Category: lifestream

RT @AppAdvice: iPhone 4 Video Converter Free For A Limited Time! http://bit.ly/c39KS8

Stress testing my i7 laptop tonight – encoding 5 avis to H.264 simultaneously pushes it pretty damn hard!

Why is McCain saying ‘our British troops’? Strikes me as A Little Odd. #newsnight

My disputes with Subway have reached a new level after they served me just 2 of each selected salad item. One day it’ll get violent.

Just seen an excellent promotional video for Grafton Street Student Accommodation featuring @emmalwalsh from @cosmostudents @cosmohousing

Gonna disassemble my iPhone this lunchtime, install a replacement volume button. The guide has 20 steps!

The prick I work with is telling me how he’s moving doctors because he doesn’t like Indians. I get this low level racism every fucking day.

RT @andyjankowski: Do traditional intranets fail today’s knowledge workers? The case for social intranets http://bit.ly/bb6InN #intranet …

Everyone on iOS 4 should run TinyUmbrella (http://bit.ly/cZH42Y) before Apple release 4.01 (rumoured later today) #justsaying

A man has been parked outside my flat for a week now. He just sits in his car all evening. Except to yell at kids playing football. How odd.

RT @roryl: Is there a student stereotype repository somewhere? #newsnight

Ha! Ed Balls is literally sitting in for Abbot, even flirting with Portillo! Checkout their leg contact! #thisweek much more fun than #bbcqt

Have clawed victory from the jaws of defeat after a series of monumentally failed attempts to fix a swipe card system in Preston!!!!

I just tried the guide for reducing the signal on the 3GS and it worked. Perhaps not a big deal then? http://bit.ly/dpH604

About to make the most embarrassing DVD purchase of my life, all in the aid of research…

Anarchy outside St Lukes as Star of Toxteth churchy bods parade past, urban strawberry lunch play inside and riotous loons attack police.

The way the churchy bods are holding my bus up would incite anyone to riot. Perhaps they’ll disperse if I point out flaws in their religion?

Interesting evening, walked in on the Garston branch of the #zombiemoat fanclub meeting in the gym’s steam room. They fuckin hate coppers.

Late for work – new gym programme I started last night almost finished me off. Noticed in mirror I have a tiny head for such a large body.

Oh, my route home is blocked. Anything on at the cinema?

What’s the Twitter opinion with regards to this Inception film? Worth a look? Anyone knocking around town who wishes to join me just shout.

Hangover and sensation that I did something bizarre last night…

Ok, have been putting off a return to the gym for weeks, but today is the day!

Argh! Burst tyre has foiled my efforts to get to the gym!

Ok car has 4 tyres once again, but too hungry for gym, off to oomoo to brainstorm #ignite ideas

Oh shit the volume control has fallen off my iPhone! Having a bad day today.

Have just thrown a whinging manager out of my office for complaining that Apple don’t make it easy to pirate their iPhone apps. Prick.

The emergency repairs that have completely screwed up Vauxhall Road are so urgent there’s no one there working on them!

Finance Director’s giving me the sob story about how if I don’t fix his (home) PC today, the lack of pirated music will ruin his kids hols.

RT @amcewen: Really interesting interview with @snowded about success and the state of the world http://bit.ly/aaEjnU

There’s a really annoying older lady with a see-through jumper here chatting up a ballet conductor. Aww she just sealed the deal! (@ Oomoo)

Has anyone designed a TED playlist system which suggests relevant talks for your prefs? I wanna get smart without info overload.

RT @guardiantech: Michael Grätzel: Give people access to cheap solar power http://bit.ly/cKNdUz

Jo ‘Cutting Edge Music Journalism’ Wiley just wasted another 25 minutes of my life. That’d go well on a t-shirt actually.

SQL Gurus – any idea how to parameterise elements from a trigger’s ‘inserted’ table? Or even just push the code from inserted into a string?

Been reading up about issues with my model of laptop overheating. It does run hot, but less so since firmware update. Hmm, what to do…

Encounted the strangest Outlook problem this morning, subfolders are appearing in root until you expand and view their original location!

Check this out iPad users http://bit.ly/bnf1AQ

Someone’s brought a baby in, but apparently it doesn’t connect to the intenet, nor does it support 3G dongles, so what good is it exactly?

Going home to an internetless flat in a mo. It’ll feel cold and barren.

Jeez, Lucas is super-batty tonight #eastenders

Bastard gas man has made me miss the bus. Bastard.

Essential listening of the day: last 10 mins of @r4today as @evanhd interviews an actual vampire. Hillarious stuff.

Oh, look at that, the council have started putting giant recycling bins out on the streets! About time they did something positive.

Oh wow, The Vernon is a pub which has buttons with which to call over fresh beer! http://yfrog.com/jp2xhfj

Thx @madscouser for putting my name down to do a catwalk run at modo.Do I have to take my clothes off? My figure is only partially burlesque

Oh shit I am not happy about this (namely catwalk strutting at a burlesque night)

Yeah anyone hoping to PROFIT from my catwalk appearance at Modo can shush, I came third. 1st was a lovely girl, 2nd a testosterone freak.

For me Glastonbury has become synonymous with Mark Radcliffe viscously mocking Jo Whiley’s pretentious fanboyism & banality. Excellent!

RT @ChrisPirillo: How to Fix the iPhone 4 Antenna Problem in less than 30 Seconds: http://youtu.be/63zl3EwRxcs

It’s BBQ time at Sefton Park for @alexnolan and @regularbeat (@ Sefton Park) http://4sq.com/cTT1XS

Best season finale ever, I shall begin wearing a fez immediately, fezzes are cool #doctorwho

It’s the perfect morning on Bold Street, enjoying The Smiths in Brew after a free haircut at Andrew Collinge! (@ Brew Tea Shop)

Drove over to watch the match with my dad only to discover that the new tv he’s getting to watch the world cup doesn’t arrive till Tuesday!

Fail fail is fail. The old guard must announce their collective retirement from international football after this. Overpaid talentless fools

Ken Clarke’s on @r4today deftly sidestepping confrontation by agreeing with everything on both sides of the argument – that’s cheating Ken!

My new Dell Studio 15 has the easiest setup I’ve ever seen, took under 20 seconds! Competitors take note!

Taken the day off to install stuff on new laptop. No 64 bit Flash for Win? Jeez Adobe you don’t help yourselves!

Heading to #smcliv and accidentally groped the young woman behind me whilst getting off the bus! The shame is overwhelming!

Here for #smcliv – come on down! (@ Static w/ @oddessay @mikenolan @mcknut) http://4sq.com/aIuZfi

.@davecoveny is full of win at #smcliv he’s like a scouse Dylan Moran

RT @LivEchonews: Tech Blog: Social Media Cafe Liverpool – a round-up (with pictures) http://ht.ly/25OZ4 #smcliv

Found an online copy of the bastard hard text adventure The Hulk http://j.mp/9PxGCa – I think only @mikenolan and I know how to start it off

Our Housing software devs have finally given users permission to allow custom triggers on the main db – things are gonna get real messy 😉

That Apple response is insane but hard to argue. Does mean they’ve misrepresented their networks for 3 years tho! http://bit.ly/aDCiqT?r=td

Come down to the African Oye Music Festival, fun for all! (@ Sefton Park) http://4sq.com/cTT1XS

That was odd, just took my sunglasses off and they crumbled to pieces in my hands!

RT @Suw: Can you help spread the word about Argleton? http://bit.ly/cUylRb Thanks to all who did last night! 😀

Merseyside (and Halton) Recycle Week starts tomorrow http://bit.ly/aqod5N – annoying, I was going to go down to the tip this afternoon!

Tempted to pop down to Africa Oye again today just because I enjoyed the Thai green curry so much yesterday. Crepes nice too.

Bus driver suggesting to crowd of angry passengers that it’s our fault that she hasn’t changed the sign & we’ve ended up at Paradise Street!

Just arriving home after a long day, will I never make it to the tip for Recycle Week?!?!

Jeeez Microsoft, give me a break! Exchange 2010 doesn’t support Outlook 2003 polling, so all changes take 5 seconds to replicate?!?! #fail

6am? woah best get some sleep, got work in 3 hours #ou #bastardhardcoursework #caffeinehigh #toooldforthisshit

3GS iOS4 jailbreak with Sn0wbreeze moment of truth…

Urgle! My iphone ihas lost its carrier settings post iOS4 upgrade! Simple fix but can’t go doing it at work. Having no phone is rubbish.

RT @O2: @koralatov Hi – I can confirm that’s wrong – over the 500MB on our new tariffs your data is slowed not charged extra

Oh this can’t be happening! Been up for about 50 hours and now faced with restoring my iPhone from DFU mode?!?!

Back to where I started in the iOS upgrade process 9 hours ago. Time for sortie 2, this time with the correct custom firmware image!

Aww shoot, figured out how to fix my appley woes now but it’ll take another 2 hours to do all the necessary version swapping

Phew, risen from the dead after battles with iPhones and an epic sleep. And my PC has finally died. And I’ve ordered a great new laptop.

.@MikeNolan Get your thieving hands off my @myBreweryTap delivery Nolan Junior!

Considering taking on a Friday lunchtime 5 pint challenge (@ The Railway Tavern‎) http://4sq.com/d3Ybq3

Just been checking out the new iPhone 4 in the @O2 shop, kind of glad that the enhanced screen would be wasted on me due to bad eyesight!

Reeder is out for the iPad and is pretty much everything you’d ever want in an RSS reader + a delightful experience – http://j.mp/aIbdtm

Ok limiting my football related tweets as they’re generally ill informed but should say that Tim Howard’s a quality goalkeeper. #wc2010

Sign of a misplaced youth perhaps, but does anyone else think Copello looks like Eddy Wally from Eurotrash? http://j.mp/bkf2q9

Cordan’s show on ITV tonight is the first time I’ve ever seen Katy Perry. Could have carried on not seeing her for some time to come really

Another birthday full of coursework deadlines and coughing so hard it hurts due to ongoing illness.Ever think your life isn’t going to plan?

Anyone know of a way to autopost instapaper daily digests to your wordpress blog (like delicious scheduled jobs perhaps)?

Phew, on a roll at the moment – new blog post, Build your own iOffice: Part 1 http://bit.ly/a8bcjH

Erm oh dear, it seems that Microsoft and their entourage have literally nothing interesting to say. Bit embarrassing that. #e3

this microsoft #e3 keynote is by far the worst presentation i have ever seen and astonishingly managing to get even worse as it goes on!

OU Results Day today: OMG passed my last exam by 1%, think this is nature’s way of telling me to quit whilst I’m ahead.

The #e3 #Ubisoft conference is unmissable viewing due to the perfect combination of super-acerbic presenter and terrible design concepts

Writing the scrappiest html of my life this afternoon to get a job ad on before the MEN goes to press.

Revenge is sweet – On stage at #e3 raving about Mickey Mouse is Warren Spector’s punishment for ruining the Thief & Deus Ex franchises

lol? Nintendo just brought in 100s of blonde models to hang out with the geeks and demo their new 3DS during their conference #e3

#e3 keynotes are over, Sony wins comfortably by deploying Kevin Butler to tell jokes and the fat guy from Valve to apologise for being rude

RT @BarackObama: The time to embrace a clean energy future is now. Show your support for energy reform: http://j.mp/bQdibs

RT @24dash: Report reveals how UK can become a ‘zero-carbon’ nation by 2030: A massive expansion in offshore wind, a switch to… http:/ …

iPad safari tip, add the bookmark bar via Settings then use these bookmarklets to post to your fave cloud services http://bit.ly/ckdtyn

Desperately tired of my summer-long illness now, even NHS Direct told me I’m a freak! Gearing up for another ‘night of the living phlegm’.

Let’s play Words With Friends on the iPhone! My username is ‘alexnolan’. http://bit.ly/2qbpQ

RT @artinliverpool: Blog Post Africa Oye 2010 This Weekend – Sefton Park http://bit.ly/a6frvB #liverpool #art

The ‘feminist’ software engineer on #newsnight is an awful advocate for equality and a terrible games designer to boot.

RT @osfoora: Celebrating 10 days of being #1 Social App, Osfoora HD just $1.99 >> and it is good, but needs API endpoint / flickr support

Just realised I had a dream last night in which Justin Bieber was dead. If I only knew the first thing about the guy I could be happy/sad.

Who in their right mind would want England to win the world cup if it meant sitting through more uninspired games like this?

Urgh, student flat across the way were hanging out in the middle of the road till 4am, i feel like i haven’t had a wink of sleep

Tour of liverpool art, culture & pubs on radio 4 right now

The Lord Mayor’s Parade is great on nice days like today http://twitpic.com/1u4t4x http://twitpic.com/1u4t47

The various Liverpool based samba bands are so cool http://twitpic.com/1u4ukr http://twitpic.com/1u4ul3

Giant puppetry is a staple of liverpool parades. The best come out at Halloween during the lantern festival http://twitpic.com/1u4wwr

These walking puppets are a new innovation, & more realistic than Miss Liverpool there http://twitpic.com/1u4y6h http://twitpic.com/1u4y6i

More Samba madskillz on Sat 17th July apparently 🙂 http://twitpic.com/1u535u http://twitpic.com/1u536b http://twitpic.com/1u536v

This is the perfect people watching spot in Chavasse Park. Jazz playing in background, not too busy, idyllic. http://twitpic.com/1u5gh6

Are mopeds still illegal to drive in public? There’s a pair of pricks who keep driving round Aigburth / Sefton Park I want to see caught.

Just discovered an extra 12.5 mpg by driving carefully, that’s another 170 miles per tank! Downside: I have to become everything I despise

Think I might make it to Newbury with only one major altercation with a fellow rail passenger. Not bad going!

iPad tvcatchup is brill – really coming along now (and yes that is a screenshot of Fred Dibner) http://yfrog.com/b8bl8j

Osbourne: "is the activity essential to meet government priorities?" Not ours, so I predict massive grant reductions for social housing 🙁

God dammit Carol (our admin lady)! She has booked me on the last train home, will arrive close to midnight. Next time I trust no one.

Dude I went to school with is going balistic at some chick on the phone on the bus.Don’t think he remembers me. Poor guy, sounds exasperated

I’m under a 3GS contract with @O2 till July 7th 2011, do I lose unlimited data after Oct 1st 2010? Upgrade your networks, don’t punish me!

Watching Once Upon a Time in Mexico on Five. Such inventive use of guitar cases – skateboards, flamethrowers and remote bombs ftw!

RT @amcewen: Blogged my take on the problems facing the @bcs (which are only tangentally related to the #bcstransform debate & EGM) http …

What has been a brainwashing cult of @planetjedward has evolved into a sinister Orwellian-Robocop-Minority Report dystopia. Fascinating!

I’m at Bold Street Coffee w/ @mikenolan. http://4sq.com/cgUxJ6

RT @psychemedia: If folk think CILIP are doing it wrong, how about the BCS? http://bit.ly/9tEJMT Are professional societies in need of r …

.@edgehill Tanya’s on radio 4 this morning

Discovered earlier that another Alex Nolan grew up in Maghull, just a mile away from me!

Watching The Junipers with @regularbeat (@ Cavern Pub) http://4sq.com/aQ8mld

Sorry but #doctorwho is terrible this week. The inevitable blinkered positive reviewers are fooling themselves if they say otherwise.

First time I’ve seen #eurovision in years – Graham Norton is surprisingly good when he’s let off t

Crap pressed send, damn ipads – was gonna say let off the leash.

Cool morning with some cloud cover: perfect conditions for the Tunnel 10k race!

Experienced massive #fail during the tunnel 10k earlier when I realised I still haven’t shook this cold off. Poor race time, zero enjoyment.

The Newsy app on the iPad is a fantastic and to my knowledge completely unique take on news reporting. So many great features!

Got the post-run and other miscellaneous blues. Even Picasso didn’t cheer me up earlier. Sadface.

Ack, my adventures with iPad blogging have come to a grinding halt, WordPress app is feature incomplete and web interface unsupported!

RT @webmink: ☞ Open Data Is Not Enough For Transparency: In an unusual move for such a significant news item, the UK government… http: …

New blog post (first proper one in years) on iPad first impressions http://bit.ly/9Bg3Ai

I’m at Novas Contemporary Urban Centre w/ @oddessay @mikenolan @mcknut. http://4sq.com/c8NXkn

Tweeting from an iPad at the #iPadCUC

Have got a lot of respect for all you regular bloggers out there, am finding the ‘getting your facts right’ part takes a lot of time

Overview of / commentry on last night’s #ipadcuc (iPad at the CUC) event http://bit.ly/cd8Nvt

RT @MikeNolan: Maybe @katielips is right and #health sector will be huge for the #ipad: http://j.mp/b23PpC #via:@webcomms

Best thing I’ve seen this week – Scraper bikes! http://j.mp/a5iEFC

Blog post updated with photos from the event #ipadcuc – http://bit.ly/cd8Nvt

RT @runpaintrunrun: I am well and truly fed up with being sick >> Me too

Awesome orange dish haul when fishing for treats at Yo! Sushi http://twitpic.com/1tvm3v

Not the first time we Nolans have been compared to our more famous sisters, but never so graphically – thx @rosiebunny 😉

I’m at The Slaughterhouse w/ @mikenolan. http://4sq.com/c5pOhm

Good end to day after last minute free tickets to Laughterhouse curtesy of @craigrigby‘s missus – excellent competition winning there Jo!!!

I feel dirty reading @rosiebunny‘s live porn tweets on the bus.

.@rosiebunny I would liken the experience to not wearing any underwear

Beloved Edge Hill /
Oh how your lake glistens so /
Our teaching quals rock

Phew that was a long hot day. Settling down with spicy olives to watch #doctorwho

Lovely evening at Otterspool, have come down here to study and drink disgracefully (@ Otterspool Promanade) http://4sq.com/crJhzm

#tweet1000 thx 2 my followers for putting up with my drivel,the scrutiny helps me aspire to be as awesome as you are.Will get there, promise

Second night in a row falling asleep on the sofa, need to keep still for a minute and figure out which bits hurt

Will be out BBQing at Sefton Park later, come say hi if you’re passing.

BBQing right in the middle of Sefton Park. Awesome. (@ Sefton Park) http://4sq.com/cTT1XS

Drunk and full of sun and barbequed treats, now some ice cream to cool down I think!

RT @AppAdvice: Phoenix Wright Presents His Case On The iPhone http://bit.ly/bQi0dU

Phoenix Wright is out on iPhone >> no OBJECTIONs here, it’s the funniest, craziest manga courtroom drama ever made! http://j.mp/bs8MTm

Watched the final Lost. Not sure how they’re going to pick it up from there next season…

I must have missed this RocketBoom scoop last week, good report on the impact of the BP oil disaster http://j.mp/bVUITu

The noisier cars at this Pageant of Power sound like tripods from War of the Worlds! Think the Strand road might need resurfacing soon

Surrounded by people watching this car parade who take passion for cars to a new level. Whatev’. The racing tractor is cool I guess.

Watching Marina & the Diamonds with support ‘Spark’. (@ The Masque) http://4sq.com/brKNEl

Forgot I had to work late tonight, absolutely shattered, 3 weeks into this horrible cold now. I hate that I’m so sickly.

iPad estimated for delivery today *peers out of window longingly*

iPad status has changed to Out for Delivery. This is like counting down to New Year’s Eve!

I can haz 3 hour giant iPhone sync?

Google maps geolocation works just fine on tethered wifi iPad – tracking my bus all the way down park road this morning 🙂

In desperate need of a couple of quiet evenings in, worst sore throat I’ve ever had is taking it’s toll tonight, hurts to breathe!

Gah, bloody viruses have infected my file server. Got 29 gig of files sitting in my quarantine folder. Another long night ahead then.

Narrow escape from virus oblivion at work, caught them when they were minutes from KOing a db! Last time I open the firewall as a favour!

RT @frabcus: iPad good for the partially sighted, one happy user anyway http://blog.programmerslog.com/?p=410

Absconding from the office early this afternoon after a horrible couple of days. Think I’ll pick up lucozade and go to bed to get well again

Chakrabarti needs a vallium. Not sure which injustice she’s railing against today, perhaps the rights of terrorists to bomb? #newsnight

RT @Aiannucci: Cameron announces first cuts. ‘Wasteful and unnecessary’ office of Deputy Prime Minister is to go.

I wanted to go to some stuff @SoundCity tonight but I’m too poorly. Anyone have recommendations for later in the week?

Can any networking geniuses out there tell me if it’s possible to connect a client bridge to an ad-hoc hotspot?

Diane Abbot announces running for labour leader on @r4today, isn’t politics exciting these days!

My avatar’s going on a little summer roadtrip in the run up to #tweet1000, yesterday I was in space, today the garden of eden #slowdayatwork

Some nice bits for climate change & environment in the coalition prog, in exchange, free vote on hunting, lolwut? http://bit.ly/8XmMn2

LCC are trying to get in on the blogging scene with some ‘Cultural Champions’ http://liverpoolculturalchampions.wordpress.com

Tweetdeck have again managed to add a huge number of new features, including foursquare. I can check in from my laptop at last!

Kristina Myles here at Hannah’s Bar is a good singer, another Joss Stone for sure

Just been yelled at cos some email filters held a strongly worded complaint in queue for 3 days and user too lazy to check. Sure, my fault.

RT @carlhaggerty: Just Blogged: What is the future for Public Sector Intranets: #localgov #socitm #intranet http://wp.me/pgA3L-ik