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