Saturday, January 31, 2009

Awwww.

Just realised that you can search for more than one tag in Flickr. I've done a search on all the pictures on my Flickr account that have both Barbara and I in them. There are some classics :)



http://www.flickr.com/search/



Still some missing that I'll have to dig out and upload.

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Guns Don't Kill People...

People kill people.
Unless you give a gun to a monkey, in which case monkeys kill people. Eddie Izard, genius!

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Tweets for Today

  • 12:18 Listening to "The King" singing Lonesome Tonight, the version where he gets the giggles, classic. #
  • 12:21 Which of the new Walkers crisps flavors have you tried? I've only tried the crispy duck in hoi-sin sauce, my favorite so far. #
  • 12:29 Wasn't there supposed to be a report about the wind turbine that was "hit by a UFO"? tinyurl.com/anoel8 #
  • 12:31 It's not easy to follow up on stories once the newspapers lose interest in them. #
  • 12:51 @broomster I want to know what they found out about the wind turbine that supposedly got hit by the UFO? #
  • 15:22 @bennuk 12 Minutes, hmm, would like to do a race with two identical machines, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 8.10 :) #
  • 15:26 @Schofe WRT the coach load of nuubs, it's OK, since Twitter is an opt-in service we're not forced to listen to any more than we can handle. #
  • 15:45 Customer support via Twitter, a double edged sword? Tread carefully @virginmedia. #
  • 20:37 Five minute break for ten minutes, back to work in half an hour. :) #
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Friday, January 30, 2009

Tweets for Today

  • 15:05 @xxandip Cake making with AndiP, that would make a good YouTube series :) #
  • 15:24 @stephenfry How about a Twitter version of QI? #
  • 15:27 @Alucard_uk Oh do you think Alan is on Twitter? #
  • 15:31 @stephenfry But just because Jane Austen can't spell.... :) #
  • 16:00 @holmeskatie I'd have to reward her for her excellent taste in picking a husband :) #
  • 16:35 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/c4c3kh Mobile Phone Leg: If cello scrotum is not real, is there any investigation into "mobile #
  • 17:49 I can't get Picasa 3 to work properly on Ubuntu. Forums suggest it an issue with my Nvidia display drivers :( #
  • 17:54 @Liv_Waters *virtual hugs* Oh no, did I really just type that? #
  • 18:21 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/c9eujg Tag, You're It: Using F-spot in Ubuntu I'm able to tag pictures and the tags are then wr #
  • 18:33 @stephenfry What did you eat? #
  • 18:48 @thebugcast So until tomorrow then, it's anyone's guess? #
  • 18:48 @thebugcast see what I did there? #
  • 18:51 With all this Twittering going on, is there a danger we may fill up the Interents? #
  • 18:55 @wilw Are you thinking what I'm thinking Pinky? #
  • 18:59 @goodniteburbank Badoom Tish #
  • 19:33 @davepeck You do appear to spend a lot of time on hold, last month Dell and now Blue Cross? #
  • 20:41 My first twitter was from April 3rd 2007 I didn't join yesterday with all you nuubs :) #
  • 20:49 @bobbyllew You had a Tiny computer? #
  • 20:52 @CaliLewis A bib or a laptop! #
  • 20:53 @thelovebug I really fell off the tweet bug when they stopped sending to mobile phones. #
  • 20:58 @adamcurry tinyurl.com/b4h6ka,8.569336&spn=2.56905,4.943848&t=h&z=8 #
  • 21:00 @adamcurry Oops, try again tinyurl.com/bq7tbg #
  • 21:04 @thelovebug I've had the free text messages for sending but it's getting the messages that I've struggled with. #
  • 21:05 @adamcurry Sorry, I cheated, simply sending a map of the whole of Switzerland, it's in there somewhere :) #
  • 21:15 @Wossy Does Shatner Twitter? #
  • 21:31 @stephenfry Not impressed with the site, requires me to log in to see more? #
  • 21:38 @Wossy Knew it wouldn't be long before you had Hookers on the show. #
  • 22:04 @levarburton Been away from "people" have you been in Hollywood? #
  • 22:07 @wilw Being from the UK, I'd never seen humming birds until my visit out to the US last year. They're amazing. #
  • 22:08 @cazmanser May 10th which year? You feeling better now? #
  • 22:10 @TheWarmSpot Cheer up sleepy Gene. #
  • 22:12 @davepeck And then put you on hold? #
  • 22:14 @TheWarmSpot But did you get the musical reference? #
  • 22:16 @xgolferx What specific Adobe products would you like to see on Linux? #
  • 22:17 @paulnicholls There are worse things to be. #
  • 22:38 @TheWarmSpot You said you were daydreaming... tinyurl.com/d9js9m #
  • 22:42 @TheWarmSpot Are you singing along now? #
  • 22:45 @TheSkoot If you're good enough for the Jebster you're good enough for me. #
  • 23:33 @bobbyllew I've been petrol free for a month, cold turkey, from car owner to cyclist. Sounds like a line said at a support group :) #
  • 12:18 Listening to "The King" singing Lonesome Tonight, the version where he gets the giggles, classic. #
  • 12:21 Which of the new Walkers crisps flavors have you tried? I've only tried the crispy duck in hoi-sin sauce, my favorite so far. #
  • 12:29 Wasn't there supposed to be a report about the wind turbine that was "hit by a UFO"? tinyurl.com/anoel8 #
  • 12:31 It's not easy to follow up on stories once the newspapers lose interest in them. #
  • 12:51 @broomster I want to know what they found out about the wind turbine that supposedly got hit by the UFO? #
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Tag, You're It

Using F-spot in Ubuntu I'm able to tag pictures and the tags are then written to the image files themselves. This means that potentially if I move the files to another computer or have to re-install, the tags are still in the pictures rather than in some database. Thing is, I've not yet found any other system that reads the tags that f-spot creates.

Picasa appears to use a database rather that writing the information into the pictures.

If I look at the properties of the pictures within Ubuntu then I am able to see the tags as "Key words", however, when I look at the same file in XP the "Key Words" field is empty.

I'm going to keep tagging using F-spot and hopefully be able to find programs or scripts to read and convert the tags if I'm going about this the wrong way.

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Mobile Phone Leg

If cello scrotum is not real, is there any investigation into "mobile phone leg"? As described by Ed' Bye on Car Pool, Mobile Phone Leg is when you can feel a mobile phone vibrate in your pocket when actually it hasn't, in most cases the phone is not even in your pocket, usually this is a prompt that you have actually left your mobile phone behind!

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

It Works But...

The whole reason I wanted to use the desktop application was so that it would display the correct time for my posts... and it doesn't.

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Utterli Desktop Application On Ubuntu.

Utterli desktop application now works with Air 1.5 under Ubuntu. You have to uninstall any previous version of Air and of the Utterli desktop application before reinstalling with 1.5

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Adobe Air 1.5

Using Ubuntu it would appear you have to uninstall Adobe Air 1.0 before you can install 1.5.

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When 100% Just Isn't Enough

It's very, very annoying when an install sits at 100% complete for five, ten, fifteen minutes. Who's concept of 100% is this?

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Monday, January 26, 2009

Tweets for Today

  • 12:29 I get more txt messages from O2 than anyone else. Billy No Mates :( #
  • 18:53 @BrentSpiner LOL Have to blog your post about the android phone, that's for making me spit out my coffee. #
  • 19:17 I'm playing Assteroids because Wil Wheaton told me too, wow man... shitbagz.com/gameZ/assteroidZDDEbeta #
  • 20:00 @turquoisefloyd or best she doesn't read your Twitter about the event? #
  • 20:01 @BrentSpiner Twitter spell checking mbl phn txt spk? Nah. #
  • 20:21 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/dd39pp Acronymphobia: Suddenly people are using acronyms which I've never heard of before. I th #
  • 20:30 @imogenheap Coffee @8:30pm is that wise? #
  • 20:32 @paulm you pretending to be a health inspector to get free java? #
  • 21:20 @bobbyllew Twitter, it's opt-in messenger. #
  • 21:49 @FLS_Danicia Now there's an interesting half of a conversation ;) #
  • 22:15 @imogenheap 12 seconds, great another Internet addiction I didn't need :P #
  • 23:33 @wilw You only need to worry if they start talking back. #
  • 23:33 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/9ycpzn Love Him Or Loath Him: Russell @rustyrockets Brand is now on Twitter. #
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Love Him Or Loath Him

Russell @rustyrockets Brand is now on Twitter.

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Acronymphobia

Suddenly people are using acronyms which I've never heard of before. I thought I was up to date on geekspeak! Now to find a Firefox acronym plug-in...



AFTER I go get some ice cream.



BRB

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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Tweets for Today

  • 00:21 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/cpc4nc Working In A Petrol Station: Daz: "Lottery ticket, cigarettes, beer, toilet paper, and f #
  • 01:02 @Wossy Asking Tom Cruise about breaking wind, classic sir. #
  • 01:38 @bobbyllew is Carpool only on iTunes? I'm a Linux person, not running iTunes. #
  • 10:21 @bobbyllew Thanks, download could get expensive for you to host, how about Bittorrent? Just a thought. #
  • 10:24 Wish for the Day: Being out in the US with my wife and daughter. #
  • 11:26 @bobbyllew Depending on how geeky you want to be, ffMpeg is a command line video compression tool you may want to look at. #
  • 12:37 @bobbyllew I was able to download via feeds.feedburner.com/LlewTube stick up a link to that for those not on iTunes. #
  • 17:37 Computer on random play I keep getting snippets of @stephenfry. I must set up a different play list for audiobooks. No offense Mr Fry. #
  • 17:49 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/d9kbkf When I'm Cleaning Kitchen.: Just a little more that the mundane "I'm having a coffee" bl #
  • 17:51 @GordonWSmythe Have you ever been to Iowa? It really is just corn fields and pig farms. Believe me, the police really are that bored. #
  • 18:27 @bennuk hah, where've you been? The Easter displays started December 26! #
  • 18:34 @adamcurry StUcK CaPs KeY ? :P #
  • 18:57 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/aqfu7w Sky1 9pm Alarm Clock Set: How rare is it for me to watch something the moment it comes o #
  • 23:09 @goodniteburbank Does this mean more videos on the way? #
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Sky1 9pm Alarm Clock Set

How rare is it for me to watch something the moment it comes on TV rather than three or four weeks later? Looking forward to season five of LOST starting tonight.

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When I'm Cleaning Kitchen.

Just a little more that the mundane "I'm having a coffee" blog post.



I'm clearing out the kitchen to give me access to the side door, make it a little easier to get the bike in and out via the side door.



Now, where's that coffee.



Oh, shoot, better still, where's the key to the side door?

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Working In A Petrol Station

Daz: "Lottery ticket, cigarettes, beer, toilet paper, and fuel sir?"

Customer: "Er, no, no thanks."

Daz: "Why not? This is, after all, a petrol station."

Customer: "I find it burns the back of my throat."



I do like to throw in something to catch customers out. If a customer hasn't smiled then I'll add that to the charge "That's four pounds fifty and a smile please." works every time.

I have been told by a couple of customers that while we're not the cheapest store in the area they come to us because the of the staff.

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Friday, January 23, 2009

Tweets for Today

  • 17:07 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/dgtkuc Current Ubuntu Setup: The screen-shot captured both screens for the dual screen setup. I #
  • 17:39 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/bqgfz2 Backdrop Thoughts: I'm not one to have machines called "Descktop 1", "Darren's Machine" #
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Backdrop Thoughts

I'm not one to have machines called "Descktop 1", "Darren's Machine" and boring names like that.



I'm currently using the Battle Box, this name was inherited from the original owner of the machine.



I've built "Bruce Wayne" and "Tony Start" Ubuntu machines for Lance and themed them accordingly.



Previous machines have included "Wonderwoman", "Orac", "Clarke Kent".



Now, the extra wide desktop background gets split across the two screens so I could go with a superhero/alter ego idea with one on one screen and one on the other? Could go with "opposites"? Having a picture which continues from one screen to the other doesn't really work that well because the two monitors are not directly next to each other.

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Current Ubuntu Setup

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The screen-shot captured both screens for the dual screen setup. I'm using Nvidia Twinview which handles the two monitors nicely. The second monitor is currently used for my media player.



The sunflower backdrop is a picture from Lance, it makes a change from my trend towards sci-fi related images.



On the main monitor I've removed standard menu with "Applications", "Places" and "System" and customised the main menu icon to be larger to make it easier to click.



Yes it looks like Windows but it does run much better on my machine.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Tweets for Today

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Boys And Their Toys

http://uk.youtube.com/watch



Robert Llewellyn test driving a Tesla. He seems to have a small problem wiping the smile off his face.



Looking forward to Roberts latest project "Car Pool"

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Tweets for Today

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Just To Compare...


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Obama's Theme

Written, of course, by John Williams. Should have had the 20th Century Fox theme first.



Hang on that's "Lord Of The Dance"?

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Oh No She Didn't

You really, HAVE to be careful how you split the word "Country" when singing in front of so many people.



:O

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I Like Busy Days But...

Sometimes there's just too much to handle.

Installing updates, attending meetings, having training, meeting with the boss man. The updating, of course stopping me from doing anything productive with my computer.

I'm going to my calm place, thinking of the forests, the winding rivers, the swinging bridges...

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Tweets for Today

  • 13:46 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/9towmk Geek Vortex: Using remote control software to remotely control a machine that's remotely #
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Geek Vortex

Using remote control software to remotely control a machine that's remotely controlling my machine, we could end up in a vortex and cause the whole world to be sucked into the Internets!

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Friday, January 16, 2009

Tweets for Today

  • 17:50 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/7lpxh2 Taging Images: I'm using F-Spot to tag pictures and I've selected the option to save the #
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Taging Images

I'm using F-Spot to tag pictures and I've selected the option to save the tags to the picture information.



The tags appear to be saved as KEYWORDS in IMAGE information rather than the more commonly used DOCUMENT information.



Is it possible to read and write JPG meta data from the command line in Ubuntu?



My Googlefu fails me because almost every document on the Internet contains the words "KEYWORD", "IMAGE" and "DOCUMENT".

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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Tweets for Today

  • 11:36 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/8emuvv IT Rely On Java: Sipping my coffee I was just talking to my Pink Bunny friend here about #
  • 11:54 Mmm coffee. Sorry just sent to annoy @alucard_uk #
  • 22:21 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/9otsa4 Picture This: I've been tasked to send our family pictures to Barbara. This was a bankin #
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Picture This

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I've been tasked to send our family pictures to Barbara. This was a banking box full of pictures. Last week I took out the photo albums, random pockets, boxes and bags and managed to get a shoe box crammed full of pictures.



Today from the crammed shoe box of pictures I've sorted the pictures in size. I've now ended up with a stack of 6" x 4", a couple of smaller collections of different shaped pictures and a handful of computer printed pictures which are all sorts of sizes.



The stack of 6" x 4" pictures is 4" high and weighs 3lb.



Setting aside how much this will cost to send via mail, how many pictures do you think are in this stack? I've not counted yet so I don't know the answer either :)

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IT Rely On Java

Sipping my coffee I was just talking to my Pink Bunny friend here about how crazy this theory is that people who drink a lot of coffee are more likely to hallucinate than those who don't.



Full BBC story... http://news.bbc.co.uk/…827761.stm



With coffee being the fuel of the I.T. industry and typically the only light we see is that from the TFT LCD, the pale faces we see around us are not ghosts, simply other nerds!

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Tweets for Today

  • 01:15 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/a3vvef The Following Takes Place In Real Time: Oh I'd forgotten how much 24 messes with technol #
  • 14:31 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/8oxjlw First Impressions: On recommendation of a trusted friend I've switched from Rythmbox to #
  • 15:23 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/7dqb96 An Oldy But A Goody: Remember the Sony Bravia TV commercial with the paint fireworks? We #
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An Oldy But A Goody

Remember the Sony Bravia TV commercial with the paint fireworks? Well this was a video of an unhappy resident...



http://uk.youtube.com/watch

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First Impressions

On recommendation of a trusted friend I've switched from Rythmbox to Banshee.



Rythmbox was not stable for me. If I selected multiple podcasts to download then the program would often crash or take minutes to redraw.



I've yet to import my entire music collection into Banshee but I've been able to subscribe to my podcasts and download those that I haven't listened to yet all without a client crash.



I am having a problem with the Last-FM plugin. While the system is accepting my account name and password I'm not seeing any updates to the LastFM website. (Found the mistake, "TOOLS/LASTFM/ENABLE SONG REPORTING" disabled by default, DOH)

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The Following Takes Place In Real Time

Oh I'd forgotten how much 24 messes with technological terms that are entirely inappropriate. I LOVE it ! :)

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Tweets for Today

  • 23:39 @broomster I broke my loudtwitter account by setting it up with Blogger thinking it would update both at once and it dosen't. #
  • 00:06 @paulm turn off all distractions apart from YouTube and Twitter? #
  • 01:29 @Wossy If you really want your brain fried watch 24 season 6 in reverse and 7 in the correct order!!! #
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Monday, January 12, 2009

Tweets for Today

  • 11:09 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/8yhylo Picture To Go With The Journey Post: This is a picture of my brother and I on top of the #
  • 14:45 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/8k2x55 Changes on MSN break non Micro$oft clients.: Those of you using Pidgin and Adium may be #
  • 15:23 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/7bjxq9 Change Your Name: tinyurl.com/9uf486 I watch very little telev #
  • 15:37 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/7bzb7z Clearing Up: I didn't realise that I have not yet posted these videos to the blogs. D #
  • 16:08 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/7bjb4k The African Laxative: It will start to work in a few seconds. #
  • 16:55 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/7n4bwr Burn Baby Burn: Once dad and I had trimmed the trees the entire garden was full of branc #
  • 17:40 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/9wdz9n Current Reasons I'm Not 100% Ubuntu: While I'm using Linux more now than I am Window$ I' #
  • 19:00 @TheWarmSpot I don't seem to be having much luck with your twurl links :( #
  • 19:24 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/7f3szy Another Problem Which I Forgot To Add: Following on from my last post about reasons I'm #
  • 20:46 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/9a5cme Salps: Swarms of jelly fish like creatures called Salp come to the surface of the oceans #
  • 21:01 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/8ampdq Oil Prices Why It's Going Up And Down: Investors bought oil intending to sell it for mor #
  • 21:40 Been on Twitter for flippin' ages and only now realise that @Replies don't get emailed to me. Sorry folks, I wasn't ignoring you on purpose! #
  • 21:42 @broomster I'm looking to update multiple blogs at the same time from SMS. Twitter, LJ, Blogger, Wordpress. #
  • 22:58 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/9d4uwg Scratch Problem Number 5: I now have multiple monitors working correctly under Ubuntu. T #
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Scratch Problem Number 5

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I now have multiple monitors working correctly under Ubuntu. The problem was that "Nvidia X Server Settings" when run from the System menu does not have sufficient access rights to modify the x-config file. Running from the administrator command line I was able to change the settings and make them stick.



Now my backdrop is 2560 x 1024 and I've downloaded a picture of the shuttle in orbit to fit across the two screens.



Some applications when I click the maximize button fill both the screens, some fill only the screen that they are centered on, not a big problem. Firefox appears to behave as I want it to, only filling the one screen.



Also learned to use CTRL+ALT+Backspace to restart x-win, that saved restarting the whole machine when trying to get the dual screen setup working.

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Oil Prices Why It's Going Up And Down

Investors bought oil intending to sell it for more before it was ever delivered, this falsifying the demand.



http://www.cbsnews.com/…deo/watch/

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Salps

Swarms of jelly fish like creatures called Salp come to the surface of the oceans every night to eat algae that absorbs carbon. They consume 4000 tons of carbon every night, then go back to the bottom of the ocean.



WOW, just, WOW !!!



Information from the BBC program "Swarm, Nature's Incredible Invasions". Have a look for it on the BBCi player if you get the chance, well worth the watch. Oh and narrated by David Tennant, I know there's a few of you out there who swoon over anything he says.

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Another Problem Which I Forgot To Add

Following on from my last post about reasons I'm not 100% Ubuntu...



5 ) Problems with multiple monitors.

I'm able to set up two monitors but they behave as if they were two different computers. I can't easily drag applications from one window to the other and can't be sure of which monitor an application is going to launch on when I start it.

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Current Reasons I'm Not 100% Ubuntu

While I'm using Linux more now than I am Window$ I'd like to iron out the following problems with my installation of Ubuntu.



1 ) Personal Area Network.

I've managed to get access to the Internet for my mobile phone, by sharing the Internet via Bluetooth in Windows, can't yet do this in Ubuntu. This appears to be a common problem with the latest distribution.



2 ) Sound Recording.

The programs which I've found for Linux that enable radio station like sound recordings, mixing music tracks with mic' input, all appear to require a quite powerful machine. The program I have on Windows is quite happy with my old box.



3 ) iTunes.

The title says it all. I have, in the past, bought tracks from iTunes which are protected and will only play on my iPod or iTunes. To work with my iPod I have to keep Windows to keep iTunes. While I have been using Rythmbox it has been a little unstable, especially when downloading multiple podcasts.



4) Webcam.

Not a big problem since I don't use the web cam that often, I'm sure this one would probably be the easiest of the four problems to fix.

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Burn Baby Burn


Once dad and I had trimmed the trees the entire garden was full of branches.

Feeding the fire was hot work. After a couple hours I went to get in the car to get something to drink to find that it was frozen!!!

The embers of the fire were still hot two days later.

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The African Laxative

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It will start to work in a few seconds.

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Clearing Up

I didn't realise that I have not yet posted these videos to the blogs.



Dad came over just before Christmas and together we trimmed the tops off of the Leylandii trees at the bottom of my garden.



http://uk.youtube.com/watch



Looking back at photographs of when the conservatory was put up, five years ago, the trees had been cut back to the same height then. The trees had grown about fifteen feet in five years.



http://farm4.static.flickr.com/…068854.jpg



After cutting the tops of the trees off there was far much more light, but the trimmings filled the entire garden.

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Change Your Name

http://uk.youtube.com/watch



I watch very little television so I've missed this commercial. I have to admit, the silent running adds on web pages are possibly the most effective for me. Seeing Ringo in the back of the car I had to click to hear the full thing.

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Changes on MSN break non Micro$oft clients.

Those of you using Pidgin and Adium may be getting an error message reading "Unable to retrieve MSN Address book". This is due to a change made at Microsoft. Both Pidgin and Adium development teams appear to be waiting to see if Microsoft change back or if a patch will be needed.

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Picture To Go With The Journey Post

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This is a picture of my brother and I on top of the motor-home which the family drove to Switzerland in. I've just recently given dad a whole box of VHS cassettes, among which are videos from that holiday, maybe some clips from those will show up on YouTube in the next few months.

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

Tweets for Today

  • 12:59 [Utterli] tinyurl.com/7ehgg2 The Epic Journies: I'm not much of a long distance driver, never the less, I thought I'd #
  • 17:55 @uupc Give the web server a kick it seems to be having a bit of trouble. #
  • 18:05 @Liv_Waters Happy New Year, hope you had a good break. #
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The Epic Journies

I'm not much of a long distance driver, never the less, I thought I'd do a quick run down on some of the long drives that I'd made.



Camdenton, MO to Bernice OK. 201 Miles.

Last year, a very spur of the moment thing, we drove down to a friends house one a lake in Bernice Oklahoma. I did not know when setting off that we were going to be driving for quite so long. This was mainly a night drive. Thankfully we had two way radios between our car and the one I was following. OK it was pretty much two roads only to get there but I had no idea where we were going.



Bracknell, Berkshire to New Mills Derbyshire 201 Miles.

This was the shortest route according to Google. I don't think I've actually taken the direct, shortest route. The few times that I've driven up to dads place I've mapped a slightly more interesting route.



Ft Myers, FL to Orlando FL 204 Miles.

Really don't remember the journey. This was back in 1995 when my brother and I spent two weeks in Florida. One week we spent on the beautiful gulf coast, white sandy beaches, trips to the Everglades, the second week we spent in and around Orlando, Disney, Cape Kennedy.



Andalusia, IL to Rockwell City, IA - 262 Miles

This was the last time that I ever met Gary, my step kids birth father (why doesn't that sound right?). Although this isn't THE longest drive and it's only another hour longer than the first three, it seemed to go on and on and on. For anyone that's ever driven across Iowa you'll know what I mean. One straight road, corns and pig sheds, for hours. Gary at the time was in prison in Rockwell City. There was nothing else in Rockwell City. We drove out there, spent the night in a motel, visited Gary, spent the next night in the hotel, visited Gary again then that afternoon drove the long and boring drive back. "I spy with my little eye, something beginning with 'C'."



Andalusia, IL to Camdenton MO - 335 Miles

Again 2008, on this particular visit I covered a lot of miles. Drove from my father-in-laws house to where Barbara is living in a rental car. GPS got me most of the way there then decided to take me "off road" for the last fifteen miles, glad it did though. The "Swinging Bridges" which the GPS route took us across turned out to be a really nice picnic spot that we later went back to and played in the river.



Anaheim, CA to San Francisco, CA - 465 Miles

Another two center holiday, one week in LA, one in SF. The idea was that I was going to drive half the long trip from LA to SF and Mandy, the girl that I'd gone on holiday with, would drive the rest. It just so happened that she hated driving in the US and spent a total of half an hour behind the wheel of the car for the entire holiday! The journey was fantastic. Rather than taking the most direct route, via the interstate, we drove up route 101. This was our first time in the US and rather foolishly, instead of getting the return flight from SF we had to drive back to LA to get home. The drive back we did take interstate 5, yaaaaaawn.



Now the above journeys were all with me driving. The longest road trip I have been on though was not with me behind the wheel.



Welling, Kent to Bern, Switzerland - 627 Miles

I think it was Bern that we went to, I'm sure that C2it will correct me. This was a family holiday in a massive, American mobile home. Before the Eurotunnel so it was a trip on the ferry to get from England to France. Again, I don't remember much of the journey but to be honest, Michael and I were probably in the back near oblivious to the fact that this mobile home was even on the move!



So, what road trips have you done?

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Friday, January 09, 2009

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Thursday, January 08, 2009

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Wireless? Well, sort of.

I now have a Bluetooth headset for listening to music on my phone. It's sort of wireless in that it's a device the size of a memory stick like MP3 player and you plug your headset into it. The only benefit this really gives is that the unit has handy controls for play/pause/ff/rw. I don't believe that the unit has a microphone built in so if someone calls while I'm listening to my podcasts then I'll have to dig my phone out of my pocket. Not that anyone ever calls me.

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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Time Waits For Nobody

I wonder, now that I'm using the stand alone client for Utterli, is the time stamp correct?

I'm actually posting this message at 8:37pm

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Desktop App Development

Is there somewhere to discuss the development of the Utterli desktop app? I have an outstanding problem trying to get the application to work with Ubuntu and also would like to ask for automatic cross posting as with the web client.

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Snowing Again

Looking out the window it's strange, there are no cars parked out in the road and it's snowing.

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Snowing Again

Looking out the window it's strange, there are no cars parked out in the road and it's snowing.

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A Warning To The Doctor

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I got a letter through the post this morning with a warning on it for The Doctor, it reads "Time do not bend".

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