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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-19 Aug 19
  • I have discovered something worse than Coldplay: Coldplay played on the bagpipes. #
  • @Reynolds Hear hear. I nearly missed the start of the X-Files film cos I had to go through a (lazy) security check at the Dome. #
  • No visit to the Edinburgh Festival is complete without at least one lunch at an all-you-can-eat Chinese. Om nom nom nom. #
  • @alansm I didn’t think the concerns would be for content so much as KILLER RADIO WAVES MELTING YOUR BRAIN. #
  • @markpack Security pass for where? Why?! #
  • Doing well on the randomly bumping into people I know score. Just seen @keif in Fopp. #
  • And @bizarretrillian. My eclectic purchase was a collection of Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci singles, 1994-6. #
  • Hurrah for 16 golds, our best since 1908. If we get one fewer gold but twice as many medals in total in 2012, is it an improvement or not? #
  • David Benson good though not the best material. Barry Cryer still funny at 73, but had one song I didn’t like. Jonny and Joe anarchic, fun. #
  • This is the first time I’ve had to blow on my fork to cool it down. #
  • Tina C very good. Dealt well with my question about sub-prime mortgages. #
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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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