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Dave_Child

  1. Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput! about 23 hours ago via web
  2. WARNING - you might have too much money! Give some away quick! http://www.justgiving.com/dave-child/ 5:08 AM Aug 31st via web
  3. Made Tres Leches - Milk Cake - for friends last night. Odd thing, making a cake and pouring a litre of milk into it. Turned out tasty ... 1:28 AM Aug 31st via web
  4. Live webcam of where I'm going in Mallorca: http://pirate.open.ac.uk/data/webcams_cam2.html :) 8:57 AM Aug 28th via web
  5. Flights and hotel for Mallorca sorted ... woohoo! Off to the Astronomic Observatory of Mallorca in two weeks :) 8:18 AM Aug 28th via web
  6. Dear SQL Server. Fuck you. Sincerely, Dave. 8:53 AM Aug 27th via web
  7. Woohoo, new squash racket and new squash shoes turned up today. Going to make my match tonight interesting :) 3:58 AM Aug 26th via web
  8. Magic beans! The day is going rather too fast now ... http://yfrog.com/nc7s9j 8:43 AM Aug 24th via Twitter for iPhone
  9. Great quote: "I just need to make it to 34 and I've beaten Jesus at living". 1:54 PM Aug 21st via Twitter for iPhone
  10. Are you burdened with too much money? Sponsor me on the London to Brighton Midnight Bike Ride! http://www.justgiving.com/dave-child/ 7:10 AM Aug 20th via web
  11. Three hours work down the pan. Dammit. Must have landed on a snake ... 8:11 AM Aug 19th via web
  12. This is ... this is ... umm ... awesome? Terrifying? No, definitely awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNUTYHJrutw 11:32 PM Aug 17th via web
  13. A change from form validation today ... I actually get to use the Spherical Law of Cosines in my work :) 8:12 AM Aug 17th via web
  14. Awesome app from Martin Owens allows you to mount your Google Docs as a drive in Ubuntu. Awesome! http://tinyurl.com/39pn8pl 2:59 AM Aug 13th via web
  15. Nice morning for a bike ride. Although maybe a bit early. http://yfrog.com/j9vdfwj 10:14 PM Aug 12th via Twitter for iPhone
  16. If you said 99 pounds ... no potato for you! If you said 50 pounds, you win teh smarts. (Potato trivia courtesy of Futility Closet.) 4:11 AM Aug 12th via web
  17. You have 100 pounds of potatoes, 99 percent water by weight. Dehydrate until they're 98 percent water. How much do they weigh now? 3:59 AM Aug 12th via web
  18. Loving the Chillout station from http://di.fm - similar to soma.fm, great background music for developing. 4:30 AM Aug 11th via web
  19. Meh. http://www.pubnub.com/blog/facebook-meh-button 4:23 AM Aug 11th via web