Q: What do vegetarian zombies eat?
A: Graaains…
Ooh, not bad. Elementals downloads in the last couple of weeks: 24,000+
@jennifermadine lookin’ good on Arthur’s seat http://thng.in/f
@rodti too many terrorist threats. I think there’s one in Lairg, though.
Fortunately, it seems they haven’t died, merely run out of blue ink.
It’s not a good sign when the bank send you a black-bordered envelope.
@opera multi-touch (mouse) gestures? #opera11feature
I thought of the perfect track for #fridaymix and seconds before I add it, @alexturnbull added it. Now I have to start all over again…
@sherred @fridaymix Would the band member need to have died while still on the band or could they have left and then died?
Last night I VNC’d to OS X to VHD WinXP to VPN to RDP to Tomsk to Omsk to Pinsk to Minsk to make an edit on a site…
@fraserwaters Steve Jobs would say “You’re using your iPad wrong. Visit different sites.”
After investigation, it seems the blog is screwy, not the URL shortener. I give up. Someone fetch me Frontpage and a bottle of bourbon…
@thomasfuchs True, it’s just good to clarify when I need to wear face protection.
@thomasfuchs Surely if they’re the result of a major loop unrolling, long methods are completely acceptable.
URL Shortener code has been suitably chastised for acting up. I should remember I’m not a geek, I just play one on TV.
Typical misbehaving code showing me up in front of my friends. Looks like this, anyway. http://blah.thingsinjars…
@ben_seven Dang. The first time it breaks…
Decided my private URL shortener needed a shiny design even though it’s only me that uses it. http://thng.in/a
@sherred I did look at them but ended up with Amazon (also DRM-free)
@fraserwaters Exactly. There’s only so many times you can say ‘Erm…magic.’
I wrote a book: http://thng.in/9 (on sale via Kindle).
@nevstokes Sure, it’s even more inaccurate but at least it has a fun name…
@nevstokes If in doubt, cloudsource it: http://blah.thingsinjars…
@andrewsenter Absolutely not. My experiments usually involve more pH paper and sturdy beakers.
@russellstout @andrewsenter @fraserwaters Still no idea. It does have the number ’50’ stamped on it, though. Presumably there are 49 others.
@alexturnbull I did hope for that but they are slightly different. Maybe it unlocks a similar box elsewhere in the building…
@colinhewitt No Doomsday devices that I can see… Probably against Health & Safety
After some paperclip lockpicking, I find it contains a key on chain. Any ideas? http://thng.in/7
We have this unexplained locked box on the wall in our office. http://thng.in/6
Has anyone out there got recommendations for an alternative to Audible for audiobooks in the UK?
jeremieberduck Excellent ! What if Alfred Hitchcock had made the trailer for Inception? http://bit.ly/aqgUg9 /via @blastr #inception
I just remembered Dooze (what my blog runs on) has Flickr integration. Sweet.
How on earth is a question about the characters in ‘the land before time’ in Science and Nature? #trivialpursuit
I was slightly surprised with one part of last night’s Apple stuff. I already use all my apps full screen. It seems that not everybody does.
@cole007 I had a wager that nobody would point that out before noon. Darn.
@rodti ohh… That makes sense.
@AlanWunsche Here’s a little bit of JavaScript to demo the starting point: http://gist.github.com/6…
Just noticed it’s two years since the Interstellar Boundary EXplorer started its two year mission. Wonder if it’s spotted V’Ger yet…
@nicepaul But it does make for international consistency. In some countries (eg Japan), they serve small as well.
Don’t mind me, I’m just testing something: http://thng.in/2
@AlanWunsche Yup, I didn’t even use any extra plugins in this app.
@bseymour Some have access to twitter.com at work but not the permissions to install software
Mucx Gobelins, french multimedia university have just released their latest batch of student animation shorts. Awesome work: http://bit.ly/dH1dg
@Hicksdesign I submitted mine on the 3rd and it got approved on the 13th so they’re on about a 10 day queue at the moment.
@nelstrom definitely beats haggis pizza.
@commadelimited thanks very much!
@andrewsenter carries the sawdust, @paulcurley carries the shovel. I’ll make the tea.
Darn. Just remembered I was planning to push an update to the Plex plugins Github this afternoon. Can y’all just pretend I did instead?
Whenever the rubbish bag is tricky to get out of the bin, I like to pretend I’m a young King Arthur pulling Excalibinbag out of the stone.
I apologise for nothing! #fridaymix
@jturnbull The answer to a challenge like that - The Divinyls with ‘I Touch Myself’
@jturnbull The Divinyls, no?
Some of these #fridaymix guilty pleasures are a bit too respectable. My choices were, um, ironic. yeah, that’s it.
@cole007 I must find a suitably geeky dinner party where I can use that and sound like a witty raconteur
@cole007 “my .rs from my .lb”?
Awesome, the one week I don’t have an excuse to add They Might Be Giants and @RellyAB adds them instead. #fridaymix
I may have asked this before but can anyone recommend a .rs domain registrar?
Most of my #fridaymix guilty pleasures shortlist appear to have been recorded in 1999. Wonder what that means…
@jennifermadine To be fair, you don’t feel even slightly guilty about liking Roxette #fridaymix
@fridaymix Did you find an OAuth-enabled growl plugin?
Canvas + Javascript + Phonegap = New app launched: http://blah.thingsinjars…
Okay, I have completely failed to invent a new martial art. Despite what I might think, juggling cucumbers apparently isn’t that impressive.
I’m at that awkward age between the age Bill Hicks died at and the age Bruce Lee died at. Should probably accomplish something soon.
@nevstokes As has happened several times before, I’m listening to last week’s podcast thinking “I’m fairly sure Nev mentioned that ages ago”
@CharlieABell It’s a cute cartoon periodic table. Learnin’ ‘n’ Fun. At the same time!
My new iPhone app has been approved. Going to launch on Friday. Hooray!
At some point soon, I must write about government institutions, enterprise-level CMSs and HTML 5. #notetoself
@alexturnbull I could fit everything I know about that into a tweet. Maybe a hash tag. #stfu
@nelstrom I’ve only written a comparison before: http://blah.thingsinjars… It might be an idea to cover PhoneGap itself.
Decided I should translate some of my hard-earned technical know-how into informative articles and/or tutorials. Any requests?
Remember, the explanation isn’t always malice. Sometimes it’s being an eejit.
Wait, what? Pressing F5 on #newtwitter retweets the selected tweet? Do I need one of those 1980s keyboard overlays?
@ppk That obviously because it’s cgtcwczzqq.zct in Rot13. No, wait… #ihavenoidea
@alexturnbull No, mustn’t. Too many other things on…. then again…
Does anyone fancy building this? http://blah.thingsinjars…
Just had to explain to my sister why it wasn’t a good idea to format a CD. #kidstoday
@jturnbull Yeah, I hate those guys…
The unsolicited opinions of a social media amateur: http://bit.ly/9MXt8P #blog
Just discovered there’s a delete button on Outlook’s ‘New Mail’ alert so I don’t even need to alt-tab to delete recruiter spam. Score.
@nevstokes My happiness at receiving new twitter was dampened by the discovery that api.twitter.com was blocked by our web filter.
@nevstokes @cwelton There are a minority who can successfully walkread, never get in anyones way, fall over or walk into traffic…
Is there a single-app iOS VNC client with integrated task switcher or do I need to write one?
One more reminder: final Cinemadine of the season tomorrow. Showing ‘The Fall’.
Found a curious webkit rendering bug today. Must try and find time to report it.
After moving to #newtwitter today, I found out our web filter blocked api.twitter.com. Darned computers.
After moving to #newtwitter today, I found out our web filter blocked api.twitter.com. Darned computers.
On the subject of Swedish Chef: http://www.google.com/we… #oldbutgood
@salidatious For me, ‘borked’ is ‘half-broken, half Swedish Chef’
@cole007 not eShot, eBlast, eLetter, eContact, eNews or eNything else similar. “Email newsletter” sounds catchy.
Remember: You do not get to the top of the class by being the smartest: http://blah.thingsinjars…
@mrwalker you make a very good point. It’s tricky to write good copy for anthropomorphic robots…
I’m thinking of using something like this for headed paper and comp-slips http://flic.kr/p/8GBx8t
My tolerance for imbecility has maxed-out today. Time to close the e-mail and open the Nurofen…
@nevstokes well, three years on, your time-delay form submission technique is still working for me…
@nevstokes Dooze uses Disqus now. Unless you’re planning on having other user input, do you need CAPTCHAs?
If Apple allowed non-US publishers on iBooks, UK authors could self-publish for free instead of $150+ per book. That’s annoying.
For those in the know, the final Cinemadine of the year is this Friday. Go check it out and book your place…
Can any UK authors recommend a good eBook aggregator for publishing through iTunes?
I’m glad Twitter are using you lot for the #newtwitter beta test before rolling out the finished product to the rest of us…
What’s the point in the council encouraging recycling if they leave the bins overflowing for weeks?
Fake girl successfully chases away the fake cat from yesterday:http://flic.kr/p/8Ft9ek
1337. Huh.
The final part of the @plexapp plugin walkthrough: http://blah.thingsinjars…