Fliss has been playing with the king of the micro-blogging platforms Twitter. It something that has been making the news on a regular basis as more celebrities have accounts and more news stories break on it. I’m still not sure where it fits in in the social media pantheon. I prefer blogs for espousing thoughts [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2009
Sleep FAIL
I didn’t really sleep last night. Not sure why but I suspect a combination of real ale and wine gave me a slight nagging headache and I couldn’t shift my brain out of thinking gear*. The first time I gave up I went downstairs and made myself a hot chocolate which usually does the trick. [...]
Useful Tools
The exceptionally useful traintimes.org.uk has a lovely mobile site with simple bookmarkable URLS, for example http://m.traintimes.org.uk/london/waterbeach. Very useful to keep links on your mobile browser
A few days of purgatory
I spent most of yesterday (and will spend today) operating in the Windows world. Every time I do this it reminds me of how much I hate it. Having to use IE certainly reminds me that Firefox is a much much better browser. I also miss having a comfortable editor or a powerful shell although [...]
Rockbox (But not really)
I finally got my git-svn cleanup patch accepted into the code base. It’s a trivial fix but makes my life easier. I also think my playlist tweak is finally clean enough to go in. That’s not the real reason for this post though. Frank (the LJ Bot) has just told me this mornings post has [...]
The Moon on a Stick Paradox
I went and did my initial sign on for JSA last week. The process was mainly painless although a little delayed due to the office being quite busy. As far as I could tell the first floor was given over to new claims (and possibly follow-ups) as the normal sign on location is downstairs. Talking [...]
Call of Duty: World at War
I am a bit of a FPS fan. Although I’m almost universally outclassed in online play by twitchy trigger fingered teenagers I do enjoy the solo story missions. As games have advanced over the years and become more cinematic I’m beginning to think the war film genre’s days are numbered. The opening section from Saving [...]
Doing the sums
I’ve just finished a rather epic 30 minute long phone call to Job Centre Plus to establish I’m eligible for contributions based JSA which given my advancing years is a not too shabby* £60.50 a week. I have an interview at the job centre on Thursday which should get me out of the house for [...]
Ding Dong DRM is dead
Well it took long enough to get there but finally iTunes is bowing to the inevitable. Of course I’m not the world biggest Apple fan so I don’t see this as altruism on their part. When their market share is threatened they will act to maintain it and iTunes still practically owns the digital download [...]
Job Centre Plus, FAIL
I attempted to sort out my JSA claim today. Unfortunately everything has been centralised behind a single 0800 number. I can call it on my mobile but I don’t really want to spend my first week of dole money paying for the call while I wait in the queue. Of course currently only having an [...]
