22Oct/070
Making progress
Damian = linux ninja, and has been working very hard trying to restore some semblance of sanity to this site. Some mysql tweaks, coupled with local caching, appear to have made a difference, but it's a bit of a waiting game to see whether it goes over again. We'll see...
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- @SimonBishop Gardeners' World, surely? in reply to SimonBishop 32 mins ago
- Having minor conniptions over correctly apostrophising "Make her mother's day." 8 hrs ago
- (text 'ski' to 70011 to sponsor a pound - seems fair enough when someone's water-skiing the English channel in 2deg waters) 13 hrs ago
- Enjoying following Christine Bleakley's progress on @sportrelief2010. Well - half-enjoying. Must be pretty miserable out there. 13 hrs ago
- Just caught up with @profbriancox's #wonders What a show. Brilliant that there's a kids' version. 1 day ago
- Alicia Keys is definitely saying "see my face in lights, or my name on monkeys found down on Broadway". Definitely. 1 day ago
- @Psythor Maths lectures are for squares. I thank you. in reply to Psythor 1 day ago
- More updates...
Shared Niceties
- Flickr’s Season Wheel
- Oh not niceshudder
- Excel Tips: A Formula To Calculate A RatioYou have no idea how useful this will be for me.
- iPhone OS 4.0 may finally bring multitasking nirvanaThis would be great, mainly because I am weirdly obsessed with analysing my GPS mileage, but I'm prepared for it to be 3GS only. My 3G creaks occasionally anyway - multitasking might be asking a bit much.
- feature: Why new hard disks might not be much fun for XP usersGood technical primer on the recent BBC story.
- BBC News - Blue Peter dog Mabel retires from showAwww, I remember that dog's first day.
- Exhausting the entire problem space of animated teddy-bears, cars, people and pigeons
- Daily Mail lies about FacebookThe whole thing had nothing to do with Facebook.
- The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice TrailerOh my goodness.
- sikhs
- Holy cow this is the tiniest photographer we’ve ever...There is an action movie finale to be had here, where Good Guy presses the shutter and the camera fires an RPG into Bad Guy's smiling face. Suggested one-liner: "say cheese, dickhead."
- The United Steaks of America project is, well, just what it...
- Pharmacist refuses to issue pill because of her religion - TelegraphVery not ok.
- AutoFocus portfolio themeOne of very few portfolio-site designs I actually like. Dates keeps you honest and fresh; info is clean and tidy; layout is nice. Might actually start building myself a site. Via @photojojo, who are on fire at the moment.
- Violent video games: small causal link with aggressionActual data! Not just made up stuff in newspapers! Overall picture is muddy, though.
- Tipsy thinking
- Spider Holster Now Available WorldwideNo, no and furthermore, no.
- Twitter: The Criterion Collection
- Puppy in the womb
- Will our obsession with beautiful bokeh ever end? (Hint:...
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Hey, thanks for coming! I'm Andrew, and this is where my headthinks come to breed. They often dance around humanism, photography and general wonderments, but there's dabblage aplenty.
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