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  1. Today I heard the phrase "dual heritage" for the first time. Er, what? Like, does "Angle" and "Saxon" count?
  2. Pah.. apparently a week is long enough to forget how to type. #fumblyfingers
  3. Facing 412 unread work emails after a week off. Going to make a big pot of coffee as displacement activity.
  4. being hot. Not in the Buffy-the-Vampire-Slayer sense neither.
  5. @aral you know you're a Dad when... you enjoy terrible puns :-)
  6. @alexandtheweb thanks :-) that's a lotta daddies!
  7. Had a lovely farters day thanks to @laurakfrancis and Lois. Music, outside, with beer and Chimichanga - what more could I ask for?
  8. Hot and tired in the CREATE centre for sprint planning. Lois kept us awake most of the weekend. Never mind, she's cute.
  9. Bristol & Bath Perl Mongers tech. meet went down successfully, as did my talk on Automated Testing Patterns in Perl. Thanks @pmh et al
  10. Finishing off my presentation for this afternoon's Perlmongers tech meet - 1-6pm at Hamilton House, Bristol
  11. sighing contentedly
  12. @andrewsproperty I suggest if you're going to use the web to communicate, you learn to use English first
  13. wtf diy.com (B+Q) product search is completely mental.. "cork board" finds me 19 products, most of which are tap connector hoses...
  14. @oliverhumpage thanks :-)
  15. @alanb sounds like API may be in the works but would probably be commercial; your best bet probably is the published text files
  16. @alanb oh. I'll see what I can find out
  17. @mintsauce ta
  18. @alanb not perfect, but you can get data files at http://www.imdb.com/interfaces ; there are also screen scrapers for some languages
  19. Wondering how soon this page will be updated to tell us why we just got a taste of the police state: http://bit.ly/Xuv8x
  20. ... http://bit.ly/18XnEZ