2008

Aug

(facebook) Terry wonders why he can’t just go back to bed.

Ooh new photocopier!

Lunchbreak. In Waterstones, skimming through Richard Scarry and Gilbert & George.

(facebook) Terry is flickring.

(facebook) Terry hit every red light this morning, driving in. An omen?

(facebook) Terry is flickring.

A bridge too Ha!

Friends of the Park

Art cheeks: As previously seen here.

Would the real one please step forward

One I did for Vicki

Look no stabilisers!

Trying to improve these really clumsy online enrolment and fee payment screens before going live...

And here we are, a day trip to Wentworth Castle. Let’s hope it stays dry this time!...

(facebook) Terry enjoyed reminiscing (sp?) with Mulder and Scully this evening.

At the Odeon, getting popcorn with the missus, ready for X Files. Should be good!

(facebook) Terry is home, and feels like he deserves his weekend off.

Leeds Festival next week. Certain to knack up my commute. <middle-aged grump>

A64 between York and Leeds v sluggish.

Using my iphone’s YouTube to try to explain to my 6yo who Monkey really was.

(facebook) Terry is knackered after driving to Kettlewell and back, for the Scarecrow Festival.

So is it going to stay dry today? We’re off to the Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival. It was a bit...

Driving home with Captain Beefheart, wishing @fayroberts and @if0x a data-trouble-free weekend.

Right. A spot of lunch and a walk round the block whilst the sun’s out.

Coffee #2 and having a quick skim of this month’s AUA Perspectives mag. David Eastwood waxes...

Anyway, hope everyone in HEI land has had a good start to clearing. Ours was … ok I guess?

Morning everyone. Can’t stop sneezing this morning. No headaches though, so that’s...

Needed to get out of the office. Repaired to Starbucks for americano and caramel waffle....

Driving home after a long, difficult day, listening to Kraftwerk really roll their robot Rs.

Back in the office, after buying some Kraftwerk and Captain Beefheart. Feeling marginally better....

Feeling a little more human, thanks in part to coffee and today’s Dinosaur Comic. I think...

The headache I woke up with this morning still obtains. Bah!

Caught every red light going this morning. Slug. Ish.

More updates to the primary school website I look after.

My iPhone’s battery is running down - so is my own. Our 2yo kept us up pretty much the whole...

Lunch over. Need to crack on with a million little tasks this afternoon.

Thunder. Oh good. Should make for another pleasant drive down the A64.

Any iPhone apps out there that can tell me what’s showing when at local cinemas or...

Wouldya look at the rain. It is August, right?

A wet, miserable, grotty drive to work this morning made slightly better by listening to a...

(facebook) Terry has been updating the primary school website he looks after, but has now got pins...

I have an empty e-mail inbox! I have a very full ‘For Action’ folder :(

Gmail Outage or: How I Learned to Stop...

Generational Theater

I’m having an...

Still attempting to get on top of my e-mail mountain. 100 or so to go.

(facebook) Terry is now back in the office, after his 2 week break. Bah! Coffee needed before e-mail...

(facebook) Terry now thinks that Andrew Marr is spying on him from his helicopter.

Pains me to say it, but my little summer hol has all but ended. Tomorrow = back to the grindstone.

Downpour! We’re all very wet here at the maze. Just a shower though - the theme for the...

Can’t believe we actually had to resort to cheating at the maze. We got out after making our...

At the York Maize Maze. Nice to see it quite busy, with lots more to do this year.

#Favorited josiefraser: Chris Helm came up with the Love Buttons as the kid friendly euphemism f.....

(facebook) Terry is running out of holiday. Monday is creeping towards him like sea fog across the...

Well that’s the dent taken care of, just about. Appalling weather to be messing about with...

Playing at being mechanics, trying to get rid of this here dent in the missus’s car.

(facebook) Terry is tired.

This iPhone keeps finding someone’s unprotected wifi. Is there any way of finding out whose?

We’re here in screen 7, waiting for Wall-E. It’s almost empt-E.

Right, setting off with the troops to see Wall-e in a bit. Do I need to bring a book or something?

Dresden Drainpipes

(facebook) Terry is taking the kids to see Wall-e this evening.

In a shoe shop, looking at lots of right feet.

Another Big Horse

Rubber Tyre Tree

And he’s off!

What’s he on about?

And of course it’s raining: Hoods up, everyone!

Standing there next to the cill marker

Locks and gates

Along the canal

Rd Kitchin Warrington

Highest, longest, deepest: Didn’t care for it, I have...

Sun dial: Just about 3 o’clock

Three ice-creams

Moor, sheep, kids, clouds

Still prefer Twittelator to Hahlo, Twinkle and Twitterrific et al. Wonder how many iPhoners use SMS...

(facebook) Terry is enjoying an ice cream and looking forward to more ibuprofen later.

Right. I’m going in.

Using Shozu to update Twitter now. All I want really is a way to get @replies as text messages on my...

(facebook) Terry is starting to get a little anxious about this afternoon’s vasectomy op....

Making Time to Make: Bad Correspondence

Listening to James Brown. Yeah!

(facebook) Terry is playing with Shozu. Or is it Shuzo?

Straight edge - Wikipedia, the free...

Off to take the poorly car to the menders. Damn thing won’t stop beeping.

Don’t know what the hell I’ve done to my knee, but it hurts like crap this morning.

(facebook) Terry will shortly be off for a wander round Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Let’s hope...

Making Time to Make: Bad Correspondence

Back from another run round the park, trying to keep up with the boy and his bike. He’s fast....

Adam Curtis: "The Rise and Fall of the...

Going through my Twitter friends and unfollowing those I don’t really know. Wish there was...

Is Workin’ 9 to 5 a Bad Thing?

Bruce Sterling’s Sharp Warning, 8 years...

Sat waiting for Batman to start, drinking some really rubbish coffee. Bag of Revels are nice...

Playing with Twittervision on my iphone before I go out to watch dark night tonight.

(facebook) Terry has a new kitchen blind to put up. Can’t be too difficult, right?

Garden centre café. Coffee. Rain.

A nice cup of tea and The Big Lebowski on the video = me and the missus sorted for the evening.

(facebook) Terry is back from a stroll round Ilkley Moor.

Sunday morning, back from a damp walk/clamber round the Cow and Calf rocks. Kettle on now, I think.

Enjoying a coffee in the twee gift shop near Standedge Tunnel, the longest canal tunnel in Britain.

(facebook) Terry finds himself in Marsden, near Huddersfield, on a ‘family day out’ .

(facebook) Terry has finished (with) the kitchen. DIY jobs all done now, he hopes.

Playing with this iPhone is all well and good, but I’m spending less and less time on my pc,...

Watching Brainiacs on Sky Three, with Vic Reeves and Jon Tickle. What the hell?

In ToysRUs, looking at transformers with the kids. Cool!

Jul

The rain is so LOUD!

So that’s the kitchen painted. But oh no! The wrong shade of white! Quick - back to Homebase!

Following yesterday’s success in the garden, DIY job #2 today - painting the kitchen.

Just spent a very chilled out hour with my iPhone and some big beat, clearing out my work e-mail....

(facebook) Terry has spent the afternoon reconnecting with his garden, and all is well. .

Getting ready to attack the garden. I need to reinstate my borders.

Sitting in Sainsburys cafe, after another (rainy) bike ride in the park.

#Favorited bbcnews: Five ways to beat the office grind and think more clearly http://tinyurl.com.....

Back from the park - the boy’s first wobbly bike ride sans stabilisers. A success!

FullBodyFilms Protection Pack for iPhone 3G |...

This Is Another Test

Hello? Yes, another test. Posted with LifeCast

Ok, that I’ve managed to get through that fine. Home straight now.

(facebook) Terry wants to go now please .

Fixed smile starting to tire now…

The cling film has come off the plate of cheese-on-stick things. Yes it’s that kind of...

Hmm. Standing outside a party that’s slow to start, thinking that perhaps this wasn’t a...

(facebook) Terry is in Hemel Hempstead, for his sins, waiting.

(facebook) Terry still can’t make up his mind about how best to use Twitter on his iphone.

Counting down the minutes now. I told myself I’d finish off by clearing down all my filing....

Ok last meeting before I break up for 2 weeks; the implications for our institution of getting into...

Just used my iphone to text person A the mobile number of person B. Copy-and-paste would have been...

I had to look up the number, write it down - with a pen! - and copy that into a text.

Listening to the end of Mr Bragg’s Tacitus podcast. But now to work, alas.

A slighty later start this morning, my last day for 2 weeks. Lots still to do though.

#Favorited tomstuart: “Try alternating between steady strokes and occasional monster...

Reading stuff on Twitter. Actually on the Twitter website. Makes a change.

(facebook) Terry is raising a toast to newly absent friends.

Lunchbreak. Park bench, overlooking a bowling green. It’s chock full of old biddies, bowling,...

Playing with Twinkle on my iphone. So many apps, so much time.

Enjoying a little stroll round the block, to try and clear my thoughts.

Hometime. 2 more days before I’m off for 2 weeks - still so much to do!

(facebook) Terry is feeling o l d.

Nobody seemed to be in a hurry on the A64 this morning - we’re all just dawdling along,...

The beginnings of a walkway

Walking home from school

Poor Thomas and his ‘chicken spots’