May 2007
thepatrick: Apple Cinema Display: like heaven. Getting that and the transformer for my wireless headphones? Better than heaven. Seriously. (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: iTunes plus: it works! And replaces songs, at least in your local library. (so they retain play count etc.) (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: The Street View on GMaps is awesome. I wanted to do something like that myself a few years ago, but never got around to it. (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: Back from the airport. hoorah for not leaving town :) (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: Home from a day of hanging with a good friend. (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: Canadian tax refund. At long last. Hoorah! (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: Gah. Manged IT. yuck. (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: → - what a wonderful name. (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: It’s my birthday tomorrow. joy. (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: Is it crazy how we censor ourselves? Kind of makes you wonder why we do it. (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: My NADD is seriously not being helped by the lack of a decent monitor. (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: Yay twitter working with uk phone. (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: I wont pretend everything’s ok. Who needs to pretend? (via Twitter / thepatrick)
The Last Temptation of Al Gore | TIME →
He has fallen out of love with politics. But friends, moneymen and an army of green activists are begging him to run
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thepatrick: ‘By “devil” I mean “Robot Devil”. And by “metaphorically” I mean “get your coat”.’ (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: Fireworks & Myriad Pro seem to like crashing ATSServer. Which likes crashing everything else. (via Twitter / thepatrick)
MySQL: Search & Replace (UrbanMainframe.com) →
I’ve just finished a little housekeeping on the MySQL database that sits behind this website and I was struck by just how useful MySQL’s search-and-replace facility is for this task. mysql> update table_name set table_field = replace(table_field,’replace_that’,’with_this’); Wonderful stuff. Now if only the search-and-replace supported...
D’Arcy Norman dot net » Blog Archive » How to... →
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thepatrick: “Same lovable MacBook. New lovable speed.” Now with drugs? (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: ah /.: “Live by the sword… ZOMG! They’ve Got Nukes!” (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: Oh my god: http://tinyurl.com/2db2yv (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: grr Apple. I just want Final Cut Pro. I don’t need the other bits! except maybe Color. I’d quite like Color. (via Twitter / thepatrick)
Ajaxian » iCarousel: open source carousel →
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thepatrick: Eurovision was… yeah. (via Twitter / thepatrick)
Visiting Αθήνα
I’ve spent a chunk of this week in Athens, working. It’s conference time.
General comments on Greece:
It’s hot. Dry though.
People smoke. A lot. Inside.
People here can’t drive. Or they can, but they insist on doing it in the most crazy way possible.
Fish is loved here. I don’t love fish. I suspect this would make living here problematic.
The thing about being at a conference in the...
thepatrick: Sitting at Heathrow waiting for a flight to Athens (via Twitter / thepatrick)
One week on from one week on
The weather is still good, and I’ve managed to survive another week of work. This has been made easier by adopting a t-mobile web’n’walk hsdpa modem. 2mbps! On the train! It’s fantastic.
I’m spending three days next week in Athens, primarily to film the conference work is running there. Spent today finding suitable business attire. (I spent £60 on a pair of trousers. dang.)
I’ve switched to O2...
thepatrick: so… who’s going to be in Athens next week? (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: Dear Microsoft. Re: Outlook 2007 HTML rendering. Fuck you. Yours sincerely, Patrick. (via Twitter / thepatrick)
thepatrick: So, I’m off to Athens next week (via Twitter / thepatrick)