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NeilRobbins

  1. By my reckoning, (using TomTom & brussels-belgium-travel-guide.com/brusselstaxi.h…) my ride should be under €50. Let's see what he asks for when I get there. about 19 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone
  2. @ashic thankfully not :) about 19 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone in reply to ashic
  3. Doing my best in French to convince a taxi driver that he's added 30% to the length of a journey. TomTom & WolframAlpha on iPhone help. about 19 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone
  4. @kellabyte reminds me of when Werner Vogels said something like 'consistency is great, people only give it up when they have to' about 19 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone in reply to kellabyte
  5. It seems that in Brussels, according to the 'be Manos' hotel, this an 'executive city view' twitter.com/NeilRobbins/st… about 19 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone
  6. @alibaabaa back to Belgium for a couple of days 12:21 PM May 30th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to alibaabaa
  7. Listening to Grieg & doing some reading whilst the Eurostar rolls through the green arable land of the pas de Calais. 12:07 PM May 30th via Twitter for iPhone
  8. @davidjteague Yep, we'd have loved him to be our manager in the early 90's ;) 8:41 AM May 30th via web in reply to davidjteague
  9. @davidjteague Well he can't do any worse than 'King' Kenny? 8:37 AM May 30th via web in reply to davidjteague
  10. An interesting sigmod paper on #nodb (working directly with the raw files rather than using a dbms) dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?i… 8:24 AM May 30th via web
  11. Kelly doing a good impression of a much prettier, straighter, 'Long distance Clara' in our rented 20m3 truck twitter.com/NeilRobbins/st… 10:09 AM May 26th via Twitter for iPhone
  12. @hhariri indeed, let's see OSS match that! 8:38 AM May 26th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to hhariri
  13. Cant find Allen keys anywhere to take a bed to pieces. Then I find my freebie MSDN toolkit. Thank you #NxtGenUG swag. twitter.com/NeilRobbins/st… 1:48 AM May 26th via Twitter for iPhone
  14. @Grumpydev @chriscanal you're clearly the same person 7:44 AM May 25th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to Grumpydev
  15. @md_oppenheimer Looking forward to being in a country that takes capitalism seriously. 7:43 AM May 25th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to md_oppenheimer
  16. @md_oppenheimer he just left without buying. Now the assistant went on a break. Argh! 7:42 AM May 25th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to md_oppenheimer
  17. @yreynhout wouldn't be so bad, but I only have to return my equipment, load a van with lots of stuff and then drive to London & unpack. 7:38 AM May 25th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to yreynhout
  18. Someone in this Belgacom shop has spent >45 mins discussing every handset on the walls. Is a fucking journalist or a fucking idiot? 7:36 AM May 25th via Twitter for iPhone
  19. Waiting for service in a Belgacom shop. I'm sure that some of the prospective 'customers' in here are just time wasters. Been there ages :( 7:21 AM May 25th via Twitter for iPhone
  20. @davybrion I'll be back and forth still, but I've been in London during the week mostly for a while now. 5:42 AM May 25th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to davybrion