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Steve Ellwood

Friday, 16 May 2008

icon 10:35 Nik Sargent nagging feeling: could prefer to work in mental health more than IT. Is that nuts? @facebook
09:38 Nik Sargent nagging feeling: could prefer to work in mental health more than IT.
09:21 Kerry Buckley Funniest quote from the conversation of the vacuous fellow passengers described: "...and she's even more intellectual than me!"
09:20 Sally Murfitt So that's what the theory looks like. Let's see what happens in reality-land. l:AP.
08:29 Bill Barnett Stunned by the changes at work since I last took this ride from ipswich to adastral. Only 7 days? Seems like a month!
08:23 Kerry Buckley "We are now arriving at Ipswich, where this train completes its journey. If you are leaving the train..."
07:33 Bill Barnett Enjoying raconteurs, for the recommendation.
07:29 Tim Stevens - sat in a nightclub for about an hour without a drink - then they bring water!!! service?
07:26 Lee Hampton-Whitehead seeing as I was in the mood for flashing phones (had to fix the blackberry modem) i put mobile 6.1 on the TyTniii, looks Vgood.
06:23 Bill Barnett Here we go, adastralling, upon the pavements gray...
05:54 Darren Barrenger deciding to rest the body for one more day. Must be getting sensible in my old age.
05:29 Darren Barrenger contemplating the gym before the lengthy meetings I have today. Should I rest the shoulder one more day? Could just work on my lower body...
03:21 Tim Stevens - dinner al fresco, indoors, by an upstairs canal, on the plaza, venice, las vegas. ???
01:43 Tim Stevens - off to see the blue man group. bang the drum!

Thursday, 15 May 2008

icon 23:32 Darren Barrenger Calling it a day. Packed one tomorrow in Suffolk, just the sort of fun Friday's are for! Shoulder pain subsiding. Feeling good. @facebook
20:30 Tim Stevens - looking forward to leaving las vegas and going back to the land of the not undead. missing my family.
19:05 Paul Downey ugh, just clicked on a tinyurl which took me to techcrunch. worse than being rickrolled.
18:50 Phil Whitehouse Wondering what to get me for my birthday? http://tinyurl.com/4hlllk.
18:17 Phil Whitehouse Tinkering with a slide deck.
18:15 Nik Sargent has completed 1st induction session as Governor. Very illuminating.
17:44 Lee Hampton-Whitehead if it aint broke dont fix it, a month ago i thought i would do a firmware upgrade on my Blackberry, and now i find the 3G modem dont work.
17:37 Bill Barnett Bruce Lee, productivity guru! http://tinyurl.com/33a4x3.
17:23 Kerry Buckley Feeling more positive at the end(ish)of planning than at the beginning. We'll see how it pans out.
16:59 Bill Barnett Wow! http://tinyurl.com/3e8wsj.
16:08 Sally Murfitt Why do training exercises engender such passion when "real work" doesn't l:AP.
15:46 Darren Barrenger having a day of bad customer experience. What's happening to the world!?
15:23 Phil Whitehouse Arrived home, now can get some work done free from jabberings and constant swearing at his computer.
14:40 Bill Barnett Thinking about open source esb. Wondering if there are any open source tools containing the descriptor "enterprise" in their name.
14:25 Kerry Buckley Are we living in cloud [computing] cuckoo land?
13:31 Bill Barnett Sometimes all you need is a good shot of louis prima in your earholes.
12:59 Phil Whitehouse Those who know and Jerry Yang, we have a caption competition for you: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajlloyd/2447212006/.
11:47 Paul Downey points the Baynard posse at this gem http://tinyurl.com/6p8qy6.
11:13 Kerry Buckley Joe D. continues to act as the voice of cynicism in absence.
11:07 Bill Barnett I feel like this a lot these days... http://xkcd.com/222/.
10:37 Phil Whitehouse Get well soon,
10:15 Paul Downey shivering violently enough for the Mrs to run me a bath, not for my comfort, but to use me as an eco-friendly washing machine.
10:13 Kerry Buckley Dreamhost++ for adding the option to use mod_rails (aka Phusion Passenger), and making it trivially easy to turn on for an application.
09:52 Phil Whitehouse Back in jeans :-(.
08:45 Sally Murfitt Ask the universe : does AVG include spam filter?
08:42 Paul Downey Ugh, feeling "all eggshells" today, my fat shaky hands making typing tricksy.
06:38 Carys Kaiser now has only time to check email at 630 am! Madness.
05:27 Darren Barrenger got through a broken night without more pain relief. A chink of light in the darkness possibly?
03:14 Tim Stevens - waiting outside a closed chinese restaraunt for my fellow diners. food really not gonna happen here.
 
icon 16:41 back home after whistlestop tour of Boston/Reykjavik. Nice to be away; nice to be home. We'll visit Iceland again... shaidorsai
 
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008

icon 23:26 Wayne Thompson is looking forward to the weekend. @facebook
23:09 Darren Barrenger work done. Off to see if I can get any sleep tonight. The cortisone is still making my shoulder throb like its double the size.
22:53 Kerry Buckley Staying at a hotel in Mayfair - feel like I should be arriving in a shoe, not passing go and not collecting £200.
22:33 Shereen Taylor is wearing a frock. Don't anyone faint, now.
21:20 Paul Downey svn checkout http://doctype.googlecode.com/svn/ doctype #Web #Documentation #UnitTests #MarkPilgrim #FTW.
20:51 Sally Murfitt I either spend my time in bemused bafflement or incadescent over trivia. Unhealthy.
20:08 Darren Barrenger just when you think things may just start settling down they take an unexpected lurch in a direction you didn't even know existed.
19:28 Sally Murfitt only 11 days to BBB. Where do the days go?
19:22 Kerry Buckley Ten players. Three werewolves. Game ended with four villagers left standing. FTW!
19:17 Bill Barnett Realising I may have made a huge mstake.
18:59 Darren Taft can't wear shoes ... socks are getting pretty mingin!
18:21 Heather Ellwood is knackered.
17:54 Kerry Buckley Werewolf in daylight - it's just not natural.
17:10 Kerry Buckley Googled "flickr werewolf cards". Result 9 was an archive page from my blog, where 3 separate posts mention werewolf, index cards and flickr.
16:41 Kerry Buckley Off to the pub for food, beer and werewolf.
16:26 Kirsty Pryer is starving!
16:20 Nik Sargent dips his toe in the world of facebook ads.
15:31 Paul Downey I love "weak ties are strong ties" http://twitter.com/monkchips/statuses/811119612.
15:10 Paul Downey spotted reply on summize, and following him out of a misguided sense of politeness, even though the twerp is strong in him :)
14:30 Kerry Buckley So we're exposing services that may not exist for as-yet unknown applications, but at least we know when it has to be done by.
14:25 Paul Downey just watched a video myself speaking and appalled at how often I say "so", "you know" and "errrrrm" and how inaudible I mumble mumble .. ..
14:23 Darren Barrenger suffering. Not had pain like this since I last dislocated my knee. At paracetemol max so will need to sweat out the next couple of hours.
13:39 Sally Murfitt Q: If I know where my skills, abilities & passions lie, why do I do a role I hate, loathe & despise? A: mortgage.
12:42 Paul Downey echoing trumpeting of Opentech, Sat 5th July, £5. I'll be standing up and spouting about "The Web is Agreement" http://is.gd/goo.
12:39 Lee Hampton-Whitehead i seem to be spending more time doing admin and changing direction than i do "doing" stuff.
12:38 Phil Whitehouse Heading out to explore old Exchange Buildings in Holborn and Chinatown - possible future OsmoOffices.
11:54 Bill Barnett Amazed at how thick and fast things are flying at me this week.
11:35 Phil Whitehouse Remarkable Flickr set for GTA fans: http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewj/sets/72157604988911230/.
11:16 Paul Downey intrigued by the idea of being able to squirrel away 2MB into the window.name as persistent datastore. Sessionvars: http://is.gd/gnc.
10:20 Nik Sargent has a lot to get through - at least it's yoga tonight...
09:43 Phil Whitehouse There are times when I love burritos. But this is not one of those times.
07:57 Darren Barrenger gym was grim. Just worked on my legs as my arm and shoulder is agony right now. No music either just the view of life from one of my team!
07:45 Lee Hampton-Whitehead NOTE to self: don't forget thy lunch box this morning.
07:42 Richard Dennison New blog post: How do you measure the ROI of social software??: Unfortunately, this.. http://tinyurl.com/4385jy.
06:51 Tim Stevens - vegas. pray to the greenback and weep. nuff said.
06:02 Tim Stevens - can't believe i've been dragged to this place. club paradise? not for me.
05:37 Darren Barrenger fairly rough night due to mu shoulder aching from the injection I had to have. Should take a few days to stop aching apparently.
01:35 Tim Stevens - overriding WndProc in a richtextbox to absorb WM_PAINT. Feels like VB6 all over again.
 
icon 22:43 OK, finished the meal. Whale is very, very nice - as is puffin. shaidorsai
17:49 finished in the Blue lagoon. Last night in Iceland. What to eat? Puffin, minke, lamb. maybe a couple of Viking beers first.
15:24 looking at the Blue lagoon, looking forward to a dip...

Tuesday, 13 May 2008

icon 23:25 Phil Whitehouse Boing, time for bed. @facebook
22:47 Darren Barrenger great meeting of my Community Reach Partnership. Now going to try & sleep after the cortisone injection I had to have in my shoulder.
22:42 Paul Downey deciding that is probably a twit and that I'm most likely some kind of large rare species of fruit-bat. It's been that sort of day.
22:31 Nik Sargent had a mad but productive day in the office. Totally knackered.
21:08 Dan Rothschild eats gween bewets fow bweakfast.
20:18 Kerry Buckley Just seen a 'hot off the press' demo of JBehave's plain text story runner. Looks almost as cool as RSpec, for those stuck in JavaLand.
19:56 Richard Dennison Home after a fantastic day's walking on Dartmoor - picnic on top of Buckland Moor and a dip in the River Dart at New Bridge!
19:43 Kerry Buckley At the eXtreme Tuesday Club pub meet in the Counting House.
18:22 Phil Whitehouse Hanging with and at the Sun Tavern, waiting for the geeky hoards to descend.
18:21 Paul Downey drinking osmobeers .. JOIN US .. L:The Sun Tavern, 66, Long Acre, London.
17:06 Paul Downey willing my eyes to stop throbbing after an hour sitting by a portable AC. Air quality that's worse inside than outside can't be good thing.
17:00 Phil Whitehouse Listening to Blitzen Trapper, and still amazed that tickets to see them next week were so cheap and even available. They rock.
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