September 2009
13 posts
Charlie Brooker: ‘I don’t care if you’re right. I just want you to die’. http://is.gd/3JTtd
Orange to sell iPhone in UK. Perhaps we can have cheaper contracts finally? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8278073.stm
Not sure how I missed this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Down (thanks Spotify)
RT @LRO_NASA: Orbit #1141 about the Moon! Final insertion burn today successful & my mission orbit of 50km above the Moon is stable :-)
Google Chrome Frame embeds Chrome within Internet Explorer 6,7 or 8. Awesome! http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/
RT @sarahkendrew: two very #dotastronomy papers on astro-ph today http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3892 http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3895
Good morning London
Listening to the Making science public session with Ben Goldacre, Cameron Neylon, Maxine Clark and Felix Reed- Tsochas at #oxsmc09
Autumn has arrived - sleeping macho.
Since when does high fructose corn syrup constitute a jam ingredient? What’s wrong with plain old sugar?
I’m back! Nice to unplug for a week. Anything break while I was away?
Signing off. See you again Internet in 8 days…
Nice! RT @mndoci: More announcements while I was in the air. Cloudwatch support in AWS console http://bit.ly/dEo3q #aws
August 2009
21 posts
Just posted an update on how @galaxyzoo is using AWS auto-scaling http://bit.ly/Ael5q
I promise I was having more fun than this photo suggests: http://bit.ly/GLwzE #solo09
Yeah baby! @galaxyzoo is autoscaling thanks to #aws
Note to future self: If the wine smells a little funny don’t take a big swig.
And we’re off! Science Online London begins #solo09
My first experience of someone giving a talk from Second Life. I’m finding this a little weird #solo09
Learning how not to get sued for writing on my blog! #solo09
I’m hoping that I’m about to have Google Wave explained to me. #solo09
Can you hear us Dave? #solo09
I used to like that iPhone ring tone. I hate it now. #solo09
Heading into London to meet @mza for #solo09 unconference
Heading to Greenwich for #csa09
A beautiful morning in Greenwich #csa09 http://twitpic.com/e7xkh
Can’t wait to see how many new supernovae we bag tonight!
Yesterday’s quote of the day: @sarahkendrew ‘citizen science may be the future of serendipity in science’ (over coffee) #IAU (via @carolune)
RT @galaxyzoo: Supernovae confirmed at the WHT http://tinyurl.com/mnepub : Great work, same again today please : http://tinyurl.com/n3uorz
I think I got one! RT @galaxyzoo: Let’s go supernova hunting! http://supernova.galaxyzoo.org
RT @mza: For baking me a giant, 1.5kg pork pie birthday cake: #followfriday @whytewithawhy
Anyone up for some supernova hunting?
RT @mza: “XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it.” http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri
MGMT where have you been all my life?
July 2009
25 posts
#HootSuite got even better! Upgrade to 2.0 at http://hootsuite.com/upgrade
Surely we don’t need to put padding on scaffolding do we? http://twitpic.com/c45we
RT @mza: Awesome: Citizen Science session for Science Online London, presented by @arfon and friends: http://bit.ly/rCOFD #soloconf_09
RT @biocs LOL courtesy of Google: http://bit.ly/WRORk — Did you mean: … ? (via @cparnot)
Moon 44 is not a good film.
Just spent 3 hours try to get test to pass - turns out there was a bug in my code. TDD - it works bitches!
Inbox zero, 507 passing tests and a glass of red wine on the way - that’s a great Friday afternoon by any standards
AWESOME! Check out my photos of the Apollo Landing sites at: http://bit.ly/YSG0m (via @LRO_NASA)
Back in Banbury after an all-to-short trip to Bonn.
Nice writeup of my talk a few weeks back at the JISC digital content conference: http://is.gd/1ywpw #jdcc09
I’ve known for the last 10 days that my flight was meant to depart at 14:15, how come it’s news to EasyJet?
RT @jeffbarr: New #AWS blog post: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch Resources: http://tr.im/s7qH
‘We regret to inform you that your flight is delayed for an hour - until the flight crew arrive…’ #easyjetfail
I feel pretty stupid after seeing this: Open a Banana Like A Monkey http://ff.im/-5bqxD (via @rvidal) (via @mekentosj)
German definition of single hotel room: Massive double bed with single duvet, one pillow (no spares) and one small towel.
Off to Bonn for a couple of days - any good restaurant suggestions?