Note to self: Don’t accidentally delete the code you’ve been working on, especially when it’s not in a folder you backup with Time Machine.

In a shocking development a new episode of Continental Drift Radio has actually appeared! It’s on iTunes too! Merry Christmas!

“Congrats” to @opendatani on 700+ days without a tweet. Believe they only need to make it to the 20th of Jan to complete 2 years of silence!

@mobilesupport If you only fix 1 bug in the next iPhone app update, please make it stop scrolling to the top whenever more tweets are loaded

Apparently not liking rubbish Christmas music is to be frowned upon. Being about Christmas doesn’t make a crap song good.

I don’t watch new Doctor Who, but if I did I’d be mightily annoyed that they’re just telling me what is going to happen in the next series.

My anger at incompetent programmers who can’t even parse CSV correctly is at an all-time high today. Wish they’d at least acknowledge it.

Same here. RT @ManyHues: @hellobuglers I’m without Facebook so I can’t vote in the poll, but I’d happily pay to subscribe to The Bugle.

Not that I think the general population should :)

People criticising small numbers picketing at places which are on strike clearly haven’t read human resources texts in recent years.

My other gripe regarding @QFTBelfast is tight seating. Uncomfortable if you’re tall. Been that way since the refurb sadly.

Sometimes I despair at the scheduling in @QFTBelfast. Film on for 5 days, all at 3.30, with 1 weekend show. Not helpful if have work.

@QFTBelfast I’m getting the error “Unable to offer seats” when trying to book 2 tickets for It’s a Wonderful Life on the 18th. Sold out?

I’ve just seen Ricky Gervais re-tweeted into my timeline. I’m going to have serious words with the person who passed on that fuck-wittery.

“Congratulations” to @opendatani on completing 667 days without any communication to the world. Two thirds of the way to the big 1000!

@carisenda I assume the draft PFG has a section on opening government data up? Or at least something on FixMyStreetNI, as promised? Eh? Oh..

I’ve just seen a little girl walking down the street clutching a French Fancy and eating with more determination than I’ve ever seen :)

Wholeheartedly recommended RT @blzzrd: We’re down to the last few box sets (Issues Zero to Three). They’re selling like pretty warm cakes.

I’m not 100% on the law with regards to this, but playing Mika in a workplace should allow me to walk out and claim constructive dismissal?

McDonnell making Ritchie look better in retrospect. Takes some doing! I suspect the party may be wishing they could have an election do-over

As I said when Alasdair McDonnell announced he was running for the SDLP leader, if he’s the answer they’ve asked the wrong question.

Enjoying watching @ManyHues watch Alasdair McDonnell speech. She’s getting quite high-pitched.

I think I was the only person to get the ditloid from @qzzrd right today. I don’t care what anyone thinks, I’m proud of that!

Having bashed @DreamHost yesterday it’s only fair to praise them now. Another care person looked into things and fixed everything. Nice work

Not often I’m disappointed with @DreamHost, but sadly today is one of those days. My crontab file has disappeared during a server upgrade :(

Anyone care to point out examples? MT @carisenda: Perhaps I need to cast my net wider to find uses of public data in Northern Ireland…

@carisenda If there is more then it’s not made itself into my field of view. There’s lots of talk but little action. I include me in there.

@carisenda I did have a project on the go, but I got bogged down in the details. I should really dust it off and at least free the data.

@carisenda Sadly the only thing I can really think of that used public data in NI is the crime maps we did way back.

Just had one of those moments where you realise you’re not following a number of accounts on Twitter which you thought you were following.

Having a version control system in place and then making changes to live systems outside of it is worse than not having one at all. F*ck!

@Canonisation @ManyHues I have just discovered that Alphas, starring Rabbit, starts on Tuesday evening on Fiver! Sadly we don’t have it :(

Woohoo, passed the citizenship test. Can’t kick me out of the country ;)

I do look forward to a good @qzzrd ditloid in the morning.

@ManyHues Boo! Behind you!

By the time the next season of Game of Thrones comes on I’ll already know who has or hasn’t survived in book 5 “thanks” to my colleagues :(

Hello 6 in the morning. It has been a while. Let’s hope it’s worth it.

The default page looking uglier than something designed by me is also annoying. Maybe it’s to embarrass students in to replacing it? #imd

It bothers me that the default page for the final year students in IMD doesn’t validate. This despite having an icon indicating it does #imd

I knew something weird had happened when I accidentally typed a git command in to the twitter app. It retweeted something. Grrr.

I’m there. RT @irishcricket1: Ireland to play Australia in Belfast on June 23rd - www.cricketeurope4.net/DATABASE/ARTICLES4/articles/000024/002483.shtml?492

@qzzrd I probably shouldn’t feel so proud of myself for getting that :)

Must be a glutton for punishment. Confirmed to play 6-a-side on Friday again against the desires of my calves.

Ireland win over Australia was worth hobbling down the stairs for. Lovely to see an Irish team take the lead and finish the job. #rwc2011

If Alastair McDonnell is the answer then the SDLP really need to have serious words with their quiz master.

I hope Mayo footballers and the Cleveland Browns have been taking notes.

Years of waiting and then in 5 months @MCFC win a trophy and @LancsCCC finally win the County Championship. Who would have thought it.

I do wonder how much time we’ll lose on the remainder of the journey though.

Bus turns up 25 minutes late on a journey that was supposed to take just 16 minutes. In his defence the driver did apologise.

@niall_adams And before you think about it, don’t!

I actually deal with a number of nice drivers during my week on @Translink_NI. Sadly the rest of the org lets them and customers down badly

More quality work from @Translink_NI. Follow me, send me a useless message in response to mine earlier, then unfollow so I can’t DM back.

Somehow I’m not surprised that @Translink_NI have not provided a simple list of the timetable changes from today. Who cares about customers!

@blzzrd My sub is through my wifes paypal account and therefore under her name. What’s the best way of getting it changed to my name?

Regarding that last retweet, I can wholeheartedly recommend a subscription to @blzzrd. Worth every single penny, even at the full RRP.

@ryancunning We have cake in the office. Just thought you’d like to know :)

@SuptPhilipKnox A white van acting suspiciously? So being driven well and respecting other road users, that sort of thing?

I’m sort of disappointed that the Hillsborough petition (submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/2199 has not already flown past 100,000 signatures.

I don’t blame Morgan, Joyce, Rankin,etc for wanting to play Tests. I just wish the chance to do it for Ireland was at least on the horizon.

I hope that @Cricketicc soon produce a clear path for countries to achieve Test status. With Morgan gone and Rankin a maybe it’s dispiriting

@swmcc @ManyHues has asked me to ask you whether you’re Team Edward or Team Jacob? Apparently you will understand this.

I’ve just received an email with a 42-line sig. 42 lines! What makes it worse is that it was at the bottom of an out-of-office auto-reply.

Just finished The Killing (Forbrydelsen) in a 4-episode final burst. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Wish BBC would give a form date for season 2.

@swmcc I shall have revenge for this lie! Oh yes, the next time you have a weird error I’ll identify the problem and then not tell you!!!

He was a class act in that match at only 17, but Azharuddin was fantastic in the 1st innings.

With Tendulkar coming in and talk of a 100th international 100 I wondered which one I’d seen at Old Trafford in 1990. It was the 1st.

@ManyHues @mistertumnus Let’s all agree to ignore my poor spelling of affliction. Too much typing “application” recently :(

I appear to have sent the first non-spam mail the Belfast Perl Mongers list has received in nearly 5 years. Dublin.pm also seems dead :(

@carisenda In the kingdom of the blind…

Not sure if @ManyHues would like or hate Moments Notice from Blue Train. She hates jazz, but it may remind her of the jazz chicken.

Just used ninja-like reflexes to catch some paper flying off my desk due to the fan. Did anyone marvel at this spectacular feat? Course not.

Been brushing up on my #perl with the Modern Perl book from @chromatic_x. The ePub version from onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.htmlwas a welcome find.

@carltonkirby Any chance you could poke someone about the web audio feed? Doesn’t seem to be working. How else will I hear your voice :)

If I’d had to predict the contents of my 1000th tweet, Paul Walker, James Nesbitt, and Martin Freeman would not have been my guess.

We’ve also had someone express surprise that Morgan Freeman is playing Bilbo Baggins in the Hobbit. We’ve set him right.

Bizarrely we’re having a debate in work on the acting merits of James Nesbitt. I’m merely surprised that people think there are any.

Too much to ask that Harry Hamilton becomes a senior member of the Orange Order? Be great to see Grandmaster Flash on the 12th

I’m not entirely sure how to take that message from @swmcc. Wednesday in work could be slightly awkward!

MT @swmcc Just have to say this to make it official. NO ONE is hotter than Megan Fox.. No one.. Maybe @srushe - but other than that no one!

Happy Birthday to you, happy Birthday to you, happy birthday @ManyHues, happy birthday to you!

As this is the first time I’ve made it on to Twitter today I’ll say this now…

How the others papers report the #notw tomorrow will be telling as to the culture at each.

I’ve never liked the News of the World, but the latest news makes me despise it all the more. Another reason we need a proper investigation.

Now that it has been confirmed I can relax. Associates back in the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Now up to @IrishCricket to make sure we’re there!

@blzzrd 31 people die in the Superga air disaster. Alf Ramsey becomes England manager. Diego Armando Maradona’s Hand of God goal. #qzzrd

@bbcnewsline “literally blaze a trail”?

Good to see Uwe Rösler working in management again. Great to see him well in fact.

Tron: Legacy may have been a fairly dreadful film, however it does have on redeeming quality; a soundtrack that is great to code to.

Next you’ll be saying you didn’t know about Beard of the Year from the Beard Liberation Front!

It’s rare for interviewers to have courage to let interesting interviewee simply talk without interruption. Why we should treasure @sidlowe!

Interview by @sidlowe in 1st issue of @blzzrd wonderful. As with Xavi interview does great job of allowing the interviewee to do talking.

@FAIreland Care to say in public how you voted on the FA motion this morning at the FIFA congress? And why, whichever way it was.

The FA has been a basket case for years, and still is, however I admire David Bernstein for taking a stand against Blatter. Always liked him

Listening to the Tron: Legacy soundtrack and finding it monotonous. Turns out I’d accidentally told iTunes to play one song over and over!

@colm_smyth I hate to tell you but the 823 year one is nonsense, and the age one is nothing special either, much the same happens every year

Next time watching B5 will be a little sad now :( RT @Canonisation: Very sad news. :( #RIP Jeff Conaway

I once played a game for the Grammar School in Dundalk, as wicketkeeper. Only time I was ever the keeper in a match, and I loved it.

Two Dundalk schools playing cricket. Things really have come along. Lovely to see. www.cricketleinster.ie/news/schools-cricket-in-dundalk

If we must have a twitter mob I wish it were for something worthwhile. Knowing the name of this footballer is not it. A waste.

@JacobSteinberg Excellent article in the @blzzrd. Enjoyable read on the way to work. @iainmacintosh has a lot to live up to on the way home.

@blzzrd My copy arrived in Belfast this morning :)

Apparently my copy of Issue 0 of The Blizzard (@blzzrd) has arrived at home. Surely that’s a good enough excuse to leave work now?

The view amongst my fellow watchers seems to be that #Sweden have the best #eurovision entry. I however think #Romania ticked every box.

As @ManyHues insists I vote in the #eurovision I’ve gone for #Moldova. I like to encourage the crazier entrants.

@Canonisation She keeps saying something like ‘C’, ‘E’, ‘G’, ‘T’, or some such, I can’t quite make it out…

Woo-hoo! RT @blzzrd: The Blizzard Issue Zero has left the building…

#ff @blzzrd For excellent football writing in an attractive package. My copy of Issue 0 should arrive next week hopefully. Excited :)

#ff @theyellowdoor My wee sister. Makes lovely books and more, and is muscling in on my territory by doing a lovely job on her own website

#ff @ManyHues ‘Er Indoors. Purveyor of the finest cheesy pasta known to man. All-round entertaining weirdo.

#ff @Canonisation Who knew that Mass Effect and Casualty could be so amusing? He proved they can be.

First time for follow friday. Only a few, don’t want to run out. #ff @RonyMurf Birthday boy. His liking for Star Wars is so wrong though

Getting replies to emails, let alone answers, from Northern Ireland bodies is almost as hard as getting an apology from Tom Elliott.

I might have spent the morning wrangling OSNI data correctly into a database, but I’m not ashamed. I enjoyed it, so there!

@carisenda That would be excellent :)

@carisenda It does sadly look that way with regards to @opendatani. As for the crime data, I have the technology, I can rebuild it :)

@carisenda It’s “run” by the Department of Finance and Personnel (Northern Ireland) apparently. So says the faq and http://bit.ly/kTIwcH

Hello to @opendatani again. 470 days since their last tweet. I’m sure they’re just working on something really big.

I like that the The Blizzard (@blzzrd) is taking its time and making sure that the hard copy is just right. Worth the wait :)

The sooner people who’ve read the Game of Thrones books realise it’s not clever to spoil things they think unimportant, the better.

Bacon sandwich for lunch :) Thanks @ManyHues

Almost everyone at Barcelona and Real Madrid should be ashamed of their childish behaviour. It’s a disappointment, but not a great surprise.

Watching Real Madrid vs Barcelona I’m struck by how much of a difference it makes to Barca not having Iniesta available. Such a good player.

Having to put headphones on to stop your workmates spoiling TV series for you is not conducive to a good mood.

That @swmcc is a sneaky one. He’s going to beat me one of these days :(

I seem to have accidentally put @swmcc on a mission to discover exactly where I’m living. Might be a good time to hide my iPhone!

@duponline If you want Fix My Street for Northern Ireland simply get OSNI to let the current site use the NI maps for free. Problem solved.

I can’t wait to hear the explanation from Zimbabwe as to why they’ve cancelled cricket matches against Ireland for later this year.

@cafecalcio Your podbean site appears to have disappeared. Is there anywhere else I can use to subscribe to the podcast via iTunes?

@ronymurf And in giving a 5 I was criticised for dragging the average up!

It’s not just Ireland I’m annoyed for. The ICC have basically screwed all 95 other members. T20 World Cup is no compensation. #icc

All too true sadly. RT @WisdenCric_Dan: Message from ICC: Well done Ireland at the World Cup, now piss off.

Congrats to @opendatani on completing a successful 435th day of saying nothing on twitter.

I have been distracted obviously. I’d no idea that 2 one day matches had been announced between Ireland and Pakistan for the end of May.

Excel spreadsheets, the most efficient way of getting lots of people to waste time getting nothing done.

.@Translink_NI That wasn’t a rhetorical question. I’m genuinely interested as to why no warning was given to passengers.

.@Translink_NI 24+ hours after you stopped serving Hillsborough you mention it on the website. Did the Roads Service not give any warning?

Booked some time off. I could really do with it too.

@Translink_NI Is Hillsborough still being served by the 38 and 238 now that the Lisburn Road off the A1 is closed for the next dew days?

In a surprising turn of events I’ve somehow contrived to win more on Full Tilt in one go than I’ve ever put into the site. I’m quite pleased

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

Listening to the football while working on Sunday would be infinitely better if Alan Green did not exist.

If I could start this day again I’d do everything differently from the way I have done things. Probably still be fucked though.

Somehow I’m not surprised that I have to download a PDF from @Translink_NI to find out any changes to the Ulsterbus services.

Ireland scaring one of the big teams in the World Cup again. I can see why the ICC don’t want these non-Test playing teams in the tournament

@blzzrd does the recurring sub include postage? I’d feel guilty if i’m paying less than RRP due to postage. Might need to up my sub amount!

Subscribed to The Blizzard (@blzzrd) from Jonathan Wilson, and now have issue zero to read this weekend. Score.

I’ve nothing against Pakistan but I’d love to see Canada chase this total down. Would be good for the cause of the Associates. #cwc2011

YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #cwc2011

I am as nervous as a very nervous thing following this match online. #cwc2011

It’s also nice to see one of the associates in the World Cup actually showing some backbone when facing a big total to chase.

Hat off to Kevin O’Brien. He has gone out there and given it everything. Regardless of how the game finishes he should be proud

Adam and Joe being back on Six Music from April is excellent news (even if it is for only 12 weeks).

10 minutes into yesterdays Outcasts. If I were playing cliche bingo. I would definitely have shouted HOUSE by now.

Ireland chasing 206 runs to beat Bangladesh is not going to make for the most relaxing of afternoons.

It’s only really clicked with me that it’s Friday today. I’ve lost track of the days :(

I’m beginning to worry for @sidlowe right now.

I really shouldn’t enjoy hearing the Happy Mondays quite this much when they pop up on iTunes.

@sidlowe Fine interview with Xavi. As interesting an interviewee as he is talented a player. I’m glad I kept that until lunch to read.

With Eoin Morgan out of the World Cup my only interest now lies in how well the Ireland team can get on.

In the last few days I’ve discovered that I was very wrong not to act on my Dads recommendation of Flann O’Brien so many years ago.

I don’t get having one day internationals after an Ashes series. I only care if the games are before, because then it leads in nicely.

Will be a long day for @GuillemBalague, dealing with the apologies from L’pool fans who abused him for saying Torres would go to Chelsea.

He’s right that this is wrong. Lose the first series, it doesn’t matter. RT @TheKingsTweets: 10 Ashes Tests in a row http://bit.ly/fpKgmG

.@Translink_NI You should make the 1603, 1640, and 1850 3 coaches by default. You could then boast when you have 6! Looks better?

I think Richard Keys is digging his own grave on TalkSport.

I agree with this so much. RT @sidlowe: @acjimbo on Sky Sports #richardson4sky BUT ONLY IF HE CAN STILL DO FW

So @SkySports are you getting rid of the Gray and Keys or not? Enquiring minds want to know. As does my current subscription.

The news that Galloway may run for MP in West Belfast makes me thankful for the 10 metres by which I am outside that constituency boundary.

The remarks of Keys and Gray don’t really surprise me. Two long-time idiots. Chances of @SkySports doing the decent thing here are minimal.

I think I almost gave @swmcc a heart attack just now!

@bglendenning I wish City fans had complained this much when we had alleged human right abuser Shinawatra take over.

@TheGreenSJ Are there any stockists of issue one in Northern Ireland? A quick search earlier today in Belfast failed to find one sadly.

Must be under the weather, this Lemsip tastes lovely.

How ill am I in actual fact? The Lemsip test is about to tell me. If I like it then I’m not well.

Yes, yes, and yes RT @Inbedwimaradona: In bed with Maradona New Post - The revolution must be televised. Read it now at http://bit.ly/ebHuGj