Despite spending new year's eve playing a chess varient called Penultima, I maintain my not-a-geek status
01/Jan/2008 01:40 — Twitter
Happy New Year
May the next twelve months be better than the preceding twelve months, and may that always be true.
Also:
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01/Jan/2008 06:48 — Aquarionics- Am now awake. Way to screw up sleep cycles.
01/Jan/2008 13:35 — Twitter - Going for a hair of the dog who bit most of my twitter stalkees. HNY
01/Jan/2008 18:34 — Twitter Jasper
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From complications
arising from complications arising from things that could have, should have… whatever. Jasper the dog died this morning, of old age in dog years. This was a dog who was once scared of a toy sheep
that was walking towards him, who learnt that lakes weren’t as solid as they looked by attemp
02/Jan/2008 19:37 — AquarionicsNew Comments
Okay, new Comments interface now live.
Magic thing that detects Livejournal usericons for people who use their LJ as the URL has been temporarily disabled until I convince it to stop ass-raping LJ’s servers (in LJ’s opinion. Aquarionics’ server has now got a 24 hour ban from LJ. Which would improve it’s productivity were it human).
The new interface passes the acid test of stupid length
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03/Jan/2008 01:31 — Aquarionics- Checking new design aspects in IE before I go to sleep. 4am.
03/Jan/2008 03:45 — Twitter - Astoundingly, it works in IE. Perfectly. I must have gone to sleep and am dreaming.
03/Jan/2008 03:47 — Twitter Banana Bread
I’m moving house again.
Today I spent two hours looking at houses, and five deliberating which one to actually move in to. There is a genetic trait in my family, when worried or stressed, bakery happens. So.
Having weighed up the pros and cons of each, I ran out of ways not to make the decision and went downstairs. Downstairs was a blessing in disguise: A collection of overripe bananas,
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04/Jan/2008 19:14 — AquarionicsKudocities
So, London By London, the list by the people behind The Friday Project, became the wider scoped project “Friday Cities, London” with the aim of becoming the definative guide to various cities around the globe. But then they split off from the rest of the Friday Project company, and the Friday Cities name stopped making sense.
Now, with absolutely no fanfair at all, they’re called Kudocities based around the new central mechanic y
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05/Jan/2008 17:44 — AquarionicsFour Glasses
Rory Parle has posted a puzzle which is the kind of thing a number of people who still read this would be interested in, so:
[More...]You have in front of you one of those tables you get in Asia restaurants with the rotating centre—what one of our product managers described as a lazy susan, though I’ve never heard that phrase from anyone else. Picture the restaurant from the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom if you really want to set the scene.
06/Jan/2008 00:15 — Aquarionics- Back at work, first since mid-december. Too much stuff. Not enough tea. Can fix one of these right now.
07/Jan/2008 10:56 — Twitter - Huffing upon this ice-lolly selling cart.
07/Jan/2008 17:46 — Twitter Pandora closes the box
I just got an email from pandora
It says:
[More...]As you probably know, in July of 2007 we had to block usage of Pandora outside the U.S. because of the lack of a viable license structure for Internet radio streaming in other countries. It was a terrible day. We did however hold out some hope that a solution might exist for the UK, so we left it unblocked as we worked diligently with the rights organizations to negotiate an econo
07/Jan/2008 23:23 — Aquarionics- doin' the div-block tango
08/Jan/2008 11:00 — Twitter - @resiak, @chrisnicolson : Bananaphone!
08/Jan/2008 14:08 — Twitter It's not for you
But as a biz dev guy (who doesn’t have time – or a reason – to be online much) – and despite the fact that my job is all about relationships – I find twitter to be pretty pointless. LinkedIn, on the other hand, I use every single day.
Oh.
Good.
I’ve been watching the Social Networking backlash with someth
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08/Jan/2008 17:42 — Aquarionics- Right. I give up, give in, give left, give right, do the hokey cokey, and go to the pub.
08/Jan/2008 18:20 — Twitter - Pemburyfided
08/Jan/2008 19:36 — Twitter - Annoyed that my current is blocking new flat by inattention
09/Jan/2008 09:26 — Twitter - Cursing APIs for not giving me all the information I want/need
09/Jan/2008 12:41 — Twitter - @resiak: If you hold your T upside down, you'll spill it.
09/Jan/2008 14:37 — Twitter - @resiak: Whatever that was, Twitter didn't want to divulge its orientation.
09/Jan/2008 14:41 — Twitter - @smin: Seems to be holding up...
09/Jan/2008 15:09 — Twitter Because when you need to know, you need to know now
How to say ‘Oh my god! there’s an axe in my head!’ in 117 languages
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09/Jan/2008 19:46 — Aquarionics- considers crushing the unworthy beneath a large pile of hopes and disappointments made physical. Happy Friday.
11/Jan/2008 10:48 — Twitter - Here comes Bod.
11/Jan/2008 13:16 — Twitter - nO! IT's AlL GoINg PErfeCtLY, WhY DO yOU AsK?
11/Jan/2008 15:53 — Twitter - I have the keys to my new flat.
12/Jan/2008 10:48 — Twitter Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home
So, I have a new flat in Leyton. It’s physically further from the station, but with a bus it’s quicker than walking from my old place, though I intend to put my bike back together and cycle.
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Things that will get progressively less cute about m
12/Jan/2008 16:51 — AquarionicsNew flat is new
- I have new flat.
- I am the king of boxes, all boxes flock to my presence.
- Somehow, in moving from one small room in E17 to two medium/large rooms in E10, I have manged to cover the entire floorspace in the latter with the contents of the former.
- By which I mean, I have a lot of boxes.
- Some of which haven’t been opened since the last time I moved.
- Sleeping on a proper bed
14/Jan/2008 09:42 — Aquarionics- Have impulse-bought a toaster. Living on the wild side today
14/Jan/2008 13:18 — Twitter - New flat has no internet until friday. Woe
15/Jan/2008 09:34 — Twitter - @schwuk I find that in conjunction with the "Add anything I star in gmail as a todo task" it's very good indeed
15/Jan/2008 11:34 — Twitter A decade of geek codes
Traditions are fun. Every two years for the past ten I’ve run though Robert Hayden’s Geek Code test (which hasn’t changed in that time). The rules are simple: I run it without looking at previous years tests. That’s it. I haven’t put it in this entry, because it’s slightly clearer as a text file
See my brief flirtation with Babylon 5 and X files! Watch as my dream of owning a mac
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16/Jan/2008 11:07 — Aquarionics- @schwuk Merged into a gmail account mirrored on an imap server, stuff from each domain gets labelled as the domain
17/Jan/2008 10:50 — Twitter - @resiak: I mirror it by downloading it with IMAP. It's entirely so I have a copy of all my mail for if gmail goes foom.
17/Jan/2008 11:42 — Twitter - Having circular logic problems with the TV Licensing office
17/Jan/2008 14:25 — Twitter - Exceeding my alcohol allowance
19/Jan/2008 00:05 — Twitter - Buddha bag
19/Jan/2008 00:46 — Twitter - Feeling suprisingly good for two hours sleep.
19/Jan/2008 10:14 — Twitter - Having second thoughts about not moving back to cambridge
19/Jan/2008 12:16 — Twitter - ...have punted my looked-forward-to week off for a week. Bah.
21/Jan/2008 11:21 — Twitter - Yearly review, one hour. Go Go Gadget Productivity
21/Jan/2008 15:22 — Twitter - Admiring @Doseybat's dedication to duty
21/Jan/2008 17:36 — Twitter - X-UA-Compatible: IE=8;FF=3;OtherUA=4
X-IE8-Kitten-Killing-Mode: Activate
22/Jan/2008 11:24 — Twitter - The internet has been delivered. It comes in a big red box.
22/Jan/2008 13:47 — Twitter - In a bar decorated like my great aunt's living room
23/Jan/2008 20:38 — Twitter - Regretting the last four White Russians last night.
24/Jan/2008 10:54 — Twitter - Taking over the trutap blog. Mwa ha ha ha ha
24/Jan/2008 14:31 — Twitter LoFi
I am a qualified sysadmin. Whilst I currently am in a “I will never be on-call ever again” phase of my career (Very much like the “I will never drink again” phase of a hangover, with much the same future), the fear of people coming to your desk at 17:25 saying “The little lights have stopped flashing on my disk drive, and I’ve got a report for the board due, is this a problem?” never truly goes away. The other thing that office-environment sysadmins l
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25/Jan/2008 21:58 — AquarionicsOne score and a baker's half dozen
Today, I:
- Made vegatable soup. It was nice.
- Played Meteroid Prime. It was nice.
- Looked at sofas. They were nice.
- Drank a lot of tea. It was nice.
- Became 27. It’s indifferent.
- Told various banks and organisations of my new address. It was complicated.
- It was complicated because one of the standard security questions is “How old will you be on your next birthday” and the answer is, today, inconsi
26/Jan/2008 21:53 — Aquarionics- In pub with the special he'll
27/Jan/2008 20:39 — Twitter - Happy Monday, Internet
28/Jan/2008 08:02 — Twitter - Planing a future with party rings in it.
28/Jan/2008 17:37 — Twitter LFG
trutap, the startup who employ me, are looking for PHP webdevs and Perl devs. Details of the perl positions are on the site, PHP stuff will be up soonish. If you want more details, talk to nicholas at trutap dot net.
We’re also looking for producty people and mobile-focused QA-like people. See the link above for further details.
All positions are London based, the office has a w
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29/Jan/2008 21:58 — AquarionicsiPhone
Being a mobile company, it’s vitally important we get to test the new and shiniest phones, which is why I will never buy a Motorola, don’t think the N95 is as shiny as many people appear to think, and how I got to borrow the Office iPhone for a while.
The Office iPhone was bought when we launched last autumn and is a US model with the hack so we could use it in this country and install applications on it. I didn’t use many third party apps,
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