Twitter mostly fills me with rage, but I feel a presence is necessary. If you want the interesting chat, you can find me in the pub.

Joined August 2009
Today can't go quickly enough so I can treat myself to a slap up @NandosUK supper
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Received some great NOAA APT and my first Meteor-M N2 LRPT images last week in Wales. #rtlsdr
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Great view of the #eclipse2015 this morning, even managed some passable photos!
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Built an antenna to receive #sstv from the #iss today, need a better view of the sky but not bad for a first attempt!
Bonus round: Europa, Jupiter, Ganymede and Callisto or JPEG artifacts?
Rather impressed at the image quality from attaching a webcam to the end of a telescope (post-processed a little).
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The people who wrote old-school teletext news headlines must be amazing at fitting any information into 140 character tweets.
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So, turns out issteamdown.com is rather quicker than working though all the configuration on our modem wondering why I can't connect.
There's something strangely satisfying about working with just the background sounds of a starship on the headphones: mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/sp…
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So either #Eurovision have perfected human teleportation or there's some black magic summoning backing singers from the ether.
A: "Our process sucks" B: "It's because you're not doing it right" A: "How do we do it right?" B: "More process"
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98% packet loss when receiving UDP? It's probably some security "feature" on the router. Those are a couple of hours I'm never getting back.
I propose a new measurement of developer task complexity: Number of browser tabs required.
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Today's entertainment (aside from #plone sprinting), a little bit of javascript injection: escape.alf.nu/
Waiting to board the first flight of three to get to #ploneconf. Now seems as good a time as any to start drinking.
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Gah! I have a bunch of new disks to move all my media onto and one of the source disks dies. In related news, ddrescue is excellent.
Comedy, curry and Bill & Ted. A most excellent evening indeed.
No more Singapore Fried Noodles on the lunch menu? Hotcha you are dead to me.
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Tried to buy some music for the first time in ages. Released in the US, over a month before I can buy it in the UK? That's a piratin'.
Dammit iTerm2, I finally let you update and now you hang on me all the time. Don't make me go back to the stock terminal :(