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Tweets on 2008-11-16

  • Feeling reasonably chipper, despite having been up since 8am this morning after no more than two hours sleep #
  • Don’t think I’ve been on a train since July! #
  • Listening to Radio Active talent show #
  • @meryl_f cat much perkier by last night and back to himself by this morning. And P has texted to tell me he’s peed 🙂 #
  • Going through Cricklewood at a crawl. #
  • Lazyweb: is there a UK lulu.com that doesn’t charge 6.30 for postage? #
  • Wish all my meetings were as produtive, good-natured and funny as the #ldvmeetup #
  • Making that Swiss melty cheese thing. You know… futon…? #

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Tweets on 2008-11-15

  • The top 5 words I’ve tweeted: time, day, wondering, getting, watching. http://tinyurl.com/5udtqc #
  • My twitter feature request was being able to schedule Tweets – now you can using http://www.Twuffer.com. #
  • I am awake. It’s 5am. At 10am, hordes of Lib Dems are coming around to stuff envelopes at my dining table. Why aren’t I sleeping? #
  • 12noon. The sausages and potatoes should now be done, so they can make way for the giant apple crumble for afters. Heat beans in pan. #
  • 10am. The oven should turn itself on automatically to cook baked potatoes for lunch for Lib Dem envelope-stuffing hordes. #
  • Well-nourished Lib Dem hordes either continuing with envelope stuffing or back out on the campaign trail delivering letters. #
  • Lib Dem envelope-stuffing hordes should be eating their baked potatoes, beans and sausages, apple crumble and custard round about now. #
  • 11.20am. I should remember to add sausages to oven so that Lib Dem envelope-stuffing hordes have something to eat with potatoes. #
  • Oh no! UTI kitteh obviously seriously unwell this morning, so took him to vet – and he’s been hospitalized! #
  • Blimey. They’ve managed to get cat through surgery and return him to us. He’s acting v drunk. #
  • Rejoicing in our shared victory a Carcassonne as we tie at 126 points each. #
  • @helenduffet I didn’t find @twuffer very reliable this morning. #
  • @twuffer why didn’t your thing work this morning? You delivered all my messages at once, four hours early! #
  • @kayray checking out in what sense “LA is burning”. I now see it’s literally burning. 😦 #

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Tweets on 2008-11-14

  • Our copy of Carcassonne just arrived! #
  • @jamesgraham my new world comes with free river expansion pack – BUT NO CLOTH BAG FOR THE TILES 😦 #
  • @jamesgraham which expansions? Inns and cathedrals? #
  • @rfenwick you presumably saw the screen keys referring to laying reefs on the cenobite ^H^H^H^H taph ? #
  • Lazyweb: anyone got exciting pudding recipe suggestions? #
  • Pottering around various computer and household projects. Just realising haven’t yet had breakfast, let alone cooked a pudding. #

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Tweets on 2008-11-13

  • Looking at agenda for 2pm meeting and suspecting we’re not going to finish much before 6. #
  • Eek – Numa Numa song rings out around ctte room, reminding me to put phone on silent. #
  • @jamesgraham a reasonably good alternative would help. Ever tried mailmerging in Open Office? #
  • @libdems carlessness or carelessness? #
  • Ctte item 6. “We need to micro-manage less.” Item 7: “I don’t like the colour or fonts on that powerpoint.” #
  • Thinks institutionalized carlessness should be encouraged. #
  • @Toranika no 😦 it’s a bit of a pain. Another #twitter #feature I’d like is the ability to schedule tweets in advance. #
  • @artesea Amen to that! “We created the post office card account to help the post office.” Erm, no. It replaced much-loved pension books. #
  • Better have some dinner before heading out for Lib Drinks at the Lord Roberts. #
  • Eek, the Lord Rob isn’t its usual deserted wasteland – there are people here this week! People at almost every table! #
  • Blimey, Greggs the baker in town is now open 10 pm til 4am as well as the day shift. #

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Tweets on 2008-11-10

  • Following bizarre internet conversation about using bible pages in lieu of rizlas “He’d never notice if you used the middle of Habbakuk” #
  • Wondering what a “handcuffs gesture” looks like. #
  • @willhowells wondering who helped take the pic 🙂 #
  • @willhowells he ran around with his wrists crossed above his head. Around here, that’s the emergency stop signal for the tram tr.im/yio #
  • @willhowells which reminds me, is N95 8GB finally over Nokia lag problems? You still having random crashes? #
  • What do you mean, I can’t count onion rings as one of my five-a-week? #

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Tweets on 2008-11-09

  • @HelenDuffett linkie no workie 😦 but I’m guessing it’s halfway between hovering and hoovering. #
  • Ooooh, new Tombraider download demo! #
  • @dr_nick Curry? at 2.30am? For free? They trying to get rid of stuff? #
  • Disappointed latest Tombraider demo won’t run on my computer. Probably not good enough graphics card 😦 #
  • @kayray we’ve had 20mm of rain in today, with 8mm in the last hour – it’s blatting it down out there! #
  • Getting nerdily excited at the ranges of stamps available from RoyalMail.com – esp. the James Bond ones. #
  • @toranika It’s deff a good article – not least for its inclusion of links to very learned writers. #
  • Gah, still on the internet after 5 hours. TIME MANAGEMENT FAIL #
  • @toranika The first one is always the hardest #
  • Getting the Pliocene and the Pleistocene confused. EPOCH FAIL. #

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Another really good transport website

I wrote about an interesting transport map I saw on a stand at conference here.

A few days ago, I visited the city’s Traffic Control Centre, where I had a fascinating chat with city council officers about how traffic is monitored and managed on a day to day basis.

One of the outcomes of that was being pointed at a Nottingham-specific transport website that is really useful. It has congestion and traffic problem displays, live links to traffic cameras in the city (there are loads!).  It can pick up the information shown on M1 traffic display systems.

If you push the tram button, it has detailed NET information about Nottingham’s trams, including timetables at any given stop.  And very helpfully, the map also includes the future tram lines which will hopefully soon be given the green light by government.  I got into difficulty describing to friends in Long Eaton the path the tram will take out to Bardills Island, and this map shows it really well.  It’s really hard to explain the route the tram will take through the QMC/University – and much easier to show using the map.

hospitaltram

The route comes in the south side of the QMC, raises up on stilts, crosses the campus at first-floor level, into a new, specific first-floor main entrance to the building.  It’ll cross the ring road at that level, into the University campus, where it goes through the science and engineering corner, and then cuts behind the Djanogly recital hall and the music department buildings.  I think it removes the pond with the fountain, then crosses University boulevard and runs along a strip of land to the south side of the road, meaning it has off-road running.

With any luck there will be regular bus services connecting Long Eaton with the new park and ride at Bardills Island, so my friends will have a new and easy route into the city.  I’ve been trying to find out how long the tram journey would be, but not found out yet.