August, 2011

31st August, 2011

Tuesday August 2, 2011 - 07:35

Looks like @nxea_nre have given up on the nice new trains with WiFi, and gone back to old trains with smell of stale sweat. Great. ELY-LST

Tuesday August 2, 2011 - 07:47

Looks like @NRE_NXEA have given up on the nice new trains with WiFi, and gone back to old trains with smell of stale sweat. Great. ELY-LST

Tuesday August 2, 2011 - 07:49

Am back on tweetdeck for Android, as nothing beats its functionality. Wish it handled patchy 3G connections better though.

Tuesday August 2, 2011 - 19:17

Dammit, just looked in the bottom right corner to check the time… sadly, magazines don’t have built in clocks. #fullyDigital #theGrid

Tuesday August 2, 2011 - 19:19

@RobGonda every time you say HTML5 and mean CSS3+JS Doug Crockford kills a kitten… @remtwitter.com , @bruceltwitter.com

Tuesday August 2, 2011 - 23:01

@rafaschoutwitter.com yeah but mobile is as often 9:16 as it is 16:9 portrait style browsing is preferable for longer text and forms etc.

Wednesday August 3, 2011 - 18:22

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Wednesday August 3, 2011 - 20:14

Fuck bands / labels that release previous albums with ’extras’ on them. Cynical money grabbing. Looking at you @arcadefiretwitter.com #disappointed

Friday August 5, 2011 - 06:37

@videonastytwitter.com RT @BoingBoingtwitter.com JG Ballard archive opens at the British Library

Friday August 5, 2011 - 11:21

@ryanand26twitter.com You always cry when Goose dies. Just shut your eyes when you know it’s coming…

Friday August 5, 2011 - 23:55

finished Broken Angels (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan. frickin A. #Kindle

Monday August 8, 2011 - 07:09

@videonastytwitter.com I’m beginning to see the point of the guided busway … kinda

Monday August 8, 2011 - 11:19

@videonastytwitter.com Hell yeah, the bus driver really begins to look like a superfluous piece of meat…

Monday August 8, 2011 - 18:19

@videonastytwitter.com don’t give rioters credit for having political agenda that isn’t there. Non-gentrifying shops are hit too. Anger+shops=looting

Monday August 8, 2011 - 18:29

@nachttwitter.com what about the ubuntu one service?

Monday August 8, 2011 - 18:30

RT @bruceltwitter.com : Rioting. Nothing says “i have a right to respect and better opportunities” better than shoplifting then burning your neighbo …

Monday August 8, 2011 - 18:33

Saw a burning car in Hackney as I passed on the train. CopChopper overhead. Anyone care to suggest what #londonriots are actually about?

Monday August 8, 2011 - 22:48

RT @bengoldacretwitter.com : interesting find RT @mirandafay: here’s Nick Clegg warning of riots if the Tories get elected

Monday August 8, 2011 - 22:48

RT @aaronjohnpeterstwitter.com : See those firefighters in your pictures? They are the ones with ‘gold-plated’ pensions who need ‘discipline’ - whil …

Monday August 8, 2011 - 22:49

RT @wildoniontwitter.com : Breaking news: Hampstead on the brink as an Ocado delivery slot is missed.

Tuesday August 9, 2011 - 06:30

So clumsy this morning. Like a cross between Frank Spencer and Final Destination. I’m going to end up dead or flood the house.

Tuesday August 9, 2011 - 08:14

RT @davecameroontwitter.com : Well now I am Jolly Well Cross!

Tuesday August 9, 2011 - 08:17

RT @AlisonCowantwitter.com : This is positive, practical and helpful: #riotscleanup

This is pointless: #prayforlondon

#justsaying

Tuesday August 9, 2011 - 08:21

RT @anna_annatwitter.com : Needs repeating: you can utterly abhor the actions, but the causes cannot be ignored.

Tuesday August 9, 2011 - 13:16

@hairballopolis er, that’s pretty much the definition of a riot…

Tuesday August 9, 2011 - 14:23

@silentworkstwitter.com all quiet on the western front…

Tuesday August 9, 2011 - 14:39

RT @codepo8twitter.com : Oh, the Met police are using Twitter to post CCTV footage to identify looters:

Thursday August 11, 2011 - 14:52

RT @Souderstwitter.com : Betfair includes page load time in their customer commitment promise. I wish more companies did this.

Thursday August 11, 2011 - 15:00

@stephenfrytwitter.com Aaron, 89, had barbershop ruined by looters. Give £1 to help him keep on cutting -

Saturday August 13, 2011 - 10:10

RT @codepo8twitter.com : Catflaps are not for dogs:

Saturday August 13, 2011 - 12:09

RT @benstewart999twitter.com : Wow! Speaking about the 11-year old looter, Cameron said “Everybody deserves a 2nd chance”. Oh no, sorry, he was talk …

Saturday August 13, 2011 - 12:17

@doctorowtwitter.com we should encourage UK gov to build alt social.com they can control. 10yrs, £1bn later, we’ll all laugh at the inevitable #fail.

Saturday August 13, 2011 - 16:11

finished Market Forces (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan #Kindle

Tuesday August 16, 2011 - 19:34

RT @joemccanntwitter.com : . @grigstwitter.com article on @LinkedIntwitter.com using node.js, backbone, underscore, etc. for HTML5 app.

Tuesday August 16, 2011 - 23:41

RT @EnglishHeritagetwitter.com : #Didyouknow Charles Darwin once ate an owl to see what it tasted like! Charles was famous for experimenting with fo …

Thursday August 18, 2011 - 15:40

RT @Campaignmagtwitter.com : M&S appoints SapientNitro to boost web sales: Marks & Spencer has appointed SapientNitro to handle a total revam… htt …

Sunday August 21, 2011 - 10:25

RT @stephenfrytwitter.com : Oh Feyman, Feynman I could watch him for ever and ever and ever:

Monday August 22, 2011 - 17:44

@ryanand26twitter.com don’t ask me, I’m all about the Tinie Tempah… what about, er, Mumford & sons?

Tuesday August 23, 2011 - 20:29

@doctorowtwitter.com , we used to call all those channels ‘UK tits’n’nazis ‘… sadly they all went through rebranding, and another private joke died.

Tuesday August 23, 2011 - 20:30

RT @jaffathecaketwitter.com : One DJ says to another: “Fancy seeing a film this weekend?” His friend says: “I dunno, who’s the projectionist?”

Wednesday August 24, 2011 - 09:06

finished Woken Furies (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan and gave it 5 stars #Kindle

Wednesday August 24, 2011 - 09:31

Sheesh, this train to Coventry is like nil by mouth… and I’m on it for 2 hours…

Wednesday August 24, 2011 - 10:05

@videonastytwitter.com been thinking I might give Game of Thrones a go. #Kindle or paper version though? @GreatAuntJudytwitter.com would probably read it too.

Wednesday August 24, 2011 - 10:14

@videonastytwitter.com oh and worth seeing exhibition @britishlibrarytwitter.com and only a short walk from the Wellcome Inst.

Wednesday August 24, 2011 - 16:39

I was wrong. This morning’s train was like Howard’s end compared to the one I’m on now…

Wednesday August 24, 2011 - 16:47

@videonastytwitter.com beware of, like, Malay doesn’t necessarily equal Malaysian. But I think its Filipino.

Thursday August 25, 2011 - 22:52

Ridiculous how pleased I was to find that a Tunnock’s teacake was only 3 points on my new diet. Apparently I can eat 16 a day. @ww_uktwitter.com

Friday August 26, 2011 - 09:26

Knew I should’ve find to Kings Cross this morning.90 mins late so far, trying for Liverpool st. Aagh.

Friday August 26, 2011 - 09:50

@paulcurleytwitter.com surely not another PM that deleted entire codebase? Didn’t this happen before on this project?

Friday August 26, 2011 - 10:06

@cafepresstwitter.com selling on .co.uk? please localise your site properly. Mixed currencies and US English looks ver… (cont)

Friday August 26, 2011 - 11:46

@GreatAuntJudytwitter.com yes thanks, got in at 1030!

Friday August 26, 2011 - 19:01

@nachttwitter.com because I know you love Erlang…

Friday August 26, 2011 - 19:12

@ShaunDunnetwitter.com not if the client blocks it you can’t. ;-)

Friday August 26, 2011 - 19:13

@ShaunDunnetwitter.com not if the client blocks it you can’t. ;-)i

Saturday August 27, 2011 - 08:59

@GeorgeMonbiottwitter.com me too. School made me choose ‘General Studies’ instead of physics because it clashed in the timetable with Art & English :(

Wednesday August 31, 2011 - 06:47

@ww_uktwitter.com why do I see so many adverts in your content? After all, I’ve paid a subscription.

Wednesday August 31, 2011 - 07:40

RT @tim_webertwitter.com : Steve Jobs: worth $8.3bn. His charitable giving? The record suggests: Not much, if any. Jobs lionised …

Wednesday August 31, 2011 - 07:50

@videonastytwitter.com not sure, but I think its the opposite of Lilliputian. I.e. from Gulliver’s travels

Wednesday August 31, 2011 - 13:14

Want! Convert doodles into electronicky vector graphics. #inkling

Wednesday August 31, 2011 - 18:08

Thank you @nationalexpresstwitter.com , I shall now be venting my spleen at @NXEastAngliatwitter.com directly. #beAfraid