My hometown Chelmsford are playing Macclesfield for a place in the FA Cup third round for the first time in my lifetime. Come on Clarets!
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Today I have eaten only porridge, scallops and rocket. I could murder a kebab.
Stewart Lee signed my "Jerry Springer: The Opera" DVD after his gig tonight. A lovely, funny man although not terribly fond of Twitter.
BERG's Little Printer: cute wireless mini printer that produces b&w weather, puzzles, headlines and updates via cloud http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/
It's my birthday so I'm enjoying a day off with a lie-in, presents, spot of shopping, tea, Star Wars on Blu-ray and later dinner.
Full of mussels and strong Belgian beer. About to see Yes, Prime Minister. Fantastic evening (@ Gielgud Theatre) http://4sq.com/rygzxJ
Belgian dinner with Laura (@ Belgo Centraal) [pic]: http://4sq.com/vty0xC
How @jimeh manages Ruby on his local Macs: http://bfr.st/4e95
Lady Gaga grabs her cock singing "Born this way" for Children in Need concert opener. Now looking at her arse in a thong. All for the kids.
The Real London Tech Startups http://www.duedil.com/london-real-tech-startups/ >> beyond Silicon Roundabout, including @globalpersonals /via @duedil
Blatter: "There is no racism... this is a game.... we shake hands". Kick this buffoon out of football now http://gu.com/p/33dmg #blatterout
New article: Switching from Chrome to Safari bfr.st/2CSC
Nice to see multitasking gestures come to first gen iPads in the iOS 5.0.1 upgrade.
Seeing Fountains of Wayne at the Scala in King's Cross tonight. Looking forward to some proper power pop and tunes.
Evening Standard's list of the most influential tech people in London: http://bfr.st/51ng
Great to see @guardian devs given platform to explain: "How a Javascript upgrade brought down our commenting platform" http://gu.com/p/33532/tw
Enjoying watching the @globaldev engineering team collaborate through sending pull requests in shared @github repos http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests/
iOS Gmail app out. Not bad. Looks like single account only for now and the scrolling lacks momentum. Embedded web view? http://itunes.apple.com/app/gmail/id422689480?mt=8
Love the sound of Chaos Monkey - tool that randomly deliberately breaks production instances to test failover http://bfr.st/5JTK /via @dhh
City University Social Sciences Building
· College Academic Building
32-38 Whiskin St., Islington, Greater London, EC1R 0JD
Turns out that having hot stones rubbed over you is really quite pleasant. Spa day at the Runnymede was very nice today.
Just received my £270 cheque from @envirofoneuk for my iPhone 4. Easy, transparent and less stress than eBay. Recommended.
"Two-thirds of mobile search comes from Apple iOS devices" http://j.mp/pJ9l7i /via @gruber
In a white hire van on the M4. Van's clean and shiny, we forgot to buy The Sun to put on the dash and radio is tuned to XFM. #doingitwrong
Want a Ruby job at a UK startup? Come to Silicon Milkroundabout in London this Sunday http://globaldev.co.uk/2011/10/join-us-at-back-at-silicon-milkroundabout/ /cc @milkroundabout
@RadioSuntan @teina @deepfried Delighted for my old kiwi mates. Congratulations guys!
Presenting at the Silver day at the @wld Partner Conference #wldconf (@ Fanham Hall Hotel) http://4sq.com/recBeg
Team @wld hard at work in the conservatory (@ Fanham Hall Hotel w/ @rosswilliams) [pic]: http://4sq.com/pF1yAU
Slides are done, notes written, now for the drive to Hertfordshire to prepare for our annual @wld Partner Conference.
Feeling sorry for the man sitting in front in a grey suit plodding through emails in Outlook 2003 on a big, grey, corporate Windows laptop.
Mobile coverage on SW Trains routes: still abysmal.
All the Shine compilations collected at Spotify playlists http://bfr.st/4J3M Sleeper! Kula Shaker! Kenickie! Marion! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_(compilation_series)