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There's a hard core of about eight articles in my Instapaper that I can't get the space to devote myself to.
- 11/9, 1am
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@maradatscha Seems like they truncated it. I entered "Keynote '08 or later for integration features". Will fix.
- 11/6, 1pm
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LT: In the absence of any other knowledge, is there an otool or other incantation that will tell me if a framework is GC-capable?
- 11/6, 2am
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Success. Set it up as a basic server, then converting it to Advanced seems to do the trick.
- 7/29, 3am
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There's a certain pleasing historical continuity in naming my new boot device "Macintosh SSD".
- 7/27, 2pm
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#protip Use the AV Controls in Quicktime Player to watch WWDC videos at 2x speed.
- 7/23, 9am
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Anyone who bought the full WWDC video pack: can you see Graphics & Media State of the Union in ADC on iTunes? Seems to be missing for me.
- 7/23, 8am
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@mdhughes It's a bit like hiring a disabled chauffeur to get the best parking spaces. Not saying I wouldn't do so, mind.
- 7/17, 3am
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@alancfrancis Again, because I'm not in a team, I can make a similar template in Bento or OmniOutliner for a one-off £29.
- 7/13, 3am
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So hungry and it's only 10.30am. A 6.20am breakfast will do that to you.
- 7/12, 2am
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@packet This is why we invented indoors, right?
- 7/9, 1pm
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Aded Tipulator to my 'travel' screen on the iPhone.
- 7/8, 11am
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@ianbetteridge Maybe I should have said "because the Scottish Parliament building really does have lovely door handles"?
- 7/7, 5am
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I need to touch up connectedflow.com today. People clearly find the /store page confusing.
- 7/6, 11pm
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@dtm3dd That's the movie you can't show in schools without a disclaimer about it's inaccuracies?
- 7/6, 3pm
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Right, time for bed on this rather-too-hot night.
- 6/30, 2pm
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@daveverwer To be fair, my dad's BX never had a problem. As a car, though, it sucked.
- 6/29, 6am
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@jhollington You can't add her calendar on the phone via Settings > Calendars > Add Account > Other > Add Subscribed Calendar?
- 6/27, 2pm
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@jearle "Committing acts contrary to nature"
- 6/24, 4am
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@bonaldi I have done exactly the same thing!
- 6/19, 6am
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The same video, sent from the phone by email - 1.4MB, 480x360, 806kbit/s: [ http]
- 6/19, 3am
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Map Kit and Core Location are two of my favourite frameworks ever.
- 6/18, 4am
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Looking forward to testing the iPhone voice commands with a West of Scotland accent.
- 6/17, 2am
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Trying to work out what happens when you switch between two Git branches that use different versions of a submodule. Tips?
- 6/17, 12am
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@jerakeen Build it with the 2.2.1 sdk. It only appears with the 3.0 tools, even if you link against 2.2.1.
- 6/16, 9am
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Impatient to upload video to Flickr from iPhone 3GS. Unfortunately, that virtue will probably be in high demand during such an operation.
- 6/16, 3am
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@amrosario What do you mean by "locale"? Current version can already do lat/lon.
- 6/12, 1pm
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@mattgemmell I never use cash. Then again, the only shop in town is Tesco.
- 6/9, 4am
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Tufte would be weeping into his latte at the infographics the BBC are using tonight. Can't even fit readably on the screen.
- 6/7, 2pm
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@pilky Why? Both of them hate people. Griffin for their race and Sheridan for their bank balance.
- 6/4, 2pm
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@justin Oooh. Sold!
- 6/2, 12pm
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Made a protocol have an @optional section where the whole thing was required before. Putting in lots of respondsToSelector: checks. Bored.
- 6/2, 2am
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Opening a cold one for some thinking about 64-bit. Remember, kids: A One Which Is Not Cold is Barely A One At All.
- 5/31, 11am
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Apple Store is offering me 500 seats of iLife and iWork for £199 each. That's a huge bargain over previous edu schemes.
- 5/30, 4am
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Has anyone tried to buy Changes and seen a 500 server error from Paypal? Have a US customer and can't reproduce with my UK accounts...
- 5/29, 7am
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Much as I hate RBS the corporate entity, my business manager is an absolute rock star at this stuff.
- 5/27, 2am
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@bobtiki (c) rather implies (b), I think.
- 5/24, 8pm
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Picked up sunscreen of the type that blocks enough sunlight to enable vampires to go out in daylight.
- 5/24, 11am
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I read about Apple 'lagging' on Java security patches and I think "people still have Java code?"....
- 5/20, 11am
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BA's Advance Passenger Information system didn't want to accept my new passport number. Somebody needs a unit test, I think....
- 5/20, 1am
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@ianbetteridge Absolutely agree, and I hope this tilts the public mood towards smaller government.
- 5/12, 1am
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Rent an iTunes HD movie, order a pizza, see which one shows up first.
Of course, you can't stream a pizza. Wouldn't that be great?
- 4/30, 11am
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Thanks for the hints on Simulator slo-mo. Seems that three shift-taps is the toggle, but turning it off is possibly broken.
- 4/23, 4am
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Thinking hard about delivering school content via Stanza/Eucalyptus and Podcast Producer.
- 4/22, 2am
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@Kosmatos Does your TV control volume during video playback? Mine only controls volume during music playback.
- 4/21, 11pm
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I know I can get local SU with OS X Server but that implies another machine, etc., also: preference hassle.
- 4/21, 12pm
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@nevali That's the one that gets procmail'ed straight to /dev/null :-)
- 4/15, 12am
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Further birdhouse feature: actually auto-compose drafts by combining commonly used words on favrd.
- 4/14, 8am
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Thanks to @kellan for getting the flic.kr generation algorithm out so quickly: [ http]
- 4/13, 4pm
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Oh, look. Another Gmail feature that I'll actually care about and use. Hint: not HTML stationery. [ http]
- 4/2, 2pm
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Normally you would think that using hookers in the Commons and buying porn on expenses would be resignation matters. How times have changed.
- 3/30, 1am
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@charlesarthur Well, it _was_ a curry house in a dodgy part of Glasgow. You may be on to something here.
- 2/20, 9am
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@nmrobertson You can extend influence much further than you can actual personal effort, but maybe that's 'authority' instead of leadership.
- 2/18, 2am
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Just drove past two epic smashes in Glasgow's west end. Ambulances, airbags deployed, the works.
- 2/15, 4am
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Spotify's sort indicators are the wrong way round. A down-arrow is A-Z sort, and an up-arrow is Z-A.
- 2/4, 2am
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Trying to use Google spreadsheet to make a survey where I supply column A and users enter a value in column B. Seems hard to do.
- 2/4, 2am
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John Redwood shows up Culture Secretary Andy Burnham's shallow technical understanding of even simple issues: [ http]
- 1/31, 5am
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@elliotbowes No, I gave up and did some blogging instead :-)
- 1/30, 8am
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Feeling motivated for tomorrow. That sense increased by having tidied my desk and done a mini-review.
- 1/29, 4pm
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It's been, what, an hour now and nobody has made a "two chicks" gag about my twin-yolk egg? It's like nobody wants to lead favrd today.
- 1/29, 6am
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@alancfrancis Ugh. Can't imagine many people being happy with that.
- 1/27, 10am
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@charlesarthur Need another one for "causes house prices to rise/fall". Another of their weird obsessions.
- 1/21, 5am
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If we could make electricity from rainfall, this town would be self sufficient.
- 1/17, 10am
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@dtm3dd On the Mac, it's the market that keeps standards high. People just don't buy crap. App Store suggests the iPhone demographic will.
- 1/17, 4am
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Expedia fail: flights from Glasgow to Florence should _not_ include layovers in Newark and Charlotte.
- 1/16, 3am
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Hudson crash: first news - twitter, first photos - Flickr. Hope everyone gets out ok.
- 1/15, 1pm
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People are so obsessed with EXIF. Screw that. Be obsessed with the image.
- 1/14, 12am
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I just hit Cmd-Shift-3 and my entire system froze for four minutes. What is this, Windows?
- 1/13, 11pm
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Wanted to sync all my music, except for a few items. Made a smart PL that includes all items in Music that are not in a manual exclusion PL.
- 1/11, 9am
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Thx for the feedback on iTunes upgrades. I guess that the ones not upgradeable matched the ones not in my library quite closely.
- 1/9, 9am
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Now developing a physical ache for a MDP-DualDVI adapter.
- 1/7, 6am
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Unnaturally upset that iTunes says "£0.20 a song" instead of "per song" for upgrade. I don't even know if it is wrong, but it feels wrong.
- 1/7, 2am
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@Stubbs I thought there would be no return to boom and bust....
- 1/6, 7am
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It would be hilarious to wrap this with Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah instead of O Holy Night.
- 12/19, 1pm
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Trying to decide whether the features in the next version of Exposure merit a 1.2, 1.5 or 2.0 version number.
- 12/15, 6am
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@1davidn It does work very well indeed. I was just wondering how they were bypassing the standard picture taking interface.
- 12/12, 11am
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Having my first exposure to Will Self, watching recent Question Time.
- 12/12, 5am
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@AndrePang All WebDAV everything blows :-)
- 12/12, 5am
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@duncanwilcox Not if I had already spent 8 months deciding whether to click the button in the first place.
- 12/11, 3am
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Just got an email that looks like a cut and paste from a Word table. Save me, BBEdit!
- 12/10, 1am
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@mdales I always get manufacturer batteries. You're holding it to your face, and shady batteries can explode.....
- 12/7, 2am
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It's awesome that Apple is licensing Mini DisplayPort for free.
- 12/1, 11am
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Prepping Mac OS X Server and Client installs for tomorrow's lesson: take 2 iMacs and these drives, and make me a working network by 3pm.
- 11/30, 1pm
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@pilky The min. wage bit was just a small part of the piece, but which retailer could ignore a 40% saving in staff cost?
- 11/27, 4am
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Hmm. My Macbook Pro has stopped responding to keyboard and mouse clicks, but not mouse movement. How odd.
- yesterday, 2am
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@revdancatt Tonight on CSI: a stalker uses Flickr maps and an iPhone app to find his victims.
- 11/13, 9am
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@jimcorreia It's good for what it is - redundant storage of bulk data - but not great primary storage for, say, source code.
- 11/11, 11am
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I refer to my own capriciousness, rather than any particular experience with my own users.
- 11/10, 3am
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@SeoxyS Free-for-a-while is something people are trying, but I don't immediately see how you will monetize those users.
- 11/9, 1am
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@bwebster If anyone thought Obama was a socialist, they need to visit Britain. We have a few real ones in preservation they could look at.
- 11/5, 11am
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Is Michael Crichton having his body preserved in amber?
- 11/5, 10am
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No democracy could accept that kind of double dealing with the electorate.
- 11/5, 7am
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@charlesarthur Excellent suggestion. Just called them and a team will come out Monday. I assumed they wouldn't handle inside the property.
- 11/1, 4am
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@RobWelsh Looking at the site, I'm pretty sure I have ordered from @hasbean in the past. Small world :-)
- 10/31, 4am
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The PathFinder 5 screencast says you can "configure your drawers". Ho ho ho.
- 10/29, 5am
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@iWork I know...I just couldn't fit the full stupidity of the situation into 140 :-)
- 10/29, 1am
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Huh. My Sony GPS-CS1 datalogger is back working again in 10.5.5. Was broken in earlier Leopards.
- 10/19, 2pm
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Have convinced April that we have a space rocket under the house. Might have overdone it with the persuasion though. Keeps asking to see it.
- 10/19, 12am
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@tgaul I agree, although I _would_ like the 120GB drive that they just put in the Air.
- 10/16, 10am
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@flargh On versiontracker, someone once rated the free FlickrExport/Aperture as 1 out of 5 stars for value. *facepalm*
- 10/10, 8am
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@daveverwer That's a time-honoured tradition in schools. Drop the sprogs long enough to poison the school, then pick them up at interval.
- 10/7, 12am
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@natevw Maybe it's not a real G9 after all, but a Cylon model.
- 10/6, 12pm
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@cbowns Not an album. You can move a Project via import/export but an album may contain photos from multiple projects.
- 10/6, 12am
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QE2 making its last ever visit to the Clyde today. It's actually sunny for the old girl.
- 10/5, 2am
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Crazy frustrated at this bug. The usual why/because analysis hasn't taken me very far.
- 10/3, 4am
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Thought #1: what you call a debate isn't a debate as much as a structured series of 5-minute political commercials.
- 10/3, 1am
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Even if app approval cost $500 (or required ADC Premier), that would be a start. It's due diligence on the investment you're about to make.
- 10/1, 9am
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Exam board that gave me a hard time over using XP in VMWare for their software (for "security reasons") just sent passwords in plain email.
- 10/1, 2am
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@mrhuggy Conservatives? You might want to re-check the numbers from 96-97. Brown took credit for several qtrs of growth under Major.
- 9/22, 7am
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Apple needs a named App Store Evangelist. Someone highly visible to the dev community and empowered to speak outside of 1 hour at WWDC.
- 9/12, 3pm
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Finally another try to push Exposure Premium 1.0.3 through the App Store.
- 9/11, 11am
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Just realized there are two BA flights to LHR tonight and that I am sitting waiting for the wrong one.
- 9/7, 4pm
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Just signed up for my Dipity account.
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@mattb Spooky. I was just gathering my MP3s of that to listen to on the plane on Thursday.
- 9/2, 4pm
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