Monthly Archives: December 2008

Tweets on 2008-12-13

  • Frantic tidying (the best kind) upstairs whilst the robot hoovers downstairs. #
  • @jonxyz Roomba not perfect, but there’s absolutely no other way this house will be hoovered daily! He’s done good today and refound dock. in reply to jonxyz #
  • @jonxyz ps Roomba obv prefers show-home levels of clutter, struggles a bit chez nous and has hissy fit in junk-strewn cable runs upstairs in reply to jonxyz #
  • Disappointed the #Nottingham German Christmas market appears to be staffed by people who don’t speak German. #
  • Looking forward to operating in a future locality based services landscape. #
  • @willhowells Bettie who? in reply to willhowells #
  • @willhowells ah, asked and answered, I see. in reply to willhowells #
  • @willhowells thanks for the thanks meduck. It was an interesting learning experience; a string for the bow. And you weren’t in it enough. in reply to willhowells #
  • Dear the people of Manchester. Wanna pay for something you’ve til now had for free? No? Really? Are you sure? #
  • Feeling sleepy and tired, but loads more tidying still to do and at least 3 doz mince pies to make. #
  • @willhowells which IT Crowd did you see recorded? in reply to willhowells #
  • Hmmmm… watch IT Crowd or make mince pies… hmmm #
  • Fine breadcrumbs-a-go-go. #
  • Quite possibly the only person on the planet watching the IT crowd with 16oz pastry chillaxing in the fridge. #

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Tweets on 2008-12-11

  • Watching @joswinson ask a q at scottish questions. John Thurso too. #
  • Peering at code trying to spot the problem. It seems curly quotes in HTML don’t work. Not that I actually typed in curly quotes. #
  • @qwghlm omg, I can haz nobel prise? in reply to qwghlm #
  • Not sure I needed to hear the sounds of hair cuts and cows being slaughtered on the PM prog. #
  • http://twitpic.com/rojz – Reading my copy of the Tangerine Book. http://snurl.com/7qdyw #
  • @jamesgraham I bagsied “reinventing the web”. And I was hoping rather more than 2 would play at the game in reply to jamesgraham #
  • Nodded off there for a bit. Dreamt about @borrowman. And EARS! #
  • EARS was much better in the dream, but I can’t believe I’m DREAMING Lib Dem database architecture. Can you get any sadder than that? #

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I made a book!

 
Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu.

If you’ve been following my shameless promo posts on Lib Dem Voice, you will not be in any doubt that over the last few weeks I have  typeset a book that we have published through the self publishing website lulu.com.  It’s a compilation of work from our talented and beautiful crowd of contributors to Lib Dem Voice.

It took more than one go to get it right, and I will not entirely believe it has actually worked until I have the finished article in my hot little hand.  But so far all the indications are that it will go fine, and scores of enthusiastic politicos from the Voice audience will be hotfooting it to Lulu from 7am tomorrow to buy the fruits of my desktop publisher.

One of the most enjoyable parts of making the book was releasing my inner librarian and creating an index.  My DTP program – Serif PagePlus – made this relatively simple. Although it sounds like a dry and dusty endeavour, actually there was plenty of scope for humour and in-jokes, as the entry for Nick Clegg shows.  I suspect vanishingly few people will get my jokes, but I like them all the same.

The main point of this post is to make available a series of icons for our contributors to use to help promote our book.

If you’d like to use the image at the top of this post, which links directly to the Lulu sales page, here’s the code:

<a href=”http://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=5214165″&gt; <img src=”http://www.alexfoster.me.uk/tangerine/iminit.jpg&#8221; border=”0″ alt=”Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu.”/> </a> 

And here are a series of subtler versions you may wish to consider instead.

<a href=”http://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=5214165″&gt; <img src=”http://www.alexfoster.me.uk/tangerine/iminit200.jpg&#8221; border=”0″ alt=”Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu.” /> </a>
Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu.

<a href=”http://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=5214165″&gt; <img src=”http://www.alexfoster.me.uk/tangerine/iminitblock.jpg&#8221; border=”0″ alt=”Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu.” /> </a>

Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu.

<a href=”http://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=5214165″&gt; <img src=”http://www.alexfoster.me.uk/tangerine/iminitblock200.jpg&#8221; border=”0″ alt=”Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu.” /> </a>
Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu.

<a href=”http://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=5214165″&gt; <img src=”http://www.alexfoster.me.uk/tangerine/iminitblock100.jpg&#8221; border=”0″ alt=”Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu.” /> </a>
Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu.

Tweets on 2008-12-09

  • 3hr cooking frenzy concludes with nice macaroni cheese and a tarte tatin I am about to turn out… fingers crossed… #
  • LDV comment quote of the day: “[Clegg] says he is opposed to the Ceaucescuisation of Sipson. Good. I agree with him” #
  • http://twitpic.com/r4ea – 10112008(004) #
  • http://twitpic.com/r4ea – The pillar box at the bottom of the road flooded a few weeks ago. I was impressed the council were there by da … #
  • No dreams tonight. No sleep tonight. Gave up after two hours tossing and turning. Will no doubt regret later. #
  • Friday’s dreams – knowing the house had no food in it, I dreamt of fancy hotel breakfast buffets: bacon, pastries, hmmmm…. #
  • Saturday’s dreams. Bizarre. Dreamt of repelling advances of attractive council worker in committee. Had “BOULANGER” in scars on his face. #
  • 140 characters doesn’t really do justice to BOULANGER dream. #
  • @markpack chocolate interrobang fnarr fnarr fnarr in reply to markpack #
  • @stevecla I also remembr http://tinyurl.com/59ko2r v well. Awkward conversation with parents about what petting might be. Pets not involved in reply to stevecla #
  • @stephmog it said BOULANGER not PATISSIER – I’m not some kind of freak! in reply to stephmog #
  • Honouring four former councillors by turning them into aldermen. Even the women. #
  • Portfolio Holder for Neighbourhood Regeneration has got as far as “tenthly.” #
  • Phew. 5 times on my feet this Full Council, last time completed. Not my finest hours, but also not my worst. #
  • Phew II. Got back through the rain in time to sit and watch the live debate with Steve Webb MP unfold: http://tr.im/20an #
  • @qwghlm I love my Renault! in reply to qwghlm #

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Tweets on 2008-12-04

  • Going to work on an egg #
  • Health training. 4 clinically obese councillors. 2 thin trainers. #
  • @willhowells aren’t most US government works public domain anyway? in reply to willhowells #
  • Hearing siren calls from the electric blanket. “take a warm cosy nap! Just a few mins to warm toes!” #
  • @heleduffett I had no idea you were a vice expert 🙂 #
  • Prop 8 the musical – http://tr.im/1t51 #

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