#techmesh 'hardware is the reality check for your software' - erlang guy joe armstrong

OH @nickstenning "what the *$%@ is wrong with your vi?" @philandstuff "its emacs"

Great comment from my Gran on the Harlem Shake earlier: 'It's not as good as Gangnam Style'. Experience knows.

Opinion: Bedford is a paradigm of the wasted and absurd in Mankind and contemporary culture. It is a dump. #bedford

Oracle provide hodgepodge of expensive, outdated tools assembled through acquisitions, as an “integrated solution” http://t.co/z5wIAc1d

@gds_badger @samjsharpe @philandstuff @nickstenning "fixing the #!/sh out of things"? @dancarley @rjw1

"only use this site if you are in 2003".  http://www.dwp.gov.uk/eservice/need.asp … crazy browser and operating system requirements for DWP pension website.

Hint of spring in the air

great chart showing impact of mobile and different business models of some of the big players in IT industry  http://read.bi/Xwl7cu 

How can the best restaurant in town be Pizza Express? #bedford

slightly concerned to learn that the google chromium web browser bins out if it can't connect to google sync.

Great talk by 'webscale' guy on skepticism and teleology in iterative software development #techmesh #webscale

At Russell Hotel for #techmesh. Great baroque interiors, horrible dingy carpets.

seems like then powercuts on the east coast of the US are impacting on the Internet  http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm 

Being at London Bridge railway station during rush hour is like Dunkirk scene in Atonement

#r4today stop interrupting john humphries! vince cable is saying some interesting things if you stopped talking over him!

RBS is one of the most irresponsible organisations in the UK

really enjoyed @edwingumbley talk on the "lost railway" between old hill and Northfield yesterday. really evocative of a forgotten world.

http://t.co/hdbeXpOs of interest - article about wittgenstein, heidegger and whether they were both philosophical skeptics

not impressed with #swtor- ages to install, credit card needed to login, had to call support to unlock account now servers are down!