Tuesday 31 August 2010

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

Monday 30 August 2010

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)

Sunday 29 August 2010

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

Saturday 28 August 2010

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

Friday 27 August 2010

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

Thursday 26 August 2010

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

Wednesday 25 August 2010

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

Tuesday 24 August 2010

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

Monday 23 August 2010

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

Sunday 22 August 2010

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

Friday 20 August 2010

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

Thursday 19 August 2010

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

Friday 13 August 2010

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

Wednesday 11 August 2010

Upgrading my phone to Android 2.2 fingerscrossed

Tuesday 10 August 2010

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

Monday 9 August 2010

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

Monday 2 August 2010

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