April, 2012

Sunday April 1, 2012 - 01:09

RT @timbray : This probably isn’t funny unless you’re a photog, but if you are it’s pretty funny:

Sunday April 1, 2012 - 01:34

@videonasty yes it is! you were in Cambridge?

Sunday April 1, 2012 - 11:11

RT @gklst : You’ve heard of forking your code, now Bitbucket introduces spooning, new pair programming. #spooning #bitbucket …

Sunday April 1, 2012 - 11:46

Today, gardening. Tomorrow the world. Now, if I can just find those foxglove seeds…

Sunday April 1, 2012 - 16:20

RT @thecoolhunter : 8 Reasons To Choose A Startup Over A Corporate Job

Sunday April 1, 2012 - 22:50

RT @camcreatives : RT @ofcircumstance : live in cambridge? or have friends there? you can help us with our giant sonic snapshot next week …

Monday April 2, 2012 - 17:32

RT @webdirections : Amy Hoy on 3 Years of Bootstrapping a Web Product Business

Monday April 2, 2012 - 21:48

For @videonasty - RT @codepo8 Lovecraft actually:

Monday April 2, 2012 - 22:07

@videonasty nope, am living the dream, and working in Cambridge.

Monday April 2, 2012 - 22:09

@ShaunDunne You’re just up the road! Hope you enjoy the woods…

Tuesday April 3, 2012 - 06:53

RT @TheASF : The Apache Software Foundation Announces #Apache #Sqoop as a Top-Level Project #BigData #Hadoop #TheApa …

Tuesday April 3, 2012 - 06:55

@videonasty nope, but I think it’s a Leeds thing.

Tuesday April 3, 2012 - 08:56

RT @natekoechley : Yahoo open sources Mojito, a #javascript #node #mobileweb developer framework for any device — Ti …

Tuesday April 3, 2012 - 09:46

@e1even5ive take a look at St Catherine’s docks, it’s a little prettier :)

Tuesday April 3, 2012 - 09:51

@Jono_O @ruskin147 @FeaturespaceLtd Not just fraud, now all kinds of behaviour, including customer churn, LTV, Up & X-sell opportunities!

Tuesday April 3, 2012 - 19:18

RT @DougCoupland : If you have to blog, this is as good as it gets:

Tuesday April 3, 2012 - 19:22

@BigB0bbyT try VUZE

Tuesday April 3, 2012 - 19:24

@sapientnitro RT @thecoolhunter Clever way to promote sunglasses

Wednesday April 4, 2012 - 08:20

@videonasty @BigB0bbyT if I learned anything from Pictionary, it’s that it’s who you’re playing with that counts.

Wednesday April 4, 2012 - 08:28

@e1even5ive honestly, outside east London, Cambridge has the best tech startup scene anywhere. It’s buzzing.

Wednesday April 4, 2012 - 11:26

@paulcurley No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no, no I won’t join you singing that… #earworm

Wednesday April 4, 2012 - 23:10

RT @fabriciot : Startups, this is how design works: #kinda

Wednesday April 4, 2012 - 23:17

@videonasty Yep, as long as I’ve known, it’s been TV programme and computer program. I guess Ada Lovelace was with Webster on French-isms.

Wednesday April 4, 2012 - 23:34

@videonasty RT @io9 Insane GIFS put Cthulhu and mechs in old Library of Congress photographs

Thursday April 5, 2012 - 06:55

RT @codepo8 : Ending the Race to the Bottom - why $7.99 beats $0.99 - - Zombies, run! #apps

Thursday April 5, 2012 - 18:45

Man next to me is reading a document titled ‘revisiting superstring perturbation theory’, font used? Comic Sans! #CambridgeTrain

Thursday April 5, 2012 - 20:08

Was just driven home by a lovely Taxi driver called Mr Squirrel. His 25% was for helping with the shopping.

Honest.

I love East Anglia.

Sunday April 8, 2012 - 00:48

RT @codepo8 : Awesome Alien spacecraft easter egg in Nokia maps: - via

Monday April 9, 2012 - 11:04

@Kained style guide? JS library documentation? Recipe for bread pudding?

Monday April 9, 2012 - 11:13

@Raspberry_Pi , let’s ensure teachers are kept up to pace too. RT @codinghorror One Laptop Per Child results in Peru

Monday April 9, 2012 - 20:59

OK - I’m beginning a new project based on @Raspberry_Pi - please give me your feedback!

Monday April 9, 2012 - 22:07

@videonasty quite, but didn’t want to exclude a school group with a teacher.

Tuesday April 10, 2012 - 09:34

Need feedback! What would you do with a @Raspberry_Pi ?

Tuesday April 10, 2012 - 09:41

RT @billder : The web needs a better business model than Bake a Beautiful Cake from Scratch and Then Feed It to Godzilla.

Tuesday April 10, 2012 - 11:21

@Lightbox must be feeling a little weird today, what with the @instagram acquisition. Here’s hoping they don’t sell out [too soon ;)]

Tuesday April 10, 2012 - 11:54

@ManuelTuthill thanks for pointing that out, hadn’t thought of that. I’ll check the rules and make sure I’m on the right side!

Tuesday April 10, 2012 - 11:55

@Sqwwish @Raspberry_Pi it’s early days, but I hadn’t planned to supply devices. I’ll keep it under consideration though.

Tuesday April 10, 2012 - 16:09

The Internet is the power to speak freely, discuss openly, challenge preconceptions and share pictures of our pets. #OurWeb

Tuesday April 10, 2012 - 23:15

@jbiesta its open to all ages. 4 categories, 2 for strictly under 18’s, 2 for any age.

Wednesday April 11, 2012 - 09:38

@GreatAuntJudy - funny because it’s true. Texts from a dog. (but of course it’s not real, okay?)

Wednesday April 11, 2012 - 17:00

RT @hadleybeeman : “You won’t like me when I’m angry. Becase I always back up my rage with facts and documented sources.” – The Credible Hulk

Thursday April 12, 2012 - 09:55

Shoot for the moon! - Why I’m organising a @Raspberry_Pi competition, in the spirit of the space race

Thursday April 12, 2012 - 10:10

If you’re trying to convince a client to use a decent password validation method, you should read (and cite @xkcd )

Thursday April 12, 2012 - 12:06

@codepo8 can the API send back events to the controller to trigger vibrations etc.?

Thursday April 12, 2012 - 13:50

@BigB0bbyT Is that Perdido St Station I see in the middle?

Thursday April 12, 2012 - 16:58

RT @ErlangEmbedded : Erlang, coming soon to a Raspberry-Pi near you! #erlang #embedded @Raspberry_Pi

Thursday April 12, 2012 - 17:21

@Sapientnitro @zacharyparadis - Shoot for the moon! - Why I’m organising a @Raspberry_Pi competition…

Friday April 13, 2012 - 14:05

@ShaunDunne time to get onto ;)

Friday April 13, 2012 - 14:14

@GreatAuntJudy Jealous? Yeah, just a little…

Friday April 13, 2012 - 16:13

@nacht @hovlev - do you guys know what the DB was for sneakerpedia? Was it MongoDB?

Friday April 13, 2012 - 16:24

RT @seb_sears : Perhaps the best BBC News caption you will ever, ever see

Friday April 13, 2012 - 17:44

@FeaturespaceLtd are looking for a new data analyst. Experience with speech analysis a bonus (algo’s are similar!)

Friday April 13, 2012 - 17:48

Want to get out of London? Wondering why you should ditch your thankless job at BigBoringTechCo, and join a start up?

Friday April 13, 2012 - 18:19

@FeaturespaceLtd RT @codinghorror Why Netflix Never Implemented The Algorithm That Won The Netflix $1 Million Challenge

Friday April 13, 2012 - 18:26

RT @codinghorror : “I just want an appliance that works” says legendary hacker jwz

Saturday April 14, 2012 - 09:56

RT @EFF : UK proposes Internet freedom-restricting laws on par w/ repressive regimes. @AJEnglish op-ed by EFF’s @WLLegal : …

Monday April 16, 2012 - 08:46

@Bickle_G RT @sapientnitro Sapient alums: Meet us in #London Thursday, April 19th, for a reunion?

Monday April 16, 2012 - 22:00

@BigB0bbyT it’s 2012, your word processor has missed 9 years of updates. It comes from a time before Google and facebook. It can’t cope. :-P

Tuesday April 17, 2012 - 17:44

@DoIlum tall people’s curse. I’d recommend pushing them out of the way with your unnaturally long reach.

Tuesday April 17, 2012 - 21:49

RT @waxpancake : Very proud of Twitter for their new defense-only patent agreement. Hope this finds wide adoption in the industry. http:/ …

Tuesday April 17, 2012 - 21:50

@DoIlum what?! Is Deptford so gentrified now that they have to discount special brew? :-P

Tuesday April 17, 2012 - 21:52

RT @PimpMyPi : New @Raspberry_Pi Distro - PiWebServer - a customized ArchlinuxARM running a web server, PHP, mySQL and phpMyAdmin! http:/ …

Wednesday April 18, 2012 - 09:01

RT @codinghorror : Make Your Email Hacker Proof. DO IT NOW

Wednesday April 18, 2012 - 10:25

@codinghorror what I love is that there were two comments on that article, one was nearly 10 years later.

Wednesday April 18, 2012 - 21:53

RT @brucel : The <dialog> element is added to #html5 I’m glad to see it (accessible dialogue boxes!) even if i …

Wednesday April 18, 2012 - 21:57

RT @Kained : One whale, a half tonne of dynamic, comedy ensues

Wednesday April 18, 2012 - 22:09

RT @tomgco : How to install @nodejs on your @Raspberry_Pi Tutorial;

Wednesday April 18, 2012 - 22:20

@SusanneSoliman it’s possible. If Apple can make a comeback, why not M$?

Thursday April 19, 2012 - 09:50

@DoIlum sensitive approach: “I feel like you’re not engaged at work at the moment, let’s talk”. Actual approach: “Are you fucking kidding?!”

Thursday April 19, 2012 - 09:54

@DoIlum @Suborno_ Yeah - I didn’t like to say… ;)

Thursday April 19, 2012 - 11:40

@Kained @ryanand26 @ShaunDunne can you get source mapping for SASS? Debugging can be a little painful.

Thursday April 19, 2012 - 11:55

Here we go! RT @nesscox : @Raspberry_Pi set up my #raspi as an x10 server with heyu and domus. Turns on my kettle for me when I need a cuppa!

Thursday April 19, 2012 - 12:38

Hey @SkyHD - don’t you think you should make your T&C’s legible by humans?

Thursday April 19, 2012 - 12:42

And that’s how you handle social media. Quickly and positively - RT @SkyHD : @toychicken We’ll pass on the feedback to the web team MG

Thursday April 19, 2012 - 12:45

@BigB0bbyT Some seem to use it as shorthand for Yes. Particularly Indian and Czech colleagues I’ve had. Not sure why.

Thursday April 19, 2012 - 13:07

RT @BigB0bbyT : Double room nice cottage in leafy villagey Herne Hill available from 7th May. £600pcm exc. bills. If anyone is interested …

Thursday April 19, 2012 - 13:28

@ShaunDunne Hmm, what’s the sentence? I might say ’the team is benevolent’ or ’the purpose of the team is benevolent’…

Thursday April 19, 2012 - 14:30

RT @phae : this is funnier than it should be. people on twitter that can’t spell “cologne”:

Thursday April 19, 2012 - 17:43

@wildonion sorry I couldn’t be there, but sickness prevails.

Thursday April 19, 2012 - 17:48

@BigB0bbyT @DoIlum don’t think either job would be that taxing at the moment. The internet has killed most tech retailers.

Thursday April 19, 2012 - 20:39

@rowanlamb RT @LettersOfNote : The coolest mugshots you will ever see:

Friday April 20, 2012 - 08:29

@ShaunDunne that’s brilliant news, good luck.

Friday April 20, 2012 - 08:41

@codinghorror because Google <3 Oracle. After all, all Dart does is do javascript like Java.

Friday April 20, 2012 - 08:43

WTF? RT @TheASF We welcome @GoDaddy and @HuaweiPress as our newest Sponsors at the Silver level! #TheApacheWay #Apache

Friday April 20, 2012 - 18:09

RT @camcreatives : New film society launches in Ely, great selection of films:

Friday April 20, 2012 - 18:32

RT @FeaturespaceLtd : Predictive analytics/big data made it onto @BBCRadio4Today but didn’t explain behavioural targeting properly: http: …

Saturday April 21, 2012 - 00:17

RT @nacht : Sometimes #macports feels like Fetching ALLOFINTERNET; Installing ALLOFINTERNET; Activating ALLOFINTERNET;

Saturday April 21, 2012 - 00:21

@DoIlum I don’t get the 420 reference… ?

Saturday April 21, 2012 - 18:15

RT @codepo8 : I am not sure what is supposed to be about but click anyways.

Saturday April 21, 2012 - 18:44

@danholder tell me you got the titanium version?

Sunday April 22, 2012 - 10:43

Am in Cornwall at the moment, so please assume every Tweet is prefixed by Pol- or Tre-

Tuesday April 24, 2012 - 10:55

RT @nationaltrust : Today marks 80 years since the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass. See how we’re commemorating this landmark #walk …

Tuesday April 24, 2012 - 20:03

RT @BlogtorWho : Utterly fascinating letter from Phillip K Dick after his first glimpse of Blade Runner (via @paul_s …

Wednesday April 25, 2012 - 19:28

At Sams in Fowey. Tasty!

Friday April 27, 2012 - 10:46

@hairballopolis don’t listen, chances are its not H&S, but some petty middleman using it as an excuse. Or the Daily Mail.

Friday April 27, 2012 - 17:23

RT @tadeyoola : Woohoo! We’ve now also got a @raspberrypi for @MilkroundCam this Saturday at University Arms for you to play with! Thanks …

Friday April 27, 2012 - 17:25

@ShaunDunne yeah, but i want to know too! DM me…

Friday April 27, 2012 - 19:24

at again. It rocks! Dinner tonight is Moroccan mackerel. Nom Nom Nom.

Saturday April 28, 2012 - 16:37

RT @camcreatives : RT @strtupclass : Cambridge - Promoting your idea & business - How to do marketing “superman-style” Talk by @paulsm …

Saturday April 28, 2012 - 23:14

Fantastic holiday in sunny Fowey, but am glad to be back and seeing catface and dogface looking so well. I missed their smelly faces.

Sunday April 29, 2012 - 22:54

RT @GreatDismal : Gatewing X100

Sunday April 29, 2012 - 23:10

Seriously, that’s just creepy.. . RT @BigB0bbyT

Monday April 30, 2012 - 07:50

@mjrobbins you sound surprised! I thought the #dailymail only ever made things up to suit their agenda.

Monday April 30, 2012 - 14:52

@Kained @paulcurley @ryanand26 @lucykav you lucky bastards… I’m actually jealous… >:)

Monday April 30, 2012 - 15:06

@paulcurley @Kained tempted as I am by the offer of busman’s holiday in Italy… not quite ready to come back. Enjoying my short commute! ;)

Monday April 30, 2012 - 17:01

@philhawksworth @lucykav - yeah, but complication is often the most likely :(