Archive for January 31st, 2010

My Weekly Twitter Roundup For 2010-01-31

Posted by Alastair in Uncategorized on January 31, 2010

  • On way home from stockport. Weather typically british damp. Still no crazy chinese drivers on road. #
  • Meeting friend for lunch at the lighthouse pub. If you’re on the wirral you’re welcome to come. Al #
  • @CountWhiteberg What wisdom? On buying overpriced style over real specification? I’m buying into supposed reliability. Hope it’s true. in reply to CountWhiteberg #
  • Pub was good. Drank first pint of Guiness back in the Uk and enjoyed it. Nice to see old friends. Though was a little jealous of his car. #
  • Hard Disk tools for reiserfs is taking a long time to recover files. It’s had over 24hrs and reading at >20%. Impatient for it to finish. #
  • @CountWhiteberg I do assume you were talking about my MacBook purchase and not the fact that I’m #GettingEngaged in reply to CountWhiteberg #
  • @steven_j_king Reliable long lasting alternatives to MacBook? in reply to steven_j_king #
  • New Podcast: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24 – Finally have fast native access to twitter after 26hrs of trav… http://ow.ly/16pRuo #
  • Gearing up to follow live (coverage) tweeting from the fast approaching apple press conference. Here comes the iPad. #
  • I’m such a geek. I’m getting all excited by the apple conference. #
  • rt @ischafer These Apple events are the closest thing our generation has to a World’s Fair. #
  • @1rick you’re staying up for the “State of the union” :P I wonder if this is a ploy by #apple in reply to 1rick #
  • Frantic Steve Jobs Stays Up All Night Designing Apple Tablet – the onion: http://ow.ly/111Y1 #
  • RT @mashable 5 Apple Hits and 5 Misses: Which Will the Tablet Be? http://bit.ly/9JPcbm #
  • getting really excited now. viewing both the engaget and http://live.gdgt.com coverage #
  • arstechnica down for me, obviously too much traffic for the apple event #
  • @sampsonian http://live.gdgt.com/2010/01/27/live-apple-come-see-our-latest-creation-tablet-event-coverage/ in reply to sampsonian #
  • watching http://www.ustream.tv/channel/apple-tablet-event video awful but audio clear. #
  • just made edit to wikipedia adding the iPad to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gameloft french developers mentioned in the speech. #
  • http://live.gdgt.com/2010/01/27/live-apple-come-see-our-latest-creation-tablet-event-coverage/ proving to be the most reliable service. #
  • Now I’m in two minds. I was thinking to buy an iPhone. if the ipad ran skype and had an inbuilt microphone, there’s really no need. #
  • @clementyeung #Flash ending due to Google and HTML 5 in reply to clementyeung #
  • @AlexBowman “Like your analysis” very specific and informative tweet there. :-P I’ll keep it in mind! in reply to AlexBowman #
  • Just set up mum’s phone with twitter. Poss Convenient method of communication for future messages. #
  • I’m getting married to @rgmu11 but have been away from her for 2 weeks. Miss her company. #
  • Really wish i’d setup some sms updates for twitter. Too dark to read book. No laptop. Bored with psp games. #
  • Approaching carlisle, getting off the motorway to have/get dinner at tesco. #
  • Listening to the news quizz on radio 4, eating sandwiches with bottled drinks, while on way to scotland. Feel at home. #
  • 21.30 ETA. Clear scotland skies overhead. Moon bright over head. This certainly isn’t inner city dalian. #
  • Using nokia browser to read twitter updates. So slow It’s painful. Something to do though. #
  • @alexbowman weather how you remember. Bad exchange rate means things are more expensive. Nice to be back. Feeling more at home. How’re you? #
  • Arrived safely in paternal grandparents house. About to tell them about getting engaged. #
  • Grand parents told. :relief: returning to watching very large and jealousy inspiring tv. News of tony blair on. #
  • @alexbowman I’m in Scotland at the moment. Use of computers is limited. GTalk when I’m back down south. #
  • Sitting with Paternal Grandfather while parents and Grandmother out shopping. Hoping to see other grandparents this afternoon. #
  • laminating some photos of china to show grandparents. #

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