August 2008
49 posts
WatchWe moved home a good year ago now. Wierdly met the old owner in the Newspaper shop at lunch - all very uncomfortable. This is a set of pics that show the before and after appearance of our bathroom & kitchen.
getting RSI from my microsoft two button mouse. Particularly on the right click. I want my Apple mighty mouse back. harrumph!
has made more websites this week than the whole of the last 6 months. And all for OT. PS: I love jquery
Oxfordshire Research Conference: http://oorg.metaot.com Come & Sign up!
WatchThis tune constantly goes round and round and round my head. What I didn’t realise was this Gabba Gabba thing has something to do with the marvellous Biz Markie and Paul Frank’s Julius The Monkey - how cool is that? Skip to about 1 minute in for the rather addictive ditty or download the MP3 or a OK remix
WatchTelegraph Online Blooper - great that nobody edited this. Think this was the first or second day that it went live.
“How are you? Fine, and you? It’s not that we don’t care, it’s that we’re...”
– Richard Siken (an edit via align)
Toys, toys, and more toys.. consumerism and...
On trying to find something about something entirely different I discovered this gem from the past (I think when Home Truths used to be presented by John Peel) by Tom Robinson who also has a great little column in the Torygraph. I often wonder however what his kids will think of some of the things when they grow up since he has documented their whole lives.. anyway as usual I’m getting off...
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really...”
– Steve Jobs
“You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates...”
– Brian Tracy (via onherway)
“We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams”
– Arthur O’Shaughnessy (not Willy Wonka, Aphex Twin or 808 State)
Fans mob Parry thinking he is Phelps →
Genius. “I am Steve Parry. Iam from Great Britain. I am Not Phelps!”
DIGITAL PICTURE - PRETTY SKY - FREE SHIP →
This digital picture of the sky was taken during my morning walk around the lake.
It can be used for desktop wallpaper or frame for a wall hanging or poster.
It will be emailed to the buyer at least 5X8 inches in size and can be sent in black and white or sepia if requested. There is no cost for s/h. This picture is for the buyers personal use only and may not be published or reproduced for...
“I woke up around 11-o’clock. And sat around and watched some TV. Then I...”
– Hope for us all wannable Olympians. It fits with the laid back stereotype of Jamaica and I love it. Nutrition is not even half the big thing its meant to be in sport. Mc’D’s must be lovin’ it. [Usain Bolt post World & Olympic Record run]
Terry Pratchett (the author) has (recently) been diagnosed with Alzheimers. In this piece on the BBC news site I found this little gem.
This is to be filed in “Why Assessments and health staff need to use better tests” or “Why is that these tests are so ridiculous”
He has sold more than 55 million books worldwide and his work has been translated into 33 languages. But...
An email to the BBC
Yeah Go team GB! What I don’t get is this: Every four years the Olympics come round and everybody I know can’t get enough of Yngling, Various forms of Rowing that you didn’t know existed, a 1000 ways of riding a bike and Gymnastics that we all thought was a junior school event only (where is the monkey bars event in the Olympics though?). Viewing figures surely go through the...
“Britain’s all-time record is 56 gold medals, at the 1908 Olympics in London....”
– TUG OF WAR?! In the Olympics? Get in! Here’s my vote for the tug-of-war to be back in the 2012 Olympics!
(NB: I was going to go as far as make a petition for this when I thought “No, I have a lot better things to be doing”. I saw that some people don’t however: e.g Allow Kanga’s to compete as...
Plurk & identi.ca -> Twitter (via my pipe & twitterfeed) -> facebook (via twitter app in facebook), tumblr (in the preferences) works really well. Highly recommended. Multi-social spamming. What with that and atomkeep.com I think Im all fixed up. No more tinkering with this microblogging malarky for a while
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Plurk to Twitter
So plurk is one of the numerous microblogging platforms everybody is raving about. The only problem is the majority of folk are on twitter. There are a few services springing up to syndicate your plurk feed to twitter but one of them : twitterfeed (which is great at taking any rss feed and inputting it into twitter) leaves the feed untouched. It means you end up with a feed in twitter that...
why are transition services so rubbish? why is the NHS run by part timers? why 18 wks? so many questions so little time to fix the world
Off out having given up trying to hack around rubbish vpn windows only software. Half a day’s work to go though on my php mission. Concl …
“If I ever went into battle, I’d take a bunch of poodles with me. Given a choice...”
– Mark Dockham (via affremblequotes)
Client: "So do you mind if I ask.. do you get paid well?"
Me: "Well lets put it like this. I can do three days work freelance as a web developer and get paid the same amount as 1 and half months full time as an OT"
Client: "Rigghhht"
Client: "So that's a NO then"
Client: "So why are you doing OT then??"
Why does my mac wake up every Friday at 1am?
Ok something like the 3rd week in a row now. Every Friday morning at about 1AM my imac decides its time to take over the world. “Booooong” at the dead of night. Annoying when you have set the volume to the max and you really need some sleep.
Doing this in the terminal doesn’t help:
Will-Wades-iMac:~ willwade$ pmset -g sched Repeating power events: shutdown at 9:30AM weekdays...
An Email to the Telegraph..
Loving the videos! Here are some ideas: - BMXing somewhere - perhaps the gt china wall?! - Synchronised swimming with Mr fatty aka Matt Pinsent :)
An email in response to “Challenge James Cracknell” and the ace videos on telegraph.co.uk - an understated piece of class in the mire of Olympics rubbish (Hasn’t Matt Pinsent bloated out somewhat??!)
yay. Pearson Assessments have sent me a nice list of OT assessments. Watch this space for a all new singing & dancing metaot Ax list
NB: I’m not on maternity leave. That would be weird and a medical breakthrough.
“Just remember your place. You’re only a OT”
chip butties are the way forward
seriously lacking in motivation today. Found a book called “Self-discipline in 10 days” but can’t be bothered to read the first page.
back rocking the hard stuff. xml, php5, sockets, throughbred basic.. well thankfully not the latter. let the nightmare begin for 2 weeks
“If people keep focusing so much on documenting their life on Twitter, Tumblr,...”
back at work - too many emails..and a 1001 answer phone messages while I was away at scout camp. part of the fun of organising 2 conferences
Kids need the adventure of 'risky' play →
On getting back from a week with 17 scouts and then a weekend at the Big Chill (not relevant but hey) I read this.. surprised? I think not.