Dominic Sayers

I have discovered black coffee.

2011-11-01T02:55:00.001-07:00

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

2011-10-26T03:09:00.001-07:00

Chrome version 15 is still shit at multi-column layouts

2011-10-25T14:46:00.001-07:00

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

2011-10-25T08:19:00.001-07:00

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

2011-10-24T03:12:00.001-07:00

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

2011-10-21T16:47:00.001-07:00

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

2011-10-15T03:19:00.001-07:00

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

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

2011-10-14T09:18:00.001-07:00

Chrsitmas lights going up in Oxford St, FFS.

2011-10-13T02:10:00.001-07:00

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"

2011-10-12T02:33:00.001-07:00

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

2011-10-12T01:32:00.001-07:00

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

2011-10-11T03:42:00.001-07:00

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

2011-10-11T03:34:00.001-07:00

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

2011-10-11T02:06:00.001-07:00

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

2011-10-10T09:12:00.001-07:00

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

2011-10-07T03:32:00.001-07:00

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

2011-10-07T02:26:00.001-07:00

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.

2011-10-07T01:46:00.001-07:00

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.

2011-10-07T01:39:00.001-07:00

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!

2011-10-05T07:47:00.001-07:00

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

2011-10-04T01:24:00.001-07:00

...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

2011-09-30T06:09:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-30T05:43:00.001-07:00

Making an omelette. Eggs are going to get broken.

2011-09-30T04:33:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-30T04:26:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-27T06:02:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-26T12:03:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-23T05:48:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-23T05:39:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-22T13:51:00.001-07:00

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)

2011-09-21T06:15:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-21T05:53:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-21T05:16:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-19T07:54:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-16T09:44:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-16T02:12:00.001-07:00

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...

2011-09-15T15:04:00.001-07:00

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.

2011-09-14T03:25:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-13T07:09:00.001-07:00

Nearly getting the hang of Rails. Nearly.

2011-09-12T10:45:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-12T03:21:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-12T01:41:00.001-07:00

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?

2011-09-10T12:04:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-10T10:57:00.001-07:00

Today I'm loving I18n interpolation in Ruby

2011-09-06T07:28:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-05T09:51:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-04T07:49:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-31T12:21:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-30T01:40:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-28T09:39:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-25T06:52:00.001-07:00

Pass the sick bucket

2011-08-25T02:12:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-24T12:29:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-22T11:52:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-22T09:47:00.001-07:00

Good

2011-08-22T08:40:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-16T07:05:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-16T06:20:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-16T03:41:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-16T03:30:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-11T11:10:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-10T15:10:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-10T02:46:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-09T12:19:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-09T12:13:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-01T06:42:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-01T03:55:00.001-07:00

Wish I was in Nottingham

2011-07-29T09:47:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-28T03:24:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-28T01:43:00.001-07:00

is busy unCircling people

2011-07-27T06:36:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-27T04:18:00.001-07:00

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?

2011-07-26T02:02:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-25T03:02:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-22T08:28:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-22T06:57:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-22T06:04:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-22T05:46:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-22T04:31:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-21T14:30:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-21T14:20:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-20T04:17:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-20T03:53:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-20T02:56:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-19T09:37:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-19T03:24:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-19T02:38:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-19T01:46:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-18T07:41:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-18T01:23:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-18T01:18:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-15T02:06:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-08T01:26:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-07T03:05:00.001-07:00

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.

2011-07-07T01:32:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-05T11:21:00.001-07:00

"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

2011-07-05T11:15:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-05T06:22:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-04T00:58:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-01T09:24:00.001-07:00