September 2009
Top 3 weekly #lastfm artists: The Beatles - 65. They Might Be Giants - 18. Beth Orton - 12. http://bit.ly/I7yT4
Procrastinating by adding a Magnum Solutions page to LinkedIn. I should be writing talks.
RT @cyberdees: Sunday morning laugh with @techchuff’s take on latest Dixons ad campaign http://bit.ly/77ZWa
New writing: davblog: The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas: I’m usually a big fan of keeping christmas .. http://bit.ly/17pper
Ripping through my to-do list now. Well, other than the main item about writing those talks :-/
Been a successful day so far. Think I’ll take the rest of the day off to listen to folk music and do some genealogy.
Second prize at the Balham Tup quiz is a case of Stella. I know this because I’ve just carried it home :-)
Off to try a different pub quiz at the Balham Tup.
Crap. Forgot to renew my travelvard. Now I need to do it with all the Monday morning drones.
Bugger. Just realised that “Creation” isn’t on at the Clapham Picturehouse this weekend. What’s going on there @ClaphamPH?
Looking forward to seeing Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick at the Union Chapel tonight. Top artists. Top venue. Toptastic night expected.
Connecting Songkick (http://www.songkick.com/) to Twitter so that my tweets from a gig are added to the gig’s page. Gonna try it tonight.
Spam this morning from a recruiter asking if I was interested in roles in the “payments industry”. I’m not even sure I know what that is.
North London Line from Richmond to Highbury & Islington. Been years since I used this line.
Martin Carthy: “We don’t do jolly much.”
Got to the Union Chapel and there are about 30 people here. I dont’ think I’m particularly early. Got a great seat though.
Carthy and Swarbrick on stage. Opening with Sovay.
Carthy & Swarbrick finish (of course) with Byker Hill.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Dinosaurs had... →
“Professor Xu Xing and colleagues tell the journal Nature that this represents the final proof that dinosaurs were ancestral to birds.” We have the fossils. We win.
RT @qwghlm: More @lilyroseallen FAIL: anti-piracy figurehead distributes other artists’ mp3s on website for free http://is.gd/3CIo5
Mind need to have a pint of Guinness tonight. Help them celebrate their 250th birthday and all that.
I really wish just one of these Nigerian scams was true. I’d could use $10M about now.
RT @lilyroseallen: and i’ve shut down the blog, the abuse was getting too much. [abuse? or questions you couldn’t answer?]
http://bit.ly/3Y2UMH - It’s “Pearl Jam”, idiots. With an A.
Cat just dropped a dead squirrel at my feet. He must really love me.
Hating Becks advertising stunt for crapping all over Planet Balham - http://bit.ly/27dw2k, http://planetbalham.org.uk/
Oh crap. Getting home to discover that a colo server has lost its hard disk and refuses to boot.
Heading to Bayswater for london.pm tech meeting #perl
Perl Myths 200909 →
Perl in “not dead” shock. Excellent facts and figures from Tim Bunce.
I’ve asked my MP to join the #1010 campaign and cut their emissions in 2010. It only took 2 minutes! : http://bit.ly/1aATNX #38degrees
Arguing with an illiterate chap in the pub last night. He said “I don’t like your latitude”. So I moved a couple of steps north.
Great slides. RT @timbunce: Hey! My updated Perl Myths (http://bit.ly/v8f8i) talk is being featured on the slideshare.net home page! Cool.
Just saw Susan Boyle talking to fans outside Tesco in Richmond #non_celeb_spotting
Proof-reading my wife’s MSc dissertation. Learning more than I need to about the role of the financial speculator in Victorian literature.
Is there anyone who isn’t reading http://businessguysonbusinesstrips.com/? You should be.
Top 3 weekly #lastfm artists: The Beatles - 89. The Rolling Stones - 40. They Might Be Giants - 18. http://bit.ly/I7yT4
New writing: perl hacks: Speaking and Training and Stuff: I spent some time over the weekend adding .. http://bit.ly/qf7Qt
Also. Listening to TMBG’s “Here Comes Science” and learning about science as well. Now playing “My Brother The Ape”. Excellent stuff.
RT @qwghlm: @lilyroseallen’s anti-piracy blog itself rips off other blog’s copyrighted content http://is.gd/3ykfQ Moral high ground FAIL
Oh cool. Lovefilm are sending me Religulous (http://bit.ly/vw9oL Didn’t realise it had been released on DVD.
Hmm… new neighbours moving in. The last lot were nutters, but at least they were quiet nutters. This could go either way.
Adverts finished and sent to TPR. I’m strongly reminded of why I’m not in advertising.
Having a Beatles weekend - http://www.last.fm/user/davorg/tracks
Yay! Buying a ticket to see the Psychedelic Furs at the Forum on Nov 12th.
Record industry stooges (lead by @lilyroseallen) support Mandleson’s madness - http://idontwanttochangetheworld.blogspot.com/
Amazing the number of Pearl Jam fans who can’t spell the name of the band. I see it all the time in my Twitter Perl search feed.
perl jam, sed jam, awk jam, etc…
Today I’m flexing my artistic muscles. Creating an ad for http://www.ukuug.org/events/perl09/ to go into The Perl Review.
Adding london.pm events to Facebook. If you’re in the london.pm group, expect invitations. #perl
New writing: sw12: Barbers: I first moved to Balham in 1991. At that time there were, I think, two.. http://bit.ly/KcPQp