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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-20

J-P Stacey — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:17:00 +0000

@simonmhawkins your child has extra heads? # @robinhouston you should see some of the personas that @torchbox has come up with in past. They had pictures and backstories and everything. # @didlix during redecorating, we take UHT milk round to new house to avoid buying from Tesco's. We always say UHT stands for "U Hate Tesco's" # just [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13

J-P Stacey — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:17:00 +0000

@hatmandu so THAT'S who's stealing all the bread # A child could do better than this, and DID http://bit.ly/CVYfY #hirstisacock (via @bengoldacre, @charltonbrooker) # Link: Automating web site deployment with Fabric: Fabric, the Python tool for website deployment http://bit.ly/geNPe # Anyone still at #drupalcon or nearabouts: I lost a notebook. Is there a lost property list? Might [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13

jp.stacey — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:17:00 +0000

@hatmandu so THAT'S who's stealing all the bread #
A child could do better than this, and DID http://bit.ly/CVYfY #hirstisacock (via @bengoldacre, @charltonbrooker) #
Link: Automating web site deployment with Fabric: Fabric, the Python tool for website deployment http://bit.ly/geNPe #
Anyone still at #drupalcon or nearabouts: I lost a notebook. Is there a lost property list? Might it be... online...? #
@brighty @wesayso the word "Nazi" actually comes from the phrase "needs sauce", which people always remarked about their underspiced cuisine #
@waako got email from Isabell - apparently everyone's gone but she's got the pile of stuff #
Link: Read Regular - a typeface to help dyslexics: Read Regular is a typeface designed to improve the readi.. http://bit.ly/THEnQ #
RT @TomRaftery: Seriously people, the correct order is planet first, then people, then profit. http://j.mp/11jKOv #climatechange #
#fabric easy_inst barfs cryptically at pycrypto stage if you don't have python-dev installed. How do I report this? http://bit.ly/13UoJ0 #
@alonpeer that photo's not so bad. You should see some of the ones I *didn't* upload. #
Link: Madeleine Bunting on cutting carbon consumption and 10:10: "Carbon cutting is about a more hones.. http://bit.ly/3N1PUg #
@alonpeer yeah, none of that rings a bell. Was that your umbrella though? #
@brighty "Win a camper, fishface (dot com)" #
All evening at the new house, making ready for carpets next Mon and moving in shortly thereafter. Too much on plate right now. #
@murgeys thanks: no sign of notebook but at least I made it home with computer and phone! #
Dixons staff who can actually use Facebook are probably a cut above the average.... #
@brighty Camper Than Fishhoven? I don't know where I'm going with this. #
OH: "Jesus..." "What?" "... I just installed #drupal 7" #
Link: Glum Councillors http://bit.ly/EBxMw #
@greg_harvey I think the lack of blue was a bit of a shock #
@greg_harvey you can only see the non-blue Drupal with your third eye. Peyote might help, or possibly salvia #
My first ever #drupal #ubercart shipping module - seems to be working so far. #
@galooph no user options: it lets admins taxonomize as being e.g. "royal mail", "man with van", then only charges 1x most expensive shipping #
@galooph also has free shipping option if your basket total is over a particular threshold #
Good luck, @andrewgodwin . It'll be fine. Just take a deep breath, then another, and another... and then keel over backwards with hyperoxia! #
@galooph the trick with shipping is in registering extra uc_quote actions. f in doubt trim uc_flatrate down to last 3 fns and rejig #drupal #
Rediscovered placeholder postcode lookup code: click on "find my address", get "You live in a SHOE!" Better remove that before staging. #
What *is* @bloggerheads counting down to? And what has it got to do with the usual UK Toryblog suspects? #
@petecooper @griffinkate has noticed people having trouble with 2nd 't' in 'text' e.g. 'I got a couple of texes', 'Tex me', 'He tex-ed me' #
@leisa disregarding developers OS matters for clients because it solves a trust issue: little supplier lockin and easier supplier comparison #
Whenever I start to complain about #php admin I try to picture how misery-making #coldfusion servers can be. And you pay for the privilege. #
"Apparently, suddenly, it's not a stopped line after all" Renationalization is too good for BT: they should be broken up and sold as scrap. #
Now *I'm* being stalked by the @BTCare bot. Why would a company otherwise desperate to avoid communication with customers use Twitter? #
Maybe if BT didn't hide behind 0845 numbers, understaffed call centres and poor automated phone systems it wouldn't need @BTCare at all #
@BTCare have BT changed their security policy so that I can give out sensitive account data to any Twitter user with "BT" in their name? #
@BTCare if not, then maybe BT money would be better spent hiring engineers and call-centre staff rather than an autoresponding Twitter bot. #
In short, @BTCare bot: no, you CAN'T help. Unless you plan to become the @GPOot any time in the near future. #
Goodbye, @BTCare. Hope you have fun convincing strangers to DM you their account details and teaching them to get phished. #mocknblock #
@psd Theoretically the call centres should be staffed with real people who can help. Once I see evidence of that I'll check out @BTCare. #
@psd @griffinkate's encountered @BTCare before so I was wondering why they hadn't pounced on me yet. #
@psd thanks anyway: a rocket up a bum turned BT's repeated "stop on your line" to "oh, no actual line." Engineer booked but ADSL obv delayed #
@andrewl @greg_harvey ask @garrettc all about Barclays ePDQ and the eleven pounds and eleven pence #
The #drupal epicycles required for my code to act like it's orbiting nodeprofile, which itself orbits user, are making my head spin. #
#google #gmail has just recently stopped remembering my plain-text-response preference. Bug in a recent update? #
@greg_harvey yeah, none of that's mine. A tatty Pukka Pad with incomprehensible notes isn't on the list.... #
We're ready to move, but the rest of the world doesn't seem to be as ready. Then suddenly we get an unexpectedly lovely offer from friends! #
@sillage BT's 0800 is free from an existing BT phone. It's the most expensive number I can call from my mobile. BT line bootstrap #fail. #
What a beautiful morning, though. Golden sunshine and crisp green-smelling air. Rabbits up by Perrotts Hill Farm! #
Wow. Tweet "salvia" and a considerable time later @buysalviaonline follows you. Stop breaking into your own stash, dudes. #mocknblock #
@sillage that was a bit hyperbolic: excluding premium rate lines and foreign countries, I mean #
Blarney-polishing anti-#climatechange Uncle Tom Wogan followed me to #R3 this morning! Can Sarah Kennedy be far behind? Is there no escape? #
@wesayso did you send Wogan over to R3, just to freak me out? #
Setting up this new client crashed @jwebster's software. Looks like the "Bobby Tables Trust" project is on hold for now. (via @davecranwell) #
RT @timetric: Graphing Oxford weather using Timetric! http://bit.ly/6op0U #climatechange #
Frustration at the automated phone systems I've had to use to change address is mitigated by often hilarious mispronunciations of "Cogges" #
@Mark_Radcliffe and @StuartMaconie are walking Hadrian's Wall: it's their last day today but they've been tweeting their progress. Vivat #r2 #
@julietteculver that's terrible! #
A shovelful of fail for me tonight: surprised at how many call centres close before 7, and foxed by work iStockPhoto account *again*. #
@glinner a certain breed of fourteen-year-old customer? #
@wesayso Bambi's gotten quite hard-bitten over the years, hasn't he? #
#reasonstobecheerful the problems I work with are complex and interesting enough that it generally doesn't matter what the tech actually is. #
Ahh! #mssql throws a "device off-line" error on database restore if you've scp'ed the file with #cygwin and its Win permissions are screwy. #
RT @griffinkate Anti-coal vigil outside Ed Miliband's dept, 4:30pm Monday: http://qurl.com/72kbt #climatechange #
@robinhouston could #CiF be improved by tracking pingbacks rather than comments on sensitive articles? Would raise the bar for reply quality #
I always read "your browser has been updated and needs to be restarted" to rhythm of "the people! united! will never be defeated!" #firefox #
Navigador! Renovado! Debe ser recomenzado! #
@greg_harvey I use #chrome a bit, but it's still occasionally buggy. Even Google Apps have prodded bugs in it in the past. #
@greg_harvey maybe it's improved. Now I use it more for xbrowser testing (Webkit) than every day. Firefox needs to get worse for me to move! #
If your only rhetorical trick is to eat your opponent's head, is that an ad hominomnomnomnom argument? #
How on earth does one work out what vacuum cleaner to buy? How does one work out how to work that out? Ah, the homebuyer's burden! #
@wesayso @dracos Miele look very good but I can't work out why I shouldn't just buy a Henry. What doesn't it do? @adamamyl a possibility... #
I'm sensing a lot of Miele love from @simonmhawkins and @wesayso, and that one Simon mentioned was already in my sights.... #
#reasonstobecheerful I live in a country with traditions of providing public lending libraries and of promoting literacy. #
Any good resources (online or other) for identifying trees or shrubs? Several came with house and need tlc #gardening #
@simonmhawkins that Miele you linked to is actually a Cat and Dog vacuum http://bit.ly/iCh7P #
@simonmhawkins was that the actual model you got? I guess it'll be just a generally good cleaner #
Thanks for all the tree-based suggestions. The next step is to take a handy photo if only so that I can do what @socks did and Google terms. #
#reasonstobecheerful The Beatles, let's be honest: even after all the currently mental hype. #
Midcounties #coop has special offers for skiing but you HAVE to fly to Berne to qualify: train travellers can fuck off. #climatechange #fail #
RT @bloggerheads ONE thing you must do today is listen to Donal MacIntyre on Radio 5 Live at 7:30pm http://bit.ly/10q4OF #
Link: Custom SSH port with svnserve at bcg: How to configure svn+ssh with custom variations http://bit.ly/2fg6lT #
"We need a [#drupal] theme for testing, however simple, that looks like a proper website. " Can *you* help #d7ux ? http://bit.ly/VTUjs #
@greg_harvey don't tell me BT's @BTCare bot-that-is-not has started following French residents. Where will this madness end? #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-06

J-P Stacey — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:17:00 +0000

@damiancugley maybe it's showing the Google Map pin through from the other side of the earth, and the camera angle is just wrong. # RT @matason: yay, London to Paris in 3 days on a Brompton – DONE #drupalcon #tourdedrupal # RT @robertDouglass: Still 1 #drupalcon ticket that needs an owner! Early bird price of 295EUR # Our [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-06

jp.stacey — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:17:00 +0000

@damiancugley maybe it's showing the Google Map pin through from the other side of the earth, and the camera angle is just wrong. #
RT @matason: yay, London to Paris in 3 days on a Brompton - DONE #drupalcon #tourdedrupal #
RT @robertDouglass: Still 1 #drupalcon ticket that needs an owner! Early bird price of 295EUR #
Our big futon is gone: I suspect @tomd has stolen it. We're just going to put the rug down with some cushions, and pretend nothing happened. #
@whatishen glad to hear it. Hope you're feeling better soon #
One more conflict on my schedule! RT @TheRealCrell: #drupal design patterns are back on the #drupalcon schedule: http://is.gd/2IYZo #
Hiding upstairs from in-laws, arriving with perfect timing at around the point I want to leave to have relaxed lunch in Oxford. Gah. #
@greg_harvey another option is solely to use main #drupalcon schedule, and eyeball greens v the reds. Easier to spot clashes then. #ux #hack #
#stagecoach S1 has been ten minutes away for ten minutes. Must be terrible bank holiday traffic in, er, Witney. #fail #
Oxford train ticket staff are a bit surly-bored, but they're efficient and they know their onions. By which I mean tickets. #win #
Are we at Slough yet? Bad night's sleep and immersion in Designing for the Web means I've lost track. Wake me at Paddington. #
Any #drupalcon attendees on 1625 Eurostar, come along and say hi: 14/23. #
RT @greg_harvey "http://bit.ly/LMTtp Nice piece by @markboulton. #drupal folk should read it." #d7ux #
Photo: St Pancras elevates me: eustatius posted a photo:
Just passing over the threshold lifts my heart. http://bit.ly/S3J0v #
@greg_harvey Gare d'Austerlitz isn't much to crow about either. Like a cross between a coach station and an iron foundry. #
Out of weird post-Eurostar tunnel and into the future: wind turbines, metal piping, frightening speeds. #
Arrived in Paris for #drupalcon. Off to Financier (r du Depart near Montp-Bienv) and Le Select (b du Montp) for a drink. Any other plans? #
@whatishen I'll do what I can while in Paris. I mean, it's hard to find any examples of bad driving here. #
@waako sorry I've only just got this: roaming wifi isn't as good as we'd hoped. We had a quickie at Financier: bit dingy. #
@waako may switch Twiiter dm SMSes back on for duration of con - will look at mobile plan #
Le Financier OK for @ukdrupal meetup but pretty dingy and dark. If weather good nicer cafe-bars round on Edgar Quinet / d'Odessa. #drupalcon #
Photo: Boulevard Edgar Quinet: eustatius posted a photo:
Edgar Quinet all lit up http://bit.ly/3x2N #
Wait: to attend Views 2 tutorial session at #drupalcon you have to register for #drupalcamp, even though they're listed separately on site? #
Despite what site implies, you DO need to tell #drupalcon about ticket changes in advance, or there's a lot of fandangling. #
Even then, you'll get someone else's name badge. But at least you'll get one #
Anyone coordinating #drupalcon code sprints anywhere? #
On codesprint at #drupalconparis - why do we end up with the patch that's 90% discussion? :) #
@guaka and anyone else getting errors: could try re-logging in at http://192.168.71.253:8000/ Still slow, though #drupalcon #
Up in #openatrium talk at #drupalconparis: a good, solid, integrated product. User-desire-led development a robust way to improve #Drupal. #
Multi-domain sites #drupalcamp talk at #drupalcon - feel like I've suddenly hit the motherlode. Also, wifi sorted now! #win #
@add1sun will docs sprint be still going on Sat? Would like to contrib but schedule is so full, and didn't realise docs sprint was p.m. too #
@didlix at #drupalcon you have to provide your own milk. How you do that is a test of your resourcefulness. BEGIN THE CHALLENGE! #
@ihatemornings How about "Musicians: get a day job?" #
@jojototh are Honnorat #1-4 the informal groups in the room with the chandeliers? Not that I'm yr missing speaker: just trying to work out. #
Alon has lost his umbrella at #drupalcon . Can we raise an issue on d.o for that? #
Live blogging of #drupalcon Day 1 at http://bit.ly/3OUUvk . Now, where was that pub meet again? #
Back to Sophie Germain's ludicrously unreliable wifi to find that Google Mail is giving 502 errors. Google! Been a day of connectivity woes. #
I think there's still people drinking in Rue des Cannettes; or, as we started calling it: Drupal Alley #drupalcon #
@alonpeer every Parisian alley can be Drupal Alley. It's the sign of a successful conference. #
Photo: Jardins et Palais de Luxembourg: eustatius posted a photo:
et une fleur http://bit.ly/G0ZKS #
Listening to @webchick's incredibly fast-paced D7 talk at #drupalcon. I'm sort of relying on the video recording for filling in gaps later. #
@alonpeer those blue drinks in your photos look frightening. Rather glad I missed them! #
@torchbox Bryan's been working ever so hard while he's been here http://bit.ly/ztb0T #
Anyone able to get a list of @Dries' 10 major exceptions to the code freeze? Would be a good springboard to get Sat sprint moving #drupalcon #
@wesayso "It's my city" is a Go Ahead Oxford Bus Company corporate special, isn't it? #
@wesayso it's a mistaken attempt at empathising with the reader of the marketing material, isn't it? Empathickie? Empafail? #
@wesayso "mybollox" would probably mean something altogether different #
#drupalcon Saturday code sprint: hit ground running? Could get issue nos based on 10 exceptions: dm if interested http://bit.ly/4cEPn9 #
I just picked up some really great #drupalcon biscuits, but I've lost them. I'm a bit worried I've put them in a random pocket of my bag. #
Wireless went all funny in Isobar room at #drupalcon so need to write up Views 2 notes. About to start geo tools talk, though. #
@greg_harvey I'll throw something at you when I get a chance. I'm in the pingvision room and the windows are open onto that bit of lawn. #
The true test of a virtuoso is finding inspiration from formal constraints. I note that you can't get good vegetarian food in Paris. #
Heartburn keeping me awake; writing list of suggestions for #drupalcon code sprint on Saturday: 15 juicy issues so far! http://bit.ly/4cEPn9 #
The university cafe at #drupalcon has stopped selling croissants. Curses. #
wifi at #drupalcon is "good" but in a fundamental sense unreliable: you can't be sure it won't die when you click send on an important email #
@chrisheuer social media success is attitude: d.o is weak-ish in social media impl, yet it fosters a strong, emotive community. #drupalcon #
By all means *let's* start with catering: it's some of the worst vegetarian food I've ever eaten with the longest queues for it. #drupalcon #
@ihatemornings lots of companies which have spent years avoiding contact with 0870 and webforms are scared of Twitter: we were stalked by BT #
"thanks to @MarkBoulton for helping to drive change/focus on the outsider" @chrisheuer++ at #drupalcon #
ten micro typography tips in @markboulton's #drupalcon talk. It's a coincidence, but tips come in groups of ten, 80% of the time. #funfact #
@markboulton's wrong quotation marks: primes are a pragmatic rather than lazy choice; years of Microsoft smart quotes defeated us #drupalcon #
@brankru you need to get the darker cookies. They contain more fibre. Also chocolate milk to replenish lack of milk with coffee. #drupalcon #
j'ai faim! #drupalconparis #drupalcon (please RT) #
@ukdrupal are all in the back room behind the Maison Internationale cafetiere (NOT the restaurant) at #drupalcon. Good, cheap food. #
"Wrap your arms around the therapy llama" http://twitpic.com/gal3w #
@j4 ici il n'y a rien du lait pour du thé. Rien du lait! Pour du *thé*! Crapauds! #
@Wesayso @ihatemornings fed now, but thank you for your concern. We were trying to get a rolling wave of faim rewteets #
@garrettc @_mmat_ has been a total camera-head all #drupalcon, but he's taken some good pictures so he may be onto something. #
@j4 AM IAM MIAM MAOAM? Hic haec hoc hunc hovis bovis vovis wunc. #
RT @kkaefer: #drupalcon: PHP is the only language where "15" == "0xF" (both strings) is true (via @chx1975) #
#ubercart talk at #drupalcon interesting but stymied by lack of PA and quiet speakers: crosstalk with another session's wireless microphone! #
Drifted off during #Ubercart panel - too hard to hear - so started looking at #drupal bug queue. #drupalcon #
@j4 how about Chinese Whispering Gallery Room? You can thank me later #
Wondering if there's demand for non-boozy coffee-oriented post-#drupalcon socializing thing tonight. Leave 6ish, finish by 9. #kaffeeklatsch #
Saturday code sprint: want your tickets tackled? We're making a list and checking it twice: here! http://bit.ly/4cEPn9 #drupalcon #
RT @Propeople Reinventing #Journalism with #Drupal - #DrupalCon Paris live blogging http://bit.ly/peJGg #
@greg_harvey is a +1 for post-#drupalcon non-alcoholic socializing. Anyone else? Any @ukdrupal people? @alonpeer? #
@greg_harvey @alonpeer @steveparks and I will be off for coffee post-#drupalcon today. Follow #drupalcoffee if you want to tag along. #
Link: Style Stripper | drupal.org: "Allow configuration of which module CSS files that should be loade.. http://bit.ly/2IyaGG #
@winston_d I'm up for that. Let's discuss a bit after six on the lawn #drupalcoffee #
@mcjim we'll see what we can do. I have unleashed coffee-based forces beyond my control #
Cache stampeding - could we call it cachecading instead? [wait for applause] #drupalcon #
#drupalcoffee meet at 6pm-ish on the left of Adenauer / Acquia room . We'll look at maps and then set off for coffee. #drupalcon #
RT @matason: just switch the MySQL storage engine to InnoDB for Drupal 5/6 sites for a performance boost - who knew? #drupalcon #
Major tickets for Lock API in D7 now on the suggestion list for Saturday's code sprint http://bit.ly/4cEPn9 #drupalcon #
RT @_mmat_: first batch of #drupalcon photos online (pre-tidy!) http://bit.ly/GQ0ZU #
ApacheSolr talk impressive as always - search that WORKS - but think I'll get more new detail out of case study of RFI/France24 #drupalcon #
@winston_d might be nice to sit. I'm up for cheapo food (if at all) as veggie food quality does not scale with price in Paris! #drupalcoffee #
RT @galooph: #drupalcon proves to be too much for @mcjim http://twitpic.com/gbf8u #
#drupalcoffee Reminder: meet on left of Adenauer / Acquia room a bit after 6pm, leave by 6.30. I'll be wearing an orange T-shirt. #drupalcon #
Man, I love CCK, but why are none of the top hits for "suitability callback" in Google anything to do with ACTUAL DOCUMENTATION? #drupalcon #
#drupalcoffee getting itchy - lack of caffeine does that. We'll leave soon prob for the cafe on the corner of Parc Monsouris. #drupalcon #
@greg_harvey Ow, harsh. if you don't think it's too ick then you're welcome to borrow my other pair of shoes. What size are you? I'm an 11. #
@winston_d good to meet you too. Hope you and Marc didn't feel out of place with what turned out to be entirely @ukdrupal folks! #
@bangpound if DIVitis throws a SPANner in your work, do you get #drupalcramp? #drupalcon #
@robinhouston I managed around a 30% drop (but our awful landlady removed all our curtains and we're worse than before) #
@robinhouston so moving into our own house could see another huge drop, independent of #tentenuk #
@robinhouston that said, as dark-green I don't find the fact that public discourse is now light green excluding. I find it uplifting. Bravo! #
@robinhouston three years ago we were all emerging shell-shocked from a Monbiot talk, worried nobody else would ever accept the science. #
@greg_harvey no way! I could pop over yours with some comfy shoes first thing, then. What hotel are you at? #
@robinhouston we moved house, reduced heating 20->15, stopped using car & crap freezer, put in energy-saver lightbulbs. Was quite hard tho. #
@techsoldaten I thought the keynote on the second day was like a whiff of smelling salts: offputting but ultimately welcome. #drupalcon in reply to techsoldaten #
@jbingold I'd like to go to that: more pertinent for me than keynote. Can you put a reminder on Twitter just beforehand? I'm not awake yet. #
Attention, developers! Come to CTools with @merlinofchaos. Attention, non-developers! Consider seeing something else, tbh. #drupalcon #
@_mmat_ I dare you to give Druplicon a push. See if he falls over and can't get up. #drupalcon #
I didn't know you could get those from Oxfam. Shouldn't they be listed as "hospitality"? http://bit.ly/KFb9f #
@purrin surely #flupal ? Achoo! #drupalcon #
@alonpeer I suddenly get this weird feeling like I'm being watched...! Will try 6th row for post-keynote. #
@drupalcon it would be really great if all the videos and slides that are available are listed somewhere centrally after #drupalcon finishes #
Hey, everyone! @ihatemornings spotted the mythical Palais de Didecot on the way to #unconvention! http://twitpic.com/gejjh #
RT @JBingold: Drupal and NGO BOF in @10AM in danone.communities room #drupalcon http://ff.im/7DrDy #
Plugins BOF - code and tutorial at 1.40 in Satsuma #drupalcon #
NGO BOF at #drupalcon seems to have turned into Danone, OpenAtrium and Features Funtime Hour. #
Power, power in Adenauer, otherwise I've got an hour. Any plug sockets here? #drupalcon #
@greg_harvey thanks - I got power from @domesticat on bottom left. She has a magic protean any-country gangplug. Fear her power(s)! #
Hope we're reaching a rapprochement between the two recently arguing camps at #drupalcon - think devs and UXers understand each other better #
@merlinofchaos talking about panels 3: feels like blocks+ which still plays nicely alongside blocks. Thanks for the work, merlin! #drupalcon #
Creamer now available in decent amounts at #drupalcon, but unless you want your coffee to taste like a panini, avoid the goat's milk. #
@hatmandu no, aixpresso #
In CTools plugins BOF. Don't stop to tweet, whatever you do: you look back at the screen to find everything's 10 stages on... #drupalcon #
Whew. Hectic BOF presentation on CTools plugins from @randyfay. Props to him and of course @merlinofchaos . #drupalcon #
Book of Kells might be poor typography but is beautiful. As art, that is: I wouldn't want to have to read it #drupalcon http://bit.ly/13ZGwR #
As a non-designer with a tin eye, committed to UX and trying for good design, I'm finding @markboulton's talk amazing. #drupalcon #
@andrewl you totally saw an elephant? That's crazy. I only got to see @markboulton over in the Adenauer. He's OK but no elephant. #drupalcon #
A possibility? RT @mirko_haaser Going to see the Eiffel Tower tonight. Join us at 9:30 pm #drupalcon #drupaleiffel #
Another possibility RT @NikLP @ericg Come to Butte aux Cailles tonight man? Shit bars serving Erdinger, drinking on the street. #drupalcon #
@robpurdie great to catch up with you. Safe journey back for you both! #
Saturday code sprint suyggestions http://bit.ly/4cEPn9 now folded into drupal.org wiki page! http://bit.ly/UNJsl (via @drupalcon) #drupalcon #
#thxisabell ! #drupalcon #
@alonpeer currently Butte Aux Cailles winning out but will keep you in loop. #
I'll be avoiding the Hotel Sophie Germain in future. Their showers have no holders and run at same time as the bath. Sploosh! #
My dad sent me a "hilarious" forward about the "C-NILE" virus. Twice. I don't think it was a joke. #
Any of the Butte des Cailles splitters know wtf is going on? @mcjim says several still grounded #drupalcon #
#drupalcon code sprint progressing steadily. Lots of activity up here. I forgot how much I hate l10n and translation.... http://bit.ly/UNJsl #
Public don't agree with James Murdoch's obsession with "choice" http://tinyurl.com/lj792y #welovetheBBC (via @Martynnorris) #
Thanks to all at #drupalcon for a great week and good luck to sprinters. Off to catch my Eurostar. (No, @greg_harvey, I'm NOT in "steerage") #
Back in the UK, just trekking from St Paddas to St Pancrington. Think I need some sleep. #
Photo: Alon in Drupal Alley: eustatius posted a photo: http://bit.ly/Ktg5W #
@hatmandu there was one old house on our road that had that dozens of times. A40 joyriders love popping into Eynsham for some reason. #
My back's killing me but I want to see how our new house looks after my in-laws decorated. And put together Ikea flatpacks. Ow. Ow. Ow. #
Tweets which would confuse my parents: RT @simonw: Since installing Snow Leopard I seem to spend most if my time staring at a beach ball #
Over to the new house to survey the fruits of my in-laws' labours with Project Manager @griffinkate . Can't wait. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30

J-P Stacey — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:17:00 +0000

Photo: The Rosina Emma: eustatius posted a photo: http://bit.ly/uXKC0 # Photo: Wiring at old house: eustatius posted a photo: We had a surprise visit from an electrician today… http://bit.ly/6AyOo # RT @j4 … week begins with #cagerfail, road rage, & cycle-phobic abuse from St Giles Cafe staff # Buses every 15mins, delayed by 12mins, are each effectively 3mins early, [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30

jp.stacey — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:17:00 +0000

Photo: The Rosina Emma: eustatius posted a photo: http://bit.ly/uXKC0 #
Photo: Wiring at old house: eustatius posted a photo:
We had a surprise visit from an electrician today... http://bit.ly/6AyOo #
RT @j4 ... week begins with #cagerfail, road rage, & cycle-phobic abuse from St Giles Cafe staff #
Buses every 15mins, delayed by 12mins, are each effectively 3mins early, surprising everybody. Way to go, #stagecoach #fail #
Photo: Three colours: blue: eustatius posted a photo:
That right-hand wall looks white when you put it o.. http://bit.ly/j0Cy8 #
Eynsham in the late evening sun, bells pealing, warm summer air. Cameras cannot capture such an idyll. #
Back at work while @griffinkate celebrates her actual birthday by just chilling. I love my job but not so much that I'm not dead jealous...! #
RT @wesayso I think @shitmydadsays might well be the find of the week. (via @rhodri) #
@mapkyca in the end I handed them a wrapped Ikea sofa rather than a brush. It kept them busy unwrapping it and checking all the bits wer ... #
@robinhouston RT @drewm: If you like puffins, you'll love these.. um.. puffin photos. http://flic.kr/p/6SHPSA #
My dad would never have allowed me to have a drawerful of knives when I was a kid. Now I can own as many as I want. #brokenbritain #
@j4 my rings go to and from the chain round my neck depending: last time I forgot the engagement ring ended up packed with no-sanding filler #
"It seems that every time we have a protest the police turn up and start hitting people" http://bit.ly/1cJwk #climatecamp (@canterburygeeks) #
RT @jonnelledge Under a Tory government I never saw a single naked woman. Under Labour I have seen several #brokenbritain (reciprocal RT!) #
Link: Top 10 UX Myths http://bit.ly/hGv8W #
@hatmandu I think 31 exclamation marks just an expression of slightly under-literate panic. How passive-aggressive it is depends on context. #
@hatmandu e.g. "COMMUNAL FRIDGES DO NOT CLEAN THEMSELVES!!!" in Comic Sans is passive-aggressive #
RT @andrewl: help! need business cards delivered to a uk address by sat am. have been let down by vistaprint. please RT #
@garrettc maybe they think you need all the help you can get #
@griffinkate @j4 curses! You've found out that my real name is Trisomy X! #
RT @orangejon: #climatecamp location announced: Blackheath (next to Greenwich Park). If you're free, get down there (via @jamieandrews) #
T767 PTG overtook this a.m. on single track between passing places, squeezed past dangerously only to pull up at house in Finstock. #cag ... #
Two #Freecycle requests for the same thing: one gave a disconnected mobile number; one gave a landline that goes straight to voicemail #fail #
#Vodafone subscribed me to mailing lists without my consent, then the unsubscribe URL broke in text-only browsers / mail clients. #fail #dpa #
@damiancugley on Windows 7, files edit YOU #
Tomcat is such a huge, labyrinthine, enigmatic, confusing, counter-intuitive application. I mean it's more stable than the Rock of Gib, but. #
RT @markboulton ... the HTML that Views (Drupal module) produces is beyond bad. It may as well be tables it's that bad. Seriously dreadful. #
Views in #Drupal is a tremendous achievement, and initiatives like #d7ux mean we can take it to the next level in accessibility and ux. #
I'd love to be able to order the sessions I've bookmarked in a schedule similar to the main ones, so I know what I'm seeing when. #drupalcon #
@htfb ratatouille is the question; *this* is the answer: http://bit.ly/X6324 #
Yes! The problem wasn't with #Tomcat; nor was it with #Drupal, but somewhere in between. Handful of records not written to tracking table. #
RT @bengoldacre: Documentary on the awesome Hans Rosling: he so rules http://bit.ly/9Pt41 #
#drupalcon keeps me away from @climatecamp this year, which is doubly embarrassing as @torchbox designed their new site: http://bit.ly/HYC6a #
@j4 one says to the other "is this some kind of joke?" #
Link: iPhone copycats are a modern day cargo cult - Boing Boing: 5-minute Ignite talk on iPhone copycats http://bit.ly/1WVwcI #
A conversation for #drupalcon? RT @garrettc: Drupal is at a crossroads with design. http://bit.ly/axW7w (via @leisa) #
@benwerd there's something really stirring about driving rain on big windows, isn't there? The semi-white noise and the random dramatic fx. #
Ace post from Chris Calicott about how we can embrace change and move ahead with #drupal : http://bit.ly/kxK6h . The drop must keep moving! #
RT @ipwa ...design/dev divide in Drupal is being blown out of proportion, I never felt the tension that's being conveyed on blogs and tweets #
Armadillo Cam from the Museum of Animal Perspectives: http://bit.ly/pgRjL #
@Dries I think they could be a usability expert, not necessarily a designer. Look how creative tension helped The Smiths! Er, briefly. #
Gloss paint is a nightmare from which, with the help of a sandwich from @griffinkate, I am trying to awake. #
Wish I had a numerable pre-con checklist like @robertdouglass: ringing HSBC to ensure cards OK abroad felt like item 5+3i. #
Trick for HSBC: ring geo equiv for phone banking, choose 'inquire about commercial loan' then act all flustered when human answers. #
Free #wifi in Parisian parks, incl. Parc Monsouris just opposite #drupalcon venue http://bit.ly/u7sHw My French suggests no serious catches. #
RT @ukdrupal Hello UK Drupallers: @NikLP here. Took the liberty of making this account for #Drupalcon (etc) co-ordination. Follow or perish. #
@torchbox chums: can't find Bryan G on Twitter - did he squish his account? I'm sure I'd friended him once. #
Druplicon sets off for for #drupalcon, hitch-hiking. Like having a bad trip after someone spiked your blueberry muffin: http://bit.ly/ou0PN #
@griffinkate your nightmare about #thatcher - did it look anything like "Ja Da" ? http://www2.b3ta.com/jada/ #
Surely if they call themselves "The Weather Girls" then they should have *weather* for us, not news. #r2 #
Link: A musical challenge: The 9 Album: Writing and recording nine songs from 9am till 9pm on 09/09/09, wit.. http://bit.ly/4zwcX7 #
For those who don't know, then: @_mmat_ is also coming from @torchbox to #drupalcon. Bryan, follow @ukdrupal in case we get lost in Paris... #
Avoiding the desire to potter in Oxford bookshops for another hour. It's just avoidance of less fun packing and sorting. #
@markboulton @garrettc suggested a few of us turn up in suits, sunglasses and earpieces and just surround you. Well, I can see no drawbacks. #
@markboulton remember that offence easily taken in OS communs is generally as easily abandoned, and that what #d7ux is doing is *important*. #
@didlix ferry? why no Eurostar? #
#drupalcon calendar / schedule display now looking much better. Looks like I have an entire conference of schedule clashes ahead of me! #

Live blogging from DrupalCon Paris 2009

J-P Stacey — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:53:25 +0000

Drupal developer wrestles with online technology; succeeds.

Live blogging from DrupalCon Paris 2009

jp.stacey — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:53:25 +0000

This is just a quick note to say that I've set up a Google Doc to automatically republish on changes. That means that (if you like) you can read my intermittently live blogging of DrupalCon Paris 2009.

Those of a Twitter bent might prefer to follow me, the #drupalcon hashtag or @ukdrupal.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23

J-P Stacey — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:17:00 +0000

@htfb can you have chips? We just had chips. # The new bedroom is now more or less half painted; the carpet is part-removed; some livingroom holes filled. Not half bad. # My sinuses have gone ballistic, though, maybe with paint fumes. At least my head still feels more or less clear today. # Not sure how I [...]