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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Your top Twitter words

Remember this post?  In it, I suggested people using twitter and wordpress and a plugin that copies your tweets to a blog also try using KB Linker to turn key words and phrases into hotlinks automatically.

If you’re wondering what words you use a lot, there’s a helpful thingie at www.tweetstats.com that tells you about word frequency.  You can find a handy tag cloud it worked out for me – the larger the word, the more frequently I said it.

My top Twitter words are, it seems, “time, day, wondering, getting, watching.”  Not sure what that says about me.  But it also gives plenty of other frequently used words I could turn into links.  @jamesgraham, @willhowells and @miketd  could all be linked to their respective blogs, for example. I say “Nottingham” quite a lot and I could choose to link that to any number of things: the Council, the local Lib Dems, the open.guide…

ONe more Twitter thing – I have occasionally thought that it would be useful to schedule a tweet for the future rather than send it now.  For example, if two amusing things strike me at once, it would be a waste to send them both together.  So it would be handy to schedule the second one for, say, an hour from now, when I will be busy and have forgotten.  This is now possible using a service at Twuffer.com  (Twuffer is apparently twitter + buffer — maybe twitter + chrontab didn’t look so good)

As a trial, I’ve scheduled a series of tweets about what I will be cooking tomorrow for the good people of Nottingham Lib Dems who are turning up at my house to stuff envelopes. EDIT:  Twuffer FAIL – it posted the whole series of messages hours early for no apparent reason 😦

Right. It’s gone 5am. They will be here shortly.  I ought to at least attempt a little more sleep before then.

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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One true way to bundle headphones

This cool vid on Gizmodo (hmm… two links in two days to Gizmodo, will have to keep this under review) shows how to bundle iPod earbud headphones.

iPods, as you will probably know, have revolutionised many of those dull dull jobs you have to do as a Lib Dem – many of them leaflet related. I now have a small metal  box full of BBC podcasts to take around with me when I’m letterboxing and the time just flies past.

I’ve also been using them whilst printing leaflets recently – works fine whilst printing, but you have to couple ear buds with ear defenders in order to be able to hear anything over a noisy clacking folding machine.

And it’s using the ear defenders that is the only way I have ever managed to make the bud-style headphones actually stick in my ear for more than a few minutes. I don’t know if I have anatomically wrong ears or something, but for me, earbuds just fall out after a few minutes.  I have to use sports (oh, the irony!) headphones that loop around my ear or the sort on springs that go around your neck – but those are uncomfortable for anything longer than a single edition of the News Quiz.

And while we’re at it, here’s a quick plea for the Beeb:  more comedy podcasts please!

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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