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This Week’s Tweets

James G — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:07:00 +0000

Bah, silly antibodies, binding tot the wrong things. If you were in a person your host would be dead by now. #
Bah! Booking train tickets is the biggest lottery ever. Managed to get save £50 by splitting my ticket half-way. #
@charltonbrooker Very good. Have you heard the term ‘Reverse Ferret’ by any chance? http://everything2.com/node/1942475 #
Wow, more friends getting engaged. I guess I have reached ‘that age.’ #
Testing out the new twitter #search #
@LadyMsScamp You can get paid for it? Now I feel sheepish, as I’ve been doing it for free. #
@bengoldacre Really? So I take it that this is more advertising do than serious conference? Sleazy at that, doesn’t exactly give confidence. #
Friday, and sunny. Lets just hope my westerns work. #
http://bit.ly/GXJyA No, he attacked her because he was a violent jerk; sandwich wasn’t the cause. Why does the media always seem to do this? #
Meanwhile I have convinced myself to head into the lab tomorrow. Damn work ethic! #
Oh, and that last tweet was my 500th. I’ve been watching the counter and forgot last minute. Bah! #
Seems that the residents of Broughton were so bothered about their privacy that they got the BBC cameras in for interviews and pictures. #
Gah! I suck at #Spelunky I can’t even get to level 5! #
Gah. Its the weekend and I’m in the lab. Not helped by feelings of ennui, only tempered by the fact it means I can use ennui. Great word! #
Trying Omegle, its odd. Like a throwback to chatting on the web circa ’98. Have basically just done a verbose a/s/l, feel dirty. #
Gah, what to blog about. #
@wplifestream Have upgraded to 0.95 and like the new streams, however [lifestream] is returning “There are no events to show at this time.” #
@wplifestream I’ve checked at there are events recorded, by default limit is 50, and it is picking up new events. #
@wplifestream Excellent, problem solved. Thank you. in reply to wplifestream #
@wplifestream I think Bookmarked on Delicious for consistency. New style is better at separating content from metadata. in reply to wplifestream #
I just had spotify crash on me for the first time. #
@thewellis For a moment there I thought you were denouncing our @VickieWire and was breifly shocked. #
Oh dear god. Just checked the interest rate on my savings account. 0.15% Gros Pa. Terrible! Will be spending it soonish though. #
Hmm, considering Co-Operative bank as I like their ethical investment policy. Google; Christian Voice against them. Point in favour I think! #
Watching ‘Come Dine with Me’ Trash television at its finest! #
Does anyone else think renaming Norwich Union, Aviva, just makes it sound incredible corporate and impersonal? #
Aww, I’m disappointed that I’ve never been added by any right wing politicians, I want to subtlety warp their thinking in 140 characters. #
@slummymummy1 I was always more partial to the word Tosser. #
RT @guardiannews Video reveals G20 police assault on man who died: http://tinyurl.com/c7wv9e #
@Palestinebat I say give yourself an honoury doctorate #
This http://bit.ly/14zkkX indicates why this http://bit.ly/3MXLZ is a bad idea. #

This Week’s Tweets

James G — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:07:00 +0000

Internet acces somewhat sarcer than I had expected. #
Back in the UK now. Twitter use will recommence #
I’ve just realised how depressingly few photos I have of certain people. #
Whoops. Completely missed the #boatrace. It seems we lost though. (And that I disproportionately follow Cambridge supporters) #
GAH! What it the point of making me use a special ‘downloader’ when the damn thing won’t let me ‘resume’ 5GB of download wasted! ARGGGH! #
Oh I see, I’m meant to use the little close button, rather than the big ‘stop’ button next to pause. Well it would be nice IF IT TOLD ME! #
Lets see whether it is bright enough to detect the results of file recovery #
Excellent. It took a bit of a fiddle, but I’ve managed to rescue it. Now to send an E-mail. #
@alibally13 http://twitpic.com/2kpq1 – They definitely got it out: http://tinyurl.com/gotitout I also vote for removable #
@Dave_Gorman Not fake, but the bollards are probably removable. Google Street View: http://tinyurl.com/gotitout in reply to Dave_Gorman #
@oliverchalliner Thanks. I saw the photo on a forum a couple of years back, and the location was narrowed down to Quay St. Manchester then. #
@LadyMcScamp Disapointed to hear that the SexEdShow was a bit extremist/reactionary. I saw the premise in G2 and thought it had potential #
RT @AmnestyUK Potentially devastating law that legalises rape within marriage is proposed in Afghanistan: http://bit.ly/pSQR5 #

This Week’s Tweets

James G — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:07:00 +0000

Oh dear, things are looking more complicated than I had assumed. The hope of getting any more results before Lisbon looking slim now. #
@LadyMcScamp The New Dora is wearing fishnets? Or have I misunderstood? #
@LadyMcScamp That makes more sense. I saw the silhouettes and couldn’t help but think it disturbing, like some gross parody. #
@slummymummy1 You could at least try and track down the owner. #
Right. Think I’ve got everything together for the next release of my FO3 mod. Just changelog etc. to do now. But before that bed. And work. #
About to have a ‘how to write your thesis’ course. Seems you can’t just print it all off from Wikipedia. #
@LadyMcScamp Never actually seen LW, but only heard bad things about it from pretty much everyone. Does anyone like it non-ironically? #
We have a new centrifuge. Woo! My life is clearly overwhelmed with excitement. #
Bugger. ‘incident’ on the line. Delays, busses and cancelations. #
Yay! Blockage cleared! No replacement bus needed. #
@slummymummy1 Totally with you on Lidl, a lot of rubbish, but some amazingly fantastic stuff as well. Their tomatoes are great. #
Been nuking Edinburgh, http://www.carloslabs.com/node/16 #
@bengoldacre How on earth can endnote claim a violation of the EULA for someone who doesn’t even need to accept it? Wish Opera had Zotero. #
Blooming eck! I know I’m at home on a Friday night, but four singles ads on Facebook is a bit much! #
Five rather! #
Bah. Watching TV now have craving for poppy seed cake. Mmmm, poppy seeds. #
It is sunny and I an wearing my summer jacket. No sunglasses yet though. #
@stephenfry Get back to advertising Twinings, the current ads are terrible! #
@antonvowl I can pick up a copy for you if you like. #
@antonvowl I’ll see if I can sneak a photo. in reply to antonvowl #
Bah. Why when discussing ‘worst’ songs does everyone have to adopt a position of moral ind intellectual superiority to defend their position #
@thewellis Can you get it on inter library loan? #
@rockpapershot Racism in World of Goo, after all, its abbreviation is WoG. (And yes, that was a silly suggestion) #
@rockpapershot A More serious idea on gaming elements in non-gaming media. (Eg. Social networking, flickr, Google Street View) #
Oohh! My local excahnge is trialling 60Mbit/s broadband! #
Oh damn, goes live ‘Early next year’ when I’ll no longer be here. #
Going to be in Lisbon on conference from tomorrow. Will try and check tweets etc. but imagine it’ll be a bit awkward. #
Why on earth is Penis a trending topic? #
Hmm think I have everything packed, but know I’m missing something #
At the airport. Security very quick. Carrying a poster tube that looks like a bazzoka #
Now at Heathrow. Security was a bit more hectic. #
Touched down in Portugal. #

This Week’s Tweets

James G — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:07:00 +0000

I have food at last. I hate defrosting stuff. #
@robmanuel Ahh, before you fleshed out the list I thought badscience referred to @Bengoldacre fanboys, rather than their targets. #
@stephenfry Twitter is obviously far more mainstream than I had assumed if it contains folks who don’t know about the Kindle #
Once again everyone is complaining about the new facebook. Seems that folk just don’t like change, or like complaining. #
@VickieWire They are rolling it out slowly, it wont have changed for many people yet. #
@inkiepixie Yes, I was just amused at how quickly the complaints started up. I wondered if they were the same people as six months ago. #
@inkiepixie Whoops, just realised you probably didn’t see my tweet @vickiewire Yes, they are rolling it out slowly, most don’t have it yet. #
How odd, someone clearly plugged my website on a bondage chatroom, at least if my referrer logs are accurate. #
@slummymummy you want to keep the # out of the brackets if he is to find it. eg. #hashtags #
@VickieWire What did he do? Include BNP pamphlets with the semi-skimmed? #
Bah. After a recent tweet this feels hypocritical but ‘New Facebook Sucks!’ It won’t let me update my status with Opera! #
@VickieWire I thought you hated Avon? Or is this the reason why you hate Avon? #
Pah, I may just as well remove the google ads on my blog. In three years I’ve made a total of $4.38 and they won’t even pay out until $100 #
@thewellis I wondered where you were going with that. I thought you’d ask us what we wanted #
@thewellis Hmm, I shall have to have a think. There are films I hate, and films that are just crap, but something that will have me shrivel? #
@ladylikepunk 29th March #
Just noticed the ‘featured user’ bit in the sidebar, when did they add that? #
Yay! Facebook now works again in Opera. Seems that my little ‘downgrade’ last night didn’t actually work. #
@slummymummy To steak or to blowjobs? #
@bonzrat Do you need example replies from your keen followers. Because if so here is a prompt yet boring one. #
Am I the only person who did a double take on hearing the arrest of a ‘leading Republican,’ until I realised the story was from N.I. not USA #
@qikipedia Assuming of course no near-lightspeed space travel #
@stephenfry Is there ever a week in which you aren’t travelling somewhere? #
Finding errors in scientific papers. When a person gets the author wrong it makes the reference hard to find. #
Vaguely amused by the return of the Megadrive. Strangely tempted to pick one up. #
@smallmatryoshka Ahh, I have a 400D, haven’t got any abandoned victorian warehouses though. in reply to smallmatryoshka #
Bah, wish my graphics card had video capture like my old one. I need to grab some Wii screen-shots for a blog post. #
@slummymummy1 I block them because I think it trips twitters ‘suspicious activity’ filter. #
@slummymummy1 If you click on a banned account you get a message saying the account was flagged for ‘suspicious activity’ in reply to slummymummy1 #
My cells grew too slowly to use today, but tomorrow, tomorrow they will face my wrath! #
@slummymummy1 No trouble here #
Bah! I’ve just spent an hour and a half trying to work out why a window wasn’t displaying, only to realise that it was just off-screen #

This Week’s Tweets

James G — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:07:00 +0000

@robmanuel 2007 had a few, but ’08/’09 is more limited. Sackboy? Sony certainly is trying to make it. Mirror’s Edge’s Faith? #
Trying #spotify interface seems smooth, I’m just somewhat shocked by being able to listen to anything I want. Now need to fiddle. #
@slummymummy Its a media player, but instead of playing your own music you stream it from their servers, giving access to thousands of songs #
@slummymummy Its all legal, supported by advertisements or a monthly subscription. Seems okay, but I wish it could play local media as well #
Hmm, spotify seems fairly nice. A few interface annoyances, and some slightly odd categorisations (Atomic Kitten, Rock?) #
Doing simple but lengthy work at the moment, so mind drifting. Was wondering how human society would have evolved if we were hermaphrodites #
@VickieWire Good going. #
Oooh, just noticed the new search box. That makes things all sorts of simpler! #
@inkiepixie I wondered that at first, and then slowly my dependency grew. #
Each year, 1 in 10 women in Britain experience rape or other violence http://www.oneten.org.uk #
Bah! Bioedit just crashed on me, and I lost my alignments. Poor sequence, lots of it read manually. Time wasted, only some on clipboard. #
Oww, I have chilli burning my nose #
Re-skinned my twitter page. The background is a touch larger than I’d have liked, but my experiments with low colour versions looked poor. #
@slummymummy1 Don’t leave us hanging, what was in the package? #
@rockpapershot All fixed this end, had some issues with Opera, but they seem to have cleared up. #
@bonzrat Look kindly on the fools, for they may be Vortigaunts #
@qikipedia I call shenanigans on that last one. Only sources I can find are quack conspiracy sites and a spoof: http://tinyurl.com/bm83g6 #
Lead in bed, on laptop. Listening to occasional bursts of rain on the windows. How very Sunday. #
Rain now stopped up here, and now nice and sunny. Cold. But sunny. Have window open to air room even! #
@BuckSexington Wait? It’s Be throttling Steam speeds? I thought they were one of the good guys. #
@BuckSexington Ahh, okay then. #
@Dave_Gorman Descartes? in reply to Dave_Gorman #
Bugger. I was just thinking of heading out for a walk, maybe with my camera, and the rain starts again. in reply to BuckSexington #
I’m somewhat miffed by some of the major restrictions in Bethesda’s scripting engine. #
@Dave_Gorman For G I nominate Galileo Galilei. Not only is he a genius, but qualifies for the G category twice! #
@rockpapershot I’m torn, I like the idea, but know it will result me spending money I don’t have. #
Gah! Was checking if a blog comment was spam. It was. It linked me to porn. At work. Note to self. Do not check comments while at work. #
@cliffski Bah, I’m heading to Portugal soon, so shall catch the flipside of this effect. #
Either Facebook is down, or work has blocked it. #
@Dave_Gorman Mendel for M please, father of Genetics, and all done with peas in a glorified potting shed. Then ignored for years. #
@andyvglnt It appears that the Torygraph allows users to put in anything as the .html bit. It seems unlikely that this was the author’s … #
@BillyWilliwaw Disgusting, on the part of the Express. I saw @antonvowl ‘s comments on it earlier. #
Gah! I’m utterly despairing at the findings of the home office report ‘Violence Against Women.’ http://tinyurl.com/violencewomen #
Just had day of talks, now off to the pub, and then to Thai. #

This Week’s Tweets

James G — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:07:00 +0000

Yay! My pombe tetrads pulled very nicely today. Which may not mean anything to any of my followers but makes me happy. #
@AmnestyUK I can see where some of the feelings come from. If it weren’t from Amnesty, I’d have been confused about its intent. #
Looking forward to Braid on the PC. Will be availible on Steam £9.99 #
@andyvglnt Ahh, don’t have an Xbox myself, or I’d have probably got it already. Find I don’t tend to replay single player games much anyway. #
Written to MS complaining about the Xbox live user banned for stating she was a Lesbian. Forgot to save my letter though. #
Err, rather I was complaining about her being banned, not complaining about her. Just to be clear. #
@smallmatryoshka they are hashtags, and make it easy to follow events etc. hashtags.org/ #
And now to bed. Its late, and I should have been in there a while ago. #
Ryan Air’s move to charge for the loo isn’t cost cutting/profiteering. It is advertising. The company wants to be seen as cheap and sleazy. #
#backgames Planescape Torment: The Nameless one becomes immortal and then walks around forgetting stuff. Oh wait?! #
@jonathancoulton It gives them a sense of superiority. They don’t get it; easier to pretend it’s stupid, than worry they miss something. #
Am I unusual in finding something desperately sad in the idea of a grey death of the universe? Entropy finishes its sums, and all is noise. #
Just completed Aquaria. Excellent, beautiful game. #
@BitBlot Thank you. Aquaria was absolutely magical, beautiful and yet strangely melancholy. An amazing game. #
Yay! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7912235.stm I’m so glad there is going to be a second series! #
Bloody awesome final episode of Being Human! Roll on series 2! #
@BenGoldacre What wonderful nonsense here http://tinyurl.com/blf7rh Clearly readers of Bad Science aren’t liberals. Does the Guardian know? #
@antonvowl I find checking is the masthead says Daily Mail/Express is a good first step. #
@bremxjones I bet its Games for Windows live attempting to mimic the 360′s RRoD. #
Why am I Tweeting when I should be working. I only logged on to print something out! #
Trying to bee all contentious, and just getting the fail whale as a result ☹. Will explain the lack of avatar shortly. ☺ #
Uh, I mean be. How on earth did that second e slip in? #
Hmm, seems that some twitter users spam on mention of certain phrases. Try tweetin RRoD for spam from @JamesonJans #
@BillyWilliwaw How exactly would that work? #

This Week’s Tweets

James G — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:07:00 +0000

@PC_Gamer Excellent! You always manage to time your podcasts with when I have a long train journey coming up. #
About to head home, and tomorrow will head home-home. #
Ahhh. Westbro Baptists Church coming to protest in Basingstoke. They really are an obnoxious bunch of farts aren’t they? #
@andyvglnt This Friday apparently: http://tinyurl.com/beukp8 #
Okay, where have all my socks gone? I seem to have a load of pairless socks, even though they are all fairly new! #
Synching my MP3 player, which seems to have decided that ALL the files have changed. Grr! #
Bah! No Wifi on the train. I also left music player and headphones at home. #
Got home with little trouble. Tried to hop on to the WiFi in Birmingham, but couldn’t get a web connection. Was Ad-hoc though, odd. #
Just been to visit Nana. On the way back now, take away this evening #
Hmm, a friends wedding the week immediately after I ‘upgrade’ my undergrad degree. Do I have time to spare for both, or just the wedding? #
I wonder how many twitters you need to follow for tweets to come in as fast as you can read them. You could spend the entire day on twitter. #
@GOGcom I want a Good Old Game for free http://www.gog.com #GOGgiveaway #
@slummymummy The Tiger Who Came to Tea was my favourite book as a child. Got a pop-up anniversary edition from brother for last Christmas. #
Taste tested the new Walker’s flavours, Ready Salted won out, the rest were pretty grim, although Squirrel was passable. #
@thewllis I saw @charltonbrooker ‘s comments on the crisps, although can’t agree on the Onion Bajji, was grim. Not as bad as the breakfast. #
Oh, and I brought a mortar and pestle today, for those of you left hanging on Tuesday’s tweet! #
Read my first graphic novel, @neilhimself ‘s Sandman (Part 1). Not entirely convinced by the format, need to learn to ‘read’ the art. #
@andyvglnt I started with Sandman because I’m a @neilhimself fan. I felt it offered a good bridging point. I’ll look out for blankets though #
How silly. Board train to Edinburgh them change for another train to edinburgh. #
Bah! Standing. Glad I am not taking this one to Edinburgh. #
Help! Gmail is down. I hope the outage doesn’t last long! #
RT @bobbylocksville: http://twitpic.com/1nxvr – hahahah A rather quick response to gmail being down! V clever! #
@botherer Bah! I still can’t get mine. Lucky person. #
Our reliance on the internet is only going to increase with cloud computing. The loss of any major node could cause major problems. #
@Mikeystrong I could have been your first follower, but damn Downing Street had to get there first. #
@Jennymac22 Clearly #

This Week’s Tweets

James G — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:07:00 +0000

Sent a fax today. Who still uses fax? Especially as I was faxing a form printed from their website. #
@JonStrickland For that joke, I am sorely tempted to stop following you. #
@VickieWire That’s great! Feminist makes a huge appearence in mine as well http://tinyurl.com/dx9dc5 but so does 22? #
@rockpapershot Features are good, but I also like the spontaneity. I quite like the feature series you do; unknown pleasures, space week. #
Bah! I just knocked a couple of sausages off the oven shelf on to the bottom of the oven. I then had to carefully fish them out. #
@stephenfry Your power to drive people to websites rivals that of slashdot and digg. Instead of slashdotted, sites are fryed (or fried). #
@leighalexander At least that one makes vague sense. #
Looks like very soon I might be dealing with lots of different chemicals that can kill or harm me in a number of different ways. What fun. #
@slummymummy1 Regularly, well, maybe not Anna Karenina, and I prefer Double Deckers to Curly Wurly’s but the feeling is the same. #
QI! Accompanied with salmon parcels and sauteed sprouts. #
Sad to hear of the end of the Home of the Underdogs. I hope @Fringer will find it a new host, or that someone else will resurrect it. #
Pleasantly shocked by the GSK news http://tinyurl.com/bqbrxy Lets hope it isn’t all empty promises made for publicity reasons. #
@VickieWire Wow, at least you know what diet to use should you ever find yourself needing to shift weight in the opposite direction. Cou … #
Trying to find figures about variation in computer game genre preference from country to country. #
@ladylikepunk @VickieWire Whoops, I misread that as glamour model and was mightily confused. #
Bah! Why is it that my S.pombe cells have decided to grow so slowly! #
Once again I have referred to Tudge, (http://tinyurl.com/tudge) probably my most regularly referenced text after finishing university. #
Hope the curry I’ve got turns out okay. Realised too late that our flat doesn’t have a mortar and pestle. Something I shall correct soon. #

This Week’s Tweets

James G — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:59:59 +0000

Shocked that the Radio 1 presenter didn’t seem to know how long it took for the Earth to go round the sun. #
@stephenfry #frylift seems to have attracted 36 new articles on Google News. http://tinyurl.com/adp929 #
@stephenfry Oh, well it appears that Google’s news algorithm was off and it has grouped any mention of you and twitter. #
I wanted to find The GIMP at work, but couldn’t recall the address. I Googled carefully, ‘open source image editing.’ #
Bah! You’d think after three and a half years in Scotland I’d have seen some decent snow, but NOOOO, its still all down south! #
I can’t help but think that EVE online is the greatest game I’ll never play. The stories of politics and backstabbing are fantastic. #
@ValveSoftware I don’t know if you read @ replies, but can you give any indications about if PC users will have to pay for the DLC? #
@GuyNesher Sorry, hadn’t noticed your @JamesG. Yep, you were correct, and I managed to solve the problem. Thanks. #
Oh dear, I think I’m coming down with a cold, and seem to have a headache. #
Yup, I’m ill. Now to huddle up with soup and crusty bread feeling sorry for myself. #
I sincerely hope that the ‘referrer’ from an anal rape porn site is entirely fake, and that they don’t actually list me as an affiliate. #
@VickieWire Party rings are great anytime, although I don’t think I’ve ever eaten them for breakfast before. #
@VickieWire Ooooh! BACK page. I read front page, and was wondering if you were excited by velociraptors. Didn’t check the back page though. #
Oh dear, and now I’m reminded why I stopped reading the Independent in favour of the Guardian. http://tinyurl.com/deuf57 #
Although granted, I think that is the Indie’s equivalent of Cif. #
@ladylikepunk Ooh, now we’ve got a tag #dmhffh but doesn’t that miss out the all important n #
@ladylikepunk Oh, of course, its one word #
@ladylikepunk My Mum has said she feels like she’d be intruding if she joined fbook. She wasn’t impressed when I mentioned limited profiles. #
Still really enjoying Being Human. This is how you do intelligent, mature, supernatural drama. Torchwood has a hell of a lot to learn. #
@ashtreza Hello, and welcome to twitter. May you have many happy tweets. #
Gah! What is up with Opera! For the past few weeks its been crashing with alarming regularity! #
Only just noticed the snow when I headed off to bed. #
@rockpapershot Install the wordpress twittertools plugin and you can make little tweets whenever you write a new post. #
@bengoldacre You just got a heads up on the @rockpapershot podcast, a PC gaming blog in case you are unfamiliar. #
@slummymummy1 Owch! I wince for you (regarding the foot burning, not Natwest, with whom I have no experience.) #
Well I completely uninstalled Opera, cleared all profile folders, killed all background tasks, disabled plugins, and it still crashes! #
Next stept is upgrading video drivers, as the crashing began a few days after the last update. #
@LadyMcScamp Re: http://tinyurl.com/cyqhn5 Good article. Someone you know? #
@feliciaday Bah! Completely failed to realise series two of the guild had begun, and was still patiently watching my Youtube feed. #
@rockpapershot Toasted Cheese Sandwiches. And you have already committed the first act of twitter addiction, tweeting about food. #