Dafydd Vaughan (@dafyddbach)
London, UK

The content below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @dafyddbach since July 2008

June 2009

@glitchkitty I find that if you add it in and refresh in FF, it shows in the code, but only a hard refresh actually causes it to render

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@glitchkitty selected=”selected” works for select boxes. checked=”checked” works for radio buttons and checkboxes

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@glitchkitty where are you trying to use that?

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Is anyone aware of any academic papers that look at benefits of agile development over waterfall model?

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RT charlie_elise The ring arrived! :-D http://twitpic.com/8ojix [now need to start planning the engagement party!]

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Watching the lions match - he is very very lucky he only got a yellow for that.

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@seymansey any chance you could scan & send that letter to me? I’m doing some work on product recalls. :-)

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@Illarane They are much further ahead than us (by several thousand documents).

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@Illarane They show you a page and ask you for what type of content is on there and to transcribe the text. http://bit.ly/BGWRH

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RT @Bash: Swansea academic refuses to fly to Washington to discuss carbon emissions. Good on him! RT @gimboland: http://is.gd/1elb4

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@pezholio not bad! I was trying to do one a week, but completely failed :-( maybe I can rescue it for the second half of the year.

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Had a good time at Trydan, even though it was much quieter than last month. Tidying up bits and pieces this afternoon

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@KobB I wondered what was going on there! important lesson there - tweets are not always private! ;-)

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@KobB thanks, I’ll watch it as soon as I can.

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@KobB could you send me the link to that video? I’ll watch it when I’ve got some spare time. :-)

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Who’s clever idea was it to walk to trydan in the rain? Oh, wait, crap.

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RT @grahamallcott: Sadly this is how dead celebrities are reported: http://bit.ly/cUbNR (Via @claudineb @Farimah @anniemole @shanerichmond)

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Reminder to anyone who has forgotten (like me) - Trydan Cardiff is today - 11-2pm http://bit.ly/Q564r (thanks @KobB for the reminder)

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@KobB I forgot about Trydan - I’ll see if I can pop along shortly!

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BBC News Channel now quoting TMZ, LA Times and AP - their on screen headline “Michael Jackson Dies” - pretty much confirmed now

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BBC just interrupted #bbcqt to report that there are reports Michael Jackson is dead - almost certain now.

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I do sometimes wonder how things get done in big organisations. when making a policy change, it is usually a good idea to tell people!!

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@charlie_elise fantastic :-) nice to see the usual tricks worked

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@charlie_elise have you tried turning it off and on again?

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Oops, somehow I managed to chop a word out of that RT. Oh well, it was supposed to be “immortality for the winner”

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RT @mysociety: Can you design a better logo for the new TheyWorkForYou? http://bit.ly/RPN59 mySociety hoodies for the best 3 for the winner

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BREAKING: BBC to publish executive expenses - The BBC is to publish the salaries and expenses of its top 100 executives http://bit.ly/12qq2N

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@cardiffblogger I’ve just walked from Capital Tower (by hahas) to Central station via St Mary’s street. A haze of smoke all the way.

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Anyone know why Cardiff smells like it’s on fire? Streets very smokey :-/

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@glitchkitty Just the usual issues :-) nothing major - having just talked to some people who use crystal reports I think you win!

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@glitchkitty sounds hell - almost as fun as dealing with internal politics :-(

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RT @sp0t0n: if your planning on leaving Wales this avo,DONT! HUGE queues on the other side of the bridge - stay here

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RT @digitalbritain: New blog post: Commentable Digital Britain report now live! http://bit.ly/nI0bg

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Spending the morning reviewing some feedback and suggestions for the Recalls project and tidying up project 1.

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RT @tom_watson: Tabling questions to ministers requesting they publish data sets. Can anyone help with the format I need to specify?

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RT @lesteph: Uncool. @msofficeus is using Word to render emails in Outlook, killing standards support. See http://fixoutlook.org

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RT @timmillwood @MacFormat This UK plug concept is intriguing, but would it be durable? http://tr.im/psxL (via @pc_pro)

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@bethanjenkins I’ve quite enjoyed seeing what has been talked about at FMQs. Doesn’t get as much coverage as PMQs, so very useful! #senedd

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Not quite sure @plymouthcc get the point of Twitter - all communication seems to be one sided and a regurgitation of their news & jobs sites

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RT @tweetminster: More on Plymouth City Council Twitter ban: http://bit.ly/Ot7L7 [awful web 1.0 decision from Plymouth City Council]

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RT @Illarane: I never thought I’d be cheering the Telegraph, but they’re publishing the uncensored claims! http://is.gd/1a36s #mpexpenses

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@Illarane I just noticed that as well! very impressed #mpexpenses

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RT @frosty: A totally awesome story of a geek tracking down his stolen iPhone: http://bit.ly/17i74J [via daringfireball.net]

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RT @bisgovuk: RT @cflabs We’re making product recall notices easy to find - http://bit.ly/BVwFC

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@tim We’ve just launched our Product Recalls notification website - http://recalls.consumerf…

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@GazOakley Thanks :-) we hope so too! Feel free to spread the URL around if you don’t mind - any publicity we can get will be great!

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RT @cflabs: Pleased to launch our first project - UK & European product recalls by email and RSS: http://recalls.consumerf…

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YAY. @CFLabs has launched its first project - http://recalls.consumerf… - UK & European product recalls by email and RSS

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@GazOakley glad he got in touch - he’ll sort something out with you.

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@GazOakley apologies - things have been a bit hectic recently. Someone should be in contact shortly!

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Really productive week. WhatTheyClaimed.com launched, @CFLabs expenses site nearly ready and first project launching on Monday :-D

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@philippalatimer thats what their website says - a 68 page supplement

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New blog post: WhatTheyClaimed.com - a lesson in crowdsourcing http://bit.ly/18Fddm

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@jamescousins LOL! I’m just missing out on the 3G, MMS and stuff like that. Poor old original iPhone!

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@jamescousins I’m going to wait till i’m out of contract to upgrade

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@jamescousins urgh, people are actually queueing up for the iRipOff?

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@tim thanks for the mention!

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RT @tim: ‘Amateurs race professionals to uncover great truths from little details’ - FT on crowdsourcing MPs’ expenses: http://bit.ly/OSsAq

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Had to abandon the computer after I left the office - eyes too tired to look at code anymore. Will pick things up again tomorrow.

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RT @lesteph: Leaving aside the ££, http://nds.coi.gov.uk is a big #fail. Something so simple, with so much potential, done so badly.

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@tim i’ve only gone through one quarter so far, but 3 bills, £40, £35 and £35. so not that much in reality.

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@tim there seem to be alot of claims for Grass Cutting from Gordon Brown!

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Interesting site from the guardian: http://mps-expenses.guar…

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@Illarane i’m working on making it easier to add things in :-) i’ll try and add a page when this is done.

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WhatTheyClaimed.com - i’ve had to put a cache on the homepage to reduce the server load slightly. cache will clear every 5 minutes.

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@aimaz ah yeah, i see now - thanks. give me 5 minutes and it’ll be sorted!

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RT @mysociety: Help Crowdsource MPs expenses into this new (non-mySoc) site from @dafyddbach and @memespring - http://whattheyclaimed.c…

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@aimaz I noticed that when I brought the names in earlier - one should be angela-smith-basildon and one just angela-smith for now

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@blaine I’ll look at getting some better instructions shortly

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Thanks everyone - the site was put together really quickly - we’re live-editing it to get it working better

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Just what I need today. Bloody fire drill.

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New blog post: Digital Britain: The Future of UK Broadband, or is it?! http://daibach.co.uk/wp/…

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Spent today working on some CFLabs stuff and working my way through the full #digitalbritain report. thoughts in a blog soon (hopefully)

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@tobint thanks - thats what I was trying to do.. codeigniter needed a.com/b/c to be rewritten as a.com/index.php/b/c - but IIS don’t like it

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@ruskin147 our VOIP phones do the same - internal calls are lightning fast, external calls take forever to connect

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Anyone know how to get IIS to accept slash arguments? i.e. index.php/someargument/another ?

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@DirDigEng suggestion from a friend: Shared public displays, uploading and downloading photos, twitters, etc. to/from public displays

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@gavD_UK i’ve had a symbian smartphone, windows mobile phone and now an iPhone. I’ll never go back.

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RT @DirDigEng: How we can make the best use of new media and innovative technology in London 2012 Olympics? Ideas and suggestions please?

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Yay, the internet at work isn’t functioning - its taken out remote access & owa. good data centre redundancy obviously!

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#digitalbritain fail. Power cut in Govilon, estimated fix time: 11pm. Western Power Distribution is utter crap. #fail

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Cup of tea - check, chocolate - check, tweetdeck - check, 240 page #digitalbritain report - check. I have a fun evening planned!

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Dashed out of teleconference, grabbed my stuff and ran to the train. Consumer Focus’s response to #digitalbritain due shortly.

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RT @ruskin147: the levy on each landline will be £6 - to help fund fibre. Trying to find out what that adds up to..#digitalbritain

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About to head into a video conference to discuss #digitalbritain

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Can someone do the math - tax on all fixed lines to raise £150m per year - how much is that “small levy”?? #digitalbritain

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tempted to go analogue and print out all 275 pages of the #digitalbritain report to read

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Jeremy Hunt (Con): #digitalbritain is a disappointment

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RT @pezholio: RT @digitalbritain: New blog post: Final report published! http://bit.ly/ijKSt

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@glitchkitty Ofcom is to be given powers to reveal the identities of illegal downloaders #digitalbritain

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Obligitory release of identity for illegal peer to peer users #digitalbritain

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RT @bryanglick: martha lane fox confirmed as digital inclusion champion #digitalbritain

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small levy on all fixed lines to pay for Next Gen Broadband #digitalbritain

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RT @ruskin147: i’m told there is a broadband rabbit in the #digitalbritain hat. we should know in five minutes.

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watching the #digitalbritain statement on the BBC News Channel - http://bit.ly/1acLO

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Oooo, somehow I missed the launch of the ASUS eee T1 Tablet here in the UK. I want one! http://bit.ly/ErWtT

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@seymansey ok - maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but still pretty bad

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@seymansey that is probably one of the worst examples of reporting i’ve ever seen. :-/ very poor from the #bbc

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RT @bbctech: The High Court refuses to preserve the secret identity of an anonymous policeman blogger who has .. http://tinyurl.com/l5z2u6

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the strange email problem seems to be solved. I reported problem to IT who said it wasn’t their issue, then my inbox filled up. coincidence?

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Fantastic! - there is food left over from the roundtable - free lunch for me! :-P

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RT @ruskin147: Gordon Brown says Britain will “lead the world” in broadband technology after #digitalbritain. [um, how exactly?!]

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@glitchkitty oops, hate it when that happens - always remember the good stuff when its too late. what was this for?

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Hmm, fire engines are still here, and firemen now standing at various points around the building. what is going on?!

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Should I be concerned at the large number of Fire Engines and firemen outside our building putting on breathing equipment?!

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email problem solution - automated emails to office hours!

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RT @Bash: RT @shanerichmond: National Rail Enquiries investigated for competition breaches re My Rail Lite iPhone app http://bit.ly/IgpoH

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Dealing with a mysterious email problem - our automated test emails arrive during office hours, but not overnight

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Deadling with a mysterious email problem - our automated test emails arrive during office hours, but not overnight

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RT @frosty: Sainsburys are rolling out ‘Kinetic Road Plates’, getting enough power from cars to power checkouts: http://is.gd/13gPw

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Not sure whether to look forward to the Digital Britain report or not. Could be a disaster. #digitalbritain

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In the middle of a huge thunderstorm, in abergavenny. hail, lightning. Road flooded. OMG.

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of course, now i’ve said that it won’t happen at all. i need to remember to not make hopeful statements like that!

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really pleased. both Project 1 and Project A have gone to staging today. with any luck, one will be live by the end of the week :-D

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@charlie_elise mine is doing the same… I just need to get this bit of code done… grr!

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RT @ruskin147 Virgin Media and Universal unveil all you can eat music service-Virgin promises to suspend accounts of persistent file-sharers

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@DirDigEng do you have a list of the sites that will be audited & the sites earmarked for closure?

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RT @DirDigEng: COI to publish comprehensive figures on the cost, quality, and use of government websites http://bit.ly/UzTeg @coigovuk

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@digigov do you have a list of the sites that will fall under the audit?

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@tom_watson I agree with @glynmoody - we need a presumption of openness and proper justification for keeping any data locked away

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RT @tom_watson: Writing an article on reforming parliament using digital tools. Scrutiny, transparency, accountability. All ideas welcome.

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Picked up some work on Project 1 again today. Nearly ready to push it live (only a few weeks late!). Project A almost ready for staging.

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RT @digitalbritain: New blog post: Digital Britain final report to be published http://bit.ly/WqjdI

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I hate regular expressions - can’t get my head around them properly :-(

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@doktorb yeah - my argument against it is the costs involved. how many buildings need new names, printed letter heads, websites etc.

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Jobless Welsh workers face being penalised for joining training scheme - http://bit.ly/3SvXu (via @Dragonwheels) - WAG gives, DWP takes away

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@Dragonwheels looks like a perfect example of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing!

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Another Gov website merger begins - berr.gov.uk and duis.gov.uk have begun to be merged into http://www.bis.gov.uk. Glad its not my job!

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Finally finished reading the Power of Information Taskforce report - it probably should be required reading for Gov senior managers #poit

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Finally at home - seems something somewhere was blocked and flooded the track. Sat outside Carleon for about 45 minutes :(

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Stuck on a train between Newport and Cwmbran. The line is apparently flooded, so we’re sitting here till something gets done about it.

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Long day today. made quite a bit of progress, but took a further step back this afternoon :-(

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Drowning in a sea of post-it notes while planning our next project. http://yfrog.com/5c3nbj (via @cflabs)

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Heading home - quite pleased with progress on project B. hopefully will launch end of this week or early next week.

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@glitchkitty of course there is, but today, a portion of the web has chosen O2 as its target

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Petition: O2 to offer reasonable iPhone 3GS upgrade and tethering #o2fail http://twitition.com/owz… @patrickaltoft

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@idesignstudios I once considered getting some presentation folders, but I tend to do alot of stuff electronically now.

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@timmillwood I asked o2 this and they assured me that I did. So we get screwed for not upgrading last year!

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@O2 what if you are still on the original iphone and didn’t upgrade last year?

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Just talked to o2 about iphone 3GS (and having not taken last year’s 3G upgrade) it looks like i’m going to be doubly penalised :-( #02fail

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@gimboland TFL strike will start at 7pm tonight until Friday morning (not Thursday).

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@gimboland TFL strike will start at 7pm tonight until Friday morning (not Thursday).

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RT @Bash RT @shanerichmond: Blogpost: iPhone customers angry with O2 over iPhone 3GS upgrade cost http://bit.ly/5zTDq #o2fail #fail

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@gavD_UK at least its only a technical and not a political hurdle - i’ve had enough of those in the last month to last me a lifetime!

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@Ollysuckling not yet as far as I know. Still going on.

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40 minutes of my life i’m never going to get back. FFS Apple, get to the good stuff. #wwdc09

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Oh come on Apple - enough with the software, I want to know about the hardware! #wwdc09

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Going to try and keep track of #wwdc09, but since I’m on a train, it might be a lost hope

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@Directgov are you intending to make the data available through an API?

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RT @jemimakiss: RT @bengoldacre “BNP polled lower % than the Swedish Pirate Party.”

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@ruskin147 do you think there might be some kind of new hardware being announced today?! ;-)

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New blog post: Oh dear Britain, what have we done? http://bit.ly/1222yK

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BREAKING: Jane Kennedy, Environment Minister is leaving the Government #reshuffle

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#eu09 Scotland Seats: SNP 2, LAB 2, CON 1, LD 1

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#eu09 Scotland results now being announced

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@lesteph I imagine friday was a pretty tough day! I’m still amazed that DIUS has been merged with BERR. Didn’t see that coming at all!

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New blog post: Oh dear Britain, what have we done? http://bit.ly/1222yK

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RT @PaulLomax anti BNP protest TODAY Manc Piccadilly Gardens 17:30 UNITE AGAINST FASCISM (re BNP being voted in) pls RT (via @grahamallcott

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Morning to everyone waking up to a darker time here in Britain. Yes its true, we have unfortunately elected a bunch of racists. #eu09 #bnp

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#eu09 on that horrible horrible point, i’m going to bed.

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#eu09 BNP have gotten to their second EU seat

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#eu09 NW Seats: CON 3, LAB 2, UKIP 1, LD 1, BNP 1

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#eu09 NW Result: BNP 132,094, CON 423,174, GRN 127,133, LAB 336,831, UKIP 261,740

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#eu09 North West announcement beginning

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#eu09 West Mids: CON 2, UKIP 2, LAB 1, LD 1

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RT @davidottewell: Last min checking of figs but we all know what is coming (NW) #eu09

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One more result then I can call it a night… will BNP get a seat in the NW? twitter suggests they will :-( . #eu09

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#eu09 SE Seats: CON 4, UKIP 2, LD 2, GRN 1, LAB 1 (NO CHANGE)

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RT @MrDVine: #EU09: horrah to the man who just loudly shouted ‘fucking fashists’ at the BNP on TV

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#eu09 SE results: BNP 101,769, CON 812,288, LD 330,340, GRN 271,506, LAB 192,592, UKIP 440,002

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#eu09 SW seats: CON 3, UKIP 2, LD 1

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#eu09 SW results: BNP 60,889, Con 468,742, LD 266,253, GRN 144,179, LAB 118,716, UKIP 341,845

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#eu09 SW: leave the thanks till later, we want figures!!!

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Looks like we’ve got 3 results due in within minutes, SW, SE and NW #eu09

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RT @davidottewell: Result in moments. This is going to be ugly

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#eu09 SE results expected, SW results expected, NW results expected

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RT @doktorb: Reports from Manchester count - NW result imminent - BNP 1, UKIP 1, LD 1, Con 3, Lab 2 most likely #eu09

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#eu09 East Mids: UKIP lost a seat to the Lib Dems. Not bad

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#eu09 East Mids: % Share: CON +4, LAB -4, UKIP -10, LIB +1, GRN +1

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#eu09 East Mids: change UKIP -1, LIB DEM +1 , CON/LAB no change

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#eu09 East Mids seats: CON 2, LAB 1, UKIP 1, LD1

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#eu09 East Mids: BNP 106,319, LD 151,428, GRN 83,939, LAB 206,945, UKIP 201,984 (somehow i missed Cons, sorry!)

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@akyan yeah - interesting change compared to the north #eu09

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@jamescousins Nice to see London has more sense than some unnamed parts of the UK #eu09

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#eu09 No change in seats for London. Not too bad a result for Labour

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#eu09 London seats: CON 3, LAB 2, LD 1, GRN 1, UKIP 1

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#eu09 London result in order: Con, Lab, Lib, Green, UKIP, BNP

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#eu09 London result: BNP 86,420, CON 479,037, LD 240,156, GRN: 190,589, LAB 372,590, UKIP 188,440

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#eu09 London result: 86,420

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#eu09 BBC Seats Prediction: CON 25, UKIP 13, LAB 13, LD 11, GRN 2, BNP 2, SNP 2, PC 1

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#eu09 BBC Seats Prediction: CON 25, UKUP 13, LAB 13, LD 11, GRN 2, BNP 2, SNP 2, PC 1

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