@ruskin147 i reckon it probably wouldn’t have been reported as much. i found out on my own not via twitter
@jonhurlock oops
@jonhurlock i’ve got moo.com minicards - they are fantastic!
@ruskin147 apart from the awful Digital Britain report - Google crashed + Michael Arrington (@techcrunch) is taking a break after an assault
RT @bbctech: Google is hit by technical problems with users temporarily told all search results were… http://tinyurl.com/acbvaq
RT @chriscoyier: “I survived the Great Google Search Bug of January 2009”
@theleggett looking forward to seeing more than the 5 seconds i got to see before!
@theleggett when is the new site launching?
@mallmus it’ll be interesting to see what the short/medium term effects are of this… its amazing how reliant people are on one website
@mallmus its a big knock for google - even if only for the 20 minutes or so. it’ll hurt their image.
@mallmus i reckon if anyone lost money, its those of us that rely on people getting to our sites via google! either way, not good for google
@mallmus i don’t think they would have lost much money as all the sponsored links continued to work
Seems to be working again now
@tombeardshaw i wonder how long before google sorts it out? Been going on for a minimum of 20 minutes now - a long time in internet scales!
New blog post: Google falls over http://tinyurl.com/dbyd2s
@shepherdnick i know - i’m keeping track of it - average of around 700 tweets a minute so far
seems to be a worldwide problem - http://tinyurl.com/aa8c2q
Looks like google has screwed up - on every site: “This site may harm your computer.”
has anyone read the Digital Britain report from yesterday? I’ve not had chance yet - but reaction doesn’t seem good!
RT @spufidoo: Rt @RichardJohn: This makes me VERY ANGRY. http://tinyurl.com/bd63fk [another air-head scheme from our government]
RT @ryancarson Wow, @techcrunch is taking a break from blogging http://is.gd/hv9c
@glitchkitty @stevenwelti M4 closed 26 - 24 eastbound, lane blocked westbound. overturned lorry through central reservation
fed up with this ‘no, because we have to much work on at the moment’ attitude - we ALWAYS have to much work on.
@glitchkitty no, she doesn’t use it much, mainly facebook.
@bash my mum & @glitchkitty’s mum stalk us on facebook / twitter
RT from yesterday - anyone dealt with wordpress, twitter & multiple authors before?
@charlie_elise noted
RT @Bash: RT @stewarttownsend: http://tinyurl.com/amk7tx Customer complaint, Ive been laughing out loud on the train.. [f**king fantastic!]
@frosty @glitchkitty I have a group for friends & read everything from them, then many other groups for my other followers.
@frosty @glitchkitty i follow large numbers of people I don’t know - its very useful for my profession. this is why i use tweetdeck groups
Ok, another question - anyone dealt with wordpress, twitter & multiple authors before?
Anyone know a good way to handle author photos in wordpress?
RT @creattica: European Accessibility Forum - Frankfurt March 27 http://tinyurl.com/cmsv2p - can i justify a 3rd conference this year?
@akyan yes they were easier times. mind you, the starbucks were almost always free - @GarethThomas bought them :-P
mmm, sat here with a large caramel hot chocolate from starbucks, wishing i was back in uni doing my group project instead of this!
@mallmus i knew it was sometime this week - need to wait till I get home to read my copy
RT @davidairey: People still seem to want newspapers at the weekend - http://tinyurl.com/chpce8
@charlie_elise of course you could if you wanted :-)
@idesignstudios i had a similar issue to that recently - thanks for reminding me how to get around it!
Port 80 has been blocked with this “suspended” page, but everything else works a charm :-P
Um “due to an issue with your broadband account it has been suspended” crap
@timsculthorpe welcome back to Twitter :-P
RT @gimboland: http://tinyurl.com/b429ty - fantastic fail cake!
@dan_coburn of course, might take a little while though - lots of other stuff to do at the same time!
@glitchkitty thanks :-) i’m quite pleased with it - still ironing out some bits that don’t sit quite right though :-P
New blog post: It’s official… politics 2.0 is here http://tinyurl.com/d5gr8j
Putting together a new wordpress template…
New blog post: It’s official… politics 2.0 is here http://tinyurl.com/d5gr8j
RT @nebrow: reading: Closing the Usability Age Gap http://tinyurl.com/afsohq
Thinking it is probably time to do a twitter clearout …
@theleggett i’d love to help out :-)
@deniswalker thanks, just what I’m after! should have guessed really!
@gimboland thanks! i was sure there wasn’t a code for it, but the boss insisted there was. found a workaround for the website anyway :-)
anyone know the ASCII code for the Euro? Trying to use it on a website, but can’t get it to work!
@gimboland @bash @glitchkitty the grpups function is the killer feature for me. Without it, keeping track of tweets would be impossible
A car alarm is going off outside and has for the last 30 minutes - starting to get a headache now
Bugger, train broke down, so now running 20ish minutes behind
Strange, the error logging errored when sending email to tell me it had errored when sending the email - however it arrived in my inbox!
Work has ground to a halt while i diagnose a bizarre DNS problem affecting one of our development servers
Well, that meeting was significantly less painful than yesterday
Heading into planning meeting part 2. wish me luck
Love the new http://www.whitehouse.gov, but think the blog is missing a very important feature - where are the comments?!
Damn them running behind schedule, i’ll have to miss the end of the speech
@gimboland So much for separation of church and state
@bash am watching it with the sound off because i’m in work :-(
Oops, BBC One live stream is really jumpy :-/
Urgh, planning meeting #2 penned in for tomorrow :-(
Fantastic newspaper advert from Philips - http://bit.ly/VMFE
Out of meeting - we decided to stop after 3 hours because our heads were about to explode. Now armed a database spec and little else
Meeting time, if i’m not back in 2 hours, someone save me!
@darrenwaters thats what i was thinking, but need to do it without the boss causing a fuss!
About to head into planning meeting & wondering how I’m going to watch the inauguration while in work…
Finally solved the CSS problem, now just fighting with .NET Masterpages
struggling with implementing a new web design - can’t figure out how to do some of the small details :-(
@tombeardshaw would love to come along, but really tied up with deadlines this week :-(
Had a good day at BETT yesterday - will put a blog up about it in a bit. Lots of catching up to do first.
At the BETT show in London
Dusk in Hereford. quiet for a Friday night http://twitpic.com/13lxt
Is it sad that I’m in a club for the first time in 3 months & me and @charlie_elise are on Twitter?
Out for drinks in Hereford. Forgotten how much I liked being a student.
Last half hour of work this week - then off to Hereford for some drinking, then to London for the final day of the BETT show
@charlie_elise ouch, i wouldn’t even dare attempt to write a legal statement like that - definitely a job for a lawyer
Spending a day off twitter so I can clean off more of my task list
@seanhandley i was quite impressed with linq when i messed around with it recently. :-) also quite like .NET MVC
Challenge for today: Finish 5 out of the 6 items on my task list…
d’oh that was supposed to be “end of the tunnel” - not thinking straight today :-(
Finally beginning to see the light at the tunnel…
working my way through the final few items on my “must be done before new year” task list
Been away from Twitter for a day and a half, now feel like i’ve missed loads of important stuff
Heading off to bed after a productive day. G’night everyone :-)
Anyone interested in design - I need your opinion on the new Techcrunch design http://bit.ly/3Qs5sI (old design here http://bit.ly/PnDo)
@SteveWelti its a similar thing to doors that require pushing to open having pull-style handles. very poor interaction design.
Getting used to a tiny travel mouse again because I let my main mouse’s batteries run out
RT @CAMURPHY: RT @twittergator Poll: “What else are you doing online whilst tweetin’ ?” http://poll.fm/r3lr/
@StevenWelti Love the photo (http://bit.ly/MHTz - which way to room 109?) a very good example of bad interface design!
@tobeon @glitchkitty @shepherdnick i’m up for the blog-a-week thing, i was intending on doing it anyway - http://tinyurl.com/7yuuvd
New blog post: Aims for the next 12 months http://tinyurl.com/7yuuvd
@colorburned love the new icon - much cleaner than the old one :-) looking forward to the new website design
@helephant wow, you found someone who didn’t want to get off the phone and wanted to help? where? :-P
@adellecharles definitely twitter - my home at twitter.com isn’t updating either
Bad day for talking - twitter isn’t updating, windows live messenger can’t find my contacts and facebook chat doesn’t have an input box!
@idesignstudios I would be if I remembered to keep my calendar updated all the time. as soon as I do that I’ll be fine
@idesignstudios I use a notebook and outlook’s calendar synced to my iPhone.
@theleggett not sure about how reliable that source is, but BBC are reporting it as well - http://bit.ly/QNbE
Should I be concerned that I appear to have had no updates from people I follow since 11am? What’s up twitter?
Trying to work out why a script is throwing an error with tonnes of information to aide debugging: “Error. Unknown Reason”
@seanhandley well done - as @charlie_elise says, all the best people pass on their 3rd attempt :-)
@seanhandley good luck :-)
Working from home today, so managed to have a relaxing start to the day.
Sometimes i really hate .NET
Wondering why twitter has been only providing me with a selection of updates for the past hour - then I remembered its macworld tonight!
finally in work after numerous accidents and traffic jams
Happy new year everyone