Tweets on 2008-09-21

Heading off to a Fire&Rescue training day with a simulated critical incident involving other emergency services on a deserted RAF base. #
So, it turns out, deserted airstrips are harder to find than you’d think. #
Mobile scientific support identify haz mat. It’s flour. They warn there is an unidentified biological component. I’m guessing wheat. #
Observer: “Voters prefer Tory policies to the Labour alternative by a margin of almost two to one” Eh? What policies? #
Firing up Firefox to watch a video because they seem to have stopped working in Chrome. Remembering how much I liked my plugins. #
@psychobel Go the erm, reds? Or are they the black and white stripey ones? #
@markpack it’s lower case at the top of the page… #
@helenduffett Indeed – eg Liberal Tweets in title case, but sending a tweet in the middle of a sentence. #
Cought, cough, cough, cough, ow, cough cough. #

Light Bot

This little game is a fab little dood who teaches about economy of actions in programming. It’s deliberately designed to have only just enough programming space to make the little robot able to get through his alotted tasks. I could only do level 10 by cheating and level 11 is so far eluding me.

Tweets on 2008-09-20

Sep20

Not keeping track of the puppet show plot. Went away and suddenly the Sheriff of Nottingham was Mr Punch and there was a dragon. #
Back home and sweeping leaves after lovely afternoon cutting the ribbon at new community play park in Beechdale. #
Catching up with last week’s second part Casualty thanks to iPlayer. #
@willhowells it may indeed be bad landing on your head, but could it chop carrots? #
Well, it’s not the most successful rice pudding anyone’s ever made, but the layer under the burnt bits are not too bad. #
Now absolutely shattered, bunged up, hoarse, eyes streaming, coughing like crazy, and have to be up at the crack of 11am tomorrow. 😦 #

Tweets on 2008-09-19

Sep19

@markpack how about #metataxonomy ? #
Not liking the way new twitter lops off the descenders on some of the letters. #

Photo meme

Sep19

Blame Neil.

Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair… just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with your picture

It took rather a while to take a pic I was happy with, but the instructions don’t rule out more than one pic. The others were – technically wrong, ie zoomed too far in, or with a deeply unpleasant or stupid expression. This is late this evening – I have slept much today, knocked on about 50 doors to consult people about their local park, and played with the internet for hours. I think I look like I feel – a bit under the weather, having picked up some sort of flu bug from a fellow delicates [sic] at conference.

Since I found this, I’ve also found a chain of people I know doing it on Flickr too: ramtops, catofstripes and mym

Found several interesting things on the camera while I was doing that, tho:

A couple of interesting but scary bugs that came to play with a mug left outside one day last year. The photo has been sitting on the camera every since.

These are a whole host of caterpillars that came in with some rose prunings that looked to pretty to throw away. Interestingly, the caterpillars all stayed together – they’d munch one leaf pretty much bare and then migrate en masse onto another and munch that.

Tweets on 2008-09-18

Sep18

Conference gave me manflu. #
@meryl_f Noah might have given *me* manflu when he sneezed on my cake! #
@willhowells surely the Eurovision Song Contest concept is old enough to be out of copyright?! #
Wondering whether the taxonomy needs to evolve to add #LibDemFlu08 as well as #LibDem08 #
@psychobel the Lib Dems are all over hashtag taxonomies like a rash: http://twemes.com/libdem08 #

New to the blogroll

Sep18

Thanks to JMG, I am now following Strange Maps.

Tweets on 2008-09-17

Sep17

Watching Jonathan Wallace wrestle in plastic bags. #
Enjoying the endorsement from Nicholas Parsons on Daily Politics #libdem08 #
@HelenDuffett Woo – snaps for the hashtag taxonomy #LibDem08 #
@helenduffet go go go ! #
Switching to buzz kill Nic Robinson on BBC2 #libdem08 #
Struggling to insert an umlaut into a plugin #
A little puzzled about how a campaign tactic being discussed on the One o’clock news could possibly be a secret weapon. #
Just leaving Soton now after a quick visit to bro and missus for some nephew-dandling. #
Getting back on the motorway after a wrong turn led to Sainsbury’s. #
Blimey, a 24-pump petrol station. #
Any recommendations for mobile traffic news services that actually work? #
Stopping at Leicester Forest East to try and work out wtf is happening at M1 J22-23 that’s causing 30 min delays #
Also trying to work out if alternative routes would be more than 30 mins longer. #
Traffic still moving normally at J21a. Services staff know neither what’s going off or how to find out. #
Internet says vehicle fire. #
Wishing @willhowells had done @M1 🙂 #
Paying my money and taking my choice – M1 with deff long delays or A46 poss drowning under diverted traffic… #

Tweets on 2008-09-16

Sep16

Oh, you are kidding me, how did it get to be 2.30am while I was standing chatting to colleagues? #
Tim Farron MP asks if anyone has a bottle opener, so I open his beer with my teeth. #
Returning to LDV cupboard after spending hours talking to exhibitors. Voice running out. Shares plumetting. World ending imminently #
Asking colleagues to brainstorm vox pop questions. You can play too! #LibDem08 #
@markpack great minds… #
Memo to senior party talking head – “15 minutes of fame” was Andy Warhol not Woody Allen. #
Sitting next to a mother videoconferencing with her kids, which is all enormously sweet. #libdem08 #
Trying very hard – and failing – to think of a favourite bus route. http://tinyurl.com/5w7y3y #
Watching @markpack ‘s head explode http://tinyurl.com/552knq #
Eschewing glee club this year on basis that I already injured my voice in the car last night, just by talking. #

Tweets on 2008-09-15

Sep15

Watching someone cycle over big letters on road saying “no cycling” #
@Toranika Join the liveblog of Make it Happen on http://www.libdemvoice.org #LibDem08 #
Googling “pachyderm” repeatedly and not getting the desired result. #
Criticising Iain Dale’s hashtag taxonomy. Or <em>lack of it</em> #
@markpack not while they’re still taking impressions of fluffy feet as a visa entry requirement #
@markpack the person sitting to my right #
@markpack I don’t know – why *are* hard-boiled eggs often more useful than sledgehammers in the educational process? #
@markpack Microphone works better than speaker realises – common problem: http://tinyurl.com/5cefdm #
@iaindale It’s the very model of a modern Zoom H2: http://tinyurl.com/69cp6n #
Needlessly retyping Amendment One while someone effortlessly finds it on the internet. Don’t like phrase “after ‘struggling’, insert” #
Moving to hall after watching debate onscreen. Room packed. Extra seats opened. Many standing. #
Eep. Tax-cuts ho! #LibDem08 #
Steve Webb “Chris Davies MEP – a household name (in Liberal Democrat households)” #LibDem08 #
Googling Pachyderm still not working, although there is now an advert for Elephant Car insurance which is quite funny. #
@GavinWhenman I’m stuck doing a computery job that will finish imminently, at which point I’m a 15 min walk away… but deff headed there #
V pretty moonlight on sea. #
Can anyone review the Revue for LDV? #LibDem08 #
Ouch – not sure they should let him sing in public at the revue #libdem08 #

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