I have discovered black coffee.

This is handy http://opencorporates.com <http://opencorporates.com/> (because it's international)

Chrome version 15 is still shit at multi-column layouts

An enchanted castle in Barking https://plus.google.com/u/1/108043462979289233324/posts/Ny7uN2Yjyo5

I gave the government some feedback on one of their web pages and they changed it within 1 working day. Flabbergasted.

CSS Win! You can style all elements without any class by using e.g. div:not([class]) {color:pink;}

Anyone who isn't backing up their files: absolutely no excuse now: backify.com

Surprised @backify haven't heard from Nike's lawyers yet

Lots of hard work. Not much forward movement. Looking forward to the weekend.

Chrsitmas lights going up in Oxford St, FFS.

Another excellent filter for the flood of new programming languages: http://colinm.org/language_checklist.html "You have reinvented PHP better, but that's still no justification"

http://mycelery.com/ Can this be real? Mind you, would have been perfect for some bank senior executives I can think of.

Another nice-looking new programming language http://roy.brianmckenna.org/. It's all a bit confusing for an old gentleman like me.

If we exclude on principle all new languages with Significant Whitespace then the flow becomes manageable.

This has yet to happen to me in London: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2oymHHyV1M /HT @DaveGorman

Seen from my bike this morning: a fellow cyclist whose leggings were a bit more transparent than she thought #polkadotknickers

If someone registers the Top Level Domain .GPOM they'll catch 90% of the addresses I attempt to type in.

Rails + MongoDB + jQuery-UI = ridiculously easy autocomplete fields

Who Google thinks you are (surprisingly accurate in my case) http://www.google.com/ads/preferences /HT @jeresig

I actually think Google should allow me to make this list public: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences (@jobsworth)

While I'm on my soapbox... Londoners: it's not "can I get", it's "may I have". This isn't an episode of Friends.

Would have been a bad day to arrive in heaven. Everyone would have a hangover from the Steve Jobs welcome party.

A fresh reminder to me this morning that even if the cyclist is 100% right and the driver 100% wrong, it's the cyclist who ends up dead.

Anger is nearly always a self-indulgent waste of time, but sometimes a man needs to be told he is a cock-juggling thundercunt. Loudly.

Yes, it's morning moan time.

They're putting in a Boris Bike stand 50yds from my house - result!

Another email asking about *my* CrunchBase API. Read the document, people #wrongsideofbed

...and while I'm having a moan:

Tories: we don't want "leadership" from our government. We want basic services, competently delivered, at a reasonably price. #cpc11

On the plus side, I'm deeply in love with ActiveSupport::Inflector - a perfect example of Clarke's Third Law

Did none of the geniuses behind Ruby or Rails realise that an app developer might want a field called 'type'?

Making an omelette. Eggs are going to get broken.

I live on the borders of Limehouse, Stepney Green, Bow Common and (shudder) Poplar so I have some sympathy with this: http://bit.ly/ai33Oo

On Sunday this thing http://flic.kr/p/6mnZG will be playing his first competitive rugby fixture

Posit. There's a word that should be banned.

Hint to me: take my mobile number off the Whois records

Van driver just called asking if I was @CloudFlare. My number is the top Google result for "CloudFlare E14" (hint to driver: try Telehouse)

My computer just died violently with a noise like a gunshot. Frightened the life out of me.

I'm assuming a catastrophic failure of the power supply. It's always the power supply.

The Letting Go slides were from http://futurefriend.ly/resources.html (HT @ppk)

A primer on how the world is changing http://www.slideshare.net/yiibu/letting-go-9109114

Nice to know the flow isn't all in one direction http://britishisms.wordpress.com/

The CrunchBase API documentation has disappeared. I have recovered it & posted it here: https://gist.github.com/1226556

I made a little Android app for *my* bus stop using http://bus.abscond.org & Appsgeyser.com http://www.appsgeyser.com/77901

http://countdown.tfl.gov.uk <http://countdown.tfl.gov.uk/> is nice, but here's a lesson for TfL in UX: http://bus.abscond.org/stop/77346 (thanks, @abscond)

Google+ has an API at last. Still no way to post though, so I can't tie it in to PixelPipe or ping.fm. Also...

Google+ API is JSON-based of course. I think we might soon be needing JSON equivalents of RSS, CSS, SVG and (whisper it) HTML

True story. Downloaded Windows 8, put blank DVD in my drive, computer spontaneously turned itself off.

The Android era was fun while it lasted. Shame (but inevitable) the big guys want to have their own bat *and* ball

Nearly getting the hang of Rails. Nearly.

O Chrome, what do you want with 48% of my CPU?

Ermmm, don't you think Search By Postcode might be a good idea here? http://sps2ksrv.towerhamlets.gov.uk/MeetYourCouncillor/Members.aspx/

Thinking about going to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy next week, but it seems to be on in 2 places in the whole of London. Huh?

It's the exact 10th anniversary of me starting at Dresdner Kleinwort (Thanks @paulfarnsworth, @jobsworth & @dynjo)

Today I'm loving I18n interpolation in Ruby

People getting excited about the Fast Show should note that Higson has not said it's coming back to TV http://j.mp/mToELt

Buses from outside my house: http://countdown.tfl.gov.uk/#|stopCode=77346 WIN! Thanks TfL /HT http://londonreconnections.blogspot.com/

That was actually a no-ball: Dhoni took the ball before it had passed the stumps. #cricket

I feel that @Heroku has lurched toward evilness when asking for my credit card details for a free add-on. @Salesforce influence?

Interested by @opa (http://opalang.org/). Anybody got any experience/opinions?

Just saved £900/year on gas & electricity by changing tariffs with my existing supplier.

Pass the sick bucket

Today I corresponded with someone who has a 5-letter email address, and at a TLD to boot. I guess he wins the internet.

Argos, Tesco and Amazon still selling the $150 discontinued HP Touchpad in the UK for £429 http://j.mp/r40EvH http://j.mp/pq7kn7 http://j.mp/pKSoMk

India's series averages. Apart from Rahul Dravid, a horror story: http://j.mp/o9M7Mp #cricket

Good

I'm thinking of getting an iPad. Or maybe a stone. http://j.mp/qnwdxP

Geeks only: New post http://j.mp/ptuXTw HOWTO use a Rails application template from GitHub on Windows

OK, it's a known issue and the fix worked http://j.mp/oGMGeC - back to Chrome :-)

Abandoning Google Chrome until they fix the CPU usage issue. Back to good old Firefox.

Legislature: impotent. Judiciary: knee-jerk crackdowns. Executive: wholly discredited. Fourth estate: immoral and corrosive. #interestingtimes

Saw vans from Lancashire Police in Oxford St and Devon & Cornwall Police in Holborn. Lost?

England bowling. Goods news given these remarkable 3rd innings stats for Edgbaston http://j.mp/pGVGTr #cricket

Unwanted gift x 40 http://london.craigslist.co.uk/mob/2536072357.html /HT @suw @mlazopoulou

Baseball seems to have become a very popular sport all of a sudden http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/movers-and-shakers/sports/ /HT @cookdandbombd

Gavaskar doesn't think Sehwag will be fit for any of the Test Matches. Shame. #cricket #tms

@m I don't favour over-prepared food but I'm sad I never got to go to El Bulli http://j.mp/omzOyV

Wish I was in Nottingham

Massively useful integration of TfL Journey Planner with Google Maps. At last! http://j.mp/psckQb

Like Jeremy Clarkson and Clive James, you can't read Alan Bennett without doing "the voice" http://j.mp/nDiX7K

is busy unCircling people

What's your vocabulary size? http://testyourvocab.com/ (36,100 since you asked) /HT @felixsalmon

Why is Thunderbird's support for Google Calendar and Google Contacts so poor? It must be one of their main use cases. Is it Google's fault?

My plan to throw a sickie and go to Lords has been foiled by actually being ill

After 3 unsuccessful referrals against one batsman, he should be immune to any further appeals #cricket #notreally

Now Lancashire's 9 & 10 have top scored in their innings. "Just what is going off out there?" - FS Trueman #roses #cricket

I'll call it: England are the best team in world #cricket. Never been true in my lifetime before.

Don't remember Jeff Dujon or Adam Gilchrist having to bowl in W. Indies or Australia's glory years #cricket

Dhoni will inevitably get a 5-for #cricket

Some pleasant schadenfreude at India being short-changed by technology despite rejecting the UDRS #cricket

Just cottoning onto the fact that this is the 2000th test match, the 100th time England have played India, & Fletcher's 100th match as coach

Baffled by goings-on at Headingley where Lancashire are playing a Yorkshire XII (count 'em) who recovered from 45-8 to reach 239 all out

Nick Clegg's expression is hilarious http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14214197

Can't find Scribd's new Float app in the Android Market - they haven't released it for a single minority platform have they?

Investigating Deadmau5 today, now all the cool kids have moved on.

The Met Police have 12 months to demonstrate they can protect celebs during the Olympics. Good start, chaps.

I've noticed cars & bikes on Whitechapel Rd being jammed together into ever narrower lanes as pavements get wider. Apparently its a new Cycle Superhighway http://j.mp/o5VyAk

It's much more likely that governments will penalise ISPs that install Telex rather than incentivise them http://j.mp/qMEwxn

Para 7.2.2: even ISO can't decide whether to put the milk in first http://j.mp/rp6TH3 [PDF] /HT @9600

Rather than listen to me, Nick Clegg has been forced into the position of backing Cameron publicly. Now he is also in it.

Weather is looking pretty bloody for my day at the Test Match on Thursday.

Nick Clegg: either pull out of the coalition or just join the Tories, FFS.

BrowserID depends on https://browserid.org/ right? So not as good as OAuth then. But better than using your evilcorp.com id

The society that spawned #NOTW is ours. We bought in our millions. They just supplied what we crave.

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple & Microsoft proving beyond reasonable doubt that the future is peer-to-peer #freedom

There's never going to be a good time for the Lib Dems to withdraw from the coalition, but now could be one of the least bad.

Civil war, tsunami and cricket. Astonishing and game-changing speech from Sangakkara http://j.mp/ildo3T #cricket

"you were out first ball, run out the next innings and now you have been shot. What a terrible first tour" http://j.mp/ildo3T #cricket

I hope that you all realise it is inconceivable that I knew or worse, sanctioned the appalling grammar in this sentence.

Thunderbolt cables are evil control-freakery and will kill innovation http://bit.ly/lP1igG #apple #arse

An email from @DPDUK gave me a 1 hour delivery slot. Package arrived within the allotted hour. Great service.

I'm afraid Google+ Circles are reminding me of Julian Clary's jokes about widening the circle of his acquaintance

Google+ has no RSS feeds. So it really is like Facebook.

It's annoying that ad-supported sites will merrily link to their own stories but not to the thing they are writing about.

Guyana & Trinidad have the most local Indians in the W.Indies. So they stage the India tests in Jamaica, Barbados & Dominica #cricket

The ICC have lost their main weapon against India's opposition to the UDRS: Bye Bye, Daryl Harper http://j.mp/jmoi5O #cricket

Oxford Uni disowns Oxford comma http://j.mp/mUhDJ8. In other news, New College to be renamed Old College /HT @mahemoff

Well that was nice.

ICC are having their revenge on India by assigning Daryl Harper to all their matches until they change their mind about UDRS #cricket

Hoping for an epic innings from Chanderpaul today (sorry @jobsworth)

Shoot first, focus after. Wow. http://www.lytro.com/cameras (@mlazopoulou, @andymew)

Peak Attention & the East India Company in the same post. Warning: 7000 words http://j.mp/mDsgT6 (worth the effort)

Black Yeast will be this year's Swine Flu

Mike Selvey says players now grease the outside edge of their bats to defeat HotSpot - ingenious! http://j.mp/kDQny6 #cricket

Adobe Reader update spams an icon onto my desktop. Just piss off will you, Adobe. It's *my* desktop

My DIY philosophy neatly summarised: http://j.mp/jj8sgy

They must have moved BBC TV Centre since I was young. I'm sure it used to be W12 8QT

Three cheers for the Lord High Admiral

Old investment advice: when a company builds an expensive new HQ, sell sell sell http://j.mp/lgoHVh

I cannot find any negative reports about CloudFlare, only good ones. Too good to be true? I'm finding out on four of my domains.

Just registered the domain al.gy but no idea what to do with it. I'm such a junkie. I just wanted a 4-letter domain.

No Lords Test for W.Indies is disgraceful. Lord Morris of all people should know better. http://xoo.li/mCkDZL

People are starting to realise it's not a smart move to tie your service to a minority platform http://j.mp/jadMU3 <http://xoo.li/jadMU3>

So we got Karadžić, Mladić and bin Laden. Now can we round up Sepp Blatter & Jacques Rogge as well, please?

Anybody near Canary Wharf today please go and say Hi to Eddie Kidd who is still doing the London Marathon http://www.eddiekidd.com

Supporters of armed robber George Davis ruined what was supposed to be my first day at a Test Match in 1975.

Bitcoins back up over USD 7 - that can't be a fair value.

Having to use IRC for the first time this century. What do they know of Twitter who only Twitter know?

BitCoins are not very portable at the moment. No reason why there couldn't be an Android wallet (is there?)

The first person to run a BitCoin mining pool on port 80 will win the internet. Think of all those corporate GPUs sitting idle.

There may be a finite number of BitCoins, but there's an infinite number of digital currencies. Sell.

Just had my third erratum to the email RFCs verified http://j.mp/mTxjaP

Flight of the Conchords. Remember them?

OK, the BBC hasn't abandoned RSS altogether. They *have* abandoned full text RSS though. Boo.

The BBC seems to have abandoned RSS for its bloggers. Why?

The W3C have made invalid many hitherto valid email addresses. http://j.mp/leld3A omits some valid formats (@timbl)

Split-year Test Match grounds: MCG (22 times), Eden Gardens (11), Newlands (5), SCG (1), Multan [Ibn-e-Qasim] (1)

Forgot to post the answer to my trivia question about Test Matches spanning two calendar years. Here it comes...

Split-year Test Matches: Australia (23 times), India (11), South Africa (5), Pakistan (1). Most recently 1984-1985 Ind v Eng at Eden Gardens

Right, what's next?

Sad but important lesson for any small business that depends on someone else's plumbing http://j.mp/k04TbL

Just installed Ubuntu 11.04 for a thing. Nice. Only Microsoft Office stopping me switching to Ubuntu full time.

Astronomy fail at Boing Boing. Couldn't resist. Sorry. http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/09/beautiful-360-views.html#comment-1105168

What are these people doing who spend hours fiddling with the cash machine?

Voted. Always feels good.

If I've got an Amazon Gift Certificate, why doesn't checkout ask me if I want to use it? #darkpattern

Email from TNT inviting me to track a consigment using a 9-digit number. Their web form only accepts 8 digits #fail #dinosaurs

The Dropship exploit is very elegant http://j.mp/hcUMQW, and an impressively fast proof-of-concept http://j.mp/h99ZlU #dropbox

Very proud of Gilbert (5) and Edgar (3) who just climbed to the top of the dome of St Paul

Bears lurk in my inbox

Web designers: "a:focus" is there for a reason. Some of us use the keyboard occasionally, you mousetards.

An upgrade to my webcam driver needs a system reboot? @logitech, why do you despise your customers so much?

It's not just me then. Phew. http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-economist-to-halt-production-for-month-to-let,20090/

Met Police thinks it "protects the public" by imprisoning them without water or toilets http://j.mp/fMQSHY

Interesting story of how Mark Benson's umpiring career ended: http://j.mp/hIOnwU

Found some good advice on tumble dryer ducting on uk420.com, the website of the UK cannabis-growing community. Odd that.

Here's one for you. Which 4 countries have held Test Matches that straddled 2 calendar years? (#cricket) (@jobsworth)

Once in a blue moon Peter Roebuck hits a DLF Maximum (or whatever they call a 6 nowadays) http://j.mp/gsEsCK

Unfortunate but necessary light shining on WI Cricket Board http://wicbexpose.com/ (@wicbexpose) /HT @LalitKModi

Busmaggedon, Oxford Street http://flic.kr/p/9xGsNG

Go and sit at the feet of the grown-ups as they discuss .uk internet policy http://www.nominet.org.uk/about/events/?contentId=8302

Love Tim Minchin's poetic defense of rationality http://youtu.be/HhGuXCuDb1U but why are they drinking red out of champagne flutes?

I've already put her back on the floor 3 times this morning http://yfrog.com/h2lhhtlyj

The official Masters scoreboard site crashes every browser I've tried. No other site is permitted to tell me the score. How can this be good for golf?

Idiot locked his bike to mine. Stern test of my temperament. Failed.
Locked mine to his. Went home.

I now have more respect for the WBO and FIA than I do for the ICC http://j.mp/gxbPSz - beyond parody

Chrome is making soft hyphens visible: http://clearleft.com/ (Experience displays as Exper-ience). Bug or ISO compliance?

AV might actually hand my constituency to the Tories. http://www.voterpower.org.uk/poplar-limehouse

When I installed your app I said I didn't want a desktop icon. Why, when I install an update, would you assume I now wanted one? #darkpattern

Finally, some meaningful DRS analysis http://j.mp/fQG3Un (page bottom). But where is the *data*? #cricket

I must have missed the BBC News story about my first two Wikipedia edits http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12887075

Is the 4th sentence of Andy Zaltzman's article the longest ever in a piece of cricket writing? http://j.mp/hDJQAO

Gerry Adams didn't last long as Steward of the Manor of Northstead http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/press_36_11.htm

I highly recommend The Register's guide to Silicon Roundabout digerati: http://j.mp/fsUDy4

On the GoCompare website you *can* opt out of being called, but you have to click a link to even see the check box #darkpattern

Call me naive, but if you've already got an industry-funded body (IWF) to block criminal internet content, then why do you need another one?

Cloned objects and connectors are b0rked in Inkscape, but this is the correct way to do SVG. Sometimes its hard to be a freetard.

Turned it off and on again. #neverfails

I seem to have fried another computer. When will I learn to attach the earth lead to my pants in the morning?

Finally, an interesting 50-over cricket match

Trying VirtualBox to create GUI VMs on a headless server. And loving it, frankly. It just works.

OK, so I know how to get round the NYT paywall. Now can somebody tell me why I'd want to?

Webpop looks nice for a hosted CMS, but $19/mo is at least 2x too expensive

My cloud strategy is nebulous.

Badum tish

Rode my bike to the office for the first time in over a year. You may be underwhelmed by that but it feels good to me.

Added a Download link to http://isemail.info to make it easier to find the underlying code

Wondering if a non-profit escrow for failed URL shorteners like 3.ly could be self-funding in some way. Ideas?

It seems like most advances in surgery are because surgeons are competitive *and* love gadgets (#gamification)

Haven't seen Black Swan so I've only just realised the main character is a cousin of mine.

New Kutiman genius http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIl4LkHYRkg

@m Surprised at the limitations of SVG *and* how buggy Inkscape still is in 2011 #wheresmyhovercar

A PixelPipe test across all my accounts. Nothing to see here.

Is there an inexpensive hosting provider that actually cares if your web site is down?

How can I find out whether the foreign intervention in Libya is in line with UN Resolution 1973?

What's a cool word for an irregular flow of events? 'Lumpy' isn't hacking it for me.

is older but no wiser

Turns out 'stochastic' doesn't mean what I thought it meant

It's 2011 and different browsers still render the same content in radically different ways. It wasn't supposed to be like this.

Edgar (3) told me about this big wave that came over the land. It's called a Salami, he said.

Playing with an Apple Magic Trackpad on my PC. Very nice but I can't rest my fingers anywhere.

Love the new ruse of pretending to lose your run-up then going through with the delivery. cricket worldcup

Who will get the sun.com domain? The Sun in the UK or Melbourne's Herald Sun? Could be a bidding war between Rupert Murdoch and...oh, wait.

Actually not always: "without internal checks by Nominet, police requests could have resulted in wrongful suspensions" http://j.mp/hADoBv

I've added JSONP support to http://isemail.info - that was easy!

Just spotted the Russell Square plane http://j.mp/h33QXL

The "Create a new resource" link in Google Apps is b0rked too. googlefail

Google Calendar seems to have turned off CalDAV access. Gah!

Decided not to try the Hiya beta now I know it's owned by whitepages.com

Email address validation API is here http://isemail.info/help

I have just paid for an online service! What am I thinking? It's good though. Remember The Milk.

Leamington/Warwick TV http://swarktv.wordpress.com/

Poorer decision making caused by too much information http://bit.ly/hSSGPu

I've used a semicolon in three sentences today; this is one of them.

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 has knocked on my door

I'll never be able to look at iTunes again without thinking of the phrase "tight, leathery anus" http://j.mp/gsD2u4

Idea: CloudRaid - stripe your files across multiple free cloud backup services in RAID10 array: more free space & more resilience

And if I were to write about strategy, would I be practising strategography?

If I were to study strategy, what would my discipline be? strategology?

Skype Plugin Manager. You don't need it so why is on your machine? And what data is it gathering? http://j.mp/fNrRTX

bar.com now has an MX record. Thanks for messing up my testing, IETF.

Very good post on Brunel's Thames Tunnel http://j.mp/h9DL49 - the opposite of TL;DR: not long enough; want more nlewm

One of my boots smells of tom cat. Sorry, office-sharers.

@techdirt is missing the point (http://j.mp/ebuWG6): UK police can already shut down your domain http://j.mp/dXznmd

Bye-bye ehow.com. Bye-bye about.com. Bye-bye w3schools.com http://j.mp/ePL0MO

So if we all occupy Trafalgar Square, how long do you think the Queen will take to pack her bags?

HMRC just reminded me about a notification they sent me last April for something that's not due until this May. broken

Each time I speak to HMRC about a mistake they have made, they apologize. Then another threatening letter arrives shortly after. broken

On the B&Q registration page, if you get anything wrong it unchecks the Please Don't Spam Me control darkpattern

Time for Zulqarnain Haider to shut up about what he's going to do and start doing it. cricket

I have it on good authority that @stephenfry has been offered the throne of Egypt

UK Police have already seized 1200 domains, and can take yours whenever they want http://j.mp/dXznmd

I'm seeding the deleted BBC web content and hosting the torrent file here: http://j.mp/lostbbc

When you read in a book that before 9/11 "No-one could have foreseen global terrorism" you know the author is American

I've seen the PS3 master key so often I can remember most of it. Does that mean Sony can issue a DMCA take-down on my brain?

Any other To-do services with a Twitter API? http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/twitter/ Excellent

Liking rememberthemilk.com, but is there anything better?

I can't find who created the original of this: http://j.mp/f058DD (I guess they are getting a taste of their own medicine)

All of a sudden, I need Google Wave

Stewart Lee, the voice of the radicalized middle class, 4 months ahead of Steve Coogan here: http://j.mp/ig8NhH

the "radicalized middle class" - we're dangerous when we put down our pipes and take off our slippers http://j.mp/gDUMXG

"truth moves faster than lies" - for the first time in history, perhaps http://j.mp/gDUMXG

I suspect Paul Mason will be trending soon, he's written a cracking blog: http://j.mp/gDUMXG

Banning 3 players does not address the underlying issue of corruption in international cricket

I has teh stupids

The new police.uk crime maps don't seem to include any crimes committed by Tower Hamlets Planning Committee

How's Gilmore's Law looking today? I'd say censorship is doing quite well, thank you. http://j.mp/guoFvh

Still buzzing from the UOGB at Amnesty Intl. Where else can you hear Hawkwind followed by Saint-Saens Danse Macabre?

First whole-family trip to the cinema? Tick. First 3D movie for Daddy? Tick. Good film? Tick (Tangled). Good day? Tick.

Ukes did Shiver Me Timbers by Tom Waits. Awesome. Played it like they meant
it.

At Amnesty International HQ to see the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

At Amnesty International HQ to see the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

At Amnesty International HQ to see the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

At Amnesty International HQ to see the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Amnesty have free wi-fi. Yay.

Amnesty have free wi-fi. Yay.

Having a mildly positive experience with Thunderbird. Odd feeling.

Would like to know what @twitter is doing with @dabbledb. It's completely b0rked at the moment.

Gmail search by size: everyone wants it, trivial to implement. Not a feature. Never will be. Pure evil. upsell

Perhaps Allen Stanford can now go back to running cricket tournaments, at which he was a lot better than the WICB

Trott & Collingwood clearly England's best bowlers on the day. cricket

Trying to like the Chrome version of Tweetdeck. Not succeeding so far.

Is there a widely-trusted Certificate Authority that doesn't have its ultimate root in the USA?

Chocolate Weetabix. Just say no.

Blog post: getting Rails installed on Windows so you can deploy to Heroku http://j.mp/eUinyA

Can't believe there's been no Auto-tune The News since September. Auto-tune Assange!

The world is encouraging to me to move from svn to git. OK then.

After 2.6 days of raging against the machine, I have a working Rails app on Heroku *weeps tears of relief*

Everybody in this office speaks at least 3 languages. Except me. Unless you count Javascript and PHP.

Trying RailsInstaller on @dynjo's recommendation. http://railsinstaller.org/ Hopefully more Heroku-friendly.

That email I just got from LinkedIn says 18% of my connections changed jobs in 2010 - that's a lot of churn

Intel Anti-Theft and Motorola eFuse are solutions for yesterday's business model. But they are a threat to freedom today.

Like the look of Google Refine for tidying messy data http://j.mp/hwqmBb /HT @hatmandu

As for Rails, check out the note in blue in a *Getting Started* guide: http://j.mp/hhFr9x - how does this help me get started?

The whole point of Heroku is it's radically easier to deploy apps. They need to work harder on the first hurdle.

Heroku gem doesn't like Ruby 1.9.1 on Windows, but that's the default download version. No help on the Heroku site.

Google reveals that 1,000,000 n00bs are suffering the same as me, yet the "Getting Started" tutorials are b0rked

Trying to deploy a Hello World app to Heroku. The incantations are truly mystifying.

I've been quietly following Dan Hill for years, but things have recently got a bit dramatic: http://j.mp/i49Kvt

Contrary to what the news is saying, Parts of Regent Street/Oxford Circus are still closed. Which is why I'm back home.

Chris Woakes!

Why I won't be using the .com top-level domain (TLD) for any of my businesses http://j.mp/fk4AUp

Why I'm moving my domain names away from a US-owned registrar http://j.mp/fk4AUp

US Govt has been seizing domain names for overtly political reasons since at least 2007 http://j.mp/fk4AUp

Reading about case mapping in Unicode http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0/ch04.pdf (someone has to)

I'm running a Tor relay at home as a political act

Wonder if Motorola would be interested in my xoo.ms domain?

Somebody asked me an interesting question about international email addresses http://j.mp/hOf0M4