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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14
On my way to church # RT @VizTopTips: TERRORISTS: Do NOT blow up Robin Hood Airport today. You'll ruin the joke and then everyone will hate you. via @mattwhatsit # Is there a river near Robin Hood Airport? My Sharks with Head Mounted Lasers will need water access to be effective… #iamspartacus # Listening to
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-07
Off to Church! # Trying an iPad – seems slow on my wifi network – any settings I should know about? #ipad # RT @jasonfried: "A word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule" Stephen King #gistwrite # RT @NaomiAKlein What Obama refuses
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-31
RT @nigelfletcher: PM says he "hit the phones" at EU summit yesterday. A nice change from the last PM, who used to hit people with phones. # And I'm back! A Twitter and Blog free period whilst I got life (almost) sorted! # Powered by Twitter Tools
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-10
The VMWare installer is the greediest installer I've ever seen…EVERYTHING stalls for it! # Heisenbugs – bugs that only manifest when a client is using the system…. # Woohoo! Flying Pigs! RT @SupplyGov: Banks set up venture capital fund for small businesses http://bit.ly/9tEVfr # RT @Iconic88: “To a brave man, good and bad luck are
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-03
Excellent news – teachers given protection from false allegations, change in 'no touch' rules. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11458137 # #basecamp – is basecamp broken or is it just me? Can't add items. # A busy but successful day – now School Governors meeting and then more work later…busy, busy, busy! # RT @CSLewisDaily: Don't think of God in
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Last tango in Sheffield…
It’s safe to say that I do not have a body built for dance – well, unless you count the thing they do in Lederhosen that involves bumping bottoms and slapping thighs and faces as dancing. I have slightly flat feet, dodgy knees and no sense of coordination. I don’t dance like my dad –
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Liberals and ‘acceptable’ bigotry
The last visit from a Pope to the UK before the most recent one was back in 1982 – I’m old enough to remember that one. I was just finishing university at the time, and I remember doing some revision while the visit was on TV in the background. But it was not a state
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-26
On a less serious note…why do I keep thinking of 'Pitt the Younger' in Blackadder when I see Ed Miliband? #lab10 # Sky news yet again showing bias – trying to say EM hasn't a mandate. Bollocks. He got more votes. Simples. #lab10 # Congrats to Ed Miliband…but calling him 'red' or 'left wing'???? Huh???
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-19
Off out to Church – looking froward to it! #fb # RT @TMT_Lawyer: Compare: 6 men discussing terrorist act released without charge; no serious threat & "joking". 1 man tweets joke threat. … # Nick Cohen – Labour and the Tweeted Joke – http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/19/nick-cohen-terrorism-twitter # RT @marcjohnson: RT @jchyip: Science is a method not an
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All things
A Facebook friend of mine (and an author whose work I’ve admired for over years) Jessica Lipnack shared this article – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ron-currie-jr/things-i-learned-while-wr_b_659568.html?ref=fb&src=sp – it’s a good read. I particularly liked the bit about finding ‘Maggie May’ on the car radio – that sort of thing happens a lot in my life and over the years