Beijing

July 4th, 2009
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Tweets for 2009-07-03

July 3rd, 2009
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  • Freeky upside down-faced celebrities….cool!!!! http://bit.ly/o0zLi #
  • Stupid little phone alarm failed to wake me up. Missed train and have screwed up rest of day. #
  • RT @kenfisher: Sums up my thoughts these past several days exactly: http://bit.ly/xxDLc #
  • So glad that week is over. After a slavish day I have the weekend to me and family. Woohoo! #
  • RT @mpoppel: City would appreciate donations to city departments for the costs… <—huh? For MJs funeral? Who from? #
  • I'd like to coin a different abbreviation for Augmented Reality than AR. AR means Artificial Reality to me. How about AugRT? #
  • Just subscribed to a huge bunch of Photography feeds as recommended by Google Reader…get em here: http://bit.ly/ltQWu #
  • Interweb being slow this evening. Damn you other Digiweb customer in my area! Damn you!!!! #
  • Digiweb Metro so slow tonight that http://www.irishisptest.com isn't loading! #
  • ooh! 120Kbps! Good work Digiweb, it's meant to be 8Mbps!!! Fuckers. #
  • Thank you internet Gods, for I am back up to speed again. #
  • My daughter nearly wet herself when I told a new dinousaur fossil had been found today: http://bit.ly/175wDV #
  • I have very sweaty legs but I'm reluctant to go the rather knackery route of sitting here in my pants. Anyway, laptop too hot. #
  • Just in case anyone missed them…pics from Beijing. http://bit.ly/bMMP2 #
  • cheers for the #FollowFriday @leotraynor #
  • Dear friends of Iran who don't live in Iran, can you change your location back to where you live? You see, I'm a stalker. #

Tweets for 2009-07-02

July 2nd, 2009
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  • First day without iPhone. I feel like I've had a lobotomy. What am I meant to be doing today? #
  • Hilarious child abuse! RT @TomRaftery: RT @Ross: I quit http://bit.ly/18THOP << Chinese 2yo lights up cigarette and smokes it #
  • Well with a bit of jiggery pokery the new gmail labels might just work for me with careful use of hide and show. #
  • What is it with the insults, @EvertB? Last night my pockets were full of shit and today I'm a simple minded gogo dancer! #
  • Will using mentioning #moonfruit make my iPhone come back to me soon? #
  • That would be nice, @ehu. Thanks #moonfruit for your generous gift of a MacBookPro during my time of post-iPhone mourning. #
  • just wolfed down 3 homemade muffins for my elevenses. Daughter is a damn fine cook. #
  • I worked out why my boy destroyed my iPhone. He's getting me back for me accidentally dislocating his shoulder the other day. #
  • Shoulder == Elbow. #
  • yeah @Diarmuid ,I've got my back to think about! I'm getting old and he's getting giant (plus risk of injuring him etc yadayada) #
  • That's not spam! It's Great British Humour! Bloody Americans. –> Once Again, Twitter Trending Topics Polluted By Spam http://tcrn.ch/53N #
  • Seen on Techcrunch regarding Mrs Slocombe "All I know is that I am just sick of spammers exploiting every site for their pron crap." . Tit. #
  • Peats are selling 1TB Iomega desktop drives for €79.99. Pretty good. #
  • How do I explain what a unix load average is to my boss? #
  • RT @leotraynor: The idea of Mata Harney & Brendan Dumb trying to coordinate a pandemic response should scare the living bejaysus out of us. #
  • Anyone who's read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy will dig this mega-winebago. http://bit.ly/xqHWN (gizmag? err…) #
  • Just found out a pic I took with my iphone won joint first place in this months Athy Photo Soc "Soliitude" comp . http://twitpic.com/91dhn #
  • Lucky @smutchings! just won an Macbook Pro. Not even slightly jealous of whoever he is. #
  • Evening. Another day done, but the work doesn't seem to have ended. #
  • Don't know what #quanticktesticles are but they've made me larf. #
  • RT @gavinsblog: Fianna Fail must be destroyed. http://bit.ly/2f94i <—god help us all from these bastards. #
  • RT @AllanCavanagh: Strange, no search results for #quantickstesticles . It must be too fistfucking nunshit offensive. <-excellent…nunshit. #
  • If i had my iPhone, I would probably be listening to the Greatest Hits of #quantictesticles #
  • And in a sad case of not quite getting it right, I spelled #quanticktesticles incorrectly. #
  • Anyone know how to have more than one Google account open in Firefox? #lazybastardcantbebotheredtousegoogle. #
  • €42m needed to fix Athy's traffic problems – anyone got a tenner? http://bit.ly/L444K #
  • Introducing 6yo daughter to Billy Joel with http://bit.ly/ONExY. Excellent track. #
  • Dammit! Just accidentally went to a white supremacists web site by typing storm front in the Firefox address bar instead of search box. #
  • RT @darrengeraghty: Lens. A Goldmine of Amazing Photography by New York Times. #timesuck http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/ #
  • Anyone noticed that techmeme has turned into an iPhone news site rather than a tech news site? #
  • Mmm. Very…er…slick. ZGrip iPhone Pro http://bit.ly/wSAUN #
  • "took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape" 13yo kid reviews a 30yo Sony Walkman http://bit.ly/2sPOZ #
  • Nice new Facebook iPhone app and them opening up to the world…might use it again. http://bit.ly/c9WZy #
  • Some cool concept phones here. Bit too concept tho, we'll have implants soon making them useless. http://bit.ly/RIb7k #
  • Fantastic Glastonbury photos from the ever excellent Boston Globe "Big Picture" http://bit.ly/ECiKi #
  • Gallery of iPhone photos. For crappy camera it can take some stunning shots. http://bit.ly/TfNNP #

Tweets for 2009-07-01

July 1st, 2009
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  • Morning. Eyes glued shut with hayfever. Good start. #
  • RT @arstechnica: Death of Kodachrome belies technological leap it represented – http://arst.ch/46b #
  • Few tips on night photography while travelling light. http://bit.ly/MWX5G #
  • I have the most ridiculous expanding todo list ever. Can't anyone work out how to do a thing without me? (love it really – like complaining) #
  • Am having a back breaking morning. Time to turn on the Elliot Cloning Machine. #
  • Dear networksolutions.com. I hate you. And I'm not to keen on the predecessor who decided to register all of our domains with you either. #
  • Helping to map internet censorship http://bit.ly/iVdYf #
  • Playing with Aviary.com screen capture. Hoping to be able to quickly grab a section of screen, draw an arrow, and tweet it. #
  • My goal in life is to be geeky enough and have enough time to do this stuff. http://bit.ly/mUkBe #
  • Have you ever seen a freakier bunch of individuals than on the Firefox 3.5 welcome video? Humans! You look so weird! #
  • RT @leotraynor: My friend's a disabled single parent with a profoundly autistic son & she'll be punished for our gov.'s ineptitude #
  • Just glad my daughter had her cancer pretty much over and done with by 2008, @leotraynor, before our government tried to get rid of her. #
  • RT @leotraynor: Petition Against Cutbacks at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin. http://bit.ly/QYsNn Please RT #
  • Still no hierachical/collapsable labels RT @steverubel: New features in Gmail http://trunc.it/okxu #
  • Now you too can help Vodafone pay for upgrading their network. http://bit.ly/qs6eM #
  • RT @AllanCavanagh: My favourite story today: http://twurl.nl/o4grv4 #
  • Gina's easypeezy guide to WEP wifi cracking. http://bit.ly/Lbxsp #
  • Finally! RT @TechCrunch: GDGT Launches For Non Stop Gadget Action http://tcrn.ch/50Z by @arrington #
  • My daughter has thrown a welcome home party for me with strawberry muffins and…ice hands! Thx Ciara! http://twitpic.com/8yrf7 #
  • My son has just dropped by iPhone down the toilet. * goes to find noose * #
  • Phonecover claim form – "Please use FreePost envelope provided with this Claim Pack" – what, the envelope attached to this downloaded PDF? #
  • While I was plunging my hand down a toilet that had just been used (1's & 2's), my 6yo was saying "It's OK daddy! It's just a phone! #
  • Switched back from Chrome to Firefox 3.5 today. While I miss Chrome's minimalism, Firefox's functionality is the biz. Fast now too! #
  • Sad about Karl Malden, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure is the best sequel to a film about an upside down boat I've ever seen. #
  • Nice bit of work – Transforming robot http://bit.ly/4Y5ph #
  • Daughter distraught at disappearance of imaginary friends. Did you have any and do you remember when they went away? #
  • I can now make dad to put his crazy conspiracy theories behind him. Images of Apolo landings sites – http://bit.ly/4mAhB7 #
  • Seven Questions to Ask When Selecting a Camera Lens http://bit.ly/vX8ay #
  • Laptop just about to die. Would normally pick up iphone for continued sofa tweet fun. But no. IT WENT DOWN THE TOILET! #
  • World War II + Twitter = Propaganda Hilarity http://bit.ly/SKyRx #

Tweets for 2009-06-30

June 30th, 2009
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  • Morning team. First day back in office for week or so. :( #
  • Today I shall be writing the longest and ugliest SQL query known to man. #
  • I assume that Rick Astley isn't in fact dead and this is some bizarre Information Super Hiwebs joke. #
  • Lock and Picard get it on with some cyberluvz. http://i40.tinypic.com/2cz281s.gif #
  • Just received my first Push Notification on the iPhone. 3 hours late but it's a start! #
  • Just went to look at the €17 Aldi tripod. Looks like it's pretty good…for €17. #
  • Bike in the shop. Bearings shot. 30 frickin quid to fix! #
  • RT @martyk: Is a mobile app right for every brand? http://ow.ly/gbzy Another good article on logic for brands deciding WAP v App or both? #
  • Bike repair 15quid not 30. That will be my good bit of financial news for this year then. #
  • Cybercriminals eh @mneylon? They must be able to come up with a less cool sounding name for the crooked gimps. in reply to mneylon #
  • Now that Michael Jackson has remained dead for 5 days, anyone know what's happening in Tehran? Are we done with that then? #
  • How to take great travel portraits. http://bit.ly/ngTqK #

Tweets for 2009-06-29

June 29th, 2009
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  • Ireland playing catchup with digital media. http://bit.ly/SOq9s #
  • Will be making a return trip to a&e this morning with wee boy. Poor fella has hurt his arm and doesn't want to use it. #
  • Portaoise hospital told me last night you can't xray an elbow. For some reason I think that's bollocks. #
  • In and out of a&e in no time. Not worried about boy's arm. Should sort itself out. Follow up on Thursday. #
  • Just saw a seriously hammered fella walking down road outside Athy. Clean, didn't smell, could hardly walk. 2.45pm! #
  • Hello! Real time web people! Get with the program: RT @markcahill: Google thought Michael Jackson traffic was attack -> http://bit.ly/12p1iX #
  • To receive txt always free @bursaar. Not just EU either. It's like them saying 'texts now 160 chars long!' in reply to bursaar #
  • Pouring a glass of white wine on a Samsung netbook causes it to die on the spot. Stripping down and hairdrying brings it back to life. #

Tweets for 2009-06-28

June 28th, 2009
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  • Comics can only be about Super heroes – TSA. http://bit.ly/DJLyg #
  • Well that can't be good! RT @cnnbrk: British embassy staff arrested in Iran, Foreign Office confirms http://bit.ly/6jjnP #iranelection #
  • So the cycle continues: RT @ann_donnelly: @curlydena MJs kids staying with the parents – yeah, cos they did such a good job with him. #

Tweets for 2009-06-27

June 27th, 2009
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  • Checked in having starbucks. Nearly didn't make it, set alarm wrong! Flight in 1h20 #
  • Yay! Back in Dublin. Good to be home. Getting bags then running out of airport to see my family. :-) :-) :-) #
  • RT @nonsequitir: @sineadcochrane Gay pride was on in Jerusalem while I was in Israel. There were crowds hurling stones/rocks at them. #
  • Thanks for all the welcome backs everyone! #

Tweets for 2009-06-26

June 26th, 2009
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  • Queue to lift was very long so I decided to walk up 11 stories in 30oC heat. Pretty certain I've just ruined my day. #
  • I'm going to start writing all documents I don't want read in Courier New. Non-technical people can't read anything in Courier New. #
  • My week in Beijing is coming to an end. Off to grab a bite to eat and take some final piccies. #
  • can someone recommend a place to get a bog standard SSL cert at a good price pls. #
  • In the hotel bar having an overpriced beer. Back from walk in this amazing town. #

Tweets for 2009-06-25

June 25th, 2009
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  • Just got payback for a 36hr commute with a visit to the Forbidden City, Beijing. Unbelievable place. #
  • Google is banned in China today. Were it not for HotSpot shield, I may as well have stayed at Forbidden City for all the work I could do. #
  • Thanks for RT @lonelyplanet , that's pretty major for me :-) #lp #
  • Thinking that getting the Chinese office using Google Apps was a bad idea consisdering Google has just be BANNED – FFS! #
  • Google blocked in China, can't use Gmail, Google Apps, NOTHING :-( (well I can but others can't) http://bit.ly/oaoe #
  • In a karaoke…erm…place. Just sang The Killers totally flat in front of loads of chinese people. #
  • Still at karaoke. All Chinese songs are love songs. 'Spose you can't sing about the system being fucked or whatever. #
  • Evening! Back from my Karaoke. I really am a terrible singer, but I don't think anyone noticed. Some good singers there tho! #
  • Going to look at my Forbidden City pics now. The sun was a nasty hot ball of nuclear fusion 2" about my head so they might be washed out. #
  • Seem to have access now in hotel, but no Google while at office… Google access disrupted in China http://bit.ly/9mOXN #
  • Just reading the Google/China outage on BBC News and was hoping for one of their "Have you been affected by the…" blah. Alas,nothing. #
  • It costs me 32c to tweet by text while away. And do you know what? I think it's worth it. #
  • http://twitpic.com/8dqkb – I promise not to do any nearing. #
  • No way! Farrah Fawcett has died! #
  • I went to one of the most impressive, historical sites today, and took a bunch of average photos. How can that happen!? #
  • New Gallery : Forbidden City, Beijing http://bit.ly/rK2Og #
  • Don't here from you for years, @sunshinepie , and you pop up and go "of butt cancer". Hello to you too ;-) #
  • Ready for @EvertB on Today FM. It's amazing the reception I'm getting, TodayFM must have a massive aerial ! #
  • Nice work @EvertB. Have a Lemsip. #
  • And bed time for me. 2am! Oops. Looks like I never got over jet lag. #