Monolight - Pete’s Blog

• Is at a great party, and dreading what will appear on facebook later! #fb #
• I did have a problem activating windows 7 - but a call to MS seemed to have sorted it out. #
• New PC is up and running! Yeah! #
• Just reading the agenda at @TermiSoc AGM, and wishing I was a student again! #
• Also I’ve ordered bits for a new PC aka Sedna 2.0 …or shall I give it a new name? #
• 3 new followers in 1 min…. all 3 blocked and reported for spam in 1 min. #
• Morning! Happy St Patrick’s Day everyone! #fb #
• It’s one of those days…. Goodnight Twitter! #
• Right…where in Bristol shall I go tomorrow for St Patricks? #
• Some good news is I’ve got Gnome running on my Server box as a stop gap. Just hope it’s easy in Debian to take it off again! #
• Looks like my main PC (aka Sedna) has got terminal Southbridge failure. Ubuntu wont run for long, Win 7 BSOD and hardware keeps vanishing. #
• Orbital are at Glastonbury this year! - http://bit.ly/9Q7QFn #
• I really don’t like the new Dabs website. And somehow everything is expensive compared with Overclockers. #
• Grr… Look like the main PC has died again. Sticks after the main BIOS main messages, but before the SATA and Network cards BIOS messages. #
• FF1GP results are not final http://bit.ly/bC59jn #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-03-14 http://bit.ly/aOJ0HR #

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• Just over 8 hours until 1st F1 Practice starts. Just can’t wait! #f1 #ff1gp #
• Nice easter egg in Firefox - type “about:robots” into the URL box. #
• …is waiting for the tweets of flying feathers…. #
• And the story of the Electrician. Turns out the guy coming is off with bad toothache, but they have phone up to apologise. #
• At home today, waiting for this electrician to come and test the house wiring. He’s 30 mins late already, and is from Chippenham. #
• I would like to thank @kernowek for a) Calling me a slacker! and b) Thanks for the copy of Toki Tori game! #
• Been watching “Wonders of the Solar System” and “In the Loop” tonight, enjoyed them both. #
• Hmm unit testing a random password generator will be interesting. #phpunit #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-03-07 http://bit.ly/9vabla #

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• Right going to try to watch 24 again - any Black Op teams making raids in Chippenham requiring power-cuts, please cancel them now. #fb #
• Looks like power was properly restored at at 3:44am #
• Looks like some parts of Chippenham have no power …and now i dont have power #
• Back again… #
• Ok power back for 4 mins and its gone again #
• Wow! Power cut in chippenham - just as I am getting to a crucial plot point in 24 #fb #
• Have you got USF1 or their ex-drivers in your FF1GP team? http://bit.ly/aa9Rby #
• Grr, got spam from Click2pay. I thought I closed that account years ago… #
• I have too many twitter accounts to look after! #
• Oh yes! 2-1 #
• Thats better! 1 all! #
• Wish all the girls at the pub would stop ordering drinks with coke when I am at the bar! #
• Bollocks… Egypt have scored #
• Night off - watching the football and hoping Steve G will score in the England match #
• Campos change their name to Hispania http://bit.ly/9H0AZ2 #
• Day 15 - That means I’m just over a third of the way through the #NoCola4Lent #
• USF1 removed from FF1GP price list http://bit.ly/codWTP #
• Just been removing USF1 from the http://www.ff1gp.com price list - didn’t realise the ID for USF1 in the DB was 666 #f1 #ff1gp #
• Fantasy Formula 1 Grand Prix 2010 is now open http://bit.ly/biFfeO #
• Redmine 0.9.3 released: Redmine 0.9.3 was released to Rubyforge yesterday. This is a bug fix release for t… http://bit.ly/bh0Bkl #redmine #
• *Checks the Fantasy Formula 1 Grand Prix site* http://www.ff1gp.com site. Running smoothly so far! #f1 #ff1gp #
• Right some more FF1GP bugs ellimated, and USF1 looking like a total no show in 2010 http://bit.ly/aDiwaT (It’s speed TV treat with caution) #
• *Turns key in the ignition* Looks like the 2010 FF1GP is a go! http://www.ff1gp.com #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-02-28 http://bit.ly/d5m9QQ #

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• Just been told there was a earthquake in Chippenham on 24 Feb at 12:30 - http://bit.ly/bajJK7 - I never felt or heard anything! #fb #
• FF1GP 2010 Prices - And the latest f1ne mess in Formula 1 http://bit.ly/cMMqTi #
• Hmm why do I suspect I spotted a slight flaw in Spotify’s ad model…Maybe I’ll discredit my own theory… but I am enjoying it. #Spotify #
• Not a Ferrari fan myself, but this is an excellent rant about the state of F1 before the season starts - http://bit.ly/a2eK4o #f1 #ff1gp #
• Panic!!! Towel lost, last seen at No. 42. If found please return! #
• Day 6 - Got though the weekend without drinking any cola, however a few colleagues at work are waving bottles of cola at me! #nocola4lent #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-02-21 http://bit.ly/aTS9sV #

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• …and to help me on the way, Pete Tong is pumping out those dance tunes still! #
• Need to finish of the data conversion first of the old database to the new schema. #ff1gp #
• Right, after not being able to do any work on http://www.ff1gp.com site for this years FF1GP I’ve got this week free. #ff1gp #
• Day 3) This morning when I woke up, I was dreaming of Cola… #NoCola4Lent #
• Just read this via @HiddenEloise and also @Glinner at http://bit.ly/9Pbnix - That is so outrageous. #
• USF1 team site is down and reports are about saying they are quitting F1 before they have even started - http://bit.ly/9y0gr5 #f1 #ff1gp #
• Hmm…. so is everyone in the open source coding world moving from Subversion to GIT? #
• Btw Day’s 1) and 2) No cola drunk at all, although trying to stay clear of any is not easy! #
• *Tick* One major job done! #
• Boldly going where no hydrogen atom can go - Warp speed can kill - http://bit.ly/bUBtoK #
• Oh and you also need to install TunerFree MCE on your Windows PC - http://bit.ly/8YTayk #
• It’s now Feb 2009, and so far Sony, Humax have iPlayer available on the red button…except Panasonics #
• When I got my Panasonic Freesat TV, in Jan 2009, one of the selling points was Iplayer would be on it in March 2009… #
• Dear Visual Studio - my forms are legal, please stop making them illegal every time I run the project. #vs #
• Beep…Beep….Beep…B…B…B…B…B…B…B…B…B…B…Beeeeeep! #TwentyFour #24 #
• Oh. Yes she wins! #
• British album of the year better be Florence #
• What Jls?! Oh boy no! #
• Best british single want La roux to win it #
• Lady Gaga wins international album - good choice I like her tunes kicking out of my stereo! #
• No what did lily say that had to be censored? #
• What ? Lily Allen? No #
• Hoping Florence wins a brit.. #
• That includes diet coke, full fat coke, cheap coke… and anything with coke in it! #
• Ok I’ve been thrown a challenge…give up something for Lent. I’ve giving up drinking Coke, since I do drink the stuff every day. #fb #
• More to the point - @James_Batchelor how are you going to give up games, since you are a games journalist? #
• Hmm what to watch tonight - The Brit awards or the Man U vs AC Milan match tonight? #SomeoneChooseForMe #
• Finally #Paperchase try to apologise to @HiddenEloise and own up to their mistakes http://bit.ly/deFMXg #
• P.S. @delphi_uk You need a better twitter picture! #
• I see @ThatKevinSmith is sorting out the tweeters who are getting their facts wrong. People need to read and think before tweeting… #
• Grr… Dear @o2 - I did not give you permission to send spam to my email address. (And I don’t even have any o2 products) #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-02-14 http://bit.ly/cFkrYC #

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• Good to see the Designer apologising to @HiddenEloise in the #PaperChase mess http://bit.ly/b0iBF7 #
• Is having some pizza before gaming on the xbox with @delphi_uk in reply to delphi_uk #
• If anyone wins tonight’s EuroMillions spend some of it on a crack legal team that will send #Paperchase and #Gathernomoss to the cleaners #
• The way #PaperChase and #Gathernomoss are treating @HiddenEloise has made me very angry. I really hope she wins in the end. #
• Oh yeah! Muse is going to be at Glastonbury this year! http://bit.ly/dgyAAL #fb #Glastonbury #
• Me hits the Report Spam link on @amypamyp1 page #paperchase #
• Brammers

  @xanthein @alexcstanley Just had a hot Bacon baggett a short while ago! That was great #BaconFriday #

• Right.. going to catch up on this weeks Being Human aka Where in Bristol did they film that scene. #
• Is it me or is #paperchase no longer a Trending topic? #
• Here is a link to #Paperchase hidden Contact Us form - http://bit.ly/d4gn0n #
• Ello, just been followed by @paperchaseuk - not convinced it’s the real #Paperchase company judging by the tweets. #
• Good to see #Paperchase is now trending 5th worldwide now. Why - go here http://bit.ly/bfVXMm #
• *Breaking snow news from Chippenham* It’s snowing… and looking there could be a lot coming as well. #fb #
• #uksnow SN15 1/10 A few snow flakes in Chippenham… #
• Redmine 0.9.2 released: This bug fix release can be found at Rubyforge. http://bit.ly/bgj16l #redmine #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-02-07 http://bit.ly/cVeTI8 #

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• Just hearing John Terry has been dropped as captain and I can see Wembley from my hotel room #
• Just been watching Surrogates on DvD not a bad film at all, wish it was a bit longer! #fb #
• The real Twitter account for Virgin Racing looks like it’s at @VirginRacing #f1 #
• Well interesting @virginf1racing looks like a F1 fan now, not the official twitter account as it looked this morning. #f1 #fake #
• It looks like @VivaF1 @f1_fans and @NobleF1 have pics of the new Virgin VR-01 car, but @virginf1racing doesn’t! #f1 #ff1gp #fail #
• The best chair in the world…ever? http://bit.ly/92nVPe #fb #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-01-31 http://bit.ly/dfMfem #

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• http://twitpic.com/10hyee - Any of my Plymouth uni followers name this machine! (And shame on you if you cant!) #
• Redmine 0.9.1 released: Redmine 0.9.1 (aka 0.9 final) is now available, you can get it at Rubyforge. http://bit.ly/cFwbvC #redmine #
• Right new NIC has been put in the PC. It’s all fixed, network access has been restored. #
• So McLaren want everyone to use the #MP425 tag - First Tweet abou the new car, where are the keys to drive it? #
• Ok the iPad… Yes….right….pretty…. Dunno what I would use one for. Will I buy one? No! #Apple #
• Ok anyone recommend a good PCI network card that is compatible with Windows 7 64bit #fb #
• Dear Ubuntu - Thank you for saving my PC again… #
• Dear Windows 7 64bit - Screw you for not having drivers for my spare network card. #
• Dear Network Adapter on my Motherboard - thank you for suddenly giving up working and pissing me off. #
• The Bourne Identity #geekedmovies #
• http://open.spotify.com/track/7I9Yp0Nmcaxty2DUxr7krr Spotify: DJ Spooky – Creaking Door - One very Random track that came up… #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-01-24 http://bit.ly/5RdZZ6 #

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• Anyone have a clue on how reliable Medion laptops are? #
• The Following Takes Place Between 12 P.M. AND 1 P.M. All food is being comsumed in real time #
• The Following Takes Place Between 10 A.M. AND 11 A.M. All tweets are in real time #
• #uksnow 4/10 Guess what, it’s snowing again in Chippenham! Coming down quite thick, but not laying on the roads. #fb #
• Ok not quite what I was expecting Pedro De la Rosa takes the final seat in the BMW Sauber team - bit.ly/4GWzJc #f1 #ff1gp #
• That leaves, 1 seat left at Renault, Torro Rosso, Campos and 2 seats at USF1 - if they have even ordered seats for their cars. #f1 #ff1gp #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-01-17 http://bit.ly/7cruwR #

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• Hmm which would I prefer out of a Tardis or a Holodeck? Well a Tardis, as I can then travel to somewhere that as a Holodeck! #
• Just got a new keyboard, the old one has got some dead keys due to years of liquid spillage abuse. I of course blame @Siygess anyway… #
• Has Bernie Ecclestone lost the plot? http://bit.ly/69Vs1B - He’s proposing to introducing short cuts at races… #f1 #ff1gp #
• I nominate @5LiveF1 for a Shorty Award in #sports because they do an excellent job covering the F1 http://bit.ly/shorty #
• Anyone know of any decent #GIT mailing lists that are worth subscribing to? #
• #uksnow SN15 2/10 But there is about 2-3 inches of snow on the ground this morning. #
• More snow.. great and its still snowing #fb #
• Redmine 0.9 release candidate:
  A release candidate for the new stable branch 0.9 was published today… http://bit.ly/7fxsz7 #redmine #
• …and of course my dealer has invited my car for a service as well. Guess I’ll be parting with my car and wallet for a day! #fb #
• My car is telling me “INSP” on the dash - want to know what “INSP” really means? http://bit.ly/5KRDAN #fb #
• The week in Tweets for 2010-01-10 http://bit.ly/7SLapH #fb #

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