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 #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-25
- Ferrari do evil once more… #
- @Undeleterious Don’t suppose you know of a nagios plugin that runs a Selenium testcase do you? in reply to Undeleterious #
- Holiday booked! #
- Time for home! #
- @beth_tk Aww… in reply to beth_tk #
- So it was wet for first practice, what are they in for this afternoon? #
- @csstacey Hopefully she’ll sleep tonight though in reply to csstacey #
- @csstacey She feeling better yet? in reply to csstacey #
- @csstacey Well I could hope for you! in reply to csstacey #
- Tired, hope that Libby is still sleeping… #
- Riak is being irritating… #
- Back to work… #
- Looking forward to today! #
- @seo01 But it opens up so many career options… in reply to seo01 #
- TK is better though #
- Google and Metaweb… http://bit.ly/cpRl31 #
- @csstacey Does that make me worse as I was dancing with her? in reply to csstacey #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18
- Compiling boost is always a chore… #
- Water crisis at the allotment! #
- @beth_tk I though about asking about rainbows, but thought better of it… in reply to beth_tk #
- 70%… #
- 65% for a while now… does that mean it’s not doing anything or that everything it does contributes nothing the progress of the job? #
- Snow patrol followed by Rage, shuffle will keep the neighbours confused #
- @dhawes667 Am installing the new version of msn in reply to dhawes667 #
- @dhawes667 i have some stories if you’re interested in reply to dhawes667 #
- @dhawes667 I know what you mean! Inside a game? Or online? in reply to dhawes667 #
- @dhawes667 What you doing with Cassandra…? in reply to dhawes667 #
- @csstacey Pah in reply to csstacey #
- @james_dunmore Why wouldn’t they? in reply to james_dunmore #
- @Andysmith_JB Not yet, though I thinking of installing netting to hinder them in reply to Andysmith_JB #
- Red Bull are going to have a fun week, I behind Webber #