Month: December 2009

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Weekly Twitter Updates for 2009-12-27

  • Have a great merry xmas everyone #
  • Now i'm officially on my holidays, I am going to relax – yes relax, I know it's not in my vocabulary but I don't care, RELAXXXXXX #
  • Stamp prices rising yet again, just another way to rip us off in rip off britain #
  • Wish me luck, about to brave the manchester weather…. #
  • http://twitpic.com/umuyb – Bloody Twim has uploaded a black screen, muppet! #
  • http://twitpic.com/umuyb – The manchester snowline #
  • I predict chaos this afternoon in Manchester, the snow is coming down heavily – Manchester will grind to a halt as the rest of the country! #
  • Snowing in manchester and the city grinds to a halt………again! #
  • Went to Yum Yums in Manchester tonight, never again – food was so poor me and wifey are both feeling sick 🙁 So much for our xmas do! #
  • Why do the Network Rail ticket collectors look like thugs?Dressed head to toe in black, complete with black beanies and they pounce on you! #
  • How come the Uk, particularly Manchester and Stockport are so crap at gritting pavements and roads – it's lethal out there! #
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Weekly Twitter Updates for 2009-12-20

  • I'm now listed on the Local Twitter Directory for Stockport, Cheshire: http://www.loadedweb.com/twitter/ #
  • Check out my ElfYourself video: http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/mme2F5CdzdlorJJv #
  • Xmas decorations up, now we are nearly ready to meet Santa #
  • Hmm why do devs still use inline css then have extrnl css as well in addition to not structuring code properly so overrides dont work! #
  • Well guess what, i'm working with VB for the first time in over 10 years! #
  • Can anyone suggest a #wireless router that actually works with an #Acer #7720G – wont see Belkin nor Netgear of which I have both 🙁 #
  • My daughter just spoke to her brother in Stacey language and he just fell about laughing – he is 4 months old Lol #
  • Now off the market until the New Year – always open to discuss opportunities, even if only short term #
  • Sorry to anyone emailing simonantony.co.uk in the last 12 hours, dns failed so we were off the web entirely – now fixed! #
  • How many sprouts can you take before you fart? http://bit.ly/8XN15i #
  • Getting ready to release iqdesign.co.uk – new iphone, iTouch, iPod, Blackberry etc designer cases – watch this space…. #
  • Getting ready for last day a Photolink, been a good experience, now onto my next role which is erm, dur, hmm ??? #
  • Ooops – SimonAntony.co.uk server just run out of disk space, silly me forgot to delete old backups!!!! #
  • After 24 hours of a severe food poisoning outbreak, I'm now starting to recover enough to get some work done! #
  • I just got Voice Candy for Mac for free from tap tap tap. They're celebrating launching Voices on the iPhone http://bit.ly/i56Un #
  • #Google Wave – seems i'm not the only one that doesnt know what to use it for – how do you use yours? Clean answers please 🙂 #
  • is now looking for job opportunities – Available immed for interview – dotnet development, photography, photoshop, interim management etc #
  • That is i'm available from next week 🙂 #
  • I'll be available for any freelance dotnet, development, design, infrastructure work etc on freelance/contract basis – anyone need anything? #
  • i've got some Google Wave accounts to give out – who is interested? #
  • Yipee! Been accepted onto the beta program for Google Wave – now I just need to work out how to use it 😛 #
  • Why does writing valid css for IE6, 7 & 8 need to be so hard – firefox just, well works! grrrrrrrrrr #
  • Google producing Chrome OS – whatever next, missions to mars? #
  • asp.net cassini comes to the rescue – open source, dont ya love it … #
  • Anyone managed to run an asp.net website complete with dataset capabilities on a CDRom? Let me know what solution you came up with! #
  • Well another project successfully (cough) rolled out today – http://www.aidsalliance.org – my last 7 weeks of hard graft! Phase 2 now !!!! #
  • What billing and purchase tracking (ok accounting) tools do you use on your mac? Currently using iRatchet for billing but need expenditure 2 #
  • Get 6 top mac apps for free with MacHeist – http://www.macheist.com/ #
  • Just fulfilled another photo order for two clients – need to improve workflow, it's good, just not as good as it can be 🙂 #
  • Imminent impact @MacHeist (151.7,174.4) Witness it and get DaisyDisk ($20) for FREE to reclaim GBs of space on your Mac! http://macheist.com #
  • RT @PhotoLegal: Petition against the Government's smash and grab raid on photographer's intellectual property http://bit.ly/1hZEhN #
  • chilling before a mamouth photo editing session laters 🙂 #
  • Right that is 80 gig of my music in one place, now I need to get iTunes running to sort them all out – ouch! #
  • See, I knew banannas were important http://bit.ly/3udwqx #
  • Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes in internet URL's http://bit.ly/SJZno #
  • Is Photoshop CS4 all its cracked up to be? Why should I upgrade from CS3? Questions questions!!!! #
  • Google Forces Web Standards Issue Using Sexy Buttons – http://bit.ly/p74cq #
  • #Photolinks new artwork, #banksy it's not but excellent it is anyway http://twitpic.com/kqmvs #
  • 30k email addresses compromised – was it down to keyloggers? http://bit.ly/1wFJuQ #
  • Google hit by email scam, were you affected? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8292928.stm #
  • Wondering why the planes have changed flightpath, now over my home. Turns out Man Airport are upgrading the ILS so planes using VOR instead #
  • Looking for free #email client for #e71 that supports multi pop3 boxes, nokia email not 100%. Must also leave mail on server and not remove. #
  • Happy now, managed to find a usable and free #twitter client for my #nokia #e71 – #twim #
  • been out and about tonight looking at ideas for some night photography, some interesting opportunities out there, keep your ears on the blog #
  • Just finished updating my twitter homepage with a new background – what do you all think? http://bit.ly/FHUTx #
  • Seen some awesome jQuery tricks lately, anyone point me in the direction of some good solid tutorials with real world examples I can use? ta #
  • having a coffee and wispa after a hard days slog #
  • working on the Bump, Baby & Beyond branding + packages – should be a good day! #
  • Looking for any freelance work/photography/website or graphic design etc – please get in touch and let me know what I can do for you! #
  • RT @TipSquirrel: RT @Minervity: 52 Professional Website User Interface Photoshop Tutorials – http://bit.ly/CqHah #
  • RT @chrisspooner: Create a Fun Illustrated Toy Site Design in Photoshop – http://bit.ly/q4UEo #
  • Bought a new book today, Improve your memory today – wonder if I will remember to read it? #
  • Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear Simon, happy birthday to me 🙂 #
  • RT @Paul_Casey: RT @cycleman4997: "Golf Club Fail" – http://twlol.com/tw/?v7-14138 Genius! – ordered mine already :_ #
  • I'm going to adopt a snow leopard – are you? http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/ #
  • RT @StockportMBC: Events: Merseyway’s Summer Sound 2009! See live music, dance & entertainment in the Stockport Town Centre…http://tin … #
  • 30 Top Design Blogs for Great Tutorials & Inspiration – http://is.gd/2rviF #
  • RT @BianaBabinsky: On My Blog: Simplest Way To Build Your List With Social Networking, http://bit.ly/28XR7b #
  • currently editing just over 300 pictures from a recent wedding shoot – need to crack on, client chasing me!!! #
  • Need to alter your Time Machine frequency? http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/ #
  • Simon is pleased to annouce the birth of his baby son on 16th August weighing in at 9lb 7oz, mother and baby both doing well 🙂 #
  • well as of 30 mins ago, Sharon's (wifey) waters broke – baby is on its way 🙂 #
  • Well the pink limo turned white but apart from that another great days shooting – now to photoshop to tweak and prep album… #
  • Off to shoot another wedding – looking forwards to this one, big pink limo involved too #
  • Currently watching georgina at swimming lesson & thinking about how to drum up more business #
  • Goosed after a garden tidy, 12 bags at the tip & it looks great. All whilst waiting for a SQL Server db to be provisioned – why so long 🙁 #
  • Working on my new design website – wordpress, php or dotnet??? hmmmm decisions decisions……… #
  • Well baby not come so back to work I go and finish off AllEventsDirectory – Sharon now 1 day overdue!!! #
  • is now chilling out and looking hopeful that his new baby will be born this weekend – i'll try not to work this weekend love, honest 🙂 #
  • Question: Why does raspberry ice cream not have any raspberry in it? #
  • Can anyone recommend a good asp.net 3.5 book/resource – cookbook style is ideal as not into the theory, just how to do stuff 🙂 #
  • Need a helpdesk solution, ideally opensource, customisable, time tracking so clients know time left in their support contract! Ideas anyone? #
  • So funny – watching Jeremy Kyle and seeing the losers getting caught out lying. Dont want to get caught? Then dont do it in the first place! #
  • Major tip – never ever ever use <xhtmlConformance mode="Legacy"/> when writing an asp.net AJAX app – it will stop updates working #
  • Up since 4:30 this morning, working since 5:30 – extreme tiredness will hit by the end of the day lol – hope everyone in twitter land is ok! #
  • Working on All Events website, should be live in two weeks – Also baby's head now engaged, any time now, cant wait to meet him/her 🙂 #
  • Baby due soon (36wk + 5 now), birthing pool up in back room and i'm still working on websites!!! #
  • Wedding bookings are going fast for 2010 – still places available for 2009 but book soon #