Sunday, August 29th 2010
Twitter posts for Sunday August 29
  • Logan's Run's on. Oh god, Jenny Agutter's legs... (17:35:51)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Saturday, August 28th 2010
Twitter posts for Saturday August 28
  • Just saw the Globe's touring outdoor production of the Comedy of Errors. Hilarious farce. Bloody marvellous night out. (21:32:36)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Thursday, August 26th 2010
Twitter posts for Thursday August 26
  • That MI6 bloke found dead in London... Catrin was at school with him. Erk. (17:48:56)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Sunday, August 22nd 2010
Twitter posts for Sunday August 22
  • Bartholomew Fair done and dusted; a tough one but we did well, I think. (23:52:27)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Sunday, August 15th 2010
Twitter posts for Sunday August 15
  • Knifefighting this afternoon! (13:58:54)
  • Slaps, punches, knaps, hairpulling. Gouging, strangling, slamming into walls and chairs. Neck breaking, with and without Polo mints. (12:16:01)
  • Right, off to an all day stage fighting course. Should be a laugh. (08:57:43)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Friday, August 13th 2010
Twitter posts for Friday August 13
  • Listening to the Orb's Adventures Beyond the Underworld for the first time in bloody years. It's amazing what you find in the CD rack. (12:04:17)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Friday, August 6th 2010
Twitter posts for Friday August 6
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Sunday, July 18th 2010
Twitter posts for Sunday July 18
  • Reading The Fuller Memorandum. Stross' explanation of the iphone's popularity has a lot going for it. (18:35:51)
  • Ensconced in tiny cottage in deepest Cornwall. You'll never find us, and we've got all the gin. (15:58:41)
  • Plymouth Gin distillery. Best g&t I've ever had. (12:46:42)
  • Plymouth is full of Russian sailors. How times change. (10:17:41)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Friday, July 16th 2010
Twitter posts for Friday July 16
  • In Welsh, July is "Gorffenaf", "Summers-end". They got that right. (07:21:22)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Wednesday, July 14th 2010
Agh!

Photoblogging isn't working here, I just noticed. In other news, the BBC have a nice article about Godwin's Law.

Jim Finnis
12:55PM
Twitter posts for Wednesday July 14
  • Ah, the sweet vanilla smell of custard creams... (17:43:27)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Monday, July 12th 2010
Twitter posts for Monday July 12
  • And back to Aber after an awesome party. So good to see everyone! (08:46:02)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Sunday, July 11th 2010
Twitter posts for Sunday July 11
Jim Finnis
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Saturday, July 10th 2010

Jim Finnis
11:07PM

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Saturday, July 3rd 2010
Twitter posts for Saturday July 3
  • TV in hell. http://yfrog.com/0iexqqj (21:43:34)
  • Not only is the iPhone4 reception pants, it also overstates signal strength. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10490572.stm (15:05:28)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Friday, July 2nd 2010
Twitter posts for Friday July 2
  • blimey, chucking it down out there. Nearly got my lame wet. (21:00:38)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Thursday, July 1st 2010
Twitter posts for Thursday July 1
  • 20 ppl trapped in Castell Coch after the drawbridge collapsed.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/10466327.stm (16:00:55)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Tuesday, June 29th 2010
Twitter posts for Tuesday June 29
  • Fiona Shaw, even. There is no Fional Shaw. Probably (googles). Indeed not. (21:43:36)
  • Just seen Dion Boucicault's London Assurance, live from the National Theatre with Simon Russell Beale and Fional Shaw. Laughed myself hoarse (21:42:29)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Friday, June 25th 2010

Jim Finnis
5:49PM

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Twitter posts for Friday June 25
  • I haven't listened to #cardiacs Rude Bootleg for.. years. What on earth was wrong with me? (15:03:54)
  • Good grief, Australia's got a Welsh prime minister. (12:05:20)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Thursday, June 24th 2010
Twitter posts for Thursday June 24
  • Sodding hell, they're still at it - 58 58 now. (20:01:45)
  • Proof that tennis has the Halting Problem: on now - Mahut/Isner, final set, 48 games to 49! (18:51:25)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Monday, June 21st 2010
"Were they sane, they could not understand their programs."

To offer a third analogy, a folk definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and to expect the results to be different. By this definition, we in fact require that programmers of multithreaded systems be insane. Were they sane, they could not understand their programs.

Linked from the SQLite FAQ, this wonderful paper on the evil that is multithreaded programming.

Jim Finnis
1:10PM

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Saturday, June 19th 2010
Twitter posts for Saturday June 19
  • That was Catrin's gag. Camus used to play in goal for Algeria, see. (20:48:41)
  • "today football died. Or maybe yesterday. I don't know." (20:31:14)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Thursday, June 10th 2010
Twitter posts for Thursday June 10
  • Ah, the Ship and Castle (20:18:59)
  • perils of a having a verbal brain: instead of drawing diagrams, I write programs to do it for me. (10:59:51)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Tuesday, June 8th 2010
Twitter posts for Tuesday June 8
  • Just been playing with an iPad. I begin to see the point - for me, it's the ease with which you an manipulate a large touchscreen. (13:08:37)
Jim Finnis
8:00AM

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Sunday, June 6th 2010

Jim Finnis
1:14PM

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Twitter posts for Sunday June 6
  • It's been a hazy sun, beer and cupcakes kind of day. (17:17:40)
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8:00AM

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Recent Comments

re Twitter posts for Sunday August 22 Catrin wrote:

It's actually going to be reviewed in a proper academic journal and everything. Well not actually everything, just a proper academic journal, but I think that's extremely exciting. It says so on the internet, it must be true.

23/08/10 11:28:33 AM

re Twitter posts for Friday July 2 Catrin wrote:

Hmm - that's a sentence whose meaning is changed completely if you don't realise that lame is in the French way not the English way.

02/07/10 10:26:05 AM

re 5536 Catrin wrote:

This was me trying to look like Amanda Palmer. I now realise I looked more like Tara Palmer Tompkinson. The reality check is always the one that bounces all the way to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation isn't it.

24/05/10 10:20:37 AM

re Twitter posts for Monday May 10 Catrin wrote:

Anything in this case being a tailor's mannequin made out of a Catrin, a tee shirt, and two rolls of gaffa tape. I just hope it's not voodoo if you stick pins into effigies of yourself.

10/05/10 12:22:35 PM

re Twitter posts for Tuesday May 4 Catrin wrote:

According to Google, it's a stencil thing for doing eyebrows. The only options are thin, medium or thick. Naturally, I'd want it to include "Option 4: Eyebrows A La Amanda Palmer. Except of course, if I were to do that, just at the point when I am applying the makeup, my brain would start playing the Victoria Wood monologue where she paints one really high up and the other really low down. "Now I look like a person who's had a pint spilt over them and they can't quite remember what to do about it". Hilarity would ensue, I would look like a div, and like Victoria Wood, would end up wearing a big brown raincoat and a picnic rug and a pair of knickers on my head.

04/05/10 01:49:22 PM

re Twitter posts for Monday May 3 Catrin wrote:

Red Dead Hand. Great name for a kid.

04/05/10 01:31:20 PM

re Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley Catrin wrote:

Absolutely fantastic gig - I had such a such a such a good time. People do look at me funny though when I explain perfectly reasonably that I went to see a bloke and a woman being a pair of conjoined twins. Do other people not do that then?

28/04/10 05:50:17 PM

re Twitter posts for Thursday April 22 wrote:

they won't let e write it` 'yS, i like 'a man

24/04/10 02:11:43 AM

re Catrin T.J.Bates wrote:

Ouch!

18/04/10 09:57:49 PM

re 5188 T.J.Bates wrote:

Alas! Poor doughnut!

18/04/10 09:34:07 PM

re 5405 T.J.Bates wrote:

Still a cutie!

18/04/10 08:10:17 PM

re 5495 Steve wrote:

Blimey it looks bare in the winter. I'm off to listen to some Chumbawamba unless Jubilee's on.

27/03/10 09:25:57 PM

re Greenspun's Tenth Rule Stephen Usher wrote:

...unless the program is written in FORTRAN IV, as that doesn't do lists/characters.

22/02/10 08:42:36 PM

re Twitter posts for Saturday February 20 alecm wrote:

come visit some time; i have a very pubby pub :-) i also like the "abandon" button, above. we need more abandon.

22/02/10 07:36:49 PM

re Twitter posts for Tuesday February 9 rac wrote:

great news!

09/02/10 04:29:42 PM

re 5465 Catrin wrote:

Look, explaining the finer points of Land Registration requires some visual aids ok.

25/01/10 10:53:36 AM

re Twitter posts for Friday January 8 Catrin wrote:

Going to Boganning.

13/01/10 05:22:25 PM

re Twitter posts for Saturday January 2 Catrin wrote:

Isn't that a hotel chain?

04/01/10 11:10:00 AM

re Twitter posts for Monday December 21 Catrin wrote:

Umph. I can explain....

21/12/09 10:29:18 AM

re 5443 Mel Rimmer wrote:

Mmm, purdy.

17/12/09 04:07:00 PM

re 5443 Catrin wrote:

Ooh, pretty picture. I couldn't work out for a while which side of the river it was.

17/12/09 01:14:57 PM

re Twitter posts for Monday December 14 Jim wrote:

Of course, but *read it again* They're not reserving the right to REFUSE to serve, they're reserving the right to SERVE.

15/12/09 10:08:53 AM

re Twitter posts for Monday December 14 Ben wrote:

That's completely legal. Any trading establishment can refuse to serve any customer without giving a reason. It's generally considered bad for the trader's reputation as a good place to do business, but they do have that option.

14/12/09 08:39:39 PM

re Getting festive in Shrewsbury Catrin wrote:

My God! I look like an advert for Werthers Original.

14/12/09 10:57:00 AM

re Twitter posts for Monday November 30 Catrin wrote:

You're not planning on dying of E Coli are you?

01/12/09 12:56:26 PM

re Twitter posts for Sunday November 22 Catrin wrote:

Muppet.

24/11/09 02:55:03 PM

re Twitter posts for Sunday November 22 Jim wrote:

Ah, but I don't think the installer could have reasonably foreseen that particular injury...

24/11/09 11:16:07 AM

re Twitter posts for Sunday November 22 Catrin wrote:

And clearly displaying better workmanship than the oaf who installed the thing in the first place - it needing to be replaced because it came apart in my hand. I could have been seriously injured...if the light pull had hit me in the eye, causing me to flail around blindly, then fall down the stairs and impale myself on a coathook.

23/11/09 11:09:52 AM

re Twitter posts for Tuesday November 17 Stephen Usher wrote:

Would you act in "The Wicker Man?" Edward Woodward would.

17/11/09 09:58:13 PM

re Irn-Bru Turkish Delight Jane M wrote:

I had the same petit four at that same restaurant in Edinburgh just yesterday - it was fantastic. We has the deep fried mars bars alongside. Superb.

11/11/09 10:35:53 PM

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