Tweets this Week – 2010-05-02

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
  • Now eating Crunchie Rocks. Still writing about ritual sacrifice. #
  • Eating jelly beans and writing about ritual sacrifice. Again. #
  • Late night note found in draft one of current chapter I'm writing says: ANTHROPOMORPHISE A BEETLE. I've no idea what I meant. #
  • Just updated for the latest, Facebook integrated version, 15 Spotify tips by me @techradar – http://bit.ly/spottytips #
  • Am once again fretting that I chose the wrong bit of my novel to workshop. Or, more generally, the wrong novel. #
  • Is Plaid Cymru the Apple of political parties? http://twitpic.com/1jm8vq #
  • Lost cash card, slept through alarm, no coffee left, printer ran out of ink, submitted copy with an error, email borked #firstworldproblems #
  • Cameron's very rehearsed this time around, but Gordon's playing on his home turf #leadersdebate #
  • The reason GB called Mrs Duffy a bigot: she's a bigot. Eloquently analysed here: http://bit.ly/9Npwr2 #
  • rt @rossbrown Oops, Gordon forgot the basics of radio mics and slags off a woman. http://bit.ly/aLRE92 <- And he was doing so well… #
  • True Blood "minisodes" online now. Season three doesn't start until June… http://bit.ly/cM0IFY #
  • RT @pdouglas: @karlhodge Did you accidentally order a cappucheeso? <- Ha! #
  • A cappucino's not supposed to smell of cheese is it? Yeah. Thought not. #
  • Finally – I'm listening to The Beatles in Spotify. To clarify: my own digitised CDs. Still waiting for official none-Rock Band downloads. #
  • Nick Griffin says he has four "beautiful" children. Doubtful. #
  • Last night I dreamt my iPad screen was covered in greasy fingerprints (Note: I do not have an iPad). #

Tweets this Week – 2010-04-25

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, April 25th, 2010
  • Don't often plug stuff I'm reviewing, but loving Guitar Pro 6, software for making music notation and guitar tabs: http://bit.ly/8CwK #
  • Foursquare and Gowalla are useless for me. I might as well have a permanent status message that says "Karl is in the office". #
  • Ticked off at BBC ruining end of Doctor Who with a cartoon Graham Norton? https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/ #doctorwho #
  • .@ruthellenbrown is playing Palladio on her violin. It was impressive to begin with, but after 90 minutes is starting to wear a bit thin. #
  • RT @RuthEllenBrown: 'Ruth Ellen Illustration' has a facebook fan page! at: http://www.bit.ly/b6injZ – please join! xx #
  • Ruth is dissing Ray Mears. This is making me irrationally tetchy. #
  • Is anyone having issues posting bit.ly URLs on Facebook at all? #
  • And Dave steals Brown's move from last week – lunges for the audience. Knob. #leadersdebate #
  • Why is Cameron going on about fear? It seems desperately odd. #leadersdebate #
  • Cameron's hypocrisy on politics of fear: now he's foregrounding the war before the economy #leadersdebate #
  • Ahem. #
  • HE SHOOTS – HE SCORES! #leadersdebate Take that POSH BOY. #
  • Brown's cooking with gas on the domestic stuff #leadersdebate #
  • .@martinsmac When religion starts keeping its nose out of politics, that's when politics should back away from religion. #
  • Can you imagine any American election candidate saying "I'm not a man of faith"? Nick goes up in my estimation. #leadersdebate #
  • HA! Cameron went for a run with a soldier from Afghanistan this AM… Damn! I have to drink an entire can of Guinness now #leadersdebate #
  • I notice, from the avatars of Cameron's supporters, that they are all twats #leadersdebate #
  • All leader's copying Clegg's lead from 1st debate, and looking into camera. It looks weak, reactive. #leadersdebate #
  • #leadersdebate predictions: 1. Cameron will have anti-Brown one-liners pre-prepared this time. 2. Gordon will not say "I agree with Nick". #
  • You can watch #leadersdebate online live, on Sky 3, at http://www.tvcatchup.com/ #
  • Typo catch of the day: "On the other nad, it gives you access to a host of free games". #
  • I wonder how long it'll be before Google Ads get "Like" buttons… (© Karl Hodge 2010) #
  • A fun one (by me) at TechRadar: waste your day watching 12 fan films and series available to download for free: http://bit.ly/94LM4H #
  • I just realised that I've stopped caring about Lost. Stupid brain. Why didn't that happen 110 episodes ago? #
  • Blog comment: "I am, amazingly, less harsh in person than I am online.". Nothing amazing there. Internet anonymity is the douchebagulator. #
  • New site idea: Top Gear style league table showing how quickly "social media specialists" follow, then unfollow me. #
  • .@andylim Blogged about that one earlier: http://bit.ly/9se7ix #
  • Nausea at watching carefully orchestrated Q&A with David Cameron and Tory students mitigated by it ending with an egging. #
  • Nice. Orange guitar amp and PC combo. The one thing I want more than an iPad: http://bit.ly/9EQj4Y #
  • Mum's gone to Iceland. Actually, she was supposed to come back a week ago, I'd better check up on her. #
  • Also, who knew blinking could hurt? Right now, everything aches. I'm as a thick and snotty as a Tory councillor. #
  • Press release headline of the day "Ash cloud prompts adultery in spouses stranded overseas". To name them would be to promote, so I won't. #
  • You'd think that after the winter they had, Eurostar would be trying to improve their image. http://bit.ly/aqyLNZ #

Tweets this Week – 2010-04-18

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, April 18th, 2010
  • Eddie Izzard's Brilliant Britain election broadcast is a bit good: http://bit.ly/aIq9No #
  • Giving Microsoft Security Essentials a try on rec of @weirdcity. Coupling it with ThreatFire. So far – so good. #
  • Returning #ff props to @valerieoriordan – a writer to watch. #
  • Meanwhile, on BBC4, a bunch of third rate hipster folkies and a couple of old punks are grinding up the desiccated corpse of Nick Drake. #
  • Noticed that I'm getting quite sweary. There is a direct correlation with, and it is an index of, the density of deadlines I currently face. #
  • Nutella. Tastes like shit. Looks like shit. Scientifically, I'm pretty sure that means it is shit. #
  • Right – had enough of AVG making my PC unusable for half the morning. Anyone suggest better, less nagging free anti-virus? #
  • Ah – the One Show, a sweet sherry and a lymphatic massage from an octagenarian contortionist… (Not really). #
  • ITV has deleted their online poll w/ Clegg 1st, Brown 2nd, Cameron 3rd – yet continues to tout ComRes poll showing Cameron 2nd on screen… #
  • Who won the debate? Vote in the ITV poll now: http://bit.ly/bUu4wi #
  • Look North is interviewing a bunch of political illiterates who happen to be named Clegg, Brown and Cameron. High concept telly at its best. #
  • RT @RuthEllenBrown: May the ape with the deepest voice win. #leadersdebate #
  • Special people from Bolton now being interviewed. #leadersdebate #
  • Oh fuck off Dave, you arsehole. #leadersdebate #
  • David Cameron: "I'd just like to thank my guests…" #leadersdebate #
  • I'm was expecting Nick to pull out a ghetto blaster and start playing Damien Rice then. #leadersdebate #
  • Stewart is clearly gakked off his tits. #leadersdebate #
  • Enough of this. I want Gordon to leap onto Dave and punch him in the cock until it looks like a melted strawberry Cornetto. #leadersdebate #
  • Cameron BLATANTLY pinching Clegg's moves. Quelle knob. #leadersdebate #
  • Alastair Stewart sounds like the University Challenge announcer guy when switching between candidates #leaderdebates #
  • My GF, @ruthellenbrown, is taking this very seriously. She's taking notes and everything. #leadersdebate #
  • I've made up my mind: fuck Nick, kiss Gordon, kill Cameron. #
  • Let's hear what you think about the Lords, David… #leadersdebate #
  • Cameron is getting pwnd on the details. #leadersdebate #
  • If tonight's debate means more Tories vote Lib Dem, then I'd call that an OK result #leadersdebate #
  • Nick has dead, Valium addled eyes #leadersdebate #
  • Wish I had a filter so I could remove all tweets that don't match my ideological leanings, thus deadening my natural homicidal impulses. #
  • All that Cameron is missing is a wind machine. #leadersdebate #
  • Thought BBC were supposed to be impartial. News reported #leadersdebate with no mention of ITV… but said you can listen on radio 4. #
  • Was just on a music blog and a Coldplay track started. Ruth thought I was listening to them on purpose. How embarassing is that? #
  • If Joss Whedon directs The Avengers, I will go to watch The Avengers. But, then again, I would have done anyway. #
  • Orange, O2 and Vodafone have all announced iPad 3G plans for the end of May today too. The words "insult" and "injury" come to mind. #
  • Me, slightly peeved about iPad delay at Computer Weekly: http://bit.ly/90AvqR #
  • Ah… Updated MacBooks. Meh. #
  • RT @techradar: 10 tips to protect your privacy on Facebook http://techradar.com/682955 <- I made this! #
  • Listening to Robin Guthrie's solo work on Spotify. Sounds just like Cocteau Twins without the singing. No idea why that's a surprise. #

Tweets this Week – 2010-04-11

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, April 11th, 2010
  • Now Facebook thinks I'm gay. Well, Facebook, the feeling's mutual. #
  • Bunny and the Bull: brilliant, British movie making. Why wasn't this more widely reviewed and distributed? http://www.bunnyandthebull.com/ #
  • No, you can't come round to pick up your eBay item. If I'd wanted strangers coming to my house I'd have put a card in the newsagent. #
  • By me @GamesRadar – a round up of weirdly wonderful PC games that break all the rules: http://bit.ly/cfy3uF #
  • Whinge template: I don't get the fuss about X. However, I reserve the right to tweet about Y all the time. (Please feel free to reuse). #
  • RT @danoliver: Comic written by 5-year-old and drawn by his 29-year-old bro: http://bit.ly/dlFf8G It's just bloody brilliant! (I agree!) #
  • Loving Supergrass side-project Hot Rats cover of Gang of Four's Damaged Goods. Spotify: http://bit.ly/d2KBv7 #
  • PR folks with iPad accessories to tout, please feel free to drop me a line this week. khodge (at) spodgod.com #
  • A Facebook advert just popped up: "Get paid for writing articles." Well, that is the general plan… #
  • If I read one more iPad review that misses the point that it's a niche device, not a production platform, I will go out and stab a tramp. #
  • Has anyone used US to anywhere shipping service http://www.myus.com or similar? I'm thinking of using them to transport a guitar… #

Tweets this Week – 2010-04-04

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, April 4th, 2010
  • The new Doctor – proper old school isn't he? Bit of Troughton, smattering of Tennant, a dash of Tom Baker and lots of win. #doctorwho #
  • Squee! Quake 2, converted to Javascript and HTML5, running in Google Chrome: http://bit.ly/cc9B9d #
  • RT @rhodri: The best thing about Easter is that you can spend an idle hour recording a version of the Weekend World theme http://is.gd/bcvtd #
  • Yay! 40 hours off. That does include two sleeps though… #
  • 10 screenshots until Easter… #
  • .@ruthellenbrown says: "This flat isn't girly enough." Me: " I'm finding it difficult to see a problem with that." #
  • Movie and TV scenes that make grown geeks blub, including my bit on the Six Feet Under finale: http://bit.ly/aUA9PF #
  • If I were to bet, based on command of language and content of tweets, I'd say that @realouisewener is real and @louisewener is fake. #
  • http://www.voteforpolicies.co.uk proves what I already knew. Pity the Greens and Lib Dems don't have a chance… #
  • RT @neilhimself: Great meeting with Moffat. Spent 10 mins on how to rewrite the script, 30 on fantasy casting. Ace new title sequence. #
  • .@jemimakiss You can find all those tips and more in my TechRadar piece 101 Google Tips: http://bit.ly/trgtips #
  • Actually, just realised who would have been *perfect* for Film 2010: @caitlinmoran. #
  • My disappointment at Claudia Winkleman getting the Film 2010 job is perfectly balanced by my elation that Mark Kermode didn't get it. #
  • Listening to Mumford & Sons. Like a shouty version of Fleet Foxes, if Fleet Foxes had failed their A levels. #

Tweets this Week – 2010-03-28

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, March 28th, 2010
  • Have bought an Observer, but still reading @RealDMitchell online. Even so, hell will have an annex in Antarctica before I pay for the Times. #
  • I just left my hotel room significantly cleaner than how I found it. That'll confuse them. #
  • Ruth has other prints still listed in her, quite frankly a bit crazy, eBay sale: http://bit.ly/9KC2IO #
  • Some lucky person just bought £80 worth of framed, open edition print by my partner @ruthellenbrown for £30… Jammy. http://bit.ly/paintp #
  • Fascinated and repulsed by the strange tales of Terence Jolley and Alan MacDonald: first: http://bit.ly/hxyXE then: http://bit.ly/9jOvX1 #

Tweets this Week – 2010-03-21

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, March 21st, 2010
  • Seems the Tories want to do the same to the telecoms infrastructure as they did to the railways. And we all know how well that worked out. #
  • Yeah – forgot the link. Not long to go: http://bit.ly/a6dlYP #
  • Unframed print by @ruthellenbrown – as purchased previously Sarah-Louise off Coronation Street! #
  • Need secretary, but don't earn enough to pay one. To increase earning power, clear admin backlog. To clear admin backlog, need secretary. #
  • Also: Dropbox. Der. #firstapps #
  • .@chrisphin Mine is: CS4, Scrivener, FileChute, Coda, Audacity, Bean, Chrome, FileZilla #firstapps #
  • I thought the reviewers rancidly decrying Twilight were cynical curmudgeons. Now I've seen New Moon, I'm with them. Utter, complete shite. #
  • ARGGGGGHHHH!!!! And now for some coffee. #
  • Parents offered to take me on holiday. Last time they did that was to stop me filling the house with teenagers off their tits on mushrooms. #
  • Late to seeing Jennifer's Body. If you liked Juno and loved Buffy, this will fill the void left by their absence for 1 hour and 38 minutes. #
  • RT @pcplusmag: The 1st ever domain name registered. Look at it now, 25 years on, and prepare to cry into your coffee: http://symbolics.com/ #

Tweets this Week – 2010-03-14

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, March 14th, 2010
  • Indie headline "Is Chris Moyles the new Jonathan Ross?". My response, a chewed-up cornflake spattering "fuck off". #
  • Flashback: 60 minutes ago, sitting in a mile long tail-back, no exit, temperature gauge nudging red. Limbs still in adrenal shock now. #
  • My GF @ruthellenbrown is having a sale of her old illustration work. First up on eBay, this sassy framed print: http://bit.ly/cRDmqn #
  • Walker's contrary colour coding just lead to accidental salt & vinegar crisp ingestion. Bastards. #
  • Watching finale of Sarah Connor Chronicles. Can return to pretense of cultural snobbery now. Oh, hang on, 11 eps of Lost still left. Bugger. #
  • Also, Saki and John Collier never wrote about shorts, to my knowledge. But I have. #
  • Took delivery of complete shorts works of Saki and John Collier this AM. Cocky me feels inspired. Insecure me feels chastised and unworthy. #
  • RT @TheWordMagazine: Nick Kent on the cover of the new Word. <– Only Word would put a journalist on the cover of a mag. #
  • Calorie counting only works when you actually count them. Thought I'd gone over yesterday so stopped eating. Actually 500 under… #
  • Rawnsley's Dispatches on David Cameron is already pissing me off. He's talking as though the Tories have already got the gig. #
  • Logged into Facebook. Nothing interesting. Tried to log into a Facebook from an alternate universe by typing in the URL again. Didn't work. #
  • Tax account finally back on track after an error the office made a full year ago. It might be a good day to give up coffee after all. #
  • RT @GreatDismal: A skilled writer (or liar) mixes in just enough boring, because boring is the dark matter of the reality we emulate. #
  • Deep Space Nine: like Star Trek, but more pointless. #

Tweets this Week – 2010-03-07

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, March 7th, 2010
  • Email from NPower about ace new service where I read my meter now so I'll never have an estimated bill. Except, I can't access my meter. #
  • My other half, @ruthellenbrown, has a Facebook fan page for her fantastic fashion illustration work. Check it out: http://bit.ly/dBAogN #
  • Trying to pour a pint into a thimble. Failing. #
  • "Some things just can't be explained: season 3 of the Ghost Whisperer". An unfortunate, but accurate choice of words there… #
  • If everything was as exciting as press releases tell me, I would be in a perpetual state of priapism. #
  • Fake Carol Vorderman (@fakevorderman) is on a roll this morning. Must be post Question Time performance adrenaline. #
  • 10 Overrated Movies @denofgeek, including my rather foolhardy view of Star Wars: http://bit.ly/ctaGw9 #
  • Watched Masterchef, with realisation that they called contestant a "child doctor" 'cos, otherwise, some idiot would set his house alight. #
  • Caller on local news: "I would've hated being brought up by a gays". Doubtful. More likely, he would've been a more tolerant human being. #
  • RT @Jonathan_Bowman: What the Internet was invented for: every message left on Jim Rockford's answering machine. http://bit.ly/b2Vh9R #
  • I just read a tutorial about making milk coffee and pouring it into a Starbucks bottle. My own procrastination has jumped the shark. #
  • Reading @adgilmour's workshop submission has convinced me it'll be OK to add the phrase "a handshake too weak to wank with" back to my own. #

Tweets this Week – 2010-02-28

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, February 28th, 2010
  • Entirely forgot we're going to see Sean Hughes tonight. 2 hours to get ready and not a child washed. Though, to be fair, we don't have kids. #
  • RT @boydhilton Times: BBC must do more than "axe a few radio stations no one listens to". But more people listen to 6Music than buy Times #
  • .@josephruss Naaah… 1Xtra, I agree, but BBC 3 & 4 are doing a sterling job. You know what the beeb should fillet? Their mag division… #
  • #unsuitabledirectors George Lucas for… Anything. #
  • If the BBC has to close down two radio stations it should be the two shit ones: Radio 7 and Radio 1 – #save6music #
  • . @hiddeneloise tracks trash talking commenter back to paperchase.co.uk… Der. http://www.hiddeneloise.com #
  • I had to repost this on Broken English today to cheer myself up: http://bit.ly/marxistjoke #
  • Worried about my fiction submission for new MA group. Should've chosen the storyline with the '30s explorer. Not the Viagra fueled drunk. #
  • .@DominiqueKing Crisps are thinly sliced potato, fried until crispy. Hula Hoops are extruded and baked reconstituted potato based snacks. #
  • Have you heard Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? It's like the Beatles, but on acid. #
  • .@ruthellenbrown, drinking a glass of water: "Hmm, this is really moreish". #
  • Movie tie-in game makers Konami have blocked Lord of the Rings fanfilm that took six years to complete. http://bit.ly/6yoviW #
  • Been linking folks up on my fiction blog, before I go offline for 24 hours of electro-magnetic field avoidance. Peace out. #
  • .@ruthellenbrown is repeating things back to me in a "Rain Man" voice. Wish we'd never seen the bloody film. Also, I'm an excellent driver. #
  • http://twitpic.com/14bal9 – Average survival time of Tory posters in Huddersfield: 19 hours. #
  • Tomorrow is @ruthellenbrown's detox day. No EMFs. No, I don't mean the proto-chav, PWEI clone electro clash band of the 80s. #
  • Travel Journalist: "I've never been on a plane, but an expert told me they are flying tubes full of people". And so on. #
  • Increasing number of mainstream tech journalists who proclaim ignorance. Wonder when trend will spread to health, business, money etc… #
  • Building a website layout in Photoshop, writing a chapter of the book, doing invoices – all at the same time… #
  • My recently built Quad Core PC just freshly updated to OS X10.6.2. Everything working. Nice. #
  • .@ali07 Photoshop's 20th made me feel very old this AM! I remember using version 1.0 on a Mac LC II, doing my Master's in Graphic Design. #
  • There's either a growing trend for wearing bandanas around your face, or I just walked past a group of chav highwaymen. #
  • New fast fiction at Broken English: A Slight Apocalypse – http://bit.ly/9vh1uR #
  • Hooky is that proverbial man arguing with himself, in a room, alone. As for pills, they give me more bellyaches than thrills these days. :) #
  • Sign of the coming apocalypse: Muse to headline Glastonbury. #
  • Just had a haircut from @ruthellenbrown. She says I am now "slightly above average attractiveness". Good for me. #
  • GatherNoMoss designer admits copying. #paperchase yet to apologise for smearing name of Hidden Eloise in Telegraph. http://bit.ly/bd3kzA #
  • .@ruthellenbrown will watch Rain Man for the first time tonight. Tomorrow she'll know why I slap my head when we fly anything but Quantas. #
  • Banned phrases of 2010, number 12: "F-Bomb". #
  • #paperchase and GatherNoMoss still trying to wriggle out of blame. Time to start a formal boycott. Do not shop there… #boycottpaperchase #
  • Tried, and failed, to watch Inglourious Basterds. Yes, cool filmic references to Sergio Leone, but ultimately just jingoistic torture porn. #
  • Watching news about Hindu gentleman's campaign to be allowed an open cremation. My plan is to be fired into the sea from a giant catapult. #
  • Yes, as a tech journalist it's entirely appropriate for you to send me press releases about dance events in Ibiza. In Spanish. #
  • The problem with blogging fiction is you want to keep tinkering after it's been posted… My story Duet, retweeted: http://bit.ly/91PRgz #
  • "Start your Netflix trial today!" I would *love* to. Sadly, not available in the UK. The excremental LoveFilm has the monopoly. #
  • Last month, a person found my creative writing blog using the search phrase "your cock and stinging nettles". #
  • New fast fiction by me at Broken English: http://bit.ly/91PRgz #
  • RT @AIannucci: There'll be a 2nd series of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle. Huzzah! Huzzah! #
  • I know it's not popular to say it – but I really like Gordon Brown. A real politician caught in the legacy of fake decade. #
  • RT @techradar: Whatever happened to PC soundcards? http://bit.ly/c9l5JS <- By me. #
  • Neil Gaiman confirms he's writing an episode of Doctor Who, for Steven Moffat's second season: http://bit.ly/b8o5uT via @sfxmagazine #
  • Me: "Why don't like Blade II?" Ruth: "Because I've seen it". #
  • Building a PC today. Or I was until I discovered I'd been sent an IDE drive instead of SATA. #firstworldproblems #
  • Communicating with @123reg customer services is positively Kafkaesque. And I deal with other people's consumer complaints for a living… #
  • Until I Googled him 2 minutes ago, I had no idea who John Terry was. My fop credentials are intact. #
  • "Nearly half of new teachers do not feel properly equipped to deal with violence in the classroom". One word: "Tazer": http://bit.ly/acMFNw #
  • Knew we were in narrative trouble when it cut to rocking horse's eye in medium, then CU. Direction on a par with 70s Doctor Who. #
  • Started watching BBC version of Turn of the Screw. Didn't finish. #
  • Supernaturally chuffed to see Brian Aldiss on the "lost" Booker competition list. http://bit.ly/9pJ2FB #
  • Nice that @123reg feel they can simply refuse to pay back the £98.70 they owe me, for the hosting I won't be using. #
  • The layout of the London Weekly takes me back to that horrible time when company websites were designed by the YTS kid in the IT department. #
  • TV Gorge streams telly content in your browser using Flash – including brand new Lost, CSI, Fringe… Legal? Probably not: tvgorge.com #
  • When telemarketers ring, I ask for their postal address. When they say "why?", I reply that I'll be invoicing them for my time. Click, brrr. #
  • Unexpectedly pleasant evening spontaneously spent with like-minded people I don't really know. Aren't those the best nights out? #
  • How little I've come to expect from humanity: saw Don McCullin's name trending on Twitter, and assumed he must have died. #
  • New Year get off to a slow, snowy start? No fear. @ruthellenbrown and I have just declared Feb 3rd, new New Year's Day. #
  • Mark Chapman asks memorabilia expert, "Is my signed Lennon album worth anything? By the way, got any Salinger stuff?". http://bit.ly/9ljiWz #
  • I would move to South Korea to get faster broadband before voting Tory: http://bit.ly/9ugq1p #
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