Watching the Activity Monitor while exporting a QuickTime movie from Flash, Flash is using 103% of the CPU… ?? # When did Flash start incorporating ActionScript into exported movies; or have I been missing a trick all these years? Particle effects ahoy! #
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Quick thoughts for 2008-01-26 (via Twitter)
They’re cutting down the Acacia tree behind us; not great from an environmental viewpoint, but it will mean we get summer sun after 1pm. # Finished entering 134 receipts into a spreadsheet, one step closer to the completing my last minute tax return! # Oh no… just found another folder of receipts. Back to Excel …
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Quick thoughts for 2008-01-25 (via Twitter)
An article about Soc Gen’s rogue trader ends: "His Facebook page had 11 friends, last night that was down to 4." An important detail. # Sitting in a restaurant and a woman has just run in, dropped a case by the stairs and run out again. Should I leave? #
Quick thoughts for 2008-01-21 (via Twitter)
"The PayPal site is currently experiencing technical difficulties with our credit card processor." This is on their test system… eh? # Spring ’08 is shaping up to be good for live music: I’ve booked for Fink in the Northern Quarter, Alabama 3 at the Academy, Portishead TBC. # Got an invite to Fork’d, Cooking 2.0. …
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Quick thoughts for 2008-01-18 (via Twitter)
Good lord above getting Win98 onto Parallels is so ridiculously hard. # With Parallels, I do like the idea that Windows installs are contained… floating in a virtual bell jar filled with imaginary formaldehyde. # "Print and sign please" I hate writing on those delivery driver’s handhelds, it makes my writing look even more like …
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Quick thoughts for 2008-01-17 (via Twitter)
Is there a shortcut key to launch the IE Toolbar on a page where the various controls have been removed by JS? # Jealous of this man’s skills: benhammersley.com #
Quick thoughts for 2008-01-16 (via Twitter)
@samclark – If Leopard still freezes on boot with a non-existent drive then I’m not updating. # Very amusing tale from Gruber’s kid: http://twitter.com/AmyJane/statuses/603632882 # Darn, I was hoping to get over to Leeds GeekUp this evening, but Work is squatting on my life and it’s not going to happen. # Really interesting ideas from …
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Quick thoughts for 2008-01-15 (via Twitter)
Just "invested" in Windows 2000 and Windows 98 for testing purposes. So much money just to test, still… it’s got to be done. # vi may be powerful, vi may be very very clever and better than anything else; that doesn’t alter the fact that it utterly mystifies me. #
Quick thoughts for 2008-01-12 (via Twitter)
Loving the Alabama 3. I picked up their album ‘La Peste’ after hearing their session for Mark Lamarr again in his round-up of last year. # (Alabama 3 are best known for ‘Woke up this morning’, which is the title music for The Sopranos) #
Quick thoughts for 2008-01-11 (via Twitter)
Just mounted a drive over SSH using MacFUSE and SSHFS, nice: http://tinyurl.com/2trsb3 # @everyone re SSH drives… I know! I’m a little ashamed about how exciting I think it is! # Ah, I’ve just realised that (of course) there is a Twitter user called @everyone and the only message on their account is inevitable really. …
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