October 2009
47 posts
The Star Trek uniform onesies from @ThinkGeek are supermegacool http://is.gd/4zOrH (via @wilw)
Oct 25th
Why is the 2009 F1 game by Codemasters not available for pre-order on Amazon? Bah.
Oct 25th
Furlough Fridays hit the BBC: http://bit.ly/3umNrO No mention of the lawsuits, though. http://bit.ly/VZ1PW for information on those.
Oct 24th
Jean Todt is the new FIA President. Knew I should have invested in cardigans last week.
Oct 24th
5am is a little earlier than I would have liked.
Oct 23rd
It’d be nice to be able to write more than three nights of data to one tape. Price we pay for clear skies, I guess!
Oct 23rd
In high school we called this pass that Jonathan Toews received a “hospital pass”: http://bit.ly/17CMnk #canucks
Oct 23rd
Perl tip of the day: Don’t do “$c = $a || $b” to define $c based on definedness of $a, do “$c = $a // $b” instead (perl5.10 and higher).
Oct 22nd
Terminal.app beachballing? Are you kidding me?
Oct 22nd
New #WordPress 2.8.5 release adds security improvements now rather than waiting for 2.9. http://tinyurl.com/yknjcdx (via @tonymilio)
Oct 21st
Forgot how awesome Peter Gabriel’s “So” is.
Oct 21st
Recipe parameters in @oracdr are awesome. I don’t know why we didn’t come up with this five years ago.
Oct 21st
Happy Birthday to my favourite @domesticat!
Oct 21st
Barnes & Noble releasing an e-reader named ‘Nook’ on Tuesday. Rumoured mini version will be named the ‘Nookie’.
Oct 20th
Running out of disk space half-way through a reduction is getting really old.
Oct 20th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18) →
Pearl Jam (47)  Radiohead (17)  Nine Inch Nails (12)  The Tragically Hip (11)  Massive Attack (8)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 20th
Weekly Tweet Digest for 2009-10-18 →
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And now we play “Where’s The Observer?”
Oct 17th
I wish I could get in touch with my rental agent. A week and five phone calls has lead to nothing. Just want the tub drain fixed!
Oct 17th
Playing Paul Simon right after Rage Against The Machine is kind of jarring.
Oct 16th
But Up isn’t due to be released on DVD/Blu-ray for another three weeks! Poor timing on this PR stunt, that’s for sure.
Oct 16th
“I am happy to inform you that your paper 2009-05-05688A will be published in Nature on the 29 October 2009.”
Oct 16th
Looking at the commit logs for the past month it appears I’ve done less than I thought. Status report will be quick for the meeting then!
Oct 15th
Think I may have sorted out galactic plane rasters. Kicking off reduction job so I’ll find out tomorrow morning.
Oct 14th
“We have arrived too late to play The Bleeding Heart Show!”
Oct 14th
What the hell, the Canucks don’t play again until Friday?
Oct 13th
Wish I could support my friends and see The Laramie Project tonight. Alice will be going while I watch Elizabeth though!
Oct 13th
Wish I’d never heard of Matthew Shepard.
Oct 13th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-11) →
The Tragically Hip (20)  Radiohead (15)  Pearl Jam (15)  Boards of Canada (14)  Jon Hallur (8)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 13th
Weekly Tweet Digest for 2009-10-11 →
Oct 12th
Bad Baby Names: Turkey Edition →
Oct 12th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-4) →
Radiohead (71)  Dire Straits (27)  The Beatles (27)  Daft Punk (20)  Pearl Jam (14)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 11th
New blog post: Bad Baby Names: Turkey Edition http://bit.ly/jU3Tg
Oct 11th