Tweets for Today

• 09:12 @digitaldownfall Joy of unlocking mate, joy of unlocking #
• 09:14 Rule of the day; speak approvingly in some way about spitting on people, win an unfollow.... #
• 09:27 @digitaldownfall That'd do it.... #
• 09:52 Twittering from KDETwitter... Plasmoids, a great idea on paper... on the screen... nah... #
• 09:55 @seatrout I suspect they are meant to be a grand unified theory of desktop decoration... #
• 09:58 @seatrout When I say desktop decoration, I mean menus, task bars, icons, everything... #
• 10:13 @seatrout: tinyurl.com/2a64pq explains... #
• 10:14 @seatrout: The difference, Dashboard sits over the desktop, Plasmoids are the desktop and under windows #
• 16:37 @p4ula You still get to clean up your Downloads folder... :) #
• 16:41 @p4ula Thats why I kinda like the downloads stack on OSX... not quite so easy to forget... but ignorable #
• 16:48 @p4ula Works with Firefox too tho... #
• 19:21 @glynmoody He's talking about standard licence metadata though, something that is needed... and at some point an app *would* act on it #
• 20:07 @tug Sounds very much like they were well off the platform... pity the pic isn't geotagged :) #
• 20:15 @glynmoody I didn't say act as in to block, act to advise would probably be the easiest system (ethically/legally) #
• 21:38 @glynmoody Except that there's no central control. You can apply the rights you want to your creations without handing over control. #
• 21:41 @tug Worked out where it was on Google Maps. Well off the end of the platform under the bridge... #
• 21:48 @glynmoody There's no device locking, no expiry, nothing to stop the content being used and no encryption mentioned. Not really DRM at all. #
• 21:54 @glynmoody The Reg article isn't bad. It picks out the difference between the scheme and DRM. And the flaws in the idea. #

Tweets for Today

• 08:14 @r4today Is this in the Leeches and Homeopathic wing of Derby hospital then? #
• 08:31 @glynmoody Like you need DRM to make a PC game unplayable... :) #
• 08:43 @glynmoody It's just a pity that the popular message passing bus for the internet is based on a proporietary technology.... #
• 08:54 @glynmoody Not without being able to federate with Twitter, and that introduces a load of other issues. We have XMPP already anyway... #
• 09:02 @glynmoody Play games on consoles where the DRM is baked in and it's a fixed spec platform? Maybe not the take home message you want? :) #
• 09:22 @glynmoody XMPP? All over the place, but not as a microblogging platform. Twitter is one place, many interfaces; XMPP gives many places... #
• 09:42 @stephenfry 3 full frontal? Must be the republic of nudeistan.... #
• 11:34 @rupertg Usability challenged... "Friend or foe?" "Friend, everyone loves usab" <BANG> "Foe..." #
• 12:11 @ramtops A lost weekend? :) #
• 22:14 @Wossy Capsela... like lego but with globes and gears that all plug together #

Tweets for Today

• 07:49 @gapingvoid As a brit, let me assure you that "So what" was the least visceral of my reactions to that Cadbury creative bowel evacuation... #
• 13:13 still hate dentists.... even when they are really good. #
• 14:51 @emonk_net Oh come on, reviews would be much improved by occasional "Oh god, here come the bats again" #

Tweets for Today

• 10:03 @sbisson "The Demon runs around panicing as the user thinks, 'That's not what I was expecting'" #
• 16:22 @p4ula If it's not on twitter with a picture link, *then* it doesn't exist :) #
• 21:02 @rupertg Wasn't it just.... and they weren't there for the science.... #
• 21:13 Hmmm.... Jaxa has 3 CCD 2.2MP as it's HDTV camera... obviously more than the Science Museum projector :) #

Tweets for Today

• 08:30 @glynmoody And the HP150 did X/Y positioning through infrared. And Apple aren't patenting touchscreens..... #
• 08:30 @glynmoody ... and the other guys on the patent are from Fingerworks, the pioneers in gestural touch screens #
• 08:32 @glynmoody Important words in the abstract "for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display" #
• 08:36 @glynmoody (a) it's not a patent for touch screens (b) it's based around a touch screen that detects finger shape and movement #
• 08:37 @glynmoody Through a heuristic mechanism. That's core of the patent. If you remember prior art, good chance it was from FingerWorks. #
• 08:39 @glynmoody It meets mine as a coder. Patents are not required to be utterly unique, they are about advancing the art. #
• 08:44 @glynmoody And do check the referenced patents, is.gd/hmNX for example #
• 13:05 @glynmoody If you have a progress bar that is an advancement of the art of progress bars.... #
• 13:06 A busy but good morning. Nice to see people excited about what we're planning.... #
• 13:08 @glynmoody We have our first discussion topic :) #
• 14:05 @p4ula is.gd/hopc should work on a bigger hard drive too :) #
• 14:12 @jackschofield On Twitter or for real .... the boy's got a reputation #
• 15:40 Wish there was a mini displayport to displayport cable for these here Dell monitors... none to be found so far. #
• 16:22 @p4ula Visions of two piles of dust... written and unwritten dust :) #

Tweets for Today

• 09:02 @glynmoody "And if we were in the post industrial scenario that would mean something" :) #
• 09:04 Is feeling quite cynical this morning..... #
• 09:07 @seatrout Smug city and suburbs even.... #
• 09:14 @glynmoody Hmmm, I'd suggest that the current flavour of capitalism is what's broken but that we are still, globally, in the industrial age #
• 09:22 @glynmoody Yet other trends will see abundance->scarcity for essentials of life (h2o,energy)... so I don't see an obvious trend convergence #
• 09:22 Catches up on the weeks Daily Shows.... #
• 09:27 Loving DestroyTwitter even more today.... it's so novelly neat in style #
• 09:30 Wonders if there's an open source journos meeting that goes on in London.... #
• 09:49 @glynmoody Sounds like a plan... Now first challenge... a name for it. (How all things start)... loj jam (London open journalist)... nah... #
• 10:02 @glynmoody Hmmm.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban ... feels inappropriate :) :) :) #
• 10:04 @glynmoody lojical ... cos you make a date for it :) #
• 10:06 What I'd like in Twitter.... "reply in chat/im" so you can go "off twitter" #
• 10:08 @glynmoody I wouldn't go *that* far .... :) #
• 10:12 @glynmoody I think the tradition is a pub is it not. Not a pub afficianado tho so all suggestions accepted. #
• 10:15 Ah, this is the limit of how well Twitter works... as soon as a conversation develops, it implicitly "floods"... #
• 10:17 @glynmoody That sounds much better.... Cafe+Wifi it is... now to actually think of one. opens up is.gd/2F2q #
• 12:58 @jonobennett and now it has no sharp edges? :) #
• 13:50 @jonobennett wasn't allowed sharp things :) #
• 19:28 @digitaldownfall Not that I've noticed.... #
• 19:31 @digitaldownfall Ah, says it's shipped, but it's not on the carrier yet #

Tweets for Today

• 12:27 @rupertg Define "promise" :) #
• 13:20 @digitaldownfall Science Museum.... just avoid the shop :) #
• 14:02 Oddly wondering if there is any way for Twitter to allow you to direct message yourself. #
• 15:22 @p4ula It actually set as ice cream? Or did it melt really really quickly? :) #
• 15:23 Wraps up a thousands words.... ah yes, it's saturday #
• 18:53 @p4ula Were you crushed? is.gd/h5cA - kinda like that in a faily way :) #
• 20:38 @twistedmonk A charming grin? #

Tweets for Today

• 23:22 Back from an edifying evening at the Open Source .Net Exchange #
• 10:11 @dalmaer "Oops. This web application needs Safari." - Fail :) #
• 10:12 @glynmoody Indirectly though, via supporting Lotus Symphony :) #
• 10:42 @glynmoody The same yes, but not explicitly ODF support, if you see what I mean #
• 13:34 @rupertg Outlocked! #
• 14:07 @burke_eric The secret Bush Plan to Manglificate the Engishitude Languageism..... #
• 14:19 @rupertg Complete with QL waggling! #
• 16:18 @rupertg Oh, thats actually a real shame.... #

Tweets for Today

• 09:43 @mattgemmell Morning Legend..... #
• 10:17 @glynmoody Seems it all hinges on what OSA does; if they get proprietary vendors to release open protocols, that could be good, but.... #
• 13:05 @glynmoody It's not what I think... it's what the OSA thinks :) #
• 13:11 @bensummers Seems some folk have OpenSolaris running on it - see is.gd/gHah #
• 13:25 @bensummers Oddly, I got Windows 7 up on my EEEPC901 yesterday... depends on your definition of bearable :) #
• 13:40 @glynmoody A weakly enforced standards organisation? I think they'll form a queue. :) #
• 20:51 #firstcomputer Used: ICL George timeshare terminal, Owned: Science of Cambridge MK14 #

Tweets for Today

• 09:19 @stephenfry Ah, Britain is again complete! :) #
• 11:41 Numb mouth.... just back from root canal part 1 #
• 20:53 @DidierStevens Thank you for prodding Authenticode; it is a kind of lesson - if you ain't using it, take it out #
• 22:54 @nomine Achievemant Unlocked: You have achieved twitymmetry #

Tweets for Today

• 08:38 @girlonetrack Yeah, but thats just a boat innit, not a car... (@codepope runs for his life :) ) #
• 09:22 @mattgemmell How do you get it under the Esperesso machine? :) #
• 15:49 @glynmoody i think Asay has the right take on it - is.gd/gsqv - it's a PR war... #
• 15:59 Wondering how things are going at linux.conf.au.... #
• 16:28 @ramtops Sniff, no. But then thats one long flight :) #
• 16:30 @webmink I will, I will.... even if only to report on your exclusion :D #
• 16:33 @glynmoody The take home word there being "nearly" :) #
• 16:36 @glynmoody I'm always right. It's just others perceptions of my rightness that are flawed :) #
• 17:31 @digitaldownfall Oh, you are one of those "train-half-there" types eh? #

Tweets for Today

• 15:32 My Annotated Wondermark has arrived! Right.... what, no annotations! This will bother me. :) #

Tweets for Today

• 23:50 live, from a Hanover hotel #
• 07:47 @digitaldownfall Chill, moist... now to the office #
• 07:47 @norock Try sitting on a train which is at 99% capacity.... #
• 07:48 @digitaldownfall cold, moist... off to work #
• 17:19 Working away in Hanover.... #
• 17:20 @rupertg I'm in Hanover having meetings so for me, yes. #

Tweets for Today

• 08:04 @mdhughes You missed the "And I blame AOL"... #
• 09:34 @rupertg When life gives you tentacles, you make tents! #
• 11:55 @Casablanca picture entitled "Wizard vaporises Rubiks cube in frustration"? :) #
• 14:11 Right, time to head for the airport.... #
• 14:25 Off to Hanover... #
• 17:49 Oh poop - flight delayed till 20:30 cos of fog. Now ensconced in business lounge. No free wifi?! What kind of business is that eh? #
• 17:49 @crocrock yup, Hanover germany #
• 18:16 #boarding lhr #
• 18:34 Watching some mst3k at the airport bit.ly/1yPoNp twitpic.com/12t1v #
• 20:40 Sitting on the stand at lhr, apparently the tower has been evacuated and there may be some.... Delay.... #

Tweets for Today

• 14:34 Enjoying a good 30".... of monitor. :) #
• 16:32 @security4all I plead the Loreal Defence..... "Because I'm Worth It" :) #
• 17:25 @mattgemmell Careful now Legend .... also involved in creating the list were Oracle, Red Hat and Apple :) #

Tweets for Today

• 09:24 Busy with security advisories.... and finding out my replacement monitor will be here by wednesday. #
• 12:30 Yay, monitor despatched.... #

Tweets for Today

• 23:32 @crocrock Get a PS3 + the £20 remote. Best Bluray player you can get and does lots more. #
• 04:54 @crocrock It's not about the gaming. The PS3 is still the most flexible Bluray player, and does streaming and other playback too from the HD #
• 13:34 @sil Stop motion lego is always a good option #

Tweets for Today

• 07:40 Scan.co.uk... when theres no problem fine. When there is, they don't half drag their feet. Replacement monitor still not shipped to me. #
• 08:50 @Reynolds On the plus side, the fire should be warm.... <BRRRR> #
• 10:55 @Wossy How about something scary, like a paparazzi... with a camera with a nice big flash to take photos of the bush dwellers? :) #

Tweets for Today

• 11:00 @mattgemmell Worry not. Palm still have plenty of time to screw it up. :) #
• 19:27 When did the Skype Mac client start using a conversation from 1984 in the chat preferences screen? #

Tweets for Today

• 11:38 @mattgemmell Isnt that called a... um.... table? #
• 18:47 @digitaldownfall Nah... it's just well samey... "The plastics aren't stellar" #

Tweets for Today

• 13:59 Gosh it's cold in Swansea - BBCNews just showed the temperature there as -99 :) #
• 14:01 Looking for something to read? How about open source BIOS's ten years in and a chat with the coreboot developers- tinyurl.com/9gd59s #
• 15:09 @pibbotson Isn't the response to that TV Radar posting "Get a Freeview box then?" :) #
• 22:09 @malki It does *now* #
• 22:18 @malki Guess I'd better buy a copy to really be bothered by it.... <click>... right, now I'm bothered #
• 22:45 @malki I'm a man of my <click> :) #

Tweets for Today

• 00:05 Has Freescale let a cat out of the bag for tomorrow? tinyurl.com/a8bpbf #
• 07:31 @Casablanca Isn't it pretty.... Glad I'm staying in today :) #
• 14:31 Steve Jobs is unwell, officially, news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7811857.stm #
• 16:00 Apple say nothing - "Stonewalling"... Jobs says how he is - "PR Stunt" - tinyurl.com/9s6ucr #
• 17:43 @lrug Merb vs Rails.... a last fight to the death? With actual fighting.... :) #

Tweets for Today

• 12:11 Trying DestroyTwitter.... #
• 12:14 DestroyTwitter is odd... all slidey and things but hey.... tinyurl.com/8yg4jx #
• 12:25 @georgiawonder Sit closer to the screen :) #
• 14:33 @security4all How about a 30" flanked by two 24s? Nearly went there myself till @nomine pointed out that was wider than my desk..... #
• 14:35 DestroyTwitter growing on me.... apart from the name... wish the titlebar could vanish or show some status. #
• 14:50 Discovers DestroyTwitter can't display the euro symbol... #
• 17:24 @digitaldownfall Get thee behind me Santa. #
• 18:45 @dima767 Griffon looks more fun to work with... but why not a self contained webapp with a little server brought up at startup of the app? #

Tweets for Today

• 16:47 treats self to a new camcorder, retiring the old MiniDV camcorder I've had for waaaay to long and too little used really. #
• 17:10 @digitaldownfall Canon HF10, Amazon have em for 529 with 50 quid cashback #
• 18:11 @amarshwren Canon HF10... Theres a HF11, but the 10 is at a great price #
• 20:15 @amarshwren Simple, use memory cards like memory. Remember how much a MiniDV tape cost... now look at the price of an 8GB SDHC card say... #
• 20:16 @amarshwren I mean "memory cards like tape/film" #

Tweets for Today

• 08:12 @tom_watson Sounds like a great place for putting pre-election pledges... set to expire the day after the election :) #
• 08:40 @tom_watson Little Ern! <waggles glasses> How's the play wot you wrote coming along? #
• 14:32 @Casablanca Must see if I can get that on the Wipeout HD soundtrack :) #

Tweets for Today

• 23:59 Getting it in before the rush.... Happy New Year... 200niiiiine.... #
• 08:32 updates the Microsoft Zune story on heise-online.co.uk and wishes everyone a happy new year.... #
• 15:22 Good old Amiga 3000s.... still blitting bits after over 15 years - bit.ly/EYL5 #