Automated twitter compilation up to 25 May 2011

Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog (i.e. David Goodwin) up to 25 May 2011

• Oh look – now we can all laugh at the idiots again – on the 21st of October www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13516796 #Rapture2
  (2011/05/24)
• Pondering the Nottingham/Sherwood Half/Full marathon on September 11th. #ForgottenTheLastMarathonsSufferingAlready
  (2011/05/24)
• Zombiepodcast.com ftw.
  (2011/05/23, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Protip: if you're going to embed wordpress plugin function calls in a theme, please wrap them in a if(function_exists('foo')) {..}
  (2011/05/23)
• Still, I also get to replace wp-super-cache with w3-total-cache … so I'll then also achieve css/js minification. #wordpress
  (2011/05/23)
• Also finally figured out why WordPress 3.1 update (anorak.co.uk) failed before – RIP:top_categories plugin; fv-top-level-categories FTW.
  (2011/05/23)
• Installed Friendika (PHP web app) for a new customer; #MasterOfAllTrades I am…. I hope.
  (2011/05/23)
• Garden bin full of cuttings and stuff. Half of my poxy garden tamed for a few months.
  (2011/05/22, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Blitz is a good film. Lots of violence. Shame it's a bit short.
  (2011/05/22, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Why aren't Ryan Gigg's solicitors suing Google's autocomplete / suggest ?
  (2011/05/21, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Has anyone seen Jesus today? No ? Oh. How strange! Guess he's running late or something. Perhaps tomorrow… #raptureday
  (2011/05/21, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• DIY done. New bathroom door fitted. An excellent job done, if I don't say so myself. David++
  (2011/05/21, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Daddy! It's 7 o'clock. Get out of bed right now! (good morning world, I see you still exist…)
  (2011/05/21, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Wondering how it is that I've had to install SqlServer and so on today. So much for a unix-only company.
  (2011/05/20, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Me: <<email moaning about neighbour's rubbish>>, Council employee: "I will have the big stick ready". #WheelieBinSaga 🙂
  (2011/05/20)
• Trying to get hold of the Rick Rolling song to compliment the monkeys on the anti-marketing-calls work extension. #asterisk #ftw
  (2011/05/19)
• Well, the neighbours have wheeled their bin back and it's already full from their old rubbish bags #WheelieBinSaga
  (2011/05/19)
• Neighbour's bin after I removed 2 bags (pic). Rowan & I subsequently wheeled it out, and put another 2 bags in my bin. t.co/5b5ETcE
  (2011/05/19, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Inappropriate innocent sayings from a toddler #1: "daddy, eat my willy". (this is after I blew lots of raspberries on his tummy and so on).
  (2011/05/19, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Do I put my neighbour's bin out ?
  (2011/05/19, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• He doesn't mean a thing to me. Just another pretty face to see, he's all over town, knockin em down honey and I'll never let him next to me
  (2011/05/18, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Tonight I'm living a fantasy, my own little nasty world. Tonight don't you wanna come with me? Do you think I'm a nasty girl. #groovelectric
  (2011/05/18, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• I averaged 4m 33s / km ( over 9km ) Sure I've been quicker. #gettingOld
  (2011/05/18, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Thank you Harvester (bromsgrove) for the "period pain" you caused me this AM & upset tummies for 2 others. Should've done the Toby carvery!
  (2011/05/16, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• cat and owl living together – t.co/cbLnedn”
  (2011/05/16, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• “@madeupstats: Health scare: Clinical trials have shown that wearing a baseball cap restricts brain activity by as much as 48%.”
  (2011/05/16, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Wondering if $customer will gain most from my ZF training, or me helping them setup internal dev environments (just say no to FTP kids!)
  (2011/05/16, Sandwell, Sandwell)
• Is it normal for Windows 'servers' to not have RAID'ed file systems?. Am I spoilt with Linux's s/w raid?
  (2011/05/16)
• My neighbour, the cat man, will not be happy to see one "sleeping" on the road.
  (2011/05/16, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• ERROR: could not access status of transaction xxx
  DETAIL: could not open file "pg_clog/xxx": No such file or directory. Poorly PostgreSQL
  (2011/05/15)
• On the good side of things, I've updated my Zend Framework training materials and included more exercises (zend_pdf, zend_mail, zend_form)
  (2011/05/15)
• "Silly customer" for not vacuuming PostgreSQL database & it needing to run in single user mode. Painful on Windows. (runas etc). *sigh*
  (2011/05/15)
• Mac mini feels snappier with crucial SSD, but i'm not sure it's that big an improvement. Perhaps if it'd cost more I'd think it was better?
  (2011/05/13, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Anya's birthday is soon (June 16th) – wish list here – bit.ly/AnyasBirthday
  (2011/05/13)
• Catching up on the restarted @StackExchange podcasts. Thankfully they talk slowly, so playback at 2x speed works well. 🙂
  (2011/05/13, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• I need to print a rubbish collection schedule to give to my useless slovenly neighbours; not being able to open windows sucks.
  (2011/05/13, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Big important meeting later on. Guess I'd better get to work earlier than 9am.
  (2011/05/13, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• I really need to get to sleep earlier. *sigh*. Still. Work done. Money earnt etc.
  (2011/05/13, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Customers vm to upgrade / sysadmin tonight and the baby has clearly had more caffeine than me. *bounce* *bounce*. Go to sleep @anya_goodwin!
  (2011/05/12, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Upgraded work desktop. Maxxed out RAM and changed from HDD to SSD. Looking forward to trying it out tomorrow 🙂 #geek #hardwarePorn
  (2011/05/12, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Wondering what I'm doing wrong when apc.stat = 1 (or 0) and apache/PHP still reads the files from require_once etc.
  (2011/05/12, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• If only this helpful guy had been in Birmingham last year ( ? ) – news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8069686.stm
  (2011/05/11)
• Time to try different options with mod_pagespeed soon … And hope it actually behaves soon.
  (2011/05/11, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Ooh. Googles mod_pagespeed seems to work pretty well. Reduces number of hits on webserver. Google ++
  (2011/05/11, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Protip: buying a godaddy standard ssl cert? Google for 'ssl', follow link etc – cost £7.68. Go to godaddy.com direct – cost £30+.
  (2011/05/11, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• This is why you're fat.com @Aypok (triple burger & bacon). t.co/QTJee2u
  (2011/05/10, Birmingham, Birmingham)
• My mother rang to say: "Tell your sister I don't know how to use this twAtter thing…."
  (2011/05/10, Birmingham, Birmingham)
• BBC News – Aberystwyth University backs £9,000 tuition fees – bbc.in/kNwusb
  (2011/05/10)
• this actually made me LoL -“@guardiantech: The most stupid quiz answer ever? t.co/2RdSWi3 "
  (2011/05/09, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Geek joke of the day: “A man goes to the doctor and says "Doctor, I'm addicted to twitter!!" The doctor says "Sorry, I don't follow you…"
  (2011/05/09, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• RT: @guardiantech: Social network users have twice as many friends online as in real life t.co/4AWaMwP
  (2011/05/09, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Anyway, run done. Now it's time for breakfast. 🙂
  (2011/05/08)
• Bromsgrove council will soon be charging the cars on the a38 for parking between Bromsgrove and Droitwich. M5 south is somewhat broken.
  (2011/05/08)
• It's time to go on a long run, I think. But where to ?
  (2011/05/08, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Yipee, I have defeated the character encoding gods in both PHP and Python today. (PHP was easy to fix, Python not so). #ReallyNeedToSleep
  (2011/05/06)
• Voted. #yes2av. Now for some swinging.
  (2011/05/05, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Restore! Rescue! Protect!
  (2011/05/05, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Rowan said: "Daddy, don't wee on the floor!" …. Err. Thanks son.
  (2011/05/05, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Useful settings for bash – codepoets.co.uk/2011/useful-settings-for-bash-bashrc-profile/ #unix #linux #sysadmin
  (2011/05/04)
• Client: "Website isn't working, I was trying to change some permissions…".

  /root/.bash_history: cd / ; chmod -R 400 bin var sbin etc….

  (2011/05/03)
• Crap; I really didn't mean to leave my email servers set up as an open relay. Clearly rinetd wasn't the fix I'd hoped for… #sadPanda
  (2011/05/03)
• Toddler: "I want Octonauts"
  Me: "No, you didn't go to sleep in your bed"
  Toddler: hides under his duvet, after 10s-"Sleep done, Octonauts?"
  (2011/05/03)
• It seems I'm enjoying "The Time Traveller's Wife" …. I wish my boss would let me go home to carry on reading it.
  (2011/05/03)
• Which to see tonight, Thor or Source Code? #cinema #lazyweb
  (2011/05/01)
• Mother: "I want a surprise for my next birthday…"
  (2011/05/01)
• Thank you Will & Kate for the discouted £1/bottle beer.
  (2011/04/30, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• I can't help but laugh at the royal wedding biscuits and other tat on sale. Still it'll be gone and forgotten soon 🙂
  (2011/04/29, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• (I wonder what interesting news the government will quietly publish today in the hope of it going unnoticed.)
  (2011/04/29)
• Well, I've seen ONE house with bunting on it this morning while running.
  (2011/04/29)
• Grr. Easter eggs are even cheaper today.
  (2011/04/28, Worcestershire, England)
• "No". One of the shortest words. Very hard to use.
  (2011/04/28, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Stringers IPA (Ulverston Cumbria) is a good beer. @MyBreweryTap ++ (again)
  (2011/04/27)
• Can I resist eating the cadbury's chocolate egg in my bag?
  (2011/04/27)