Our Personal Reality
Mark and Andrew's World
TweetDeck the Memory Hog
Feb 1st
TweetDeck the memory hog
TweetDeck, a simple twitter client based off of Adobe Air manages to gorge itself on over 200MB of memory, and have a VRAM footprint of over a gig? What the hell is up with this? Are all Adobe Air applications this much of a pig?
What really gets me is that my nightly build of Firefox (Called Minefield) comes in a respectable second in footprint with 25% less memory usage.
I’m floored, yet this explains why TweetDeck frequently becomes unresponsive with the Spinning Beach Ball of Doom!
Gloucester Docks
Jan 25th
Last week I visited Gloucester for a job interview… here are some of the pics
Gloucester Docks a prospective workplace
More Gloucester docks
Imagine this full of huge merchant vessels
Number Two
Jan 24th
I came across this at a local restaurant on the way to work on December 15th, 2008 and felt obliged to take a picture. I hope everyone knows why.
Slickity Jim's Special Sign
This Personal Reality of ours…
Jan 24th
While Andrew spent his time merging our blogs I spent my time working out how many votes the UK political parties would get based purely on twitter followers. Suffice to say it wasnt a happy outcome. But this blog is! Welcome to our joint world of crazyness coming at you sometimes from both sides of the pond, sometimes from just one.
Nokia’s Calling
Dec 15th
Seemingly my tiny knowledge of the Finnish language has finally paid off with an In to Nokia’s Business Systems team.. Though the manager’s English… I don’t quite get it.. But Whatev’s Fingers crossed, they like what I can give them.
How to create a militant pedestrian
May 11th
Dear Taxi Drivers,
It has come to my attention you are not used to militant pedestrians; to replicate said militant pedestrianism on your own time please follow the following steps.
- Notice the pedestrian at a pedestrian crosswalk demarcated by signs, the hatched crosswalk, and its presence at an obvious intersection.
- Have said pedestrian possess ghetto pizza, and of the kind that is not of their typical choice.
- Continue at full speed, notably above the posted speed limit, and cut the pedestrian off, knowing full well said pedestrian has the right of way at any such crosswalk.
- Have the pedestrian throw their pizza onto the taxi’s windshield as the taxi speeds by.
It is understandable that vigilantism within certain circumstances is frowned upon, yet in this particular instance there was no other method of expressing displeasure at, or noting the infraction in any meaningful way, the taxi driver’s inability to heed to pedestrian right of way. The taxi’s number or company could not be descerned at 70 kilometres per hour; the police, if called, would place any such report on their nuisance call list; and regardless of the outcome of any complaint to be made, the taxi driver would miss the immediate consequence to their inability to heed traffic law.
Thus: pizza on windshield of taxi.