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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-18 Aug 18
  • Quote of the day from Today: “He grows his cucumbers in women’s tights.” Not what you’d usually wear on an allotment… #
  • Slightly puzzled by the rules (and the concept) of the Olympic cycling points race. #
  • Waiting for train to Edinburgh to leave. Seems busy. Going first class (and advance purchase to not cost the Earth) was the right decision. #
  • So the wifi worked OK for the first hour and three quarters… #
  • @qwghlm Back now. Went completely in York but now (maybe with other people having given up) it’s faster than before. #
  • @nimbos It’s because Twitter no longer send Twits by text message in the UK: http://tinyurl.com/6y6a69 #
  • @flashboy “I hate Nazis” is genuine classic Doctor Who dialogue. #
  • Incisive Edinburgh insight #1: They’ve changed the platform numbering at Waverley station. #
  • First bar I go into I run into someone I know – a London LibDem friend. #
  • Distracted during Richard Herring’s show by his misdating of ABBA’s 1974 Eurovision victory. #
  • As wifi proliferates, I wonder how long before campaigns for new hubs find themselves directly opposed by anti-phone-mast-style campaigns. #
  • @secretlondon NIMBYism of so much local politics rather than party political. Don’t get me started on the “precautionary principle”… #
  • Edinburgh sleb spotting: someone who I’m told is Bradley in EastEnders. #
  • I worship at the altar of Simon Munnery. Great show this evening. Looking forward to his AGM on Thursday. #
  • @Sourdust This is my fifth consecutive Fringe, and sixth in total. I am a man, I make lists. #
  • @secretlondon Not to rub it in but tonight was at least the ninth time, in a comedy play written by Stewart Lee. #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-17 Aug 17
  • Prawn crackers are more of a breakfast food current experience suggests. #
  • Last two episodes of Bonekickers were passable, despite more dodgy dialogue and silly plots. Nice to see (well, not see) Jeremy Bulloch. #
  • A pretty on-beam review of the last Bonekickers episode: http://tinyurl.com/63s6et #
  • And a bit of Googling tells me that the reason one of the baddies looked familiar is that I saw him on the tube a few years ago. #
  • As usual, Lewisham Council’s website is down as soon as I want any information from it. #
  • @nimbos That’s pretty good! I’ve been neglecting mine a bit of late, but WDYTYA? always gets me back in the mood. #
  • Anally adding every gig I’ve been to my Events tab in last.fm and simultaneously repairing a major PHP4/5 incompatibility issue. #
  • @qwghlm I’m going the other way in the morning. It had better be working then… #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-16 Aug 16
  • I’m living in a high crime sub-ward according to the Met’s new maps http://maps.met.police.uk #
  • Setting up my DVD collection on http://www.dvdspot.com – it does for shiny discs some of what LibraryThing does for books. #
  • Making a social networking day of it and registering on Dopplr. #
  • Watching The Cottage on DVD. So bored I’m sharing how poor it is to pass the time. Too slow for a horror and not funny enough for a comedy. #
  • Well that’s 84 minutes of my life I won’t get back. #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-15 Aug 15
  • Very busy day ahead, but the up side is it’s because after today I’m not working for Ten Whole Days. #
  • Annoyance at board saying “Good Service” while showing unchanging “2 min” offset by TfL guy’s chirpy “Apologies, someone’s nicked my train.” #
  • Still, that’s twoe out of my last three tube journeys delayed by broken down trains. Yay for a modern and reliable mass transit system. #
  • Oh. I seem to have turned into the kind of Tube grump that used to annoy my “At least you’ve got a Tube” self when I lived outside London. #
  • I do like the Sports and Social Club. It’s like a proper pub (albeit with plasma screens) in Parliament. #
  • There’s something very cathartic about sitting around in a group and sharing your obsessive compulsions. #
  • @Sourdust I’ve played that game. I’ve worn that balaclava. #
  • Catching up with Who Do You Think You Are?, one of my guilty pleasures. Patsy Kensit’s great. #
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