Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29
- Sleep for Reading… #
- Almost time to start the Reading packing #
- @timmartin2 Ah yes - I forgot that point
in reply to timmartin2 # - The Lions are biding their time, watching from a distance… #
- @timmartin2 That’s faster internet access than you’d get here! BT would take at least 4 weeks to sort it out
in reply to timmartin2 # - Wet, (and cold I think though the cleaner disagrees), let’s hope it’s not like this in Berkshire! #
- Rain must have affected my time this morning - otherwise I’m getting worse #
- It’s actually cold this morning… #
- @dhawes667 Hope she’s ok, Tommy normally does things like that just before we go on Holiday! in reply to dhawes667 #
- Still raining, but the Rabbit for dinner was nice #
- Still raining! Tell it’s dry in Reading… #
- @rachelnelligan Do you have to be female for that to apply? in reply to rachelnelligan #
- @timmartin2 We’ll be expecting some form of electronic updates, and pictures of the Impala steak in reply to timmartin2 #
- No emails for distraction at this time in the morning… #
- Coffee damnit! #
- @timmartin2 Good luck! in reply to timmartin2 #
- @bpeel That sounds somewhat recursive in reply to bpeel #
- @dhawes667 Why not down south in reply to dhawes667 #
- Wish I was at the Zoo with Libs #
- How is it a) the 24th of August already and b) only 11.55? #
- @csstacey That was the second half of the run and it didn’t help! in reply to csstacey #
- Oh dear, my 1.7 miles times aren’t looking good… #
- @james_dunmore I’ll let you have that in reply to james_dunmore #
- @csstacey Ah, ok, point taken in reply to csstacey #
- @csstacey Whats wrong with it! in reply to csstacey #
- Wake up mail server… #
- @AndiSmith Sounds fun! in reply to AndiSmith #
- Programmatic Dependency Injection with an Abstract Factory - sounds about right, why didn’t I know to type that into google…? #
- @csstacey @Undeleterious It was the “See Dave, See Dave… …JimBob…?” bit that made me laugh in reply to csstacey #
- @james_dunmore Reading will be better in reply to james_dunmore #
- @dhawes667 Really, that many! We’ll have to speed things up! in reply to dhawes667 #
- Java & Factory classes really don’t make sense at this time in the morning! #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22
- I have found a secret skill! #
- What a day! #
- Home time! #
- Don’t you just love the clarity and expressiveness of EBNF…? #
- @csstacey Get it to irritate Tommy, he’s normally quick enough in reply to csstacey #
- @james_dunmore We have pretty much all of it in the next three months… damnit! in reply to james_dunmore #
- @james_dunmore And MOT and Insurance… in reply to james_dunmore #
- Love my Charlie and Libby! #
- @james_dunmore Now you can do anything! in reply to james_dunmore #
- Lacking motivation now… #
- @AndiSmith Libby likes sausages… in reply to AndiSmith #
- @giftedmike That’s a lay-in in reply to giftedmike #
- I’m sure that this was working yesterday… #
- The calm before the storm? #
- Time has come to get out the python book… damn it’s at work! #
- I wonder why it’s doing that? #
- @rwspencer Yes, if I ever get around to changing everything over… in reply to rwspencer #
- Fedora is being annoying… #
- Foos, yes it is that kind of day. #
- @tk_answers What killed Steve Irwin? #
- @dhawes667 If you guys were in cambridge - I’d probably already be working for you in reply to dhawes667 #
- @james_dunmore I know what you mean in reply to james_dunmore #
- @james_dunmore Cool, what’s with all these people getting married? So have you got a date yet? in reply to james_dunmore #
- Grrrr… still cold #
- So noone up for Reading then…? #
- @nightracer You’d have to convince Charlie! in reply to nightracer #
- @csstacey Always the chicken! in reply to csstacey #
- @nightracer If only I lived closer in reply to nightracer #
- @james_dunmore I think that we may need to organise a “haven’t seen you for ages” event… in reply to james_dunmore #
- @AndiSmith November? in reply to AndiSmith #
- @AndiSmith Indeed we should, we’re free at somepoint in Sept. I’m sure in reply to AndiSmith #
- @AndiSmith Libby always misses green… in reply to AndiSmith #
- @csstacey She had me looking for a plane for about five minutes in reply to csstacey #
- @csstacey What did she say she could see on the way home yesterday? in reply to csstacey #
- @tk_answers weather in cambridge? #
- @rwspencer How is that tune still so catchy! in reply to rwspencer #
- Cold again, remind me, what month are we in? #
- Well back to work after a weekend away for @drbsg wedding, shame we can’t go again everyone had a great time! #
- @nightracer That was quite vital then, not sure @dhawes667 gave that enough emphasis! in reply to nightracer #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-15
- @drbsg From all at TK - Hope it all goes well this morning! #
- Guybrush will solve the case! #
- @dhawes667 Lovely, sometimes they like the egg boxes the milkman leaves, and once they ate a cheque I’d left out for him! in reply to dhawes667 #
- @beth_tk Yes, I like a lot of the practices that the seem to have there, who knows what the future holds… in reply to beth_tk #
- @rwspencer You could always get some cookies in reply to rwspencer #
- @bentregenna Not that different from Chickens then? in reply to bentregenna #
- @csstacey Well we don’t ever talk in reply to csstacey #
- Arghh! What is so different between libtool 2.2.6 and 2.2.6b damn you thrift! #
- @james_dunmore Ah… and I thought no one cared! in reply to james_dunmore #
- Sometimes it feels like I have twitter to myself in the mornings #
- HTTP headers are great… #
- It’s very cold in the office this morning, the AC is on and so was the fan… #
- @TheGina I’m not even going to ask! in reply to TheGina #
- Not email worth a dime this morning, what’s going on with the world! #
- @dhawes667 I’m sure you meant to say ‘maths’ there… in reply to dhawes667 #
- @dhawes667 Not until December, just being prepared! in reply to dhawes667 #
- Just bought a double buggy… time to start saving again #
- So who fancies Reading this year? #
- Travis in the Co-op, not heard them for a while! #
- @james_dunmore You’ll get there… in reply to james_dunmore #
- @dhawes667 We had to check, just in case in reply to dhawes667 #
- http request or DB lookup…. hum… #
- @dhawes667 On one hand excellent on the other hand you’ll now have to find someone to eat pickled beetroot in reply to dhawes667 #
- @james_dunmore Wait until you have kids! in reply to james_dunmore #
- Interesting classification of NoSQL… http://bit.ly/96fg2A #
- Sounds like a fun environment to work in http://bit.ly/aiTYPA #
- I’m always deeply suspicious of CS papers that ‘prove’ ‘theorems’ that they’ve spent the last two pages listing the assumptions for… #
- @pierrefar The stamp ones are my favourites in reply to pierrefar #
- It seems that RabbitMQ can rule the world… #
- Long busy day, finally off to bed, good time out with @drbsg before his impending marriage! #
- More cracker, more cracker… #
- Used up the Basil anyway #
- Pesto made, seems nice… #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08
- Zoo, pub, allotment, monkey island… what more could a Saturday hold? #
- @beth_tk Basil, pinenuts, garlic, parmesan and oil… seems easy… in reply to beth_tk #
- Hum, how to make pesto… #
- Tired… #
- @dhawes667 You need an unbuntu box in reply to dhawes667 #
- 10,000,000 keys @ 4.2GB though… Still waiting on what the new hashing does to that figure… #
- Riak on EC2 much happier today… #
- @dhawes667 Biros? in reply to dhawes667 #
- @dhawes667 Like girls? Or in a very gruff manly manner? in reply to dhawes667 #
- Trying out bitcasks new hashing to see how it helps memory usage… #
- @rwspencer in reply to rwspencer #
- @rwspencer Access was your first mistake in reply to rwspencer #
- @pierrefar If only… in reply to pierrefar #
- @james_dunmore But how would Sanderson have dealt with it - we’ll never know… in reply to james_dunmore #
- Saw a dead badger on the way in this morning, reminds me of uni… #
- @dhawes667 That sounds like the most fun solution! Now where to get the laser from… in reply to dhawes667 #
- @csstacey in reply to csstacey #
- @csstacey Perhaps a +2 wooden spoon of defending would have been enough in reply to csstacey #
- @csstacey He was holding a mop, but there was no broom to hand and the wooden spoon would have been a significant disadvantage… in reply to csstacey #
- Have coffee now, all is well now back to work #
- Cleaner stopping me from getting to coffee… what to do! #
- @justinsheehy One of the things I’m concerned with about bitcask though is the need to keep all the keys in memory - our test set used >1GB in reply to justinsheehy #
- @justinsheehy Is anything likely to outperform bitcask though? It seems as if that’s as fast as Riak will go? in reply to justinsheehy #
- @justinsheehy For anything with IO That is very true! I shall try setting up another ephemeral store and see if that helps in reply to justinsheehy #
- @justinsheehy would it hurt the performance that much though, MySQL seems to cope ok… in reply to justinsheehy #
- @beth_tk Cool in reply to beth_tk #
- @AndiSmith Ah you surpass my knowledge of the subject, I still use awk to get the mean in reply to AndiSmith #
- @AndiSmith A true manager! in reply to AndiSmith #
- @AndiSmith Ah but can you make it do gradient fill…? in reply to AndiSmith #
- @beth_tk What library are you using? I use the python one and that seems to work pretty well in reply to beth_tk #
- Share Your Own Veg with the Lourish.com Community http://bit.ly/b1uk4f via @AddToAny #
- I’d forgotten how much I like green tea. #
- @bentregenna receiving the advertised speeds…? in reply to bentregenna #
- Riak, using Innostore, 29ms read on ec2? Seems slow to me really… What am I doing wrong? bitcask gives ~10ms… #
- If we could take it away in the camperman she’d be so happy! #
- Libby loves her sunshine flower #
- @beth_tk Think you need to use the api to get the numbers and then effectively draw the line yourself… in reply to beth_tk #
- @dhawes667 I forgot entirely to get the cat food, he wasn’t pleased with his simple dry biscuit meal in reply to dhawes667 #
- Who is Batman? Libby: Daddy. I’ll settle for that! #
- @dhawes667 You mean you haven’t got them all? in reply to dhawes667 #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-01
- Holiday time! #
- @csstacey I saw lots more almost ready at the allotment in reply to csstacey #
- Starting to feel rubbish again, go away before my holiday… #
- Ferrari will be gearing up their PR machine for the weekend #
- Libby answers the phone ‘ello, I tried… #
- And why does SVN always have a fit in the morning… #
- Why do I seem to spend all my time waiting for things to swap back in… #
- Feeling much better than yesterday! #
- Julia Donaldson can’t sing… #
- “Remember, there are only three numbers in computer science: 0, 1, and n.” http://bit.ly/bazreh #
- @Undeleterious Excellent… cheers guess I should have googled harder in reply to Undeleterious #
- @Andysmith_JB No, I’m pretty sure that the big teams would be happy to pay that to alter the results in reply to Andysmith_JB #
- @james_dunmore very much so, don’t really see the need and on a side note, it’s against the rules… in reply to james_dunmore #
- @timmartin2 Was graduating! in reply to timmartin2 #