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my half-arsed attempt at blogging
Twitter lists
Oct 28th
As my reader will know, I’m rather fond of lists. For a while, i’ve held back against Twitter Lists, not really seeing the point of them: my current client, Tweetdeck, after all, has categories for me; I rarely use the twitter website, and my pytwerp config/template is easy to grep, if I need to.
But, erm, yeah. I’ve made a start, and given how shit my memory is, I thought I’d explain (to you, and me) how I’ve categorized:
- @adamamyl/foodies — people who write about food. Or like food
- @adamamyl/burners — burners. as in burningman/nowhere/decompressions. fucking hippies
- @adamamyl/uber-kewl-kids — mainly shops/products I really like
- @adamamyl/lawyers — i seem to follow a few of ‘em: let’s put ‘em all together
- @adamamyl/academics — self-explanatory, really
- @adamamyl/public-life — better than “slebs”
- @adamamyl/music-folks — people in the music industry, in one way or another
- @adamamyl/technologists — people who fiddle with tech, new products, that sort of thing
- @adamamyl/mafia — people who (will) run things.
- @adamamyl/web-folks — people involved in web stuff and maybe social media, may include ruby people, as they’re not proper geeks
- @adamamyl/usual-suspects — child-eating, crack-dealing refusniks (hi Stef!) who still won’t give up.
- @adamamyl/politicos — those with political interests/aspirations. can also include current affairs/news
- @adamamyl/representatives — people who’ve been elected, usually
- @adamamyl/geeks — lovely people, really
theme change
Oct 27th
got bored with the previous theme. it was a bit ugly, so, erm, let’s see if this one encourages me to post a bit more…
hah.
thoughts, dear reader?
Oh this gets my goat….
Feb 8th
Catching up on what’s farciacally described as “news” these days, I noticed in a BBC Report this little ‘gem’ (yes, dear reader, that’s sarcasm):
A spokeswoman for Ms Smith said: “The home secretary has always abided fully with Parliament’s clear rules on expenses and has long-standing written approval from the Parliamentary Fees Office for any agreed expenses.
Now, correct me if I’m wrong but the article relates to Jacqui Smith as a CONSTITUENCY MP, not a frikking Cabinet Minister. I find it quite wrong for the spokeswoman to refer to her office, when it’s a matter of legislature, not executive.
Please, please, please, can people get SEPARATION OF POWERS, into their heads. It’s really not that difficult to understand.
gin
Jan 5th
well, it’s been a while since my last post, but on a mailing list recently, a subject close to my heart liver came up: gins (‘amyl.org.uk machines are named after spirits, after all)
So, erm, here are some thoughts:
Whilst I still mainly buy tanq (it’s just so easy to drink, and v. nice), I prefer drinking Miller’s neat, or Old Raj for hair-of-the-dog/breakfast
(seriously: in a high balloon’d wine glass, a couple of inches, swirl, knock back before brushing teeth/going to the khazi).
I’m also rather partial to Blackwood’s — particularly to add a little more to Pimm’s, and other drinks.
If i’m poaching fish, i’ll use blackwoods’ too: it’s not too over-powerful in the taste department.
Afternoon gin: Hendrick’s is quite nice — if you like cucumbery tastes.
Drinking nice gins, however, does encourage me to buy nice tonic-water (fentimans’ or fever tree – stupid fucking javascript URIs.). I’m not really a fan of Schweppes’ tonic: too much sugar for me. I quite like Sainsburys’ & Waitroses’ own brands of tonic; the Sainsbury’s with lime’s quite nice on its own, too.
As for Pimm’s, well, I have been known to make it without a ‘conventional’ mixer: my approach falls along these lines (but is always a case of each top-up will be different):
- ⅓ ‘garden’
- various fruits
- various legume
- sprigs of mint
- a couple of handfulls of ice-cubes
- ⅓ Pimm’s Number 1 cup
- a very generous slug of either
- gin,
- cider,
- beer (ale),
- good quality white wine
– gin & cider sometimes work well together;
If there’s space, fill the rest up with lemonade, and stir well. Allow to fester for a couple of minutes, and serve.
