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- Had a play with the Mac version of Tweetie but found it a bit…basic. WIll stick with DestroyTwitter. #
- My main Tweetie gripe: Scrolling up/down a page is too awkward. DestroyTwitter has it right with shift up/down to move the page. #
- Busy, busy, busy #
- http://mobypicture.com/?axn1y1 – Another test… #
- Phew. Cycled home at full pelt then got in and started washing the car followed by bike adjustments. Now I need rest. #
- 1 malaria net costs £5. Tesco could buy 2 hundred million nets (which is more than Africa could ever need) with just a third of their pr … #
- They were not, in fact, having a laugh. #
- Sweet. Fastest cycle in to work ever! http://ping.fm/OfTfn #
- And a super fast cycle home too. Only problem is now I’m knackered. #
- Watching The Strangers. Scary. #
- Oh my god, it’s a mirage,
I’m tellin’ y’all it’s sabotage.
♫ http://blip.fm/~4t73m # - My Twitter personality: likeable inquisitive cautious My style: chatty coherent TALKER http://twanalyst.com/jaytay #
- In defense of Twitter http://www.kottke.org/09/04/in-defense-of-twitter via @kottkedotorg #
- Balti, bombay potato, pilau rice and onion bhaji. Now that’s good take out. #
- At my parent’s house for the weekend. Yay! #
- RT @destroytoday: DestroyTwitter 1.6.0 Beta release! http://bit.ly/mBSzp Now with Groups! Download: http://bit.ly/feu2z or restart. #
- About to go strimming the orchard to get it all looking good for the wedding. 4 weeks to go! #
- Catching up with Ashes to Ashes and waiting for a phone call… #
- I think my knee is going to fall off. #
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- Home #
- RT @destroytoday: DestroyTwitter 1.5.3 Beta release! Restart for the update. http://tr.im/iJUL #
- Have a sleping Miri on me. She’s lovely but heavy
# - Truly amazing ♫ http://blip.fm/~4bkvs #
- It’s tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that’s right on time. It’s tricky. #
- Who’s house? Run’s House. #
- Have you seen http://www.graze.com ? You can get a free box with my feed your friends code: VQ7QPTLT #
- Saw a potential new car for sale earlier and having thoroughly researched it my head now hurts. #
- http://mobypicture.com/?ckg0ck – Yum! Get one for free using code VQ7QPTLT at http://graze.com #
- Armpits – http://mobypicture.com/?zou6wd #
- Film review: The Break Up: It had about 3 true funny moments but otherwise was idiotic and frustrating, like the characters themselves. 2/5 #
- Film review: The Machinist: Finally got around to watching this, liked where it was headed but the ending was a huge anti-climax. 3/5 #
- Freshly launched AIR Twitter clients memory usage: TweetDeck: 125MB. Seesmic Desktop: 120MB. DestroyTwitter: 95MB. DestroyTwitter = Best. #
- Sunshine! Hooray! #
- Got excited when I saw that IPL was trending today then was disappointed when I saw it wasn’t mainframe related. #geek #
- “Take your diamonds and throw ‘em up like you bulimic” ♫ http://blip.fm/~4jndu #
- Counting down… #
- http://mobypicture.com/?nh5qm6 – Enjoying the sunshine at Wensum park with the girls. #
- RT @Whatleydude: “So I read today that the N97 is on it’s way to Vodafone” OK, now I’m excited: http://bit.ly/uvFFE My only worry is price! #
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There’s no kind of atmosphere. I’m all alone, more or less.
It’s March 1992, I’m a mere 12 years of age and have just finished watching a fantastic series finale of Red Dwarf. I’ve been watching it since series 2 (yes, I started young) and have read the two novels and greatly enjoyed them despite being told they were too adult for me by a teacher at Middle School. The second novel I thought was very, very good. All sounds good eh? Bring on series 6!
Jump to October 1993, series 6 of Red Dwarf is about to start and I’m pretty excited. I’ve already read the script for the first episode in the “Primordial Soup” book thanks to certain “connections” in the book printing trade and am looking forward to the new series and Starbug based setting. The first 3 episodes are all good but 4 and 5 just recycle previously used plot elements. Episode 6 is just rubbish. I’m disappointed. Maybe the next series and a return to Red Dwarf itself will improve? I’m sure I’ll find out next year….
And so we leap to January 1997. It’s been a long time since I watched Red Dwarf and times and tastes have changed. I watch the new series eagerly but am very, very disappointed. The new “filmic” look doesn’t gel with the production values and the general feeling I get from the series is that it hasn’t really progressed. Interestingly, on reading the Wikipedia episode summaries, I can only recall about 3 episodes but know I watched them all. That’s probably quite telling.
February 1999: I watch the first of series 8 but don’t continue. It hasn’t improved from the last although the return of “normal” video and studio audiences is certainly better. I accidentally catch the ending of the final episode but feel no remorse over having missed the rest.
Some point in 2002 or 2003: Some of my housemates and I are up late channel hopping and see that “Polymorph” is on UKTV Gold or whatever it was called back then. All of us were big Red Dwarf fans and remember that episode as being a very good one so happily put it on. Over the next half an hour I think we laughed out loud about twice. One comment made: “It just seems to revolve around people insulting each other in bizarre future-themed and obscure ways.” We all feel disappointed and a tad confused over how funny we all used to find it.
Red Dwarf then. The three specials have just finished airing on Dave but I’ve not watched them. I’ve read the synposes of the first two but I don’t think I’ll try and catch them. Sorry.
- Mmmm, 4 day week. #
- I’ll never get tired of this song ♫ http://blip.fm/~3wi2x #
- Damn you MobileMe, why do you hate my Aperture gallery so? #
- Rent. Rip. Return. #
- Feeling full of optimism and the happy today. Yay! #
- I’ve been trying out http://www.graze.com and I’m loving it – use this code: VQ7QPTLT to try it too for free! #
- Lovely Spring evening, hooray for Easter! #
- DestroyTwitter seems to use less memory but more CPU than TweetDeck. However TweetDeck has big a fat ugly font. DestroyTwitter FTW! #
- Getting ready to head to A&E as Chloe’s injured her ankle rather nastily. An ideal Wednesday night! #
- Chloe has a torn tendon. Ouch
# - Today has been long and stressful. Now: bed. I fear it’ll be an interrupted night however #
- Keep forgetting it’s Friday. Easter is brilliant. #
- Would be excited about Red Dwarf were it 1992 and I was still a teenager. #
- http://twitpic.com/35j4g – That’s one huge protest #
- Eggs! #
- The girls eggs. Bee picked hers herself. Can you guess which one it is? – http://mobypicture.com/?87nf36 #
- Just watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall: Very impressed, very, very funny. #
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