January, 2012

31st January, 2012

Sunday January 1, 2012 - 01:41

@ShaunDunnetwitter.com that’s funny, that’s our nominated hangover film for tomorrow… Bill Murray rules.

Sunday January 1, 2012 - 18:45

Insanely cheap! £79.99 for an Android tablet?! via @

Sunday January 1, 2012 - 19:06

@comptonhalltwitter.com you have to use a stylus… honestly, I’m not really that tempted, just surprised anyone can do it for this price!

Monday January 2, 2012 - 02:07

ChristMissy

Monday January 2, 2012 - 02:16

@ryanand26twitter.com I usually find Karma Chameleon does the trick…

Monday January 2, 2012 - 02:18

@ShaunDunnetwitter.com its bank holiday tomorrow… back to work on Tuesday!

Monday January 2, 2012 - 02:19

Am liking lightbox for android… v. Good so far.

Monday January 2, 2012 - 18:16

@JustCloudcomtwitter.com being able to show me my password does not make me feel secure. You’re obviously storing it as plain text! #deleteAccount

Tuesday January 3, 2012 - 07:19

RT @gknausstwitter.com : You can tell Monopoly is an old game because there’s a luxury tax and rich people can go to jail.

Tuesday January 3, 2012 - 07:50

And so the relentless trudge begins again for another year…

Tuesday January 3, 2012 - 09:46

The Social Shower Curtain Cleans Up Your Facebook Profile

Tuesday January 3, 2012 - 20:01

And back again…

Tuesday January 3, 2012 - 20:37

RT @katie_khantwitter.com : BBC: every £1 of the licence fee puts £2 into the economy. Sky: every £1 in Sky subscriptions, only 90p stays in the UK …

Tuesday January 3, 2012 - 23:38

RT @DougCouplandtwitter.com : The cigarette commercial projected on the screens in Blade Runner:

Wednesday January 4, 2012 - 07:22

Yet more proof your website needs to work on mobile…

Wednesday January 4, 2012 - 23:38

Paypal=evil RT @aral Just when you thought @PayPaltwitter.com couldn’t get any more evil oh wait, my bad, no one thinks that.

Thursday January 5, 2012 - 06:55

RT @LASTEXITshirtstwitter.com : The commercial side of Tatooine.

Thursday January 5, 2012 - 06:57

RT @photogirluktwitter.com : Epic photo fail. Naked dude in kids t-shirt advertising shot. How did they miss this?

Thursday January 5, 2012 - 07:04

@ShaunDunnetwitter.com I reckon we’ll see ‘cameras’ with smartphone functionality before they die completely…

Thursday January 5, 2012 - 07:07

RT @GeorgeMonbiottwitter.com : Here’s #Santorum claiming British empire collapsed as result of our National Health Service!

Thursday January 5, 2012 - 08:26

RT @Souderstwitter.com : I have high hopes for SPDY & am excited to see mod_spdy released for Apache -

Thursday January 5, 2012 - 08:27

RT @PennyRedtwitter.com : Dear anarchohipsters who scoff at my e-cig: you know what’s cooler than cancer? A ROBOT CIGARETTE.

Thursday January 5, 2012 - 11:29

@jaffathecaketwitter.com we used to, by having a JS classname prefixed by a lowercase j. Now though we handle that shizzle with data-* attrs.

Thursday January 5, 2012 - 16:43

#lazyweb - is there a good resource for generic terms for user interactions i.e. instead of ‘user clicks’ we say ‘user activates’???

Thursday January 5, 2012 - 18:12

@Kained I think I’m going to take the approach of describing user actions like their respective HTML elements e.g. a dropdown is ‘selected’

Friday January 6, 2012 - 07:31

Anyone know of performance impact of having many media queries in one CSS file? How are they assessed by browsers?

Friday January 6, 2012 - 08:36

Poignant - what happens when your ‘joke’ game becomes more successful than your serious effort Examining user inanity

Friday January 6, 2012 - 09:30

@videonastytwitter.com @GreatAuntJudytwitter.com I just know she’s right. I’ll never learn if she just tells me the answer every time. #goodHusband ;)

Friday January 6, 2012 - 19:07

@ShaunDunnetwitter.com hang on, I thought it was all about the comments man…

Friday January 6, 2012 - 22:27

@ShaunDunnetwitter.com @RaYuitwitter.com @Kained @rossbrunigestwitter.com @just_francescatwitter.com Hats? That sounds right up my alley… tell me more…

Saturday January 7, 2012 - 09:39

RT @beccatronictwitter.com : These pics, taken by a girl who SNUCK INTO A RUSSIAN ROCKET FACTORY may be the coolest photos I’ve ever seen: …

Saturday January 7, 2012 - 10:55

@sapientNitro @remtwitter.com @codepo8twitter.com Forget Apple, buy Raspberry - a $25 Linux box (yes, $25!) Get the kids programming!

Saturday January 7, 2012 - 10:59

@doctorowtwitter.com heard about the raspberry pi? A $25 Linux box to get kids programming again…

Saturday January 7, 2012 - 20:36

@Kained @ShaunDunnetwitter.com @RaYuitwitter.com @rossbrunigestwitter.com @just_francescatwitter.com I’m seeing a future that involves Hawaiian hats!

Saturday January 7, 2012 - 22:32

Total Recall (2012)

original is on 5 now, surely can’t be battered…

Monday January 9, 2012 - 07:25

RT @codepo8twitter.com Awesome! 40s/50s personalised bomber jackets (set on flickr) - Belle of the brawl is cool

Monday January 9, 2012 - 15:15

RT @bruceltwitter.com : Web-enabled TVs seems to be 2012’s Tech-JuicyZone™

Monday January 9, 2012 - 18:14

RT @GeorgeMonbiottwitter.com : The #1% will get richer & poor will get poorer if Cameron goes ahead and cuts top #tax rate: Sto …

Monday January 9, 2012 - 18:15

RT @WiredUKtwitter.com : Nasa launches web hub for open-source space software by @Britishgamingtwitter.com

Monday January 9, 2012 - 18:20

Get from dev zero to node hero with a workshop by @remtwitter.com . More learning in two days than you thought you could take (and still remember it!)

Monday January 9, 2012 - 20:08

@MrFlintytwitter.com @GreatAuntJudytwitter.com and I saw girl+dragon tattoo. Was mighty good. Avoiding the war horse until I’ve seen the stage version..

Tuesday January 10, 2012 - 06:16

Engaging power hair…

Tuesday January 10, 2012 - 18:09

RT @stephenfrytwitter.com : I’ll be judging the newly launched @TheLitPlatformtwitter.com Douglas Adams Animation Competition - for more details please visit h …

Tuesday January 10, 2012 - 18:10

RT @SouthCambstwitter.com : Could you be a Councillor? Come to our event at 6pm on Monday 13 February to find out more

Tuesday January 10, 2012 - 18:14

RT @WiredUKtwitter.com : Yeah, Victorinox has a £2,000 Swiss Army knife with a 1TB thumb drive in it. Just because. by @British …

Tuesday January 10, 2012 - 18:21

RT @GeorgeMonbiottwitter.com : Read @TomChiverstwitter.com on anti- #science Republicans. Jaw-dropping quotes & cosmic stupidity:

Tuesday January 10, 2012 - 18:28

RT @bruceltwitter.com : 60 completely unusable stock photos

Tuesday January 10, 2012 - 19:33

As usual, I’m right on the zeitgeist @Raspberry_Pitwitter.com featured on front page of the Guardian - but now their site is down!

Tuesday January 10, 2012 - 20:04

@videonastytwitter.com worse than that, insurance is a con that you’re forced to participate in.

Tuesday January 10, 2012 - 22:33

@danholdertwitter.com I think it means you don’t have a job…

Wednesday January 11, 2012 - 06:42

@Raspberry_Pitwitter.com check out the news. Michael Gove berating ICT education. Keep flying the flag! #today

Wednesday January 11, 2012 - 06:49

@Raspberry_Pitwitter.com take a look at the BBC good news… I think…

Wednesday January 11, 2012 - 18:43

Give them to me! I can do that! RT @BBCBreakingtwitter.com UK roadside restaurant chain Little Chef to close 67 of its 161 sites

Wednesday January 11, 2012 - 19:21

@ShaunDunnetwitter.com in short, yes.

Wednesday January 11, 2012 - 20:23

RT @remtwitter.com : Big push update to nodemon removed find dep, can execute any program (eg. python, ruby, etc) and more

Wednesday January 11, 2012 - 22:41

@videonastytwitter.com and since then? Not a lot… couple of remote-controlled toys on Mars… srsly, what have we been doing for the last 43 years?

Wednesday January 11, 2012 - 22:49

WOW #1 @Raspberry_Pitwitter.com board up for auction, for the cause, now at £3500, 1hr left not bad guys, not bad…

Thursday January 12, 2012 - 19:20

Did the iPod just throw up ‘chime’ by Orbital? Yes it frikkin did. Nearly broke out my moves on the train…

Thursday January 12, 2012 - 19:31

@JamesMarkSherrytwitter.com , @kained is mine all mine… mwahahahf! Welcome to the dark side George…

Thursday January 12, 2012 - 23:07

@zacharyparadistwitter.com can we make this mandatory? RT @mattmullertwitter.com Building a Responsive, Future-Friendly Web for Everyone

Thursday January 12, 2012 - 23:09

@videonastytwitter.com you know the economy is in trouble when people don’t feel flush enough to shop in Tesco…

Friday January 13, 2012 - 23:39

@paulcurleytwitter.com @renedudfieldtwitter.com I believe a trip to Berlin was mentioned?

Friday January 13, 2012 - 23:55

@danholdertwitter.com that’s service!

Saturday January 14, 2012 - 17:57

RT @hovlevtwitter.com : Remember orange squash mix? Now people buy 50 individual plastic bottles, don’t worry though because they’re reusing a carri …

Sunday January 15, 2012 - 01:25

RT @ian_livingstonetwitter.com : Today I’ve spent 12 hours working on my new Fighting Fantasy book. Writing branching narrative is hard work. I’m ge …

Sunday January 15, 2012 - 10:25

@Kained if you put it on github, turn to page 46. If you turn it into an iPhone app, turn to page 81.

Monday January 16, 2012 - 08:17

@firstcc AGAIN 721 ELY-CBG delayed by mins. As every day of new timetable. This time though, I missed my 747 connection to LST. Sort it out!

Monday January 16, 2012 - 19:33

RT @WiredUKtwitter.com : Interview: @ericriestwitter.com , author of The Lean Startup by @olivia_solontwitter.com

Monday January 16, 2012 - 19:34

RT @ian_livingstonetwitter.com : Looking forward to chairing the Cloud Gaming Conference in London tomorrow and Wednesday. Great speakers signed up …

Monday January 16, 2012 - 19:36

@zacharyparadistwitter.com example of poor UI design, where it doesn’t follow established conventions… typical Apple ;-)

Tuesday January 17, 2012 - 06:35

RT @codepo8twitter.com : How do you find Will Smith in the woods? Just look for fresh prints.

Tuesday January 17, 2012 - 08:15

Hey @nre_nxea how about putting the heating on, on the 0730 ELY-LST? It’s frickun

Tuesday January 17, 2012 - 14:14

@videonastytwitter.com that’s what happens when you get old… next it’ll be dreams about missing Midsommer Murders or Antiques Roadshow.

Tuesday January 17, 2012 - 18:18

RT @mattleystwitter.com Holy crap. See @badlydrawnroytwitter.com ’s timeline. Opened up to boss about his depression, got fired. #leeds

Tuesday January 17, 2012 - 18:26

@RobGonda QR codes are for idiots. You just don’t know what you’re pointing your phone at. Any troll can print one and cover a legit QR

Tuesday January 17, 2012 - 19:40

@RobGonda I have the same problem with url shortness, but at least most of them are filtering for spam now. Can’t do that with a hijacked QR

Tuesday January 17, 2012 - 19:41

Thinking of Boris. #walkInTheBlackForest

Tuesday January 17, 2012 - 20:50

Boris

Tuesday January 17, 2012 - 22:49

@RobGonda hmm, just skeptical of links that, as a human, I can’t read. QR is less convenient and can’t be stored or even remembered.

Wednesday January 18, 2012 - 08:00

sigh there was a moment when ie6 died, that we stopped using ems. Now its all ‘responsive design’. Back to CSS rounding errors.

Wednesday January 18, 2012 - 18:15

@videonastytwitter.com as someone that lives miles away, I’m against the airport too. It’s a ridiculous scheme, based on bollocks statistics.

Thursday January 19, 2012 - 00:03

What does Siri look like? Vote up my mum’s work and RT, please.

Thursday January 19, 2012 - 07:00

RT @webdirectionstwitter.com Happy Fun Coding - lots of tutorials to help you learn to program games in Javascript

Thursday January 19, 2012 - 07:02

@Raspberry_Pitwitter.com RT @robgonda NYC Opens its First Software Engineering High School ::

Thursday January 19, 2012 - 15:59

Want! RT @codinghorrortwitter.com my dream of a laser etched bright green Comic Sans keyboard is come true. THERE IS A GOD

Thursday January 19, 2012 - 19:53

@videonastytwitter.com and his twinkly gypsy charm!

Thursday January 19, 2012 - 20:18

Wow… Bullseye on challenge. Look what you could’ve won. It’s like a step back in time… who watches this (20 year old) shit?

Thursday January 19, 2012 - 22:37

@hovlevtwitter.com , saw this and thought of you… RT @videonastytwitter.com The Man Pony

Thursday January 19, 2012 - 22:48

I guess half the companies here support #sopa so they can sell ‘solutions’ to the ‘problem’ #apple #adobe #m$

Thursday January 19, 2012 - 22:52

@danholdertwitter.com you wait… before long it’ll be covers of Glee covers, played on accordion and tuba… hang on, isn’t this how jazz happened?

Friday January 20, 2012 - 19:02

RT @EH_WrestParktwitter.com : The redecoration of the alcoves in the Pavilion is well under way now- & looking fantastic- thanks to funding from the …

Friday January 20, 2012 - 21:17

RT @jaffathecaketwitter.com : If you have a large array of strings, concatenating via a loop is faster than using join("") in Chrome …

Friday January 20, 2012 - 21:20

@wildoniontwitter.com well if you can’t blame moonlight, sunshine or good times, what else is there to blame?

Friday January 20, 2012 - 21:20

RT @blainetwitter.com : I get upset about Apple because they’re pervasive, do awful shit, and get a pass from otherwise critical communities because …

Friday January 20, 2012 - 21:21

@videonastytwitter.com RT @rhodritwitter.com This is why I like shopping channels. The sheer boredom breeds total insanity. Amazing.

Friday January 20, 2012 - 21:24

@hovlevtwitter.com RT @videonastytwitter.com Why doesn’t this happen more? RT @Whatfrothtwitter.com : Press conference in Russia invaded by flying dildo

Friday January 20, 2012 - 21:29

@ShaunDunnetwitter.com it’s .one() I’m fond of…(did you see what I did there?)

Friday January 20, 2012 - 23:40

RT @gttwitter.com : @DandADAwards It’s easy to be captivated by visual design. I hope to see well crafted experiences that aren’t just pretty in a s …

Saturday January 21, 2012 - 09:07

RT @hackernewsbottwitter.com : Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood….

Saturday January 21, 2012 - 11:36

Awesome sculptures made from coloured pencils are awesome…

Saturday January 21, 2012 - 15:26

@zacharyparadistwitter.com how about a company that’s innovating in education tech w/out tying educators into a closed format?

Saturday January 21, 2012 - 18:20

Yup, that’s right, the £20 @Raspberry_Pitwitter.com running @XBMC - Cambridge tech FTW! #spiritOfAcorn

Saturday January 21, 2012 - 23:46

RT @danholdertwitter.com Dubstep has evolved into a music genre that sounds like Optimus Prime taking a shit!

Sunday January 22, 2012 - 09:35

@Raspberry_Pitwitter.com sounds interesting RT @e1even5ivetwitter.com Must #showyou this video:

Sunday January 22, 2012 - 10:03

Installing @evernotetwitter.com again, after the cull (factory reset) because it rocks

Sunday January 22, 2012 - 10:15

Heh, loving Skitch too… I got BRAINZ

Sunday January 22, 2012 - 23:37

Help my mum win a competition with her awesome portrait of Siri.

Sunday January 22, 2012 - 23:48

@paulcurleytwitter.com if you had just got scissors for the nineteenth consecutive round of rock, paper, scissors, you’d be red faced too.

Sunday January 22, 2012 - 23:53

@paulcurleytwitter.com stand up? We ask you to attend a stand-up nearly every day at work. The most we expect is that you’ll slump forward…

Monday January 23, 2012 - 07:32

Great work @firstcc train 10 mins late, me 45 mins late for work. As far as I know the 0721 Ely to LST has never arrived on time.

Monday January 23, 2012 - 18:25

@Kained surely that’s an oxymoron?

Monday January 23, 2012 - 22:33

Damn we’re in a tight spot… watched O brother where art thou for the billionth time. Still a great movie.

Monday January 23, 2012 - 22:43

RT @WiredUKtwitter.com : Holy ever-loving expletive! Call that a spider costume? THIS is a spider costume

Monday January 23, 2012 - 23:24

I am loving the TouchPad keyboard on Android.

Tuesday January 24, 2012 - 07:53

Finally… RT @codepo8twitter.com Introduction To Linux Commands

Tuesday January 24, 2012 - 08:07

@firstcc are making my last days doing the commute really painful…

Tuesday January 24, 2012 - 12:07

RT please! What could be better than a portrait of Siri? A portrait of Siri done on an iPad! Pls +1 my mum’s artwork

Tuesday January 24, 2012 - 14:18

So, my big news? I’m leaving @sapientnitro

Tuesday January 24, 2012 - 14:29

@silentworkstwitter.com deadly serious fella, I’m outta there.

Tuesday January 24, 2012 - 14:30

@silentworkstwitter.com will keep you in the loop :)

Tuesday January 24, 2012 - 17:06

♥ Common People by William Shatner #lastfm: amazon:

Tuesday January 24, 2012 - 19:35

Homeopathic hospital has been listed. Can’t we just preserve its vital essence in water?

Tuesday January 24, 2012 - 23:13

@Kained good work sir. Have a new hat.

Wednesday January 25, 2012 - 07:28

Lol RT @codepo8twitter.com Chip Zdarsky’s Watchmen 2 - slightly NSFW but buahahahah

Wednesday January 25, 2012 - 07:33

@firstcc is it safe to assume that my train will never run on time? If so, I’ll stop getting out of bed so frickin’ early.

Wednesday January 25, 2012 - 17:16

RT @ian_livingstonetwitter.com : Command & Conquer has been programmed entirely in HTML5

Wednesday January 25, 2012 - 23:07

Cirque de Soleil was frickin awesome. Shame my cold is making me feel so rough.

Thursday January 26, 2012 - 01:00

RT @brad_frosttwitter.com : Name the PSD “_FINAL” again. I dare you. I double-dare you, motherfucker. Name the PSD “_FINAL” one more goddamn time.

Thursday January 26, 2012 - 17:20

I love it when people follow my style… RT @renedudfieldtwitter.com @paulcurleytwitter.com nice. I love the sideways monitor @toychickentwitter.com style.

Thursday January 26, 2012 - 17:23

RT @ben_towletwitter.com : Planet Earth’s original hipsters:

Thursday January 26, 2012 - 17:24

RT @EH_WrestParktwitter.com : A fantastic event all about our project- with our brilliant Properties Curator, Shelley Garland- not to be missed! htt …

Thursday January 26, 2012 - 17:43

Apparently you can’t trust the weather in @DailyMailtwitter.com ,but does it give you cancer?

Thursday January 26, 2012 - 18:17

@paulcurleytwitter.com Whit?

Thursday January 26, 2012 - 22:21

Silly BBC thinks science is too complicated for TV?

Friday January 27, 2012 - 11:06

@zacharyparadistwitter.com just wait for the main tidal wave to hit. This is just the precursor…

Friday January 27, 2012 - 11:09

@ShaunDunnetwitter.com surely our pedestal thief again ?

Friday January 27, 2012 - 17:29

@Everyonetwitter.com … if you’re joining me tonight, I’ll be at the Commercial Tavern, E1 6NU, until about 2230 - at which point I turn into a pumpkin

Saturday January 28, 2012 - 00:52

Needless to say, I was out. RT @GreatAuntJudytwitter.com I’m about to watch ‘The Blind Side’ The box says it is “uplifting”. I’ll get back to you.

Saturday January 28, 2012 - 01:02

RT @spolskytwitter.com : I will be speaking in Cambridge (England) in a few weeks’ time.

Saturday January 28, 2012 - 10:52

RT @WIREDtwitter.com : The exact date of Ice Cube’s “good day,” arrived at through shrewd deduction.

Sunday January 29, 2012 - 10:17

RT @codepo8twitter.com : Awesome Depeche Mode cover is awesome:

Sunday January 29, 2012 - 23:13

RT @bruceltwitter.com : What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies? RT @alexhungtwitter.com via @siltwitter.com

Monday January 30, 2012 - 06:37

RT @webdirectionstwitter.com : Wireframing for responsive design

Monday January 30, 2012 - 18:08

@ryanand26twitter.com what? Get down to the fourth floor. I can find you some work.. .

Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 07:33

@ShaunDunnetwitter.com ww is okay, but their online stuff is all done in flash and is a bit confusing. I’ll try your suggestion.

Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 11:01

Hell yeah. @Raspberry_Pitwitter.com in this months @WiredUKtwitter.com #FTW

Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 11:04

@ShaunDunnetwitter.com don’t worry, life doesn’t stop at 30. Mine had barely started until I was 32.

Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 11:08

RT @Kainedtwitter.com : Well trained, equipped, and motivated developers will outperform inferior but numerically superior developers. #LessonsFromT …

Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 11:08

@Kained is thermopylae in India?