January 2009
69 posts
Am on a sofa settling down for the night
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The difference between London and Winchester http://twitpic.com/19cp3
Burlesque evening was an experience. That’s all I can say
On the train with some CTO from some ‘top new’ hosting company. He thinks ssh is a programming language and referred to js as java.. Thrice!
Just asked the CTO why the website is crap. ‘to reduce bandwidth and thus improving seo’. Apparently on page content has to importance
Right time to hunt for the clients office. This could be fun. Taxi driver doesn’t seem to understand the southern accent
But the industrial architecture is nice
And finally in Huddersfield. 5 hours later. Time to grab food before meeting
E by gum it’s cold up north
Sat near you typical brummy. Loving the accent!
Only another 2 hours left to Manchester. Virgin trains seem to have an odd smell. Either that or @simonharmer has farted!
Of to Huddersfield with @simonharmer 10 hours+ on train today. Fun time
600 for a computer that hasnt been updated for a year and a half. Ridiculous with a capital R-I-D-C-U-L-O-U-S
Correction: why are amazon seeling mac minis for so much! direct from apple 391 / 488
when did mac mini’s get so expensive??? 600 on amazon?? I am sure they were only 300 ish werent they?
Wow this is turning into a busy week. Another meeting today then one tomrrow then got to go up to huddersfiled for a meeting on Friday
For some reason I have been quite demoralised by today. Not sure why? Not usually like me. Just feel down. I am sure you all wanted to know
back from london after potential client meeting, i am not sure if what they are offering in return is really worth it
Off to London later for a lunch meeting. Should be a great little project. Hoping to get a ski trip out of it. Fingers crossed!
playing around with one my servers in the sky with ssh, starting to enjoy the command line, just getting my head around things.
anyone have any experience with mailout tools, is mailchimp that good? Having issues working out how to import a list of contacts
Just realised I am wearing some seriously holy socks. I think they’ve been blessed
Hmmm. A client with an overdue invoice wants tweaks done to their site. K thnx bai
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well it has been a v. productive evening. Now, I am off to bed #coffeefuelledcoding
time to have fun with javascript and the sh*T browser that is IE. Why do you have to be a pain? #dearie6
tip for anyone else javascript array(var,var,var,) works in ff and safari, but ie throws a f***ing wobbly #coffeefueledcoding
wow managed to get round it by file_get_contents and then replacing all the javascript, what a mess. #coffeefuelledcoding
omg, i asked a client for a pdf version of their brochure, they sent me a .docx file with a link to an e-bruchure
how can i tell if the location of an iframe has been changed? If so can I tell what the new location is? It doesnt seem to affect the src
ARGH having serious issues with my ORM, it just doesnt want to ->save() #anger #coffeefuelledcoding
hmm, have installed php & mysql, but php knows nothing of mysql? Thats the end of my ‘fun’ for the day, time to do some actual work
w00p, have fixed all issues, now have an acer aspire one running ubuntu netbook remix with a 3g modem #geekdream
oh balls, think i need to start again from scratch, whats the easiest way to start ubuntu from fresh install, do i need to reuse live cd?
#wossy first mention of twitter. I am watching tv
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Wow. I really shouldn’t drink this much on a ‘school’ night!!!!
Found the problem. Make sure you don’t run out of battery mid way through a software update #doh
Hmmm spoke too soon. It came around from 5 minutes of blinking
I knew it was too good to be true. Now it won’t boot!
i now have wi-fi result
w00p installing ubuntu on my aspire one, if anyone else is: http://tinyurl.com/6xzeow http://tinyurl.com/56ep4x
Default Linux (linpus) distro on acer aspire one is utter crap!
wow, uploading 1gig of data has currently taken 5 hours
wooo, Am now the proud owner of an Acer Aspire One
off to pick up my new laptop /toy w00p w00p
RT @samblak wow web design/dev has stepped up in 8 years. http://tinyurl.com/6wdb7j
loving the fact that @ashfrank is touting himself as 2006 xfactor finalist. 1092 following, 218 followers, apparently no one remembers you
where can i watch the inauguration online?
Obama FTW, I hope Obama gets elected!