Tonight? I'm defrosting the freezer, thanks for asking.

I thought Strauss had got it wrong by leaving out Finn and choosing to bowl. Happy to be wrong. cricket ashes

Just had an email from npower about changes to Ts & Cs that *actually said what the changes were* win

England will win this test match. I cannot be more specific. cricket

If England get these runs it will have to be the top 6. Unfair to ask the tail to get runs at Perth ashes cricket

England will chase 430 in 4 sessions and get them. It will be a new record. (#ashes cricket)

Against Australia, Ian Bell averaged 17 under Michael Vaughan, 47 under Andrew Strauss

In the first innings of a Test Match, Michael Clarke averages 50. Against England it's 23. cricket

Would be nice if Yahoo open sourced Delicious rather than just turn it off

Finished what I wanted to do. Now to do what I should have done. timemanagement fail

Two reboots for a point upgrade of VMware Player. That *is* shit.

And in other news, my cat has just accidentally licked english mustard off my plate. That'll teach her.

VMware Player has just uninstalled itself as part of an update. You might want to rethink that strategy, chaps.

Exchange server replaced with Google Apps, DNS Server with bind9. Now have no Microsoft server dependencies. Bye bye SBS2008

Trillian mangled my (a) into a (b) for some reason.

http://www.eggwatchers.com takes no account of (b) height above sea level and (b) initial water temperature. Tsk.

Even if you disagree with its Keynesian message, this anti-austerity argument is compellingly put http://youtu.be/FmsjGys-VqA

Call me an old cynic, but SimpleCDN seem long on accusations and short on actual evidence.

Reading about the Jayadevan Method http://j.mp/ecEZUU and detecting the faint odour of schism.

HMRC are checking my 2009 Self-Assessment Tax Return. Can anybody personally recommend a UK tax adviser?

I have 5 Diaspora invites. If anybody wants one give me an email address.

Have to say, though, that defaulting to Letter size for printing every time is profoundly irritating googledocs fail

Been a few weeks since I used Google Docs but it's a much better experience now. I'll use it more henceforth.

A dismal 28/49 on this Tube quiz for me http://is.gd/irthz /HT @geofftech

Tempted to follow this business plan to the letter http://j.mp/e1ElnA - has anyone got Big Al's number?

Has anyone seen Peter Roebuck in the same room as Morrissey? http://j.mp/eHvvxl http://j.mp/eCtssp

"the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it" - Douglas Adams (#assange)

The track record of cricket umpires against the Decision Review System is a matter of public record. Where are the stats?

The entire history of cricket data would fit on a memory stick. When will somebody publish it?

The once-wonderful Cricinfo is now a corporate farce. Boo ESPN.

(#socialDNS) Wikileaks is at http://213.251.145.96/ today

Mrs Sayers is pleased to announce the arrival of a new left hip. Both Sam
and hip are doing fine.

Anybody reading Nadine Dorries MP's latest blog post might also want to read this http://j.mp/f9W5s3 and compare its conclusion with hers

There'll be no more Tube strikes under Boris. Oh, wait... http://j.mp/gGQ9wB

Suggest this young woman ignores Twitter until Jan 7: http://twitter.com/theashes

Just knocked up a genetic algorithm to look for arbs on Betfair. There aren't any.

This *almost* makes me want an iPhone: http://www.remixmotorhead.com

I do bring them back if their parents complain though.

Carrying sleeping children is one of the best things about being a Dad.

Do I have to pay Fedex's £10 fee for paying the VAT on a package I imported? It's clearly £9.80 more than it cost them.

Live radio commentary on Australia A v England: http://www.abc.net.au/sport/stories/2010/11/17/3068574.htm cricket

Wasn't so funny the second time around

I could a cup of tea (#Section127)

Another try then. Here goes...

Testing: < >

Hmmm. ping.fm mangled my message. Doesn't like angle brackets obviously

I could a cup of tea Section127

Not saying the odds are wrong, just that it's a tad unusual to see England favourites in Australia cricket

England now odds-on to win Ashes in Australia - look out for blue moons, hell freezing over etc. cricket

Good piece on the enigma of Zulqarnain Haider by Osman Samiuddin: http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/487268.html cricket

An article with actual information and actual links to sources on TwitterJokeTrial: http://j.mp/aMZ6xb (2nd half)

Another RFC erratum verified: http://j.mp/aXDv4T Picky, me?

Despite sweet music like this http://j.mp/c8zhhN, Australia are still odds-on for the Ashes cricket

Ashes arb on Betfair: Aus to win series 1.88-1.89, Eng to not retain Ashes 1.82-185. £884 available.

Nice sunny day. It's Barry White o'clock: http://www.last.fm/music/Barry+White/_/Let+the+Music+Play

Cameron: "Automatic guillotines for children from the poorest families" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHR6-KN-8uI

Well-written and researched, and profoundly depressing. Basically it's still 2001 in browser compatibility land http://j.mp/9AnPrX

This, in a nutshell, is why I don't see myself wearing a suit too often in the future: http://youtu.be/khRKBrky5Lo /via @parkparadigm

My new printer has its own email address. I for one welcome our new overlords.

I finished Bad Science. It's worth a read despite Goldacre's sixth-form prose.

Annoying problem with Microsoft Outlook 2007 syncing with Gmail solved by uninstalling AVG 2011. Probably forever.

Reading contracts and RFPs . Still, I learned a new word today: attorn

Trying to finish Bad Science but Goldacre writes like a spotty swot who needs a damn good wedgie

Another small step toward the grave for a once-great party http://j.mp/ciomMq

A note of realism on the news from Bangalore: Australia are still odds-on for The Ashes. But I wonder who their captain will be? cricket

A point upgrade of VMware Player needs *two* reboots? You're having a laugh.

John Kay is clearly reading @sig's blog: Barbarians at the gates of complexity http://j.mp/9yqK9g

My cats are glaring at me. They blame me for the rain.

Michael Lewis: "One of the side effects of [the] crisis is to wash a lot of fools, many of them German, out of the game" http://j.mp/a5EXzE

The big news is that Lefty plays ping pong *right-handed* http://yfrog.com/jcrppuj

GeekNet bought Ohloh for $2.6m a year ago. How much did Black Duck pay for it?

I am safe. Either Europe win (yay!) or it's 14-14 and I am quids in (yay!)

Just back from a fantastic meal cooked by the lovely @jose_pizarro. Nice way to end a great weekend

Based on this http://j.mp/brdwhe I'd say USA were looking pretty good for the Ryder Cup

is older and wiser

Installed new disk. Fried motherboard. So what did I do? Tried it in another computer. Idiot. 2friedmotherboards

Ed M now opposes "the broad use of anti-terrorism measures for purposes for which they were not intended". What did he do about it pre-May?

Suppose KP & Cook continue to fail. Top 7 is then Strauss, Trott, Bell, Colly, Davies, Prior, Morgan. Good enough for the Ashes? cricket

I am not entirely in agreement with the selectors on the winter tour parties, especially the Development Squad

http://www.google.com/newproducts/

Twitter had already fixed XSS bug but it "resurfaced". Poor regression testing processes? Tut tut. http://j.mp/9aLjDp

Use HTML5 for your smartphone app and you're targeting the biggest market segment: both iOS & Android

Apple's share of the smartphone market declines again http://j.mp/cm36JI yet people continue to write apps just for it

UX design for evil: http://darkpatterns.org/ fabulous analysis

Combining Diacritical Marks test: sͫͦͩayers

I have learned something from Twitter's Trending Topics this mornin - Combining Diacritical Marks

23,000 Wikipedia articles to be removed or reverted to old versions because of one editor http://j.mp/cCED2x

IE9: Address box fighting for space with the tabs. Prefer Chrome's solution: tabs above address bar

IE9: Can't close a tab without bringing it to the foreground

TweetDeck failwhale http://flic.kr/p/8BoAaX - not seen this before

Apparently Geoff Miller has been on the phone to Yorkshire to ask how tall Moin Ashraf is cricket verytallattack

Commentary on County Championship matches! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/5livesportsextra/ Thank you, BBC

Somerset playing but not Yorks or Notts cricket

Yorkshire, at least, are on the field. Unlike Notts and Somerset. cricket

Quite liking Komodo Edit as a simple but efficient IDE for PHP, Python, XML, HTML etc.

And then there were 3. Final matches: Notts & Somerset away to good sides. Yorkshire at home to one of bottom 2. cricket

Yorkshire 209 to win cricket

Chrome tells me the BBC website is hosting malware: http://flic.kr/p/8zsHRz. This is the page: http://xoo.li/cgo1K1

Trying to write some reference code for an OpenID/OAuth-aware service integration pattern

At last @PeerIndex has calculated my Authority score. I think it means "not very authoritative" http://www.peerindex.net/dominicsayers

Did I dream the Compliant Chicken viral? If not, why are there no Google search results for it?

Gilbert and me doing some old-school analogue interlocking http://flic.kr/p/8zp2u7

Today is the 25th anniversary of Solid State Interlocking. And you nearly missed it. http://xoo.li/cxMwqS

Only just discovered Brett Domino - late to the party as usual http://j.mp/cpRwPr

My current portfolio: Notts to lose County Championship, USA to not win Ryder Cup, Milliband major to be next Labour leader

Will now be in profit if Yorks, Lancs or Somerset win Cricket County Championship - thanks Betfair

Given England's preference for very tall bowlers, do not be surprised if you see Oliver Hannon-Dalby touring this winter. YHIHF.

Most of the good stuff on Boing Boing today I'd already seen on Twitter ages ago. Boing Boing is so 2007.

My CAPTCHA from the Tweetdeck site: http://flic.kr/p/8xKVoy

Trying Tweetdeck for Android http://j.mp/b6umCw

Never knew he was Dr Gordon Brown http://j.mp/cnNk8W

A (speculative) answer to my question about Twitter and Bitly: http://j.mp/b0NJgx

Simon Hughes accuses Waqar Younis of being involved http://j.mp/dBQoQx cricket

"all links shared on Twitter.com or third-party apps will be wrapped with a t.co URL": what does this mean for bit.ly etc?

This would be very good news: Legalise sports betting in India says Delhi court http://j.mp/bnS2hh /HT @nauiokaspark

"On May 11, David Cameron officially assumed the position". Well that's one way of putting it. http://j.mp/bdyiTs

For me "Scotland Yard" means HQ functions and the units under the Specialist Crime Directorate http://j.mp/d17Kvh

Standard criminal investigations are usually handled by BOCUs not based at New Scotland Yard

Is it only Americans who still refer to the Met as "Scotland Yard"? http://j.mp/bdyiTs

Some quite nice 2-letter ones too. bit.ly Pro + AdWords + short domain = off-the-shelf business

There's a surprising number of single-letter domains available at some ccTLDs

OK, it's true. We named our children after Ikea furniture. http://flic.kr/p/8xcaMK

ZOMG! It's September! Where did August go?

Might use Unfuddle for the project library and Beanstalk for the source code. Slightly arbitrary decision but not entirely without reason.

5 reasons why you shouldn’t watch international cricket http://bit.ly/a4oR1H

Food + data: looks like Punchfork will be right in my sweet spot http://punchfork.com/ /cc @jobsworth

On being a liberal http://bit.ly/blDR7m (by @jackofkent)

Pakistan players were interviewed by ACSU after Sydney test in Jan. Lord Condon had "grave concerns" http://bit.ly/bXOmwH cricket

If they don't refund ticket money, boycott future matches and terminate your Sky Sports subscription. Only language they understand cricket

If they don't refund ticket money, boycott future matches and terminate your Sky Sports subscription. Only language they understand. cricket

Ticket money should be refunded for this test match, and any others where corruption is proved. cricket

I predict that Ronnie Flanagan's name will be mentioned a lot today.

This would be a good time for the ICC to show that it knows how to run a *sport*, not just a cash machine.

A good day ends badly :-(

Prior to this test, Amir had bowled 3nb in 3 entire matches. In one innings at Lord's he bowled 4nb. Fool. cricket

Very very sad that this test match won't be remembered for what happened *on* the pitch cricket

Going with Unfuddle for now. It's Subversion, and the free plan will see us through the proof-of-concept stage

Shortlist so far: Bitbucket, Unfuddle, Beanstalk. Any others? projecthosting

What's your favourite project hosting site for a private software development project?

Phil Tuffnell's everyman act is failing: he can't help showing that he actually knows what he's talking about tms

Odd that HMRC are mandating iXBRL when it doesn't even have a "For Dummies" book yet, or even a Wikipedia page. Is it mature enough?

Discovering that iXBRL may not play nicely with HTML5 :-( http://bit.ly/92FffW

KP needs to go back to his county for a bit. Oh, wait... cricket

Open Rights Group: "consulting on a substantially damaged code doesn’t really amount to proper consultation" http://bit.ly/c1OiCW deact

Beardyman now up to 5 Kaoss pads! http://bit.ly/cfZ0vI Not so derivative/joky any more - he believes in his music

Having peered through the flap of the IPv6 tent, it appears to be very big and very empty

Playing with IPv6. I can now see http://ipv6.google.com OK. What should I do next?

Wanting to love @inbox2 but still too buggy for real world use. Also needs UX work. Looking forward to future versions.

I wrote a geeky post on compression of IPv6 addresses: http://bit.ly/ipv6doublecolon

Want! Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking http://bit.ly/9SSXEN (@jobsworth @mlazopoulou) /via @BillGates

Alan Murray gets nearly everything right but fails to see The End of Corporations not just management http://bit.ly/dadRDF

eCommerce site asks me to "Please untick the box if you do not wish to receive these details". Tortuous is evil

I ♥ duct tape

Not the first time Cook has got a decent score just before he was about to be dropped cricket

is happy

ICC's latest entry in tough fight to be World's Worst Sports Governing Body: http://bbc.in/icctits

Chrome 6 beta is crashing every five minutes. Back to 5.

Upgrading my phone to Android 2.2 fingerscrossed

Angry of E14 writes to The Guardian http://bit.ly/ahv1cI

Outrageous for Roy Greenslade to suggest "every" police officer fears exposure http://bit.ly/a1wNc8

I'm not going to install Expression Web on my new machine - let's see if I can live with Notepad++ & Filezilla

To all my is_email() correspondents: I hope to get to this later in the week isemail

New Core i7 CPU and 6GB RAM partly making up for shortcomings in my onboard processor

Has a working computer but a below-par brain

I have flu and my computer is broken. I will be ineffective for a while.

TAB-LGW :-(

"Who is protecting the public interest in the digital world?" Surely that would be "our" government? http://bit.ly/a2KG6V

Maslow's Hierarchy of Internet Needs http://bit.ly/9Eil0Q (a serious one of these would be possible and quite useful)

What's disappointing is the MPS omert� surrounding the events prior to
and immediately after the video http://bit.ly/9asFno iantomlinson

The video of a police officer pushing iantomlinson isn't sufficient
evidence for prosecution (in my lay opinion) http://bit.ly/9asFno

If people are going to be accused of copyright violations, the evidence
must be trustworthy. Good work by @OpenRightsGroup http://bit.ly/aFJHxU
#deact

The curry goat was excellent, by the way. Pigeon peas are my new favourite pulse.

Flying fish for Sunday lunch I think

Made a goat curry with pigeon peas. Smells good. Looking forward to tasting it tomorrow.

Think it's rum and coke o'clock

Best time to get me is 9:30 - 12:00 UK time

Internet access here in Tobago freezes up at 8:30 when everyone arrives in the office and checks their email

Want to to see the BBC News site as nature intended? Better buy this font: http://bit.ly/cpDsw6 (or a Mac) bbcnewssite

BBC News site takes 50 HTTP GETs to deliver the home page. Have they read this? http://yhoo.it/bPjYem bbcnewssite

Gilbert has chosen his first Hornby 00-gauge train set. He is practically hyperventilating.

This excellent essay has shifted my opinion on mankind's contribution to climate change http://bit.ly/auXPby

I am no longer Mayor of my own street :-( Foursquare is as bad as Hackney council.

And I thought Tower Hamlets was bad. Hackney about to get into a lot of trouble: http://bit.ly/dB3KdK

Very pleased with my new knife sharpener. Downside: my thumb is now quite a few millimetres shorter :-(

DJ Tiesto isn't dead. Good. That means I don't have to keep playing his execrable version of Barber's Adagio for Strings

Why isn't there a ping.fm for location? Why doesn't ping.fm do it? Where did FireEagle go?

If judicial review overturns DEAct might that establish internet access as a de facto utility? cf http://bit.ly/d9BGUQ

@richardm56 Are you happy to be associated with this sort of journalism? http://bit.ly/bdcOAG

Give @beardyman a budget and he turns into Bobby McFerrin :-( Oh, dear: http://youtu.be/NpKuVPykj0A

Tweetdeck is complaining about my API Limit but I can get updates on my phone using Seesmic and on twitter.com

My code is held in git, svn, bzr and hg repositories. That should cover it.

I can now release automatically to github, Sourceforge, Google Code, Assembla, CodePlex, BitBucket and Launchpad

Making chana massala with kala chana - looking good so far

http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk is very slow - maybe a bit more popular than anticipated?

Did I just say "squee"? Sorry.

Squee! http://www.hornby.com/visitorcentre/ opens next week

Hope you like Germans too http://youtu.be/Qnl3-xNlKVA /via @ppk

Delia Derbyshire would have loved this: http://youtu.be/yF_R5UJGt-g One of my fav tunes /via @geofftech

HMRC just used Direct Debit to take the full amount of my VAT Return despite already paying them. Don't give HMRC the keys to your account

Extensive drilling outside my window today. Bring back the vuvzelas FFS.

Has anyone upgraded to Wordpress 3.0 yet? And if so, is it OK? Also, why would I want to upgrade?

Echoes of Edward Gibbon at Ellis Park: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/ is still going. That's nice.

How soon can I have elevenses?

is peckish

I can hear vuvuzelas through my window in E14

The streets of E14 are unusually busy for some reason.

Just made it clear that I won't be allowing Getty to charge for my Flickr pictures: http://www.flickr.com/people/dominicsayers/

Tomorrow is International Level Crossing Awareness Day (http://www.ilcad.org). Be aware of level crossings. Or be square.

Children just waking up. Have had a productive hour in silence. About to be shattered.

The A14 will revert to being a pack-horse route: http://hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/press_13_10.pdf

Stonehenge has been cencelled: http://hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/press_13_10.pdf

The internet has a Hall Of Fame: http://www.iana.org/assignments/special-registry/special-registry.xhtml

Second 12" I owned: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/events/hub/artists/sugarhillgang.shtml (first was Wheels Of Steel of course)

Very happy with my new HTC Desire and Android 2.1. Goodbye Blackberry.

My sons will laugh when I tell them how excited I was to hold a 32GB microSDHC card back in 2010

I'm using bad code to build good code. I hope.

Hacking PEAR code so it doesn't make PHPLint barf. geekfest

If I set my location in Tweetdeck and click "Remember this location", is it unreasonable for me to expect it to remember my location?

Driver left my new phone next door because he thought I wasn't in. Didn't say which flat (of 8). None of them speaks English. screwed

Hugh MacLeod is getting a bit irritating.

What is the point of setting my Foursquare location in Tweetdeck if it doesn't check me in to that location?

Trying to control the English language: good luck with that (http://bit.ly/bunchoftwats) /via @montroso

I've been out to a double-bouncer myself - more T20 lateral thinking: http://bit.ly/2bounce

Now getting BSOD, which swings the pendulum of probability back to hard
disk failure. Phew, I can fix that.

For the record, AVG Anti-Virus + Tortoise SVN + Windows Live Sync + Windows 7 32-bit = corrupt file system?

Strongly suspect file system corruption due to Windows 7 oplocks and 3rd party stuff like AV and SCC interference

Reformatted my hard disk and got fresh corruptions. Could still be hardware but...

Safely back in the east end after the excitement of Croydon. Oh, the trams.

Last day of half-term. Day trip to Croydon.

has got bad sectors

Salient & salutary: Newswipe from last year on media response to shootings http://youtu.be/PezlFNTGWv4 /@Glinner/@enhughesiasm

My tip: watch the Guiness Premiership highlights. Unbelievable script.

as a neutral this is an excellent game of rugby

http://bit.ly/ofcop "The Sec of State has not indicated his intention to make use of these provisions at this time" DEAct shillyshally

http://bit.ly/ofcop Consultation document doesn't address cutting off internet access (see §2.29-2.30) DEAct

You have until 30/07/10 to respond to OfCom copyright code of practice: http://bit.ly/ofcop. GO! DEAct

Metcalfe's Law says the number of LinkedIn updates is proportional to the square of your number of contacts. Or is everyone madly networking at the moment?

At the View Tube on the Olympic site. Good bacon sandwiches.

First wedding of the year. Nice weather and good company.

Tried OrSiSo for..ooh...2 minutes. Couldn't find how to drive it from the keyboard.

Solar transit of Atlantis on its final mission http://bit.ly/cRAvI1 (as it docks with with ISS). Must see. /@mrchrisaddison

Boris's cycling strategy for London. Some good elements, some eye candy. At least there's a strategy now http://bit.ly/loncyc

"We will introduce safeguards against the misuse of anti-terrorism legislation." http://bit.ly/libconpfg libconpfg

"We will restore rights to non-violent protest" http://bit.ly/libconpfg libconpfg

I've been guilty of every one of these cognitive biases: http://bit.ly/d32PQd - great document! (via @boingboing)

I just made that up.

Failure to prioritise is prioritising failure.

Photostream from No.10 http://www.flickr.com/photos/number10gov/ - this is a Good Thing

Always nice to read independent academic discussion of the Duckworth Lewis Method http://bit.ly/t20dlm

Hope this is true (http://bit.ly/libcon) "Safeguards against the misuse of anti-terrorism legislation"

Just had to write to the Brunel Museum about their appalling and illiterate website. http://www.brunel-museum.org.uk

Hurrah! Our brave boys in blue foil another terrorist plot http://bit.ly/wop001 waronphotography

Milliband SI units explained: http://bit.ly/milliband

So, of course, there are 1000 Nanobands in a Milliband

"Like a walrus who'd just eaten a bad puffin" (http://bit.ly/bcuES7)
#simileoftheweek

*Not* the Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain www.ukulele-orchestra.co.uk
#ripoff

Just been on a train pulled by 60019 "Bittern" with 2 excited boys. Make that 3 excited boys.

...and of course James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree. Hope he takes good care of his mother.

Oliver James Hannon-Dalby (of whom you will hear more) reminds me of Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell

I just know I don't want these people back: http://bit.ly/camland | Johann Hari, Welcome to Cameron-Land

Friends with more financial nous than me say they can see a difference between the main parties' economic policies. I can't, really.

Bank Holiday engineering means my journey home is bus, bus, train, bus, bus. With a golf bag.

Leaving Malaga's shiny new T3 and arriving at Luton feels like travelling to a 3rd world country

Freezing rain on sunburned skin. Welcome home.

La Quinta. A & B courses, my favourites. Weather perfect.

Just seen a picture of the new pavilion at Headingley. It's...erm...distinctive.

Flicking through newspapers at the airport, thinking "I read this yesterday".

Is James Tredwell (http://bit.ly/aroQNM) next in the firing line or is he extrovert enough to escape Mushy's clutches as @swannyg66 has?

.@DavidKHopps agrees with me about Mushtaq Ahmed's malign influence on England spinners http://bit.ly/bJvozX / http://bit.ly/bweVe8

@DavidKHopps agrees with me about Mushtaq Ahmed's malign influence on England spinners http://bit.ly/bJvozX / http://bit.ly/bweVe8

Think I'll pop to Spain for a few days and play some golf. Be good while I'm gone.

East London Line reopening lunchtime tomorrow: http://bit.ly/ellopen

Apparently I'm running Microsoft Windows Version 6.1. Where did the other 0.9 go?

Why is there no central data source for rail ticketing websites? It's madness for each site to collate TOC data itself.

Back from the spectacle at the end of my street: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tinahenderson/4551214706/

Just made my first purchase from James Smith & Sons

I work much faster listening to the Aphex Twin: http://www.last.fm/music/Aphex+Twin/Come+to+Daddy

Singing along to fantastic 8-bit version of Dark Side of the Moon: http://bit.ly/dsotm8

Fewer and fewer voters are getting their info from media that is owned by
vested interests. Hurray for the internet!

Welcome home everybody

...and that's without the browser toolbars and other junk I had to delve deep to deselect from the install HPfail

On the downside I'm now installing 672MB of driver files. Nice work, HP.

My new printer has its own intranet site.

The printer I've just bought can generate Sudokus. The future is here.

Made a chana masala last night as good as any I've tasted. Even better this morning. Starting point: http://bit.ly/chholay

Taken most of the day to get Bugzilla installed and running (actually
half the day was taken failing to get Jira installed).

Cory Doctorow uses the same FUD tactics as the entertainment industry to
spread his apocalyptic view of the deact http://bit.ly/ctLvwm

Had my first play with an iPad tonight at @dittotv. More warmly inclined
to it as a result. Nice user experience.

The Digital Economy Act - some primary sources http://bit.ly/defacts
#deact

I've added an ISP policy page to the excellent
http://digitaleconomyact.info (Policy page is http://bit.ly/ISPPolicy)
#deact

I've added an ISP policy page to the excellent
http://digitaleconomyact.info (Policy page is http://bit.ly/ISPPolicy)

At Fatboys Diner, Trinity Buoy Wharf. A gem. Sadly this area is slated for redevelopment. Get here soon.

Very nice to see Bairstow jr in the Yorkshire side. Now if Sidebottom jr would just come back we could see c Bairstow b Sidebottom again

Talk Talk will only supply customer records in response to a court order (http://ping.fm/N1aQL) deact

BT will provide customer records at the request of "a senior police officer". No court order required (http://ping.fm/1gh76) deact

Service provider Be will only supply customer records in response to a court order (http://ping.fm/5gI6j) deact

O2 will only supply customer records in response to a court order (http://ping.fm/fv9CW) deact

Let's try again, that didn't work very well

So far only Talk Talk have committed to defy disconnection orders until taken to court (http://ping.fm/N1aQL) deact

Talk Talk, O2 and Be will only supply customer records in response to a court order (http://ping.fm/Im5ke http://ping.fm/fv9CW http://ping.fm/IcXy4). BT will supply your records on the authority of "a senior police officer" with no court order

Network Solutions have allowed my business to slip away from them without any attempt to retain me. That's hosting and email for 6 domains. Someone's asleep at the wheel.

Maybe I should put together a whoshouldntyouvotefor site

I have been told who I should vote for by http://ping.fm/0TjuV No surprises, but I'm more bothered about the showstoppers in all the major parties' manifestos.

Looks like the Masters is going to be won by the Jacques Kallis of golf

When will Peter Alliss retire? The man has been an embarrasment to himself and the BBC for at least a decade.

After last night's shenanigans I now have an interest in Priest's Leap, Madison Du Berlais, Piraya and Conna Castle grandnational

On a small train chugging up to Buxton after an all-nighter in Leamington Spa jetset

The MD of my service provider has a blog. His post of April 8 didn't mention the DEAct. My comment did. http://ping.fm/qFrTi

I have asked my service provider to make the same pledges as Talk Talk (http://ping.fm/G1A2D). Please do the same.

Agree with @timberners_lee that ISP duties under DEBill are same as wiretapping (http://ping.fm/Qotf5) - are the safeguards as good (bad?) as RIPA 2000?

Fed up of received opinions? Make up your own mind (2): the Hansard record of the DEBill second reading http://ping.fm/1miqQ

Fed up of received opinions? Make up your own mind (1): the text of the DEBill http://ping.fm/aK6wD

The DEBill in the Minister's own words: http://ping.fm/ShqIP

Maybe if we paid MPs twice as much we might get a few decent candidates. Halve the number of constituencies to finance it. ge2010

What happens in the House of Commons today may change a lifetime's voting habit for me. DEBill

From this web page we can see the lowest unscored total for a batsman in a test match is 229 (therefore no longer an unGoogleable cricket question) http://ping.fm/5VRjZ

In the history of cricket, overs have been 4, 5, 6 and 8 balls long. Never 7.

Today my erratum to RFC 3696 was verified http://ping.fm/IEYTe

Today I learned to spell "fuchsia"

Physicists. Give them £2.6bn and they still dress like this: http://bit.ly/9GuThh

The IPL's Yorkshire connection is doing well http://ping.fm/vLOJJ Well worth the $50,000 he cost.

Enjoyable chat with @dittotv. Exciting stuff going on there.

just jumped on a Routemaster going through the City. Much nicer than a bendy monstrosity.

Injection of Yorkshire blood propels Rajasthan Royals to first victory
(http://ping.fm/7Qq1y). OK, he
got a first-baller but he's clearly a talisman.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;

No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Think I have now eliminated the annoying Blackberry advert from my every message. Sorry reader.

Is it the hotel fucking me about, or the online agency? Or both?

Second time this has happened to me: a hotel room I booked online months ago has just been cancelled a few days before the date.

iTrader based on TiddlyWiki but relicensed for proprietary world :-(
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Oh noes. An app store :-(
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iTrader not tied to BT infrastructure. Not tied to trader turret. Could trade on iPhone if regs allowed
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pitching iTrade(r). Looks like it has a @ribbit interface
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Identity verification is the big barrier to the distributed trading floor.
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BT guys seem to have discovered VRM (still think it's a bad name)
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Price discovery moving to IM. Deals still closed by voice
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It's a bit like watching Question Time. 95% bleeding obvious. 4% witless questions.
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At a BT presentation about innovation in financial services. Slightly skeptical audience
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Installing the IE9 preview

Nothing on eBay for "thames tunnel tickets" :-(

I will pay big ��� for a ticket for the sold-out Thames Tunnel
walk-through tomorrow. Please RT :-)

I pluck my nose hair. It grows back within hours
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I hope Yorkshire CCC are on the phone to Younis Khan right now. Would be
handy to get him & Mohammed Yousuf on a Kolpak.

I am constantly amazed at the depths sports administrators will plumb:
http://ping.fm/lUQAc
.stm

Apparently Cadbury's are now sponsoring the BBC http://ping.fm/fa2DH

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first give access to the metadata.

Only took two days but blog.dominicsayers.com is back. My 26 readers will rejoice.

Just had to hack the wp_options table to change my siteurl and home and presto!

SiteGround's control panel sucks, but their tech support is very responsive. blog.dominicsayers.com DNS issues resolved. Now to fix the CSS.

What I'm trying to say is that this stuff should just work. Network
Solutions control panel is best, but I hate them for not apologising for my
outage.

Set up a CNAME at my registrar to my blog at SiteGround but still no joy
- still getting a 404 over a day later.

Couldn't get SiteGround's hosting control panel to accept that
blog.dominicsayers.com was available as a subdomain.

Apologies to my loyal reader. Normal blog service will be resumed as soon as the global DNS system sees fit.

Moving my blog from wordpress.com to my own server. Seems to be impossible without some downtime.

Only Yorkshireman in the IPL is Michael Lumb so I guess Rajasthan Royals are my team

@jobsworth You'll be able to watch the Knight Riders on ITV this time (as well as YouTube) http://ping.fm/VIhGI

Lovely article on one of my favourite all-time cricketers: Abdul Qadir http://ping.fm/5yQol

Haiti & Chile appear to be on different tectonic plates. Still, wouldn't want to spend much time in SF at the moment. http://bit.ly/bRMhrf

Even from a sports administrator this is abject schoolboy nonsense: http://ping.fm/vKaKv

This is the wrong time of day to be doing RWA calculations

Tell me my failings anonymously here: http://ping.fm/AGNJv

MS Dhoni scored 30 off the last two overs, but nobody noticed because of 1 run Tendulkar scored at the other end.

Cricinfo is down. Not surprising given the Little Master's exploits...

Beware writing iPhone apps. It is the IE6 of our day. Be prepared to rewrite  when standards emerge @jobsworth @nauiokaspark

@bleiglass I use ping.fm to post to both Facebook and Twitter (and many others)

As Robert Duvall said in Apocalypse Now: "Taliban don't play cricket"

Splendid win for Afghanistan chasing 494 to win. Nice to see them playing a 4-day match at all.

Think YouTube commenters are dumb? Check this out: http://ping.fm/zAKkW

Reluctantly returning to TweetDeck. Why isn't there anything better?

Is there *anything* you can't do over port 80? What is the point of
corporate firewalls, especially in an age of 3G and municipal wi-fi?

Just a quick test to see if this gets to Buzz

By the way, I am a "Gold VIP" customer of Network Solutions. I dread to think how the "Joe Schmoe" customer gets treated.

"We are committed to creating the best Customer experience possible" but "Please do not reply to this email" networksolutions

Yes, Network Solutions, my sites are fine. That's because I spent all weekend moving them to another hosting provider.

Network Solutions engineers have just arrived at work. They were kind enough to let me know my website was running ok...

Still no word of explanation or apology from Network Solutions about this weekend's hosting outage.

Now I have a problem with Siteground. Let's see if their customer service is any better than Network Solutions...

I'll give Network Solutions another 24 hours to make me happy before I say what I'm currently thinking.

Moved my domains over to Siteground on the recommendation of @DynamiteJones. DNS is still replicating but we're back on the air.

My hosted web servers are all dead. Lets see if my solution
provider's customer service is up to scratch. I will name and shame if not.

There is no Wikipedia article on the D'Oliveira affair, just a brief bio and an even briefer mention in a Sporting Boycott article.

So what does the BCCI do with all its income? If I was a small boy in a rural community in India I'd want to know. http://ping.fm/yuy2o

Remembering the original Project @Jobsworth. Is there not a similar case to be made for being the first major corporate to move its productivity tools   over to Google Apps?

Blackberry App World fails to render on a Blackberry. And the download button doesn't work. doesnotcompute

So what bit of the brain triggers those unwanted thoughts? Consciousness seems to be single-threaded but the brain clearly isn't
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Mozilla: your Firefox Mobile site is unusable on my Blackberry, Windows Smartphone and IE6 browser at work. I want to improve my web experience but you're not making it easy.

Note to self: don't post to ping.fm from an email account that appends a massive disclaimer to every message.

Also, file syncing across multiple sites/laptops - moved from FTP using to SyncBack to Windows Live Sync. Very easy to set up and no problems so far geekweek

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Gnarly weekend in a lot of ways. The week ahead should be plain sailing by comparison. Back to coding tomorrow night I hope.

Now have Zimbra running on a VM at home as the production MX for three domains. Hope my ADSL doesn't die.

Spent the weekend wrestling with Zimbra and various flavours of DNS. Now all tamed and running smoothly. I am the master of my domains.

Trying to change the DNS servers for saye.rs from the Serbian registrar to my own ISP. Process is somewhat hampered by my lack of Srpski

Oops that should have been (via @felixsalmon)

Baksheesh is a cultural thing like democracy, right for some not right for others. But this is funny anyway: http://ping.fm/kxTIG

I feel really bloated today.

It's because I'm really bloated.

Small world #2. I met @felixsalmon through @clarebrew, a friend whom my wife met in the art world. Clare's uncle was a partner at the bank where JP & I worked.

Small world department. @felixsalmon and @jobsworth are in Davos at the same conference. I met Felix when JP sent me to New York. There's more....

The great @beardyman has added a keyboard, which may offend the purists, but this is still 58:36 of awesome http://ping.fm/IFOoD

I think Network Solutions have turned off short_open_tag without warning. Bunch of tits.

Is it my imagine, or is Firefox 3.6 a little less glacial to load?

Followed, thanks to the magic of shuffle, by Bad Manners doing the Can Can. From the ridiculous to the ridiculouser.

Listening to it again, making a tTotal of 5:36 of sheer perfection.

Listening to Ace of Spades. 2:48 of sheer perfection. One of the mandatory full volume songs - good job the house is empty.

Tweetdeck 0.32.6 isn't remembering my accounts. Groundhog Day every time I open it. Seesmic Desktop here I come.

Do Androids Dream Of Windows XP? http://ping.fm/Wo7tg

Adeel Akhtar (Fessal) is tea-snortingly funny in the Four Lions preview clip http://ping.fm/ncQOd

Is there a free and open source Basel II RWA calculator for Excel/Calc? And if not, why not?

will code for stock

How do I get a table of integers from a MySQL query to a web page and format them as currency? Nested loops? Really?

is writing nested loops. In 2010. For some reason.

My rule-of-thumb: if I'm writing nested loops I'm doing something wrong. There's got to be a better way.

Can't get out of the habit of typing search terms into the address bar. At work so no Chrome.

Google Latitude seems to think I spend my days in the Thames, just upstream from Westminster Bridge

How can I get some work at a French bank?

I'm working at a Scottish bank. There are 3 different types of porridge in the canteen.

It's Cardiff all over again. Where's Monty?

Graeme Smith kneed in the head. At last.

The short stature, the guileless face, the air of not being comfortable at the highest level: Ian Bell is the Sammy Lee of cricket

Current run rate 1.98. Required rate 5.5. Colly & Belly FTD!

Hostile spell from Steyn & Morkel. Time to man up.

Harris getting turn *and* bounce. Not a good sign (unless you're bokke)

Today we find out if Ian Bell is man or boy.

Family outing to A&E for some treatment to Gilbert's poorly finger

Reading Pevsner on East London. My flat doesn't get a mention http://ping.fm/h2a8U