RT @tomd @torchbox just launched 'the future of film distribution': http://www.indiescreenings.net #ageofstupid #climatechange #
• We now have a mortgage. Ugh. I don't know whether to feel elated or merely in the grip of 25 years of debt. #swineflu #swinefail #
• Hello and *plonk* to the already disabled @Clarice and @EasyFlu . So far that's six followers from #swineflu. #swinefail. #
• Thank you, Witney #postoffice, for closing at just after midday on a Saturday, and knackering my plans for this weekend. #fail #swineflu #
• Witney #postoffice managed to still be world of #fail, even when it was open. "No, we don't keep copies of those forms, with our logo on." #
• Chillin with my homies, by which I mean at home #
• @jonleighton you're making me feel old. I played Wadstock about thirteen years ago. Is that in the gardens? Used to be outside the bar. #
• the Cotswolds is all a-flower. Sitting in out-of-control garden with tea. #
• Thanks to @j4 and @addedentry for their inestimable company yesterday at what, as an excuse for a barbecue, I called my birthday 2.0. #

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• Can recommend Hand and Shears, Church Hanborough. Friendly landlord did a special huge veg bake for 2 weary walkers. LOTSA CARBS. #cotswolds #
• Archive of book reviews now available on Quiet little Lies, new content to follow http://tinyurl.com/cb7g69 #
• ... coffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee Hey, kids: it's a visit from the coffeecopter! coffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee... #
• @cleanskies how do I RSVP "no" to that there environmental apocalypse? I barely knew Ballard and I don't think he'd want me along, honest. #
• @drewm don't get me started on "login" versus "log in" #
• @cleanskies if only every problem could be solved by Linda McCartney's left nostril. It would certainly make Yoko Ono green with envy. #
• @frankegerton StreetBooks sounds great. When content is easy to get for "free", then as with real ale print needs cachet: artisanry as a USP #
• Right. Toast and bed, I think. LO! ENVY THE RICH TAPESTRY OF MY LIFE. #
• What a beautiful spring day. The sun shone down from a sky of cornflower-blue &c &c. #
• Looking forward to an afternoon of doing a job I suggested, that solves a usability problem a friend was going to otherwise have. #
• Resisting eating the remainder of Easter's truffles and going to bed. #
• @diveintomark says "fuck the font foundries". Don't hold back, Mark. http://qurl.com/3c2st #
• Super-keynote announced for #ogn12: "The webs are made of messages." Volunteer for pitches and microslots @ http://oxford.geeknights.net/ #
• Astonishing how much you can speed up the UX of a 5-yr-old XP install crippled with adware by installing Firefox. ON THE INTERNETS, finally. #
• On an XP box full of adware, with Vodafone still susceptible to #twitterbugs, & mum badgering me for webpages: reluctant to twitter much. #
• Flash slows this XP box to crawl. I don't get a chance to decide whether I want/need it for a webpage until too late: Flash has no preview. #
• Completely excluding IE6 and merely embedding Flash = almost 2 aspects of same compatibility issue, impacting on sizable fraction of web UX. #
• Saying goodbye to my parents. We'll see them again in June. #

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• #stagecoach FAIL timetable FAIL gap FAIL of FAIL #fail. Missing start of Hegley. #
• Heggers will understand: K. reckons he used to be a bus driver. #
• Hum. Sorry, all. Vodafone's linkup seems to have a #twitterbug. I've PINned my device config, so cross fingers cross fingers cross fingers - #
• Two SMSes at 03:18 and 03:49: PIN invalid. An end to the #twitterbug? Two SMSes at 03:18 and 03:49: PIN invalid. An end to the #twitterbug? #
• It's all right for you lot. I'm still suffering from the #twitterbug delivery loop: getting rejection after rejection from those two SMSes. #
• Tempted by the beautiful sunshine, but I've got a lot to do online today. Even the best house guest gets in the way the boring bits of life. #
• They set a price; we made an offer; they haggled up; we said there'd need to be conditions; they... just accepted. The hard bit starts here. #
• @brighty yes, in east Witney. Close enough to Oxford for Kate, close enough to Charlbury for me. It still feels unreal. #
• My word, Eventbrite is a big old world of usability and functionality FAIL. #
• @brighty cheers! #
• Once upon a time I got geocoding working with Location / gMap in #drupal. Those were heady days. #
• Ah, once you've configured gMap finally successfully finally you have to go back and re-configure Location. It doesn't tell you this #drupal #
• We just ate half of Contraction and Convergence. Don't hate us. #
• @victoriachan your birth certificate prob doesn't have a set of checkboxes. Decide which of other people's goals you want to make your own: #
• @victoriachan and give yourself a break! #
• Banjo Sandwiches currently offering shave-and-a-haircut, plus flagrant and annoying abuse of van horn. Can I just have a salad? #
• Cheese is the vegetarian's downfall. Keep your hands off mine. #
• After cheese... comes fruit. #
• Gah. House buying has taken over my life. Don't expect any socializing from me for weeks, or at least until I get this spreadsheet finished. #
• Also, I just cracked my knee on the table and spilled my tea on Private Eye. Nobody understands my pain. #
• Slowly grinding to a halt, awake till 2. That's what I get for doing a combination of writing and side-by-side solicitor comparisons at 11. #
• I'm no footyfootball fan, but I think Gianfranco Zola is either perfecting "Blue Steel" or "Magnum" in this photo: http://qurl.com/hm6dw #
• @petecooper who IS that? That's frightening #
• @argle @hatmandu @purserhallard @brighty and everyone else ta for offers of sympathy and luck. Anyone offer to liaise with solicitors? Guys? #
• @j4 maybe it's not you: maybe the rest of the internet is wrong #
• @j4 if you could just sorting out all the legals with the solicitudes and buy us house then that are great liaise thansk ok bye #
• All quiet on the West Oxon Green Fair. Could murder a cup of tea. #
• Giving the recently neglected http://oxford.geeknights.net/ some of the love it deserves. We have keynote speakers for #ogn 12 and 13! #
• Right. Off for a walk in the sun. #
• Made it to Church Han, no thanks to drainage ditches cut across footpath #

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• Left @ihatemornings entertaining the troops at a highly successful #barcampoxford: knackered, but feel a bit better after fruit and yoghurt. #
• Acc. to witness statements to IPCC, man dead in #g20 protests "assaulted" by riot police shortly before heart attack http://qurl.com/386bm #
• @jwebster twevolution? #
• @crouchingbadger "The primary innovation in onion routing is the concept of the routing onion." #
• #twevolution in progress: I have just twevolved. Maybe it should be called #twecimation. #
• Thinks: "crap, a security hole! if I had access to their SESSION, I could read the cookie, and then get access... to their... SESS... oh." #
• @jwebster regarding #twevolution, @purserhallard and @vigornian have other tag ideas: #tweincarnation? #survivalofthetwittest? #
• How can so much effort have been put into something so rubbish as #sqlserver? It was probably someone's labour of love once upon a time. #
• @hatmandu in the treacle of interruptions? Beware the caramel of conflicting project requirements, and the greased paper of feature creep. #
• Trying to get the energy to do anything at all this evening. #
• Just addressed someone over their phone by their name of their anonymous internet persona. Confused the hell out of them. #
• @sylwiapresley could you call her a Twitallina? Or a Twitella, like Nigella Lawson? I think it's good enough to say we're all just twits. #
• @sylwiapresley the other way round is easier to fudge, even if there's no perfect answer, because you already have that social contact. #
• @hatmandu I don't like the principle of letting things built to a purgative crisis. It sounds like my last bout of gastric flu. #
• Unacceptably @dailyhorse moves further from the principle of Horse! with an image of a model of a horse. Down with illegitimate hipponicons! #
• "www.hsbc.co.uk uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown." WTF? #
• @hatmandu if estate agents get into Twitter, I'm leaving #
• @jwebster that would turn RFP/tendering into the IT project equivalent of speed dating. Now there's tender, and there's *tender*. #
• 4x12mon, 8 apps, 8 log types... that makes over 3000 historical log files. Dear client: please don't open them all at once. #
• That actually made over 3000 historical log files full of 403 error pages. Ah. Seems to be working this time round. #
• Beside the lake / beneath the trees / those tweets sure blow in / on the breeze #burmashave #
• Did the Met / not get the memo / "pls don't be dicks / at the demo"? #burmashave #g20 #
• Location and gMap have to be the most overconfigurable modules in #drupal. How do I get a clickable map on node-edit again...? #
• Not gMap > gMap Location > Node map, but Location > Geocoding Options > United Kingdom but DON'T CLICK ON THE RADIO BUTTON's LABEL! Gah. #
• No, even that isn't it. This is Byzantine. #
• Ah, I forgot the special pointless "let me submit longitude and latitude even though I can submit everything else" perm. OF COURSE. #drupal #
• Off to see John Cage's Disco Classics at the BT tonight. #oxfringe #
• Everyone go and see John Cage's Disco Classics tomorrow or Sat, at Burton Taylor. #oxfringe #
• 'Inspired and highly original,' say Daily Info about, yes, John Cage's Disco Classics. #oxfringe #
• @petecooper there was sort of a 4'33" in there. It was a bit of a centrepiece around which the rest of the plain weird antics revolved. #
• Feeling like a complete idiot. More than the usual post-sandwich blues. #
• 'Inspired and highly original,' say Daily Info about, yes, John Cage's Disco Classics. #oxfringe #
• #stagecoach FAIL timetable FAIL gap FAIL of FAIL #fail. Missing start of Hegley. #
• Heggers will understand: K. reckons he used to be a bus driver. #

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• The BBC World Service is worth buying a DAB radio for alone... which is prob why they recently ceased broadcasting on many non-DAB channels. #
• @hatmandu would love to hear more about Horse variant. @dailyhorse provides good practice, but images of horse don't of course count. #
• Earlier and hence colder morning made yet colder by the central heating at home still being on GMT. Brrr. #
• Yes, technically I suppose I *am* celebrating pay-day with Pringles for breakfast. Don't judge me. #
• Has the web suddenly got interesting again over the past six months, or is it just me? #
• Saturday #barcampoxford meal at Jamal's, Walton Street, Jericho, 7.30pm. Pub at 9.30pm - location tbc. #
• Spring cycle ride home lovely as always. Rabbits hopping into the distance, magpies quarrelling, pheasants sitting around like fat molehills #
• @adamamyl I'll... I'll just have a salad. #
• April 1st is of limited humour value when you're as gullible and easily panicked as me. No, that's not an invitation. #
• @hatmandu I tried that once and got no results, even using terms on which basis other people had just been followed. Should I complain? #
• Back from talking #drupal to a switched-on otherwise-Windows potential client; having lunch and resting my voice. #
• Why do textual changes turn into layout rearrangements turn into CSS workarounds turn into template redrafts turn into architectural tweaks? #
• @hatmandu a ha'p'th of tar, surely. You're horse-obsessed. Horsessed. Obsessive comhorsive disorder. #
• @j4 I think you need to start drafting a successor standard to TEI. That'll fix it. #
• @garrettc eats a mango, @garrettc eats a mango, ner nerr nerr nuh (oi!), ner nerr nerr nuh (oi!) #
• Tea. It's gone everywhere. So... much... tea.... Tea.... I feel weak. #
• Off to local Greenpeace at Mitre. #
• Hm, should have set up more goals for that there scrum retrospective. At least we did the work. #
• The #barcampoxford needs you for this weekend's shenanigans: got a projector screen? Or some pens? http://qurl.com/p2m5q #
• #followfriday @bbcworldservice @gsightseeing @barcampoxford @jamieandrews @petecooper #
• @jamieandrews is there a chip shop in Charlbury? #
• @j4 bless you! #
• The innocent man has nothing to fear from the police, except for kettling, baton charges, lies, smears.... http://qurl.com/jv1mj #g20 #
• Trying to work out what to talk about at #barcampoxford - what are YOU planning on doing? And... can I copy you? #
• #barcampoxford wiki available at http://barcampoxford.pbwiki.com/ . If you're coming along then feel free to add to it. #
• @davecranwell given I've spent today sorting out @barcampoxford stuff, and will be spending tomorrow actually at it, I resemble that remark. #
• Couple of attendees dropped out of #barcampoxford... ask on the Google group or Crowdvine if you're interested in taking their place. #
• @ihatemornings presumably that's not deBoltonize as in to take a donk off it? #
• Early arrivals for #barcampoxford at http://www.combibos.co.uk/ on Gloc Green (map at http://tinyurl.com/cj8bzd) #
• At the stop at 1756 with no sign on e-timetable of the 1758. #stagecoach #fail #
• 1718 not showing either. Why do they #stagecoach run bus services when they're so #fail? #
• They're just turning the lights off at Combibos. Where did everyone go, then? #
• Pre-@barcampoxford curry hugely popular. Only sorry S1 meant I had to quit early. #
• Beautiful, crisp, birdsung spring morning. Too bloody early, though. #
• Landed at #barcampoxford, finally got wifi working #
• #barcampoxford #opensource and #agile: co-location of the team can be sacrificed, but at a cost #
• #barcampoxford schedule as of 10am: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dakt/3413529863/sizes/o/ #
• #agile pairprogramming is not the same as training: can alternate, but switch requires a change of attitude towards partner. #barcampoxford #
• #barcampoxford has a Crowdvine, in case you've not spotted it: http://barcampoxford.crowdvine.com/ #
• #openid converts many 1-to-1 ID relationships to one 1-to-N; but freedom to disaggregate means M-to-N, which is HARD #barcampapacheoxford #
• content aggregation could be the "killer app" for decentralized ID adoption? Would it get your mum to use it? #barcampoxford #
• We also have an IRC backchannel: #barcampoxford on irc.freenode.net . #
• Useful links? Tag them on delicious for #barcampoxford http://delicious.com/tag/barcampoxford #
• DNS solves decentralized lookup, but #openid URLs are confusing for end user. Is it a URL? Is it a login? Where's my socks? #barcampoxford #
• But email address as identifier is wrong: it's the wrong endpoint, and it reveals information that a URL doesn't. #barcampoxford #
• @purserhallard I'll raise your question in the open session. My guess is all our primal urges have just been reset to LUNCH anyway. #
• Ugh. Flaking out. #
• oh, flip, Nick's speaking at #barcampoxford and all I've got is this lousy T-shirt. #
• @mapkyca sorry I missed that. Running own slightly shambolic merged talk at #barcampoxford with Robert Burrell Dunkin. +1 to transparencamp #
• (great fun, though: I now want to convince all our clients to use the cloud, just to play with the tools RBD mentioned.) #barcampoxford #
• RT @reubenwright re: IDs at #barcampoxford. http://qurl.com/6wzs6 is a decent summary of identify v represent vs expose in public sector #
• @ihatemornings is talking about live twittering of #bensbiggig at #barcampoxford, and also how DO people find new music these days? #
• @sylwiapresley haven't managed to twitter half of what I wanted - trying to keep up with the talks, really! #
• End of #BarCampOxford and almost end of me. At least I have an egg. #

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• Approaching #oxfordgeeknight: my brain has filled up. I'm now no good for anything, but still unable to relax, even when all's going well. #
• Weather changes back to spring. As long as it doesn't rain when I'm actually on my bike. #
• @wesayso I long for the days when they had Tom Baker reading out SMSes, and people got him to sing songs: http://qurl.com/sg5gc #
• @garrettc the right command is to go into the directory that's under CVS and type "svn import . https://.../new-svn/" Problem solved. #
• RT @Jazza_UK Oxford Geek Night 11 this Wednesday at the Jericho Tavern. http://snurl.com/ee4hu #ogn #oxfordgeeks #
• Beautiful if gusty journey home. Wind behind me mostly anyway, so at least being blown along makes a change from struggling into headwinds. #
• Swede gratin. Abel & Cole, sort it out. #
• @rhodri I'll have to make do with "Our Lancastrian Churl". #
• @darwin @jonleighton this the march? Thinking about it: "climate, jobs and justice" only works if Unite stay at home: http://qurl.com/566dq #
• #torchboxteapot is brightening up the afternoon, but not as much as @jwebster's flapjacks. Must finish them before all the Unit-9ers turn up #
• Anyone want to contribute a 60-second Pitch for #ogn tomorrow ? Get up on your soapbox and say whatever you want. http://qurl.com/zqfm2 #
• @natbat thanks so much for a great talk at #ogn. Your triumphal return! Sorry I didn't get a chance to chat more once things were under way. #
• In fact, thanks to everyone for a fantastic #ogn - @natbat, Mike, @torchbox, Pearson, Carsonified, microslotters and pitchers. #
• @crouchingbadger as Skunk Anansie once sang, every day hurts in Littlemore. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! YOU'RE TOO KIND! I'M HERE ALL WEEK! #
• @bluedevi @j4 and @omassey's trip to Dublin made me really want to make that trip. #
• Transfixed by a wagtail, which is itself confused by another wagtail it sees in a car's mirror, but which disappears when it goes to say hi. #
• RT @leisa We Need You! Get involved NOW (not next week!) & help make Drupal7 UX a great user experience. http://is.gd/p3lH #drupalusability #
• RT @sccoalition #g20rally you don't have to turn up to all of it, and there's post-rally party w/Earth Hour http://qurl.com/8v5my #earthhour #
• @rhodri and you don't look a day over 13,635 days old, the age at which Vincent Van Gogh died. I've just outlived Robert Jay Mathews. Great. #
• @rhodri why is keeping it real so hard to distinguish from keeping it unrealistic? #
• What would the FT look like in 2020? Grab your timewarp paper copy now if you're in the City, or check out http://ft2020.com/ #ft2020 #
• Public Service Broadcast. 1. webdav is not a real flesystem. 2. you can't develop on it. 3. you *can* do ssh on windows servers with Cygwin. #
• Feeling like a wrung-out rag. No G20 in London for me today, but we'll observe Earth Hour. http://qurl.com/8v5my #
• On the upside, I'm one of Adam & Jo's Black Squadron. Well, paisley squadron: I can't say my pyjamas are the height of fashion, @adambuxton1 #
• The first climate rally that the mainstream media actually makes a fuss of and I'm missing it. Something to not tell my grandkids about. #
• The #earthhour website sort of implies all you need to do is turn your lights off. And... plan a party? http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/ #
• Vodafone customers get SMS tweets as part of their bundle, apparently. Text to 86444. #twitter #
• @mattmcd beeswax = renewable; depending on embedded CO2, could count as carbon-neutral in long term, I think. Far less than bulbs anyway. #
• @petecooper I don't see it so much as a placebo as a way of mainstreaming greenness. "My annual reminder... we can all be something bigger." #
• @petecooper but then I'm sad to not have had the hwyl to make the #g20rally , so #earthhour is all I've got...! #
• @petecooper I know what you mean. But global campaigns=baby steps: gets people used to the principles. Is there time for baby steps, though? #
• @petecooper my feeling is, even if you're already supergreen, turn off electricity, light some candles, have a beer and relax for an hour. #
• RT @ade great article on why Earth Hour is more than just a publicity stunt, on Time.com: http://tinyurl.com/3bgpjl #
• All off for #earthhour: windup radio, candles, fusebox tripped. Beer and curry. #
• Urgh. I hate Saturdays. #
• Urgh. I hate Sundays. #
• @purserhallard they're just jealous of my all-week-long mojo. Where's the tea? #
• The in-browser Javascript security model will always get you in the end. #
• @dariengs don't worry - Javascript programming is mostly character-driven anyway! [picks self up off floor; wipes eyes] #

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• About to go into #ageofstupid. See people in there. #
• They weren't hissing you, Sam. Alistair Campbell went past. #ageofstupid #
• @matpage @brighty at least you two had a good reason to be awake.... #
• Did xkcd see #ageofstupid last night? Eerie: http://xkcd.com/556/ #
• "A toothless figleaf". Can a figleaf have teeth? Ficus dentatus? I think that makes them blackberries. #
• "if one person flew LA-> London that would be more emissions than the whole [Leicester Square premiere] " #ageofstupid #
• @damiancugley an idea for a new b3ta quiz: "TV presenter or Fathers 4 Justice?" #
• Caterers booked for #barcampoxford http://www.ajcatering.co.uk/ Thanks to Amir for sorting! Any allergies? Tell us at http://qurl.com/sq9kb #
• Deleting around eight million rows from a SQL Server database is no fun. Seven minutes' transaction time so far. Daren't look at logs. #
• Whoops, there goes the disk space: roll back! #
• Off to post a card to a sick, elderly family friend, wishing people could always be hale and hearty. #
• @argle I have a sneaking suspicion I missed your birthday yesterday. Happy squashday, anyway. #
• @SteveALee there'll be snacks separately - we're getting fruit, cereal bars and chocolate, I think. I hope! #
• @drewm it did at least roll back once I'd cancelled it. But how does SQL Server manage to be so graphical and yet so opaque? #
• Christening the @torchbox teapot in Unit 8. #
• @purserhallard yes, congratulations! apparently it was mentioned on that "Face-Books" place, but I wouldn't know about that sort of thing. #
• A chat-up line suitable for this evening's revelry: "Do you have any Irish in you? [pause for answer] Well, would you hold it against me?" #
• Re: previous tweet - sorry, Gran, God rest your soul. At least it wasn't an Irish bull. Or anything from Uncle Tel's Cabin. #
• @petecooper they'd better be quick if they've not signed up yet: #barcampoxford attendee list now over 90% full. #barcamp #
• @jturnbull you've made me yearn for pie-crust and fried potatoes. Takeaway best bit of moving house.Time to go and get some supper, I think. #
• Full of @torchbox cycling breakfast. Mmm, croissants and cheese. #
• @jwebster distracting us all with bike porn. Reminds me that I've got a Brompton catalogue at my desk. #
• Playing with a possible new Oxford Geeks website. It only does RSS feed aggregation right now, so a bit of a step backwards. #
• @tomtaylor par for course from Hello!graph? At least they didn't illustrate it with busty A-level hopefuls, y'know, cycling. Bravo, though. #
• GMail must know I'm working from home: advertising "live-in care" to me. Will they make the tea? #
• Merging codebase FAIL. After the first thousand revisions, subversion repositories start to creak & groan, and emit steam from their rivets. #
• The Banjo sandwich van, after nearly running me over on Witney-Woodstock road earlier this week, suffers irritable horn syndrome once again. #
• @argle I bet your svn wasn't originally two separate repositories, merged by svndumping and then slurping the two dumps into a new repos. #
• A weekend without the wife... I'm already in my dressing-gown eating chips. And it goes downhill from here. #
• @brighty the poor wee mite. fingers crossed it's something boring instead. #
• @hatmandu I misread the tweet about ibuprofen and jumped to the wrong wossname. Well, fingers crossed for her. #
• My music collection rocks: "American Wine", "What's a Girl To Do", "High and Dry", "You Love Us". It rocks if you're my demographic, anyway. #
• Er, "Mexican Wine". That typo neatly conciding with an accidental injection of Terttu Lehey's Finnish for Beginners. G'night, Wembley! #
• @joannatidball of course! Between them and Global Hypercolor it's like the early '90s all over again on Twitter tonight...! #
• @greenpeaceuk one for Nuclear Reaction on April 26: photos from a tour of Pripyat (via b3ta) http://qurl.com/kfqf3 #
• @joannatidball nor is it MC Hammer's hilarious trousers. If only 1992 had just been Richey Manic and the Mary Whitehouse Experience.... #
• As I fell asleep, I wondered: is "postromantic" a modern coinage, describing the conjuring of either severe debilitation or yummy dessert? #
• @adambuxton1 has just opened the floodgates on 6Music... starting off today with 12 followers, I wonder how many he'll have by end of show. #
• Showering, then probably cycling into some bit of Oxford for a coffee. If anyone's around then do feel free to send me an SMS. #
• @j4 has teh shiny. I seened it. @omassey assures me the stormtrooper uniform is in the post: http://qurl.com/p8w65 #
• I enjoy programming in Python so much that I lose track of time: still in my cycling gear. Nobody tell my bosses.... Oh. #
• @natbat @simonw o noes! Bet would've been quicker letting you out if you were @stephenfry: he's prob already on security guards' follow list #
• Feeling vaguely flu-y, especially sinuses. Hope it's nascent hayfever from today's cycle ride past recently tilled fields, not actual flu. #
• Bus ride to Witney took 1hr; sliced finger cutting bagels. Counted my blessings tho, as *I* could ring and talk to my Mum today. Some can't. #
• @platform3 think there was a folk festival in Oxford this weekend, or did you work out already why there were so many Morrismen? #

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• Uploaded my first functional (if remarkably ugly) Google App to GAE. Nice experience, except for building own RAD env. #googleapps #google #
• How can speedtest.net rate me at 500kB/s when play.com is only letting me download at a *maximum* of 40kB/s across two connections? #
• Ah! MySQL connections within PHP are firewalled but the command-line client isn't. My brain hurts, prob because I've scratched it too much. #
• Cartoon in excerpt from New Frontiersman in Watchmen comic has crying Statue of Liberty; Alan Moore has perfect pitch. http://qurl.com/tnmk4 #
• @jamieandrews did wonder about car. Getting to Dix Pit with WEEE is hard otherwise, though: bungees not secure enough. Also, mug=cracked. #
• @darwin maybe they meant quiltified: they all wear puffa jackets for extra protection while tinkering with cars. #
• @DarienGS (12, 4) (Treat it like a cryptic crossword clue; or use eye muscles to cogitate? (5, 9) ) #
• RT: @Greenpeace_Intl: #climateaction entrance to EU building blocked by Greenpeace protesters by 340 activists, from 40 different countries. #
• @hatmandu is that as bad as "Normally I wouldn't etc. but you just went on honeymoon here?" If so, then I done that. #
• @garrettc "your.flowingdata: capturing your login with an antipattern, one FAIL at a time." But when will Twitter have a secure login API? #
• @garrettc good news for #twitter, although #oauth is still 1/3 black magic http://qurl.com/nz9lv . #antipattern #
• Just when I was getting thoroughly fed up of cabbage cabbage cabbage and celeribloodyac, Abel & Cole pull the stops out. So much fruit! #
• @hatmandu pretty much. @garrettc said was getting weird but should record it for posterity. Also means that @darwin can't hear us chatt- oh. #
• Perfect bed-time surfing: Cyriak's video for the remix of Frankie Valli's Begging http://qurl.com/cqpg1 . Sweet dreams! #
• Rediscovering #delicious . Easier than marking items in #Google Reader as "keep unread". #
• Economists agree broadly with #green groups about #climatechange, but journalists haven't caught up yet. Why? http://qurl.com/4n9np #
• @stevejalim does that mean I can disagree with you about that and still get in the papers? #
• @jwebster not guilty. We tried negotiating with the mice, but the letting agents put poison down and wanted to see RESULTS. Well, mice poo. #
• @brighty are you on the Calpol yourself now? How about the leopards? #
• Lord Stern: climate-change deniers are flat-earthers, "marginal", "ridiculous" and "confused" http://qurl.com/jzd2w #climatechange #
• Into Oxford, walk to Phoenix, turn right back round again, wait for bus. Grargh. #
• @jonleighton you can't do semaphore in ASCII it seems, but we did discover today that it's fun to stay at the \o/ ^o^ o= /o\ . #
• @monami I want that. But somehow I get the feeling the mice will be long gone by the time I get it working. #
• There's NO WAY I need three heaped tablespoons of cabbage. At least http://qurl.com/flht9 says I can wash it down with two slices of mango. #
• RT @petecooper OMG SAUSAGE PONY! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7939187.stm #
• @hatmandu @dailyhorse as they say, a horse a day keeps the sausage pony away. #
• I can't believe @jwebster actually dared to tweet that. What if someone decides they don't want to shortlist us for a .NET job and... oh. #
• I'm completely exhausted. A bowlful of Italian carbs has done for me. Shame miss Oxford Internet Professionals meet: http://qurl.com/s3nly #
• Question: should OGN11 keynoters begin earlier, at 8pm, or at 8.30 as usual? @-reply to me with hashtag #ogn to vote. #
• The man from All Shred, van parked across the entire car park, has his door open. Seems to be listening to Alan Partridge: is that Radio 5? #
• The crowd has spoken about #ogn - starting at 8pm, finished by 10ish. #
• Note on empty Ecover: "Please! More washing up! Cleaner." Well, if you insist.... #
• SiteLauncher Firefox addon + bookmarklets = ultra-fast navigation #
• @petecooper @garrettc Her. Name. Was. Lola; she was a showgirl, with yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there. #
• Why does a full timetable of work for the next 3 weeks make me want to roll my sleeves up and cheerfully hop to it? The mystery of scrum.... #
• @jwebster in fact the principles of singletasking would forbid it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/edcotton/3275769908/ #
• @petecooper see you at #ageofstupid . I'll be the one who's already been there and bought the T-shirt. #
• Another short, mediocre Google App - this one for @torchbox show and tell sessions. #gae turning out to be ideal for these small jobs. #
• Attendee list for #barcampoxford now over 80% full: current limit for e.g. catering funding is 50 people. Better sign up sharpish. #barcamp #
• A white night, thanks to talking tangentially about work at 11pm. Reading about Plantagenet dynasty at 3.30am almost got me to sleep. #
• @matpage stuck without sleep so I'm tuning in online. Candi Staton & was that Marvin Gaye just then? I was busy with getting codecs to work! #
• @matpage good choices anyway. #
• bizarrely listening to a #lovefoodhatewaste advert on DurhamFM, courtesy of @matpage . I think it was a coincidence. #
• Fending off the urge to sleep; blogging instead. #
• I just had an hour's sleep and it felt like three. #
• Following last night's - what:2.5hr? - sleep fiasco, I see like Paul McGann suffers http://qurl.com/8qg9h . Unite, o insomniac brethr-zzz... #
• My new Google app finally has a CRUD UI for the data model. Well, a CR'D UI. Well, 9/10 of a "D". Ish. #
• Got the Earth Hour light switch on my blog: http://www.jpstacey.info/blog/ Otherwise, let's be honest: I'm going to forget. #

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• I can hear a noise apparently only audible to young people. It sounds like toothache, and is quite repellent. http://trainhorns.net/sound/ #
• Went stargazing last night and completely blew our minds. Laptop + trestle table + http://www.stellarium.org/ . May not work in cities. #
• @jturnbull the Sun is ranked pretty low when it comes to sci/tech reliability: http://tinyurl.com/dg96e8 #
• The #skittles backlash has begun. A lesson for Mars, that cool is not contagious. Especially if you're a multinational confectionery giant. #
• Some mornings, coffee doesn't even touch the sides. #
• @nfolson Team #Drupal has already gone through two cafetieres and I'm ready to brew a third. I think Garrett's skimping on the grounds. #
• Keeping the pressure up on lots of different stuck doors. I could quite easily go to bed instead. #
• @andrewgodwin if you're not a student, and if you have a Network Railcard, train and bus are about the same for off-peak day return. #
• "If Neanderthal man had built nuclear reactors, we would still be guarding the waste." http://qurl.com/b8sqb #
• Biscuit biscuit biscuit biscuit biscuit biscuit biscuit biscuit biscuit biscuit biscuit biscuit biscuit biscuit STOP ME BEFORE I SNACK AGAIN #
• @stevejalim @petecooper I'm can't eat any more: too full... OF SHAME. That was a whole pack of Maryland cookies I just went through. #
• I think the hail stripped a whole layer of skin off my face just now. That's harsh weather out there. #
• @drewm this will be my thirteenth spring without eating animals. I'm living proof that it's possible, although I'm weak as a newborn baby. #
• Just realised that #bsg does not mean Business Systems Group. It's not that I'm not a geek, it's that I'm a geek gone wrong. #
• @jwebster twittergrader claims that Eynsham doesn't exist. I don't know how to take that. Maybe I'll pretend I'm in Witney.... #
• @barcampoxford now set up for #barcampoxford . Maybe we should have done that earlier... better late than never. Follow if you're interested #
• K has a cold. Some people at work have had colds. My adenoids feel funny. @garrettc, you might want to put a barrier between our desks. #
• Oranges are good for colds, right? They also spruce up the office with an orangey aroma. Mm! #
• chuck_norris.sh does not sleep: it waits. #
• @asthmauk OGN10 talk by @sylwiapresley discussed how to behave on Twitter - "Twitter Ethics." http://qurl.com/3bzp4 #twitter #twetiquette #
• @asthmauk might help with "how Twitter works" :) good luck. #
• Feeling a bit ropey. Coffee will sort me out. #
• @andrewgodwin I dimly remember being student: I'd never have conscienced train to London. I'd also never have conscienced thermals. Toasty. #
• @hatmandu 'A horse is usually not considered to be a "horse" until it is 5 years old.' What does this do to traditional rules of "Horse!" ? #
• @hatmandu @dariengs I think getting close enough to a horse to age it might certainly turn Horse! into a sport for connoisseurs. "Colt!" ? #
• Improving HTML standards in Drupal's image mgt: http://drupal.org/node/393152 #
• Speaking of which, @hatmandu @dariengs : http://b3ta.com/board/9240470 #horse! #horse! #
• Just got 12/14 on the Regeneration Game. Oil and Foil Fail. Can you do any better? http://snipurl.com/regenerationgame #
• #barcampoxford is nearly 7/10 full: if you want to come along then sign up sharpish! #
• It's a lovely day out there. I wish I wasn't in here doing stuff. Walk to the Hanboroughs later, if I can drag K out that far. #
• Researching catering for #barcampoxford - any bright ideas? Put them on http://tinyurl.com/cd9nl4 #
• just cracked my head on a lintel. Owowowoooo. #
• @brighty just had the same reaction to the driving rain. Rrgh. Time to turn the central heating back on and make soup, I suppose. #
• We've just about vanquished opening of popups in browsers; looks like we'll have to shortly revisit the same battle in Flash, as always. #

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