April 2010
1 post
My MP, Mark Lazarowicz, Lab, understood the issues and voted NO to government plans to regulate the ‘Net http://bit.ly/amdpnv
January 2010
1 post
If the iPad had matched my dreams, I would have bought one. Instead, they went for simple and, so, I will buy one for each of my parents.
August 2009
1 post
Mujik, a charming, quirky musical iPhone app by Edinburgh devs, FREE for a limited time http://bit.ly/qOHGG Support them by RT’ing!
July 2009
3 posts
Edinburgh startup FanDuel got covered by TechCrunch today, they could use your digg support http://bit.ly/EGchf Please RT
New toilet fitted, who says I don’t Get Things Done? Ha! Next pipe dream: a shower.
Come along to my talk at Edinburgh Uni, 7pm July 9, “How Safe is Your Domain? -5 Dirty Secrets” http://bit.ly/qnI9J Please RT
June 2009
14 posts
Come along to my talk at Edinburgh Uni, 7pm July 9, “How Safe is Your Domain? - 5 Dirty Secrets” http://bit.ly/qnI9J Please RT
Currently assisting @cityferret on the #edinbooks bombing raid of #leith “Hey, you found a book!” http://yfrog.com/7gxi2j
Newsflash: Iranian revolution canceled due to switch of Western media focus to Michael Jackson death. #MJ #IranElection
My new biometric passport features beautiful drawings of birds and a very sinister-looking chip. #orwellian
Interesting sidenote: Michael Jackson donated his organs to children. #MJ
Hooray, my new biometric passport just arrived - I’m all set until June 24th, 2019!
RT @cityferret Dropping off 100 books in random places in Edinburgh tomorrow. To follow progress use #edinbooks! Please RT :-)
Hold your friends close, and your enemies closer; if you hold them closely enough, they eventually stop breathing.
Ryanair to shut website 24-25th but, if you fail to web check-in as a result, will not waive £40 penalty! http://bit.ly/MgxzT
What a wild night, what a lovely morning! Off to bed at an insane hour but, OMFG, it was so worth it. I should do this every weekend.
Instead of a website, this ad agency have a YouTube video - incredible! http://bit.ly/19SVkv
First 3 secs of Microsoft Bing TV ad, baboon on a Macbook - that $100m spend is about more than just search http://tr.im/nwJV
As an Irish who has lived in the UK for a decade, I am excited that the BNP, once in power, will be giving me a free flight home.
Vote.
May 2009
23 posts
Up with the sunrise for the 1st time in yrs, at 6am I’ll start the 2 mile walk to Portobello beach, it’s going to be a lovely day.
I grew up hating Thatcher but, I wonder, would she have been as gullible as Blair over Iraq?
Few things are more draining than slamming up against the misfortune of another, and having little more to offer than sympathetic advice.
It has been a sad and exhausting day - we are not doing a good job of looking after people, even the “successful” are lost. Good night.
I advised her not to make the complaint; in this climate, employers sense they can get away with much more than usual.
A friend got fired today because she made a formal complaint about her unhinged manager’s bullying - marking her out as a “troublemaker”.
Finally jerry-rigged a way to bulk create web-hosting accounts in CPanel - sweet relief, I was facing having to do 1000+ by hand, nightmare!
So some Californians can *be* married but cannot now *get* married. (via @gruber)
June 1st cover of The New Yorker created entirely on an iPhone in one hour using the Brushes app http://bit.ly/MEipa (via @laughingsquid)
It is more fun to LOL with friends around than to ROTFL alone.
RT @cityferret NY Times: One Tweet Over the Line http://bit.ly/tMaKC - explains why Clay Shirky has no hair.
Great night dancing my ass off to Freemasons and N-Trance at the Ocean Terminal but, God, spare me drunk idiots in their Twenties.
http://runpee.com is an insanely great use of tech: find best time for a pee-break during a movie. iphone app on the way (via @timoreilly)
Edinburgh flooded with Irish rugby fans, proudly branded “Bank of Ireland” - may soon need to change that to “IMF Rescue Package”.
I’ve been in the UK so long that all these real Irish accents sound fake to me, put on, stage Oirish.
Apple Tablet Coming in 2010? http://bit.ly/fosR8
Twitter surges past Digg, LinkedIn, and NYTimes with 32m visitors - 50m by Summer, 100m by end of year? http://bit.ly/15jx1I
Getting fit again, 1hr workout while watching The Apprentice, channeling my rage at idiocy and subhuman greed #apprentice
RT Sometimes I wish my camera would geo-locate and suggest CC licensed photos that are better than the one I am about to take. (via @veen)
Great song: “Smiling Makes the Day Go Quicker” … but the band look as if they’d pick yer pockets, guvnor! http://www.tankusthehenge.com/
“I know how to spell banana, but I don’t know when to stop” http://bit.ly/11mQbd
RT @Heather_R Asked Wolfram Alpha to define love and it froze my computer. Good answer.
Astonished that just one day and one person can blow holes through what I previously thought to be important. And change smells good too.
April 2009
1 post
Tweetie for OS X is niiiiiice!
March 2009
2 posts
Damn! Just spent 30 mins writing a detailed comment about IntenseDebate for wptavern but their site has gone down, comment lost!
IntenseDebate’s astonishing new feature; if plugins can be centralized, could WordPress.com one day be as configurable as self-hosted WP?
June 2008
1 post
this is Leith - http://snaptweet.com/15d11