- Portal to hell is about to open. #
- Yum http://twitpic.com/2aoyce #
- Portal to hell is about to open. http://twitpic.com/2aoyxd #
- On our way home. Very tired and in need of a shower. Feeling a bit fragile after eating loads of junk. #
- Found this on my door mat when I got in. #mactard http://twitpic.com/2b0aak #
- Gave in and applied one of those horrid iPhone screen protectors. Keep shoving it into my pocket full of change and keys. #
- So now my iPhone has a few tiny scratches. Although the few trapped fibres and tiny bubbles under the protector drive me crazy #
- Actually. I don’t recall ordering the trackpad. I suspect the iPhone did it itself. Its like SkyNet for shiny products. #
- Tempted to do an unboxing video. Rip open packet. Shake box until product falls out. Fin. #
- Magic Trackpad: Also holds iPhone at a better viewing angle. http://twitpic.com/2b0ua3 #
- New bank pledges to openly despise its customers http://j.mp/aSgd4C (NSFW) #
- “What’s the worst that can happen? You fall off and break your neck” Alex says to Katie Price, echoing the hopes of a nation. #
- Good morning ladies and gentlefolk. Back to work today. Tuesday is the new Monday. #
- Messing around with my magic trackpad. First impressions good. Can’t think of a thing it can’t do my mouse can’t. #
- Only thing to get used to is finger accuracy. Used to pushing a pointer around with a mouse so a touch slower with the pad. Still good. #
- Rumour has it that Blackberry is working on “BlackPad” an iPad clone. Is there a market for that? Ugly interface on a larger scale? #
- Totally slipped my mind that the new Arcade Fire album has been released. Downloading now! Eagerly anticipated! #
- The new @arcadefire album is joyous and sublime. Definitely their best yet. #
- Black bumper arrived and is on my iPhone. Actually quite like the look. Not too “grabby” when pulling from a pocket. Helps grip in use. #
- One wonders if the iPhones were meant to have some kind of fixed bumper on them at some point of the design process. #
- Enjoying the trackpad. Could replace my mouse but unsure if I want to. Interesting to see if iOs Desktop makes more use of it. #
- The magnificent Green Mile is on the tellybox. What a wonderful film. #
- Morning all! Working on Gallery again today. Specifically a node class to maintain complex relationships between objects. #
- Node class kicking my bottom today. Almost finished with the core stuff. Will roll it out for #ipb at some point. Will be used in Gallery. #
- I wonder how long until we see the “Google Waves Goodbye” punning after Google axes the service. Not long apparently. #
- Actually, I’m devastated that Google Wave has been axed. I use it every day to ….um…. #
- If you want to really annoy everyone around you, simply turn your iPhone up full, load the Twitter app and flick the refresh up and down. #
- Watching “TVs Naughtiest Blunders”. I would imagine this is used as the in flight entertainment on the way to hell. #
- I feel that Google is on its decline, don’t you? Too late for social media, lost edge on real time search and nowhere to go but down. #
- I think that traditional web searching will be an anachronism in a few years. New ways to share and discover content. #
- If I was them, I’d buy Tumblr. It sits nicely between Facebook, Blogging and Twitter. Adopted well and growing. It’s the next big thing! #
- Lots of interesting points but all big companies have their day. AOL, Compuserve, Yahoo and more. What goes up must come down. #
- Or course google will be here for years but the web is changing. Facebook is a walled garden. Twitter does live search. Mobile is apps #
- And if Jobs has his way, iOs Desktop will replace OS X so one wonders if web apps will become more prominent. #
- One has to question a civilization that worships in an invisible deity but resists the notion that other life exists in our endless universe #
- Late night controversial tweeting is probably a bad idea. Night all! #
- I have a theory that files are a very advanced race and have perfected teleportation. They appear and disappear constantly. #
- Anyway, back to work. My recursive node class is almost finished. If this fly would stop bugging me, things would be almost perfect. #
- My thoughts are entirely consumed by teleporting flies now. Perhaps they can bend time and space too. They couldn’t tell us in either case. #
- I wonder if Jeff Goldblum knows after his DNA was merged with a fly? Anyone got his email? #
- Perhaps that’s why flies haven’t really evolved. There’s only a few thousand in the world and they zip through time and space. #
- I am beginning to suspect that node inheritance has caused me to lose my mind. #
- Needed to pull unique user sessions from the DB without post processing and avoid dupe member rows/dupe bot rows – http://bit.ly/dyrRKz #
- I think Twitter should allow you to “Follow” someone to get their status updates and “stalk” someone to get their foursquare updates. #
- Morning all, BTW. More gallery stuff today. Maybe I’ll even get to code some of the front end today. #
- Technically, I’m more popular than Jesus. He only had 12 followers. #
- I got kicked out of the local orchestra
I am exceptionally good but so shy that I didn’t want to blow my own trumpet. # - Must stop procrastinating. Taken apart Gallery to the point where it’s completely broken to its very core. Might release it as ‘gold’. #
- Probably the fastest way to flush out calls to the now dead category class – http://bit.ly/dkJU9t #
- Finished my #ipb gallery album/category merge script and plugged it up to the new node class – http://bit.ly/dl9sGO – Progress! #
- SVN REVERT! I’ve changed my mind about the Gallery! #
- This sums up today so far #emoProgramming http://twitpic.com/2c2k62 #
- Look what I made! http://twitpic.com/2c2qkp #
- http://twitvid.com/1NGEW – The iBird flaps! Looks a bit dodgy though. That’s definitely its tail. Promise. #
- Head is throbbing. Time to listen to @sigur_ros‘ Ágætis byrjun – always relaxes me to the point of sleep. Beautiful song. #
- Taken with an iPhone 4 http://twitpic.com/2c5oj5 #
- Got pets? Eat them in this order: http://twitpic.com/2cczri #
- A little obsessed with the SAS Survival App. Fascinating and disturbing. #
- Last one: nuclear bombs falling? Start digging! http://twitpic.com/2cd72v #
- I feel sorry for my Blackberry. Sitting on my desk all alone, flashing its red LED solemnly. Unloved and unrequired. Just like Super Ted. #
- Anyone want to swap a ‘droid phone for a 9700? Comes with Luke’s teeth marks free. #
- He was pulling the phone out of it’s sleeve using his teeth hmmm. #
- Right. Time to sleep. Night all! #
- I think the biggest problem with Blackberry is the inability to efficiently pluralize them. Blackberries? Blackberrys? And the crap OS. #
- Today’s t- shirt. A bargain at £3. http://twitpic.com/2crcvy #
On August 8, 2010, In News, By admin
On July 31, 2010, In News, By admin
One thing you can say about the Flickr team – there’s some fight in ‘em. They apparently were not super pleased with our coverage of their annual (and unofficial) Grant-Pattishall Award given each year to the Yahoo engineer who “who breaks Flickr in the most spectacular way.” I’m not sure why, I think the award is fun.
So now they have a new award, called the Bogan-Martin Award: “The Bogan-Martin Award is given yearly to the Flickr staff member who inadvertently generates the most spectacular media overreaction to a personal comment or inside joke.”
So who won? Daniel Bogan this year, who was also this year’s winner of the other award. And last year was Chris Martin. Both winners names link to previous posts we’ve done. Suggesting that we’re the media that is engaging in the spectacular overreaction.
Ok, Flickr. You won this round.
On July 28, 2010, In News, By admin
Search engine marketing startup KENSHOO has secured an undisclosed late-stage round of funding from Sequoia’s Growth Fund, the Israeli company announced this morning.
This marks the fourth time Sequoia Capital has injected capital into the company, which claims it is now profitable and has doubled in valuation since 2009.
KENSHOO offers search marketing campaign management and optimization tools (KENSHOO Search and KENSHOO Local are its flagship products) and provide automation solutions for advertisers’ online demand generation needs across channels like Google, Yahoo, Bing, Facebook, AOL, Baidu, and Yandex.
It’s a very crowded market, but with lots of room for growth left, particularly geographically speaking.
KENSHOO currently already operates from nine locations on four continents, including a recently added office in Sydney, Australia. Armed with fresh funds from the famous Silicon Valley VC firm, the company will be opening two new offices in Europe (in Paris and an unnamed city in Germany) and also look at way to expand its presence in Asia.
The new funding will also enable KENSHOO to enter into additional domains such as new social media advertising channels, and enable the development of re-targeting technologies.
Hungry For Growth, Search Marketing Startup KENSHOO Raises More Funding
On July 21, 2010, In News, By admin
I have to say that before today I’d never heard of the Grant-Pattishall Award given each year to the Yahoo engineer who “who breaks Flickr in the most spectacular way.” But today they awarded it to Daniel Bogan, and he has been added to the list.
What did Bogan do to break Flickr? We’re hoping to find out soon enough. Comments and tips with more information are appreciated.
Update: Well, the domain was only created in November 2009, so clearly they memorialized past winners more recently.
