Tweets on 2010-02-03

Feb3

STV MMC FTW! #
@tonytheaker you can! (you just have to pay for it now, as well as continue to feed your family 🙂 in reply to tonytheaker #
Aha! Yesterday's archery in Market Square was apparently filming for an ad for t-mobile. #
Major planning application for Cussons site on Wilkinson Street http://bit.ly/Cussons #
Stuffing peppers with quinoa, pine nuts, raisins. Yes, it's #VeggieNite! #
Well, it would be #VeggieNite I spose if I hadn't sautéed the potatoes in leftover duck fat. But it's not like I killed a duck specially #
@floatyhev Sorry, no in reply to floatyhev #
@helenduffett not a ghoti ? in reply to helenduffett #
I think Screenwipe is the last thing I watch when it's on. How strange not to be able to pause. #
RT @NCCLols: March to save Viccy baths this Saturday, Market Sq at 11.30am http://bit.ly/9TxDH2 #
@NCCLols my colleague Tony Sutton will be speaking at the march. in reply to NCCLols #
Slightly surprised to hear there's a #klingon word for "sorry" (@helenduffett). #
Ghoti = fish. Gh as in enough, o as in women, ti as in salvation. (@helenduffett) #
Watching Tower Block of Commons. Loving that the Lib Dem has swung into taking photos and sorting a petition 🙂 #
@helenduffett I didn't know the GBS thing until this evening 🙂 in reply to helenduffett #
@helenduffett no wonder I'm peckish! #
@helenduffett Ghoti ghenzies? #
Just popping out to the post box. #

Tweets on 2010-02-02

Feb2

Everyone who's seen the new council offices can't wait to move in. Me included. #
Hmmm, mozzarella and pistachio sarnie (@ Pret a Manger) http://4sq.com/b1MHYL #
Just the 4 of us in whole place (@ Panda Cantonese Restaurant) http://4sq.com/aABcPP #
So we got to the Chinese and took our coats off and discovered quite by chance we were dressed identically. Evil gay twins FTW! #
@NottmHotspur euw… Just imagining picking doormat hairs out of the bbq sauce… in reply to NottmHotspur #
@philipfh ah, but what if we'd been dining in the dark? No-one would ever have known! in reply to philipfh #
@tonytheaker Nottm City slowly moving into one building from current 7ish. New one is ex Cap 1 glass horror opposite station. in reply to tonytheaker #
Cruel making us wait til after midnight for Only Connect and University Challenge on iPlayer. Nailbiting UC quarter-final! #

Tweets on 2010-02-01

Feb1

@mpntod They are mostly herbaceous perennial plants, but some are annual and a few are shrubby. #
@qikipedia I follow #qikipedia in reply to qikipedia #
Performing a mid-leaflethog telephone braindump on the subject of cat-ownership: pros, cons and costs thereof. #
Off visiting a baby under a fortnight old. Apparently already capable of creating a tsunami of poo. #
RT @vickya63: @alexfoster pros,cons,costs of cats: factor in ruined furniture if kittens first. #
@michaelrose1981 the Fothergill Watson tea room? Don't know when opening, sorry. in reply to michaelrose1981 #
Eating last of recipes from whole poached chicken – spicy noodle soup. Almost too spicy for us to eat! #
@willhowells for the last few days, Mars has been the reddish thing fairly near the moon. There's always that free Linux sky prog. in reply to willhowells #
@CllrIainRoberts Cos they've taken @markpack's advice on harvesting email addresses for campaigning / information purposes? in reply to CllrIainRoberts #
@sarabedford that's the Wolf Moon, that is #endofskyknowledgefastapproaching #
Fatal flaw in my birthday reminding system – I only populated it with family birthdays, and friends have occasional birthdays too. #
@MarkReckons @cllrIainRoberts Nottm City asks for email so they can send results of query / report in baffling machine code in reply to MarkReckons #
@vickya63 comatose grannies don't tweet! in reply to vickya63 #
@charltonbrooker you missed out a "to" between continue and prosper. #
@michaelrose1981 BTW this looks like it's going to be their website http://www.goddardstearoom.com/ in reply to michaelrose1981 #
@michaelrose1981 Here's a link to the planning application http://bit.ly/aMQRYS #
PS @michaelrose1981 did you really join twitter just to talk about a Fothergill Watson building?! #
City Council using LGBT history month to promote foster parenting to gay couples http://bit.ly/bPWUja <- Good! #
"In politics, if you're explaining, you're losing" http://bit.ly/d3BLwq #
Orion meets Tree http://flic.kr/p/7zFjUg #
Me 'n' two cats are WIDE AWAKE! Two cats, however, do not have a 10am meeting. #
Have just installed Chrome weather extension, which says Temp: -3°C (feels like -8°C). Erk. #
@floatyhev I haven't checked their diaries, tis true, but I'm guessing they'll be snoozing on the cat stacker come 10am. #
@petermoran how about this? Google Wave Notifier for Chrome – http://bit.ly/dAQyE0 #
London stock exchange switches to linux – The Inquirer – http://bit.ly/b5s0Qu #
@floatyhev PS everything OK? in reply to floatyhev #
@andyreeves OK you win 🙂 in reply to andyreeves #
Goodness – it's past 9am and still -4 out there #
Here's Fudge doing last minute prep for that game-changing 10am meeting. http://flic.kr/p/7zVkaA #
Steve's so worried about the clients he's just sent the interns out for the good biscuits. http://flic.kr/p/7zRznz #
I'm at Nottingham Council House (Old Market Square, Nottingham). http://4sq.com/cwhENE #
There's also some kinda flashmob dancing a routine and all wearing black tshirts saying "Be Stupid" #
There appears to be an archery competition and film crew in Market Square today. http://flic.kr/p/7zVHXQ #
Now getting members of the public to try with the v basic-looking longbows. http://flic.kr/p/7zS6UT #
Private tour of new council building (@ Robin Hood House) http://4sq.com/9RTLCy #

Personal productivity – printed diary sheets #lazyweb

Feb1

Can anyone help with with a query?

One of the great features of the late lamented Sandy, the online PA, was that she produced a daily sheet which had all your diary entries, a bunch of your to-dos, along with a peppy repeat of your current goal. It looked good, it had loads of handy things in one place – and it even had a space for handwritten notes that could be typed up once you got home.

Since Sandy was killed off, I’ve not found anything quite so good.

I’m trying to use RememberTheMilk for to-dos, and as ever I have my diary on my Nokia N95, synched with Windows Calendar at home, and synched over the air with Google Calendar using GooSync.

If anyone knows a way of kludging those together to get greater synergies, I’d love to know.

Footnote:

I’ve been meaning for a while to write up some of my struggles about getting better organised. I’ve had a bit of a go at Getting Things Done, but not really done it properly, so have ended up in a rather chaotic mix of things being undone. At one point, I tried to read Do It Tomorrow, but never quite got around to it.

Which speaks volumes about me and personal productivity, eh? I’m always feeling like I’m two paces from drowning, but by and large I get enough done each month to just about keep my head over water.

One final note: I loved @miketd’s tweet a few months ago which went something like: “personal productivity blogging is as much an oxymoron as military intelligence or gay culture.”

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Passive aggressive Twitter lists (this means you @eddie_grundy)

Feb1

Here’s the latest in passive aggression after naming your Wifi router to send a message to your neighbours: putting people on a Twitter list that asks for refollows:

I think I ended up on this list after tweeting about Brian Aldridge.

I’m still not going to follow Eddie. He might try and sell me some dodgy cider or garden paving.

PS my wifi router has my URL in it – the theory being if anyone geographically near me wants to find out how to contact me, they can use my website to find details. Half of me wonders if that might actually be a bad idea, but I can’t quite pin down why?

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Personal productivity – printed diary sheets #lazyweb

Passive aggressive Twitter lists (this means you @eddie_grundy)