Nicholas Booth Dot Com

• Just mended a little chineese am/fm radio. Hope the rest of the soldering is better than the blob they used used for the aerial wire! #
• Nice bunch of LandyWaves on the way home tonight. It's lovely how much Landy owners love their motors and are so friendly. #
• Just ordered some small kits from Sparkfun, including a metronome one to help Grace's piano playing (and mine too, probably!). #
• This looks like it might be an interesting project (once all the rest are done! and I get a round Tuit). #
• Possies of cyclists all over the place today. Perhaps they are all pilots when the planes are flying normally. #
• Sitting in the cinema waiting for Nanny McPhee to start. #
• No BBQ tonight: Danger lurks. Need to retrieve the jet wash and spray liberally before it may be considered safe to cook on. #

Powered by Twitter Tools

• Wandering around Drusillas zoo #
• Busy day been to Brighton; walked on the pier and spent fortune.Then to Devil's Dyke and now at 6 bells #
• Just home from Birthday Dinner for Mother at the Peking restaurant in Dorking. Very nice meal with pleasant surprise at the end. Well done. #

Powered by Twitter Tools

• Wrestling with poorly documented plugins. Grrr. #
• RT @TelegraphNews Classic Land Rover http://bit.ly/chzixn #
• Spring: Had to dodge about a dozen ducklings racing around in the road by the village pond on my way to work today. #
• Too many blogs – we just ran out of disk space! #
• Fish and chips for supper. #
• Wow! That was the biggest piece of haddock I've ever seen – maybe it was really a great white shark? #
• Daugter has new bicycle. Maybe she'll stay in a good mood for the rest of the day. #
• Making Hot Cross Buns #
• At my sister's house: feels like chaos. Looking forward to trying the HCBs later. #

Powered by Twitter Tools

• Great page with hacks for the Chumby: http://tinyurl.com/35qw7c I should have known I could SSH into it and that it had a web browser! #
• One very persistent problem solved. #
• About to see Dave Gorman at the Dorking Halls. Meal later #
• Been to Brighton this morning to collect an antique radio for the collection. #
• Just acquired two chimney pots for the garden #
• My beard has been plaited #

Powered by Twitter Tools

• About to trot off to a big IT Group mtg so we know what's happening in the company and where IT fits in the future #
• Experimental bread baking in progress. #
• Bread was far too salty. Recipe needs some adjustment. Rest of dough into the bin. Will try again when I can get some more flour. #
• On train to London to visit the good people at New Scientist. #
• Grace requested "eggy bread" for breakfast. Wish granted. #
• Up at 6am today to switch on the oven; bread result was far better this time. Very munchy. #
• Grilled aubergine for lunch http://tinyurl.com/ybwkxte @clareyldavies does have some nice and quick recipies to try. #

Powered by Twitter Tools

• Spent horrible time in Macro after work today; went to try Costco instead – WOW, what a contrast. Well, well, worth the £20 annual fee. #
• Zoneminder (video can system) crashed this PM, not yet sure why. No blue-tit in the nestbox tonight. Probably not directly connected. #
• Bird back in box tonight. Daughter has named him Albert. #
• Using vi to write mail messages. Such an odd feeling!. #
• I'm now listed on the Local Twitter Directory for Dorking, Surrey: http://www.loadedweb.com/twitter/ #
• Seemed to be an unusually high proportion of fathers and children in Dorking this morning (including me!). #
• Back from Grace's Piano Concert. I might have to play at the next one! #
• Daughter being bribed to finish school project by prospect of KFC. Will put up with it if peace returns , even temporarily. Stop homework. #
• Cobwebs obscuring view on external back garden CCTV cam when illuminated by IR. Have to get the ladder & duster out tomorrow to tidy up. #
• My niece came sixth in her Dressage comp today. Well done, Katie. http://twitpic.com/18m4xd Nice rosette for your collection. #

Powered by Twitter Tools

• Looking for a spare SIM for the GSM modem. Where have I put you to keep you safe? #
• Unfortunate 4×4 had skidded on ice and ended up on its side near Gadbook this morning. Happens at the same place everytime. #
• Must have missed the flood at Betchworth – was OK yestrday PM, this morning clear as well, but signs were up and a car abandoned by bridge. #
• Looking for a mini server to take 4 video cam feeds that will output over IP network WITHOUT needing IE to view the streams. #
• Coming to grief with GSM modem and memory of AT commands. #
• Daughter has started sending me SMS messages from SWMBO's mobile "Let's get G a present" and other mystery phrases #
• A blue-tit finally takes up residence in the box on the side of our shed. Still from NestCam: http://twitpic.com/177b0v "Having a snooze". #

Powered by Twitter Tools

• WFH today. Citrix being a bit of a whatsit. Despite that., it's very peaceful and the view more relaxing than south London. #
• O2 to send a new b/b router as existing one has been restarting every few mins. all last night. At least OK now except set at slower speed. #
• Attempting to be diplomatic. #
• Playing with piped gzipping across ssh and running out of space again. #
• "This copy of windows is not genuine" Utter tosh! #
• Managed to get my #Chumby to display the 24hr power graph image from #Pachube every few minutes. #
• Off home now. Hope the river at Betchworth is still flooding the road! #
• Water subsided since this morning so need to wait for more rain #
• Off to look for water. #

Powered by Twitter Tools

• An evening spent swapping video cards & bits between various old PCs so I can end up with something that works well enough for my desk. #
• "A disk may be failing: disk has many bad sectors". Time to stop now. #
• At last, a combination of parts which might be reliable enough to run my new Fedora 12 desktop. #
• Got a call from a Market Research co. who said they were my wife's bank (but would not say which one). 01233648505 Kay Smith who are you? #
• Hundreds of alarms on a major site seems to be a scary false alert! #
• Reading this helps decide what's for supper tonight: http://tinyurl.com/ygd4y5t #
• Well, that's all the stuff for supper prepared and ready to go. Now I deserve a beer from the homebrew calling me from the shed. #

Powered by Twitter Tools

• Chasing paperwork for things people want me to do for them. #
• Looks like more regex fun coming up – this time for estatesgazette.com #
• Minor MySQL panic as replication stopped after a slave restart. Fixed now, so I can go home! #
• I must learn to find out if a problem is actually a genuine problem before trying to fix it especially when reported as such by end users. #
• Just back from spending a very fascinating 45 mins wandering in a chinese supermarket. Wonderful stuff everywhere. Quite hungry now. #
• Bought jasmine tea, lychees and Fortune Cookies (and some for the nursery). Tea and cookies delicious, not tried the lychees yet! #
• IT Architects asking how many of our blogs are brochureware but their definition was a bit wooly. More than I would have guessed. #
• Arduino kit has arrived from oomlout. Very nicely presented indeed. Surprised how small the Arduino itself is. #
• LED attached to Arduino: It blinks (just the way I tell it to!) #
• An opportinity just arose to rescue a damsel in distress. Of course, I took it. #
• Bloke in front of me earlier this evening in Tesco bought £500 of Euro lottery tickets. I hope I win. #

Powered by Twitter Tools