After a wonderful night of comedy with @BrynS, I’m back in the office (in the building that caught fire), now powered by a
huge generator.
Kind: Notes
Note #25846
Decamped to a number of venues around East London. The team I’ve been working with and I are in the basement of a nearby cafe!
Note #25848
Still no power at @SquizUK
following yesterday’s fire. Just waiting for more people to arrive so we can work out where we’re working today.
Note #25850
Expected a gimmick. Expected it to be about the food. But it’s not. It’s about so much more than that. Would eat here again.
Note #25852
Just came out of Dans Le Noir, the restaurant where you eat mystery food in the dark, and… OMG.
Note #25854
Visiting @SquizUK in London
when… Building caught fire! Heaps of smoke, two pumps. Been evacuated.
Note #25857
RT @misterjta Dear 2012,
Fuck off. Sincerely, JTA.
Note #25859
@ajphillips After last
week’s #Zonomi DDoS, @3RingsLtd started using Route 53 on @AWSCloud as ‘extra’ DNS servers.
Still up: must’ve worked!
Note #25861
2 of 4 @rimuhosting
#zonomi DNS servers back online (ns2 & ns3). Meanwhile, I’m
setting up a manual slave system on @awscloud Route 53.
Note #25863
A brand new Golf from @ZipcarUK, a field of friendly cows, a tub of last night’s curry, and an
afternoon’s #paramotoring. #LifeIsGood
Leslie Nielsen was admitted to hospital earlier this month
You: To Hospital? What is it?
Me: It’s a big building with patients, but that’s not important right now.
Sad to say, he died yesterday. The world has lost a fantastic actor and comedian.
Just a short post, here: the wedding this weekend was amazing, but I’ll be writing about that at a later point, once I’ve caught up on all the work and email I’ve neglected over the last week or so.
Off to a Wedding!
Ruth, JTA and I are on our way to Telford where, tomorrow, they’ll be married. Ruth is bouncing with excitement. The car’s chock-full of suits and dresses and cases and wedding favours. It’s been a crazy few weeks and a crazy morning, but the ball’s rolling now.
I’m feeling really energised about the whole thing. Bring it on.
(just let me finish writing my speech, first!)
It is Windy in Aberystwyth
We don’t get wind in Oxford: not wind like this, anyway. The air is passionate and angry, full of bitter sea salt and wild energy. It smells like Aberystwyth… and still a little like “home”.
But this time I’m here as a visitor, of course. Just another tourist: and that’s a very strange and alien feeling, to me.
I’m Proud of the BBC!
I’m Proud of the BBC! [YouTube] It’s just this (and lousy weather) that keeps us together. With thanks to Katie for sharing.
Well, that’ll be stuck in my head for a while. Full write-up (and photos) from this weekend’s fun and games coming soon.
Roman Typesetters
When ancient Roman typesetters or web designers were showcasing a design, and didn’t want the content of the (dummy) text on their mock-ups to distract the client… what did they use for their lorem ipsum text?
These are the kinds of things that bother me most when I’m doing typographic layout. That, and Internet Explorer’s consistently fucked-up interpretation of CSS.