Tweets this Week – 2009-11-29

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, November 29th, 2009
  • Listening to Bob Dylan's Radio Hour on iPlayer while waiting for Moz on Desert Island Discs. Gotta love the BBC. #
  • Scruton's crappy, broadly slapped together argument would have been less effective if 90% of conceptual art wasn't a pile of Hoxton wank. #
  • Embarrassed to find myself agreeing with Roger Scruton on BBC2's Why Beauty Matters. Must be getting reactionary in my old age. #
  • Taking a second pass through the CD collection, whittling it down for the post-disc age. At this rate, I'll have got rid of it all by 2047. #
  • Incredible footage of Eric Clapton, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins playing "Matchbox" on BBC 4 tonight. Made channel surfing worth it. #
  • Music snob paradox: Don't really like Queen, but gently tickled by the commentary on their "Absolute Greatest" #spotify http://bit.ly/7Mlgb8 #
  • #FF @fakevorderman e.g: I invented the internationally recognised hand signal for the lowering of cholesterol. http://bit.ly/13jDM1 #
  • Love it when everything in Outlook turns black… #
  • Quarter past four on a wet Wednesday afternoon seems as good a time as any to launch my fiction blog, Broken English: http://bit.ly/8jIGzX #
  • Writing two articles simultaneously. Need a second keyboard. #
  • When I embarked upon the humble life of a tech journo, I didn't realise how much of it would be pissed away taking screenshots. #
  • I've woken up feeling like Marvin the Paranoid android. Which, to be honest, isn't that unusual. #

Tweets this Week – 2009-11-22

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
  • RT @fakevorderman I invented the internationally recognised hand signal for the lowering of cholesterol, by the way. http://bit.ly/13jDM1 #
  • I've learned two things this week. The first is, prawns are really cheap at Aldi. The second is, never buy prawns from Aldi. #
  • Peruvian fat people kidnapped, murdered and made into soap. http://bit.ly/3i71BB #
  • ChromeOS: The Operating System for Gadgets? http://bit.ly/15q9QW #
  • .@edgarwright says Times lifted a blog about Edward Woodward without his permission… and edited it poorly too! http://bit.ly/2KmLoK #
  • RT @CraigGrannell: Damn @hellomuller – he just got me addicted to Clients From Hell: http://is.gd/4YQ6G <- And now me. #
  • I make all my own clothes, by drawing what I want and telepathically projecting it to Thailand. Two weeks later, it appears in Primark. #
  • Facebook PR1: "We have a request to go on some UK radio show". FB PR2: "Meh". BBC: "Facebook refuse to defend themselves on Today program!" #
  • Twitter pushes the Orange SMS button: http://bit.ly/230Wd5 #
  • 9 AM, waiting outside Aldi. As bips on radio sounded, doors swished open. I imagined manager, poised over button, counting down the seconds. #
  • Previously on Dollhouse, Echo dressed as a hooker schoolgirl & skewered that guy from "Ellen" in the neck with a pen. Now the conclusion. #
  • Who's the hook-nosed charisma vacuum sitting in for Christine Blakely on the One Show? #
  • Um… Is it just me, or does the revamped Nerdworld, now called Techland, look like @denofgeek with a bigger budget? http://bit.ly/2KAttZ #
  • Last night's Doctor Who was pants, wasn't it? Tennant and Davies are going at exactly the right time. #
  • .@Herring1967 I disagree The Behringer EQ700 is the ultimate equalizer. http://bit.ly/R1e0p #
  • Next, Gordon Brown to apologise for cancellation of Dollhouse, renaming of "Marathon" to "Snickers" and the Birdie Song: http://bit.ly/iQV94 #
  • What a renaissance chap Rolf is. Painter, musician, comedian, writer. Terrible at all of them, mind you. #
  • Listening to Rolf Harris, by accident. #

Tweets this Week – 2009-11-15

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, November 15th, 2009
  • Saw "Moon" last night. Adding my name to the chorus calling for Sam Rockwell's Oscar nom. Brilliant film, ace performance. #
  • .@ian9outof10 I hate Queen, so tonight is excruciating. #xfactor :) #
  • eBay problem dragging out. Now I know how frustrated readers whose consumer cases I work on for @netmag and @windowsmag feel. #
  • .@ruthellenbrown is not impressed by my chicken dancing one bit. #
  • Listening to the Sisters of Mercy. Reminds me of chicken dancing, snakebite, the smell of Bristow's hairspray and crimper scorched hair. #
  • Microsoft TechNet newsletter 48 has story of customer screaming at Vista to make it go faster. So, I guess Vista is *officially* pants now. #
  • Missed E4's Misfits last night? It's funny, brutal and British; pisses on American SF like Flashforward & is made for its catering budget. #
  • Glad that Misfits matches up to expectation. Very promising. #
  • Has anyone actually finished Doom 3? Without, you know, cheating? #
  • An OS for old people is as good an idea as one for thirty year olds. Or bin men. Or people with an "f" in their name. So, not very. #
  • Getting royally shafted by an eBay based outfit. Ironically, thru sorting out other peeps problems, I know how wrong things can go. #
  • Just cut 600 words out of a 3000 word, post-grad essay, 1.5 days before the deadline. Hope I won't be regretting that later today… #
  • Looking forward to E4's new super-powered drama Misfits very much: http://bit.ly/1syZ2d (starts Thursday) #
  • My love letter to Spotify, at Inspect-A-Gadget: http://bit.ly/p49C3 #
  • Spotify Premium. I love you more than my own kin. Shall we be married, on the morrow, beneath the moon's pale light? Yes. We shall. #
  • SPECIAL OFFER: For 4 cans of Guinness*, anyone who asks will receive a glowing recommendation on LinkedIn. (*Must be draught not original). #
  • O2 Fires Shots in iPhone Price War: http://bit.ly/43pwq2 #
  • .@spode I agree. All the people who have donated money to those beard growing cheats should take it back! Oh… hang on… #movember #
  • .@InspectaGadgets We are tag team gadgeteers! #
  • .@timdifford Have your read Toffler's The Third Wave? Predicts post-industrial revolution. Gets much wrong, much right. #
  • Did I tell everyone I'm gadget blogging over at Computer Weekly now? I am, you know. http://bit.ly/39E5dN #
  • Not really. I'm still growing a moustache. I just happen to be growing a beard at the same time. :p #
  • Does setting a cat on fire and swinging around your head count as brightdancing? I just wanted to check before I put it on YouTube. #
  • .@spode My #movember update. I'm going for the goatee first, moustache later approach. http://pic.gd/ae41b7 #
  • Is Google slow today? Or is it just me? I hate to say it, but I just had to use Bing instead. And now I need a shower. #

Tweets this Week – 2009-11-08

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, November 8th, 2009
  • Has Stargate Universe got worth watching yet? #
  • So – stuck in. Raiding the (recently) unwatched DVD pile. Citizen Kane or Hitchock's Notorious. Whaddya think? #
  • Plan: fireworks party, followed by family chili cookout, followed by birthday do in pub. Actuality: hole in radiator. Cars are rubbish. #
  • Feature writing. Sometimes, 3,000 words just isn't enough. Sometimes, 300 is far too many. #
  • Trying to get a reply from me? Please email khodge (at) gmail.com – my usual domain is still down. #
  • UK2 choose Friday morning to migrate their mail platform. Result: answers I'm waiting on from PRs not getting through. I hate Fridays. #
  • Just received junk mail from TalkTalk despite being registered with Mailing Preference Service http://bit.ly/1S37wo – Not happy with either. #
  • "So, you're astronauts on some kind of … star trek" (That one's REAL by the way) #famousmoviequotes #
  • .@jpaylor Machinarium's only been out a couple of weeks. Micro-review at Computer Weekly's Inspect-A-Gadget – http://bit.ly/pWKdb #
  • Just tried Left4Dead for the first time. Think I was happier playing Machinarium. #
  • Just rediscovered KLF's It's Grim Up North on YouTube. To hear it is to love it. http://bit.ly/4pINGF #
  • #movember day 3. First crop of stubble reduced to Brent-esque goatee… #
  • via @ian9outof10 "the original three Sugarbabes reform as a new act". I predicted this. In future, I'm going to write down everything I say. #
  • Anyone particularly *happy* with a recent computer or gadget buying experience? Looking 4 a customer service "Hero of the Month". Please, RT #
  • If 4 out of 5 people think Dove is the best moisturiser they've ever used, I want the moisturiser the other 20% get. #
  • Anyone seen Spanish film Timecrimes? It has the time-travel logic Star Trek, is full of ugly people and has no moral centre. 5 stars. #
  • O2's "unlimited" data and WiFi on iPhone is subject to an excessive usage policy. Anyone run into it? #

Tweets this Week – 2009-11-01

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, November 1st, 2009
  • .@Harkaway Nope. Clearly a slow news day… http://bit.ly/1Ldgrn #
  • Anyone bothered to visit that plum bloke's blog? Interesting reading. By "interesting" I mean, perverted. #savestephen #savestephenfry #
  • RT @josephruss: I found Beatles Rockband gave me a real headache, and then I realised I was playing as Stuart Sutcliffe. #
  • Having a Beetlejuice/Ghostbusters double bill for Hallowe'en. My choices of Ringu and Ju-On were vetoed… :( #
  • I need another me. Preferably one without a broken rib and a cold. #
  • Compiling a list of UK ISPs. Any suggestions, let me know: http://listorious.com/karlhodge/uk-isps #
  • Parkin and Fisherman's Friends. That's a balanced breakfast. #
  • .@RealDMitchell to write novel. That'll be confusing. Tho', good for sales of "Cloud Atlas" (ace novel from t'other David Mitchell). #
  • Just went out for lunch with @ruthellenbrown. We were the only people in the cafe *without* flu. #
  • Any freelancers growing a 'stache for #movember – or would like to? I'm in – and happy to join a group. http://uk.movember.com/ #
  • Naughty Psystar, now selling software to install OS X on your Hackintosh PC http://bit.ly/32CTvo #
  • If you fall, fall on your back; because if you can look up, you can get up – Les Brown via @JohnKremer (Yeah. Tell that to a tortoise, Les). #