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Drupalcamp London is this weekend! And I'm going. Sadly, tickets sold out ages ago, but I managed to get some for myself and other two lucky Torchboxers. So if you see me, Helen or Justine, then do say hello. Justine is volunteering so make sure you've got a job for her to do.

Even if you haven't managed to get a ticket, then I might well bump into you on Saturday evening. Follow me on Twitter to work out where I'm likely to be. And keep tuned to the #dclondon hashtag anyway, for more info. 

• @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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