June 2009
160 posts
One good thing about unpacking remaining boxes and clearing studio - I now have an Aibo up & running. I had forgotten how funny they can be!
Oh brilliant! After two hours, a gallon of sweat and a fortune in Roundup weed-killing the gully, now it’s fucking raining! What a waste!
Cock up! Dumped two boxes in error at the dechetterie and had to go back and root through the skips to retrieve them! Oh joy…
Problem with clearing out a room is the three trips to the dechetterie required afterwards. There goes the day…
After the dechetterie comes mowing the lawn and weed-killing the gully. Oh happy happy day…
Some amazing images from the Glastonbury music festival http://bit.ly/X2DhF
RT@teamarete @cfleury If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over - John Wooden #quote « Liked this!
Dog refused to come indoors last night ‘cos it was so hot when we arrived home. Had to leave door open for him when I went to bed #fb
Poke.ly Brings Facebook Pokes to Twitter - http://bit.ly/btOZ2 (via @mashable) « Twitter needs a way to block/opt out of crap like this
Good front 9 of 46 followed by shocking back 9, the score of which I shall never reveal. Stuart consoled me with a beer or 3 in the 19th #fb
Coq au vin and more of the excellent Brugiere rose to celebrate. Arms & shoulders are killing me.Don’t fancy my chances at golf tomorrow #fb
Hey - just realised. This means we are now officially MOVED IN - only 2.5 years after arriving in the house! How cool is that? #fb
Unpacking of remaining boxes complete. Studio is done. Garage rearranged to take overflow from studio. A profitable weekend, if tiring! #fb
For those asking-yes, this is the same move from 2 years ago. Yes, we are STILL unpacking. Yes…. finally getting to the final boxes! #fb
Whilst unpacking boxes discovered some serious breakages from the move. Crappy packing by movers. Very upsetting. #fb
Now I’m going to grab a shower, make myself some pasta, and drink extraordinary amounts of rose wine! #fb
The wine tonight will be Mas Brugiere - not the lightest rose you will ever taste but always good. Hic…. #fb
Tomorrow will be spent moving boxes out again, unpacking onto shelves, and finding space in the garage for the big items. Fun weekend! #fb
Crappy day cleaning out the studio in ridiculous heat.Took all day just to move boxes out, clean, install shelves, then move boxes back! #fb
Reading: How to Push Sync Calendars and Contacts to Your iPhone Using Gmail http://bit.ly/zrBML « Good “How To”
Mobile Video is at a Tipping Point http://bit.ly/j5gtM « Amazing that many phones had video for some time, but it took the iPhone to do it
NSS Starts Endpoint Protection Group Test http://bit.ly/LpCKx « Using continuous live testing methodology, not canned samples
Are women faking it? Moaning and screaming. It’s very annoying. I’m talking about Wimbledon, of course… #fb
6’10” freaks should be banned from Wimbledon. Who wants to watch only serves throughout an entire game? The odd rally would be nice! #fb
Rather disconcerting (but maybe not very surprising, unfortunately) to see iPhone-related headlines move so quickly from 3GS to porn!
Tweak Facebook to Display Only Updates You Care About [Social Networking] http://ff.im/4ov23
Reading: Britain could never debate the burka like France http://bit.ly/h9cRz « How true - Brits lost that privilege a long time ago
Up at 5am (!) to get to the golf course for 7am tee time. Played not too bad - round in 94 (46+48). Still not got back into it after break
Hint to iPhone GPS developers-subscription for turn-by-turn apps is NOT going to work. Even TomTom doesn’t screw you on a monthly basis!
They’re hosting French Amateur Golf Championship at our club this week-never seen course looking so pristine.Where’s all the rough gone? #fb
Shocking look inside Chinese fur farms http://bit.ly/fHrrQ - don’t watch the video, but this needs to be stopped. Please RT
Played in best ball competition with @lwalder today.Winds of 38km/h made it v difficult-we didn’t do well! Both our h’caps will rise :-( #fb
Make Natural Insect Repellent with Essential Oils [Outdoors] http://ff.im/4fLWs
iPhone 3G S Hardware Can Record 720p Video, so Why Doesn’t It? (Kit Eaton/Fast Company) http://ff.im/4fLWt
How many of the morons yelling “get in the hole” are married to the same sister, do you think?
Don’t you sometimes wish Tiger would turn round and tell these morons to shut the fuck up!?
The Complete Social Media Douchebag http://bit.ly/UbyBo « This site is so much more believable than those used by most Twitter spammers
Twitter tries to make follower counts slightly less meaningless http://bit.ly/c47cK - « Let’s see if they actually try to enforce it!
iPhone 3.0 Pwnage Jailbreak Tool Now Available for Mac OS X http://ff.im/4bYpa
Don’t we have enough decent English golf commentators? Why do we need idiots like Butch “I Love Rory” Harmon?
Someone tell Butch Harmon to shut the hell up! Annoying little man! I think he’s in love with Rory McIlroy…
Played golf for first time in 3 weeks today… not my best effort! Didn’t like my new 588 DSG lob wedge-going back to the CG14 #fb
The 588 has amazingly low 3 degrees of bounce, which is what I was after, but found it way too heavy compared to the CG14. Disappointing #fb
10 hidden iPhone OS 3 features http://bit.ly/ZLsWh « They’re not all “hidden” but there are a couple of gems there
Should move the US Open to Wimbledon finals week - the rain always moves to London for that!
How To: View Calendars Published to MobileMe on iPhone http://bit.ly/6hvTp « This nice new feature has been largely overlooked so far
Needless to say, I won’t be upgrading any time soon…
My iPhone upgrade decision has been made for me: 1)Orange France has no 32GB models available 2)They want to charge 533 EUR for the 16GB #fb
Reading: Engadget’s iPhone 3G S review http://bit.ly/pKUiv « One of the better, more detailed reviews of the new iPhone
Can’t believe everyone tries to hit the Apple servers at the same time and then bitches when they get resource-related errors