Just finished lunch with a bottle of 1994 Warres. Very nice. Starters were served about 8 hours ago.

Maury Domaine Pouderoux 2003 after dinner. Grenache-based dessert wine. Tres yummy.

Right. Whiskers on. I'm going in...

Oh dear. At Euston in plenty of time but dreaded "Inspector Sands" announcement has just started.

Love the way you can use Blippy to see the @blippy founders buying kit to keep it running

Despite the dollar's decline in importance as a global currency @blippy still assumes the whole world uses it ;-)

already thinking about changing my bank to one that @blippy supports

has left the cats a week's worth of food. Hope they don't eat it all today.

OK I love @blippy. Now where's the feed for the public purchase stream? I need that data!

Got a @blippy invite code with relative ease. Now working out what to do with it.

Despite bringing the exact document they asked for, they still won't issue a permit. I am turning into a giant beetle.

this is my second attempt this morning. Had to return home for a document I didn't need last year.

renewing my resident's parking permit. Annual confrontation with pure evil in the form of petty bureaucracy

Confirmation bias and optimism bias have probably underpinned most human progress. As has unmanaged risk.

One by one, they chip away at my reasons for voting for them. I am now a floating voter. http://ping.fm/s19FY

Sad, and slightly surprising, to see England playing an important test match in a largely empty stadium.

Tomorrow, why not take some footage of your favourite tube station and upload it to YouTube? http://ping.fm/mKbzr

Copenhagen riot police don't wear any visible personal id numbers. Makes it difficult to weed out the few over-enthusiastic officers.

Surely overthrows should be Extras, since the bowler is not at fault and the batsman cannot take credit for them.

Google giving me yet more Wave invites. Nobody wanted any of the last lot. They can't give it away.

The BBC's first website (via @geofftech, now working there again) http://ping.fm/G9gZ9

Gideon Haigh on Cricket's Tangle of Formats http://ping.fm/InqaJ - the best cricket writer since Cardus & James

Socialscope is killing my Blackberry - hope it's just set-up noise.

Investigating Kiva (http://ping.fm/MN63R) on @tomayerst's recommendation

Not generally a fan of Clarkson but the hatchback review from Belfast was one the funniest things I've seen in years

Is it OK for Pastafarians to celebrate Shakehands Midwinter?

I have some more Googlewave invites if anybody still needs one

Just registered the domain moo.li because I liked the name. Not sure what to do with it now

Microsoft will buy Twitter. Sooner rather than later.

Tried Yoono. Single-column only. Can't drive it from the keyboard. Basic stuff. Come on, it's nearly 2010 people.

Calvin Harris's Wikipedia page has already been updated with news of him invading the X Factor stage

I find myself involved with a £30m project that intends to deliver nothing for 12 months whatamithinking

On the Essex Riviera http://ping.fm/kDFNr

Billy Gibbons gets tube to gig. Beats rest of ZZ Top by 45 minutes. http://ping.fm/T62Wz

Just done my first Wikipedia edit in years. Let's see if the Wikistapo revert it...

Once again NHS staff were attentive and professional for my minor op today. In and out in 90 minutes. welovethenhs

weekend in Sardinia. Should have been a week but better than nothing.

Did I mention Beardyman? http://ping.fm/S2YA4 Awesome. And I don't even like DNB.

We get Andy Flower and they get...Mike Hendrick http://ping.fm/Fd17C (this is good news for cricket, BTW)

More proof that the best new music is coming from YouTube: http://ping.fm/ldC6G (cf Kutiman, Autotune The News)

Somebody's got to say it - there was no impact debris was there? It just fell in a great big hole. LCROSS

LCROSS impact video http://ping.fm/DlgHj

C'mon internet - where are my pictures of the moon with a great plume of dust?

apps than run in a browser window should identify themselves in your taskbar. I've got an icon for Outlook but not for Wave. Browser problem or OS problem?

@foursquare returns the security token you need for check-in in the HTML response from clicking the check-in link (in a hidden input field)

@foursquare POSTs my password unencrypted when I login. Still at least this means I can automate check-ins easily.

@foursquare doesn't sync with FireEagle

+1 for @sjberwick starting a blog

Loving jQuery - very intuitive and powerful.

Just looked at Netvibes for the 1st time in 3 years. Wow, is it b0rked! Does anybody actually use it?

New Brightkite look. Must investigate. Also to find out why it tweeted my location just now.

The Georgia font doesn't use the 'fl' ligature unless you specify it with fl (tut tut)

Biting the jQuery bullet at last. I knew this day would come.

Too much IT, not enough tea

A jam doughnut counts as one of my five portions of fruit a day, doesn't it? So 2 doughnuts = 2 portions.

I have ricked my back. Tramadol is keeping me sane.

Nice early start thanks to the gift of small children

Time is going by really, really, really, really slow

No go for my minor surgery - too complex for the duty surgeon. Rescheduled for Gregory House's next available slot.

At Whitechapel Hospital having a lump gouged out of my head

Aaaaargh. No more cricket.

I'm loving SuperPreview - multi-browser page preview in Expression Web 3 (including IE6 mode)

Enjoying Gist.com. Not sure what it's for yet, but it's a nice toy

I just post my dazzling insights here. My full online activity is here: http://ping.fm/qi0Wu or on Twitter at @dominic_all (new!)

Mojito or Cuba Libre? Decisions, decisions. Probably go with a nice cup of tea.

Enjoying a balmy sunset at 6pm. Am I in Tobago? No, Limehouse.

I would willingly give the Elgin Marbles back in order to retrieve these: http://ping.fm/xVRFj (via @felixsalmon)

There is literally nothing that can't be fixed with duct tape

ICC to review the future of 50-over cricket after 2011 World Cup. Hopefully goodbye to this format.

Two test matches Pakistan v Australia in England in 2010.

England cricket fixtures 2010 http://ping.fm/5Eis9

Getting 2010 cricket fixtures from @aggerscricket++ before anything appears on Cricinfo, BBC or ECB websites

Climate Camp: no violence = no press or TV coverage. Much better strategy from the Met Police climatecamp

For my NHS appointment I was seen on time, given the information I needed and booked for an op within a month welovethenhs

NHS consultant I saw this week did a minor cosmetic procedure although she was under no obligation to do so welovethenhs

Me renewing acquaintances with Gladys after 15 years: http://yfrog.com/7gf79j

Ponting and Clarke in the same spell. I take back everything I said about Stuart Broad

Unexpected day at the Test Match thanks to @jobsworth. Good seats, good company.

Despite his inferior Test and 1st Class ave, Broad bats ahead of Swann for Notts. This is why there's some edge when they bat together for England. Good.

Looking like a result wicket, anyway

To my new followers: shutdown -P

This is the worst Australian side since the 1980s. Poor captain. Popgun attack. Only 2 good batsmen.

FWIW I would have kept faith with Bopara. Hope to be proved wrong.

Trott has some vulnerable quirks in his technique. Hope his form makes up for them.

I just signed the Alan Turing petition (http://ping.fm/ki6ky). Thinking a posthumous knighthood wouldn't be out of place either

Lily Allen at the Test Match even though Onions isn't playing. Must be Freddy's lucky night.

ping.fm to syndicate my thoughts, Friendfeed to aggregate my activity into a single stream http://ping.fm/8mknF (@andythomas)

(the humour expired some time ago)

Is there somewhere we can isolate Janet Street-Porter, Kate Hoey, Simon Jenkins etc. where they can write columns and sell them to each other?

I think you all deserve the joke that should have preceded my Fleet Street punchline, so here it is...

Edgar is a wise and kindly leader.

Hello @pingfm - trying to tell a multi-tweet story. Please stop dropping random tweets, makes it a bit Ginsbergy...

Secondly, when we get home Gilbert starts throwing up. At this point only Edgar (18 months old) is 100% so he is nominally in charge.

Firstly, we were in A&E for less than 10 minutes! welovethenhs

So, on Saturday night I'm in bed with a virus when Sam announces she's cut off her thumb with a knife. Took her to A&E. Thumb glued back on.

Oh yeah, it's called Fleet Street.

A kind soul has made a Java version of my email address validator. Working out how to publish it with him. http://ping.fm/rtNWI

Wife has lent me some of her Tramadol. It's my new favourite drug.

I've taken my first Tamiflu. 19 to go.

Phew, glad to be back where I can use my Oystercard.

buying The Observer today. Print may die but I don't want this one to go first

Just seen a young man with a tattoo saying "New Beginning's". The kerning was awful too.

3.97. Hurrah!

Reduced to watching the run rate sinking towards 4.0. Small cheer soon after lunch for stattos I hope.

When you see a deep point for the first ball of the day it's difficult to believe the team shares one's hopes

There's uaually something to think about during a Test Match but I may resort to reading the paper

Breathing Yorkshire air. Sun is shining. What could be better, apart from Ottis Gibson getting the sack?

One eye on the cricket on Sky Player (thanks Mum)

Also, without pointing any fingers, I think telling everybody what music you're listening to is a poor use of my bandwidth :-)

Little bit irritated by back-slapping self-referential cliques. Especially when I'm not in them.

Still, difficult to imagine a better day than the one I've had though.

With hindsight, I should have taken those 2 tickets I was offered for today. Still some life in this Test.

This is what I've been listening to for weeks in rehearsal next door: http://ping.fm/7NskX

is back from the wilderness

is camping

It's 2009 and my apps still won't remember which of my screens I put them on last time

New blog post: Managing by metric http://ping.fm/BQtTT

Cricket South Africa descend further into laughing-stockery http://ping.fm/Tl7Yo

Hadn't planned on installing Exchange Server 2003 SP2 today, but still got some real work done too.

Anybody got a superuser.com beta password they could share with me?

is fixing an Exchange Server problem. Joy.

Andrew Flintoff is the Desert Orchid of cricket.

Having FOUC problems http://ping.fm/BbANh

Here come the helicopters! http://ping.fm/6t8af (http://ping.fm/ihrlX)

is having an all-night party

Hoping for some cloud cover and a ball that swings

Disappointed by Bopara. He has more character than that. Hope he learns from his mistake. cricket

Can't remember seeing cricket that poor in an Ashes match before. Bad bowling, bad batting, bad fielding.

Firebug 1.4 is broken and my productivity is suffering. Gah. Don't need this right now.

You know you're a geek when the fire alarm goes and the first thing you do is "git push origin master"

All the minor celebs I follow on Twitter are at Latitude sitting around the same table.

Firefox Javascript bug: if you use control.getAttribute() then control.id subsequently returns a reference to the getAttribute function

I'm in the presence of a Fourth Plinther. http://joroberts.net/ is in my office.

Streisand Effect lives! Guinness World Records call attention to their own FAIL http://ping.fm/aHLD0

Scientists have now discovered that cats meow when they are hungry. Who knew?

Priest: “There’s nothing there . . . it’s just a tree . . . you can’t worship a tree.” http://ping.fm/ujJsC

Suggest a separate Ashes competition for Worst Wicketkeeper. Strong competition from both Haddin and Prior.

Slight case of butterflies listening to the cricket

I see no reason why your time on the 4th plinth should be dedicated to entertaining the world. Why not just chat to friends? oneandother

A man dressed as a poo is on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square http://ping.fm/JftZh

My first internet email address was 70624.31@compuserve.com back in 1993

Two predictions for The Ashes series: (1) Andrew Flintoff will not play in the final test. (2) Ravi Bopara will emerge as a future England captain.

The final three paragraphs of this story, if true, are astonishing and alarming: http://ping.fm/eZVgF

Myleene Klass/Daft Punk missed a trick with that Pantene advert: should have released the music http://ping.fm/kotar

Disqus comments have started tweeting *by default* all of a sudden. If this is a silent change I'm annoyed.

All wheels firmly attached today

is taking remedial action

can see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. Hope it's not an oncoming train.

Just checking if the broken ping.fm receiver on my website is working again

I hope, just briefly, that "pussy" was a trending topic in memory of Molly Sugden.

Mrs Slocombe has gone to join Miss Brahms. No word on her pussy. http://ping.fm/qhuXL

Is anybody going to the Chief Wine Officer event tromorrow night?

I need the active window to be the window I'm looking at. Future generations will laugh at us for not fixing this.

If it's spelled lingerie why does everyone say it like langerée?

Hello Dolly rehearsals continue, this time with the profoundly irritating title song.

It's Hello Dolly. And I think I can hear Lionel Blair rehearsing It Takes A Woman. Pity me.

Trying to get as much done as I can before the bloody singing starts

Scott Adams flirting with VRM: http://ping.fm/2lS7E

Twitter to the rescue of Geoff Marshall http://bit.ly/helpgeoff (not suggesting you donate unless you want to - just interesting)

New blog post: Cycling and infertility http://ping.fm/Q4UtW

Treating show people to "Come to Daddy" at full volume http://ping.fm/VGVRY

Back from lunch. They are still rehearsing the *same* *song*

Opera rehearsals have finished in studio next door. Now we have show tunes. Worse, they're doing the "happy" songs today.

Before anybody else says it: the gas company "with attitude": http://ping.fm/qJYMh

I do think Gazprom might have thought about the name a bit more carefully: http://ping.fm/yd1ox (or maybe they did)

Behind these gates is Ye Olde Mitre: http://ping.fm/KOlNV Come on down

Going for drinks with @mlazopoulou and other friends of long standing.

Just tried addressing my wife as "shawty". Note to self: don't do that again.

From now on I shall turn to @phildawes when I want the word on the streets.

Have learned a new word thanks to @phildawes: shawty

If I haven't got you into Auto-Tune The News yet it's probably too late: http://ping.fm/rpF0f Sade.

coffee = 3 bottles of wine

Does anybody have a contact at HSBC Global Banking & Markets?

Finally did the obvious thing and added XInclude to ajaxUnit so you can componentize your test scripts http://ping.fm/XehfA

Belatedly building up unit tests for ezUser: 279 tests successfully passed so far.

Some design decisions really benefit from a toilet visit. There, I've said it. oversharing

Think extra feature was worth it - now I can secure HTML pages over HTTP fairly robustly using ezUser

Should be testing and debugging ezUser, but found myself adding a feature whyohwhy

Excellent article on the hypocrisy of outing NightJack http://ping.fm/4rNBO (via @Glinner)

Yet another reason to boycott The Times. They claim this is a victory for freedom of expression: http://ping.fm/UPtK2

is a physical wreck

Installed Adobe Reader update. It reassociated PDFs back to itself and restored the desktop icon I had deleted. Rude. Bye bye Adobe Reader

Lendl Simmons is a good foot shorter than his uncle cricket

Crowd making this a home game for India cricket

That's four national anthems I've never heard before. Not sure how W Indies qualify for a national anthem. cricket

W Indies winning the music competition because of one genius. Hope it translates to the cricket

Bob Marley and bangla alternating on the sound system. 1970s vs 1990s.

Biggest cheer of the day for Dhoni winning the toss cricket

Pearl-and-Dean style adverts blasting out from the big screens.

Oh, it's the groundstaff wearing orange hi-vis vests. Not the Dutch players cricket

The Dutch players are being made to sweep the ticket. What a comedown for them cricket

My goodness Mends bowls it flat

Pakistan and Sri Lanka standing in one intermingled group for the anthems cricket

Google Latitude showing me in the Tavern Stand. Nowhere else I'd rather be

My train is full of suitcases. Where is everybody going?

Decided to go to watch some cricket at Lords. Will be supporting underdogs West Indies and Pakistan (sorry, @jobsworth!)

is at Lords

One of my email validation articles has been Reddited. A small flame war has started in various quarters.

Good morning tube strike cyclists! How are we today? A bit sore? Bet you got to work quicker than you normally do. tubestrike

My innerHTML bug seems to affect all browsers - WTF? Maybe I am wrong. http://ping.fm/RyAgL

Just encountered a Firefox bug that's been known about for at least 2 years: http://ping.fm/dLvNJ

Hello to everybody on their first bike ride of the year! How about cycling every day? tubestrike

I've got pictures to publish, movie clips of the kids to send to grandparents. 1.6Mb/s upstream doesn't work for me.

When will I be able to get a symmetric broadband service? Say 4Mb/s each way.

Michael Vaughan: Andy Flower needs a batting coach. Retire with dignity.

IE8 rejects scripts of type application/javascript because RFC4329 is merely informational. thenightmarecontinues http://ping.fm/3PqZQ

"Once you're in the clear, Mary Mary Quite Contrary" - Katie Couric http://bit.ly/1abFYN

What is Katie Couric on? Also return of the Angry Gorilla. Auto-Tune The News http://bit.ly/1abFYN (takes about 1:30 to get going)

I've always wanted to see Yorkshire as a Trending Topic, but kind of hoped it would be for winning the County Championship

All done. Cakes out of the oven, bread in, chilli bubbling away. Time to wake son #2 up.

Willie Carson's grandson is riding in a race this afternoon. Willie Carson's *grandson*. Crikey.

Cooking carrot cake, bread and a chilli for later. Glued to a feast of sport of the radio.

I'm now sick of both

Which is better? Custard Creams or Fox's Golden Crunch Creams? I'm eating a whole packet of each alternately to find out. Results later.

Australia's failure to manage Andrew Symonds does them no credit whiteaustralia

Google Chrome is here for us Mactards: http://ping.fm/SUzNR

Opera rehearsals in neighbouring studio have been going on for 2 weeks. Ready to strangle Puccini. Fat lady is now singing though.

RIAA denies ever asking for last.fm data - another amazonfail twitterstorminateacup? http://ping.fm/REqO6 (@Glinner)

Still making up my mind about the Cricinfo redesign but the typography is fugly. Makes it hard to be objective http://www.cricinfo.com

FireEagle still thinks I'm in Spitalfields, Co Durham. Can only mean BrightKite is using location *name* to update it. Why?? brightkitefail

Almighty props to @serafinowicz for exposing Time's lazy journalism. Didn't Time used to be a decent mag? http://bit.ly/bahM1 (tx @Glinner)

Boys were very excited about Mummy coming home tomorrow.

Imagining Lawrence Llewellen-Bowen, Alan Titchmarsh and Tony Robinson in my garden all at the same time. Don't ask.

The town of Beckton grew up around the world's biggest gasworks and was named after the gasworks boss. I suggest we rename it Nehalem EX

Steve Martin plays banjo? Who knew? Here he is with Earl Scruggs: http://ping.fm/Y7TqU

I'm not one of nature's completer-finishers. Going to try the @nauiokaspark recipe to get some stuff done. 10-10. I'm down and gone.

I bet Boris Johnson and David Cameron didn't cycle to work today smug

Just seen this mother pootling up the Thames: http://ping.fm/O9nCJ Caused a bit of a traffic jam

A week of single parenthood beckons. Wife away selling public art to the Qataris.

Words you don't want to hear after Sunday lunch: "right, let's get cracking"

I'm getting all my news from Auto-Tune The News these days: http://ping.fm/jtNPg #3 now out. Katie Couric stars again.

A former boss told me in 2002 he was happy to link my bonus to the MSFT share price if I wanted. Not looking such a bad deal now.

I've decided that knife blocks are OK in themselves, it's the set of matching knives that are naff

Knife blocks: are they naff? I think probably yes.

How did it get to be Friday?

Everybody I know who owns something made by Apple has had to go to the store to get it fixed at some point. Just saying.

Although I'd hate to see smarmy Osborne inherit an increasingly valuable stake in some profitable banks undeservedwindfall

I'm old enough to remember the last Tory government and I don't want it back, but really it's time for a general election isn't it?

WolframAlpha knows nothing about cricket http://ping.fm/rmbO4

seems to have evolved an alpha channel

Fix the MPs' expenses problem easily: halve the number of MPs and double their salary. What's not to love?

Recently I was getting 100s of spam emails a day to an old address of mine. They stopped at 11:52 on 1st May. No idea why.

has sorted out the world's problems and has the hangover to prove it

#WallowWednesday @misery, @self-pity, @mud

Why does Drupal think "include on front page" is the same as "include in RSS feed"? Madness.

Something smells funny about startpanic.com - caution advised.

Hailing in E1 but not at Lords. I fear interrruptions are inevitable though. cricket

radar.net has allocated me the email address has.puke@radar.net. Thanks, Radar.

Trying ping.fm tagging syntax

Dominic Sayers is testing ping.fm grammar fuddling

Conscious that I'm tweeting cricket spoilers - I will stop if anybody is waiting for Cricket On 5

A feast of Onions! #cricket #sorry

...Spitalfields, Co Durham #WTF?

I told Brightkite I was at 51.515294,-0.071595. It decided that was Spitalfields, London. Then it told FireEagle I was at Spitalfields, Co Durham. #WTF?

Onions served with duck #cricket #etcetc

is making Google Latitude update Brightkite and FireEagle

Oh, I missed Bopara's 100. Well done, young man. #cricket

Baker went for a dozen that over (sorry) #cricket

50 for Bopara

Bopara and Onions reflect well on Flower [this is not a crossword clue BTW]

Getting the fail whale from the .tk url shortnener #dottk #fail

is dancing round the office to Pete Tong on a Wednesday morning

Railway operations on Sodor are refreshingly spontaneous. Not sure Agile lends itself to clockface timetabling though #thomasthetankengine

On opening, the case turned out to be 2005 Puech de Glen. Ready for drinking now. So we did.

Picked up a case and half of wine from friend's vineyard. Time to give the 2007 a thorough assessmenting...

Windows Update is installing IE8 and Office 2007 SP2

Turns out new cat has toxoplasmosis. I'm living in a small flat with 2 cats, 2 small kids & 2 adults. And you're worried about Swine Flu

Not only is the email insecure, but they must have posted my password up to their server in plain text too #security101

I've registered with 2 sites this week that emailed my password back to me in plain text #security101

It's like they're operating some sort of moving-block system when they haven't even got solid-state interlocking yet #thomasthetankengine

If I was the Fat Controller I'd be seriously worried about a public inquiry.

Thomas the Tank Engine's line has an appalling safety record.

l:home

is going to CC all his emails to Jacqui Smith http://ping.fm/xX8UV

Since announcing the prize for my 100th follower I have lost 2 followers

wonders why "verb" is a noun

On behalf of James Burton, who doesn't do social media, I declare a MOP on Wednesday 12th May. Venue tba. #MOP

Gordon Brown is here to stay. Like Internet Explorer.

Today I saw a piece of music for 6 ice-cream vans being performed. With free ice-cream.

New book on the creative and cultural economy After The Crunch http://ping.fm/OXD74 (edited by a friend) Free to read online.

Auto-tune the news for great justice: http://ping.fm/1ln6y

has changed tack

...and its so much harder getting the straw in

Surely a 3 litre wine box should last longer than a bottle?

Latest xkcd uses a Two's Complement 8-bit signed integer http://xkcd.com/571/

My new favourite cake is Battenburg Fancies from Lidl

I can't possibly let my children eat all the chocolate they were given at Easter. So I'm doing it for them. Good Dad.

Mac people: don't let your guard down. The datapocalypse is coming! http://ping.fm/tJxHz

Pleased for Andy Flower http://ping.fm/7MHiF a man of principle as I said in January http://ping.fm/DzHyR

That Firefox add-on: http://ping.fm/FFnOu

Firefox add-on where you can replace the word crisis for opportunity on all websites, so you can start seeing things from the optimistic side: http://ping.fm/FFnOu

Possibly some might argue that Agile is not quite the same as Muddling Through

Nice piece by John Kay on the success of Agile methods in business strategy (citing a 1959 source - year zero for Agile?) http://ping.fm/adMDb

If Afghanistan beat Scotland tomorrow they deserve a chance to complete the Grand Slam at Sofia Gardens http://ping.fm/EzWJm

Why it's your civic duty to photograph police officers http://ping.fm/3mJfT

When I woke up this morning I realised that gravity was a rotational effect, a 4D centripetal force. Turns out I'm not the first to have this insight http://ping.fm/3Ez7f