2012-08-13 (Monday)
Links
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Not just shit but dangerous « Chris T-T
This is angry but, yes, unfortunately I agree with pretty much of all of it. We should look at the closing ceremony as epitomising what the opening ceremony, and the brilliant subsequent two weeks, were encouraging us to move away from. (via @blaine)
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Is any of us fit to pick up the Olympic baton? | Snowblog
“I am not alone in detecting a yearning to turn the extraordinary Olympic achievement into an engine for pulling together to deliver Olympic scale achievements with and for the wider Team GB, ourselves no less.” Easier said than done but, yes, this. (via @matlock)
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Warren Ellis » Closing
On the Olympic closing ceremony. Exactly right.
Tweets
@jar0n @tomtaylor I’ve got Internet Enterprise Edition. I don’t know if that’s better than 2007 or not.
@jar0n @tomtaylor Have you got an Internet? I think my one’s out of date and I don’t know how to upgrade it without calling IT.
@alicebartlett I missed that last time, which was a shame. Maybe they should have a schedule and stadium seating?
@mattpointblank Well, the theming tool is lovely... But working out which defaults to override for which elements is a real pain.
I asked about jQuery Mobile a while back… It was really easy and good for a simple webapp of lists/detail pages. Styling was fiddly though.
@simonw Can you turn this into a game where we have to match projection to team member?
I’m going to rewrite ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’ and instead of the magic phrase being “Open Sesame” it will be “Delivery!”
@dorianfm greeting::send(kind=“birthday”, recipient=“dorianfm”)
@dracos Phew, glad it wasn’t more trouble than that. Well done.
"Maybe the crocodile is a witness to lovers knowing each other and then separating, empires being built then falling apart." (Miguel Gomes)
@blaine @tomtaylor @beng (Not that it makes me comfortable enough to have given them money.)
@blaine @tomtaylor @beng Seemed more like paying not donating to me too. But done like this because a soc net needs numbers to be viable.
I was inspired to do ten extra lengths. I'm practically on the podium in Rio.
Liked tweets
"Christ, no, just the *opening* ceremony." - Danny Boyle, for the rest of his life.
Imagine my surprise when I clicked "Show Rulers" and a pantheon of giant hyper-dimensional lizards appeared in front of me