blogitech from Chris Maddern

What I’ve been tweeting this week

Chris Maddern — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Is it just me or is iTunes actually getting better – I've been using it for the last half an hour, and I feel 'okay' – odd! #
Must read article for iPhone Application Developers – I think I'll have to go and do this for my Apps!! http://bit.ly/2OkXpA #
Just paid my first Council Tax bill :( lol #
Windows 7 + Google Chrome have made my MacBook Air usable in Windows again :D #
Just stayed in The Intercontinental – The Barclay in NY. They have free WiFi! They forget to mention that it's only in the Lobby! #
Dropped my iPhone – :( – Called O2 insurance – new iPhone on its way to the US :D. Thanks @O2 #
@CeliaSurtees Yeah – I thought that too! Also, great lobby. (and wine :p) in reply to CeliaSurtees #
@m_leigh_g It's okay to feel like a girl – you are a girl :p in reply to m_leigh_g #
Lots of posts on Twitter about being 'boss free' – I can give you a quick guide to being 'boss free', but I'm not sure you'll like it! #
Go-Live cut-over begins in 30 minutes… here goes! :) #
Coolbook Controller just said that my MacBook Air was running at 105 Celsius! Not good! #
Hmm… was just chip-leader on a table at fulltiltpoker. Then I got booted off by a bad connection and couldn't get back in. Glad not for $! #
Haha.. there's a user 'NULL' – Nancy Ullisys, First letter of first name, first three of last. #
Google; someone is working on something vaguely related to your business in a closet over there! Quick, buy them! #
Okay that's a terrible idea… you have to click the 'reply' button on the iPad to save images from an email! Weird. http://bit.ly/aYkG2e #
Who is Ali Fedotowsky ? #
@celiasurtees lol -yeah. I knew that. What I was wondering is that everyone says she left the bachelor due to her job @ FB; what did she do? #
Mmm… fruit. Still at work. #
Okay.. why on earth is Stargate Atlantis on Hulu sponsored by a Vaginal Ring product?!?! #
Claimed on @O2 iPhone insurance on Tuesday – it's now Saturday and my iPhone is in a depot in Manchester, UK; I'm in Stamford, CT :( :( #
I've never had an app make me uncomfortable for privacy reasons before – Raportive for gmail makes me very uncomfortable. Great though! #
@JeffreyHayzlett Is it not more worrying that you got into the back stage area at all than good that you were eventually asked to leave :p in reply to JeffreyHayzlett #

What I’ve been tweeting this week

Chris Maddern — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Three days until supposed iPad pre-order day :) (p.s. Apple – 3.1.3 should have had 2 changes; also add iPad to the dictionary please!) #
CodeOrgan seems to think this is what my page sounds like… http://www.codeorgan.com/?url=www.blogitech.co.uk #codeorgan #
Just fixed the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Open_proxies page on Wikipedia from a malicious edit… fun! #
Happy Birthday #stevejobs ! #
Turns out a quarter lodged underneath the 'B' and 'M' keys holding down the 'N' key perfectly simulates Win2000's missing 'No to all'.. :) #
@exsecrari God-damn. Wish I knew that earlier!!! Thanks exsecrari in reply to exsecrari #
Interesting.. shorting the bottom of a USB port with a knife resets every computer I've tried… :p #
"Buffalo Dualie Hard Drive + iPhone Dock" – Proof that sometimes two things are okay, as two individual things. http://bit.ly/doFBH4 #
@brlittle @findingnewo – Unfortunately, yes seriously – and I got scare that I had 'shafted' a motherboard – all's well that ends well tho #
Does anyone else find it ironic how many real estate advisers (the most physical thing) are on twitter (the least physical thing) #
@countrystar13 How is the marriage proposal working out for you? #
You never get paid as much as you think you may – damn tax :p #
Does anybody else find it suspicious that it was a J Cash (friend of Jobs') song that was 10,000,000,000th, not Lady GaGa etc..? #
Err… how the heck are we at Google Chrome 5 – wasn't 1.0 just released!??! http://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-503350-beta #
Lol… 777 tweets. Okay… 778 now :( My last tweet feels like such a waste now :( #
Brittish people in New York seem a lot less charming when everyone else in the damn bar is brittish; moving on… :p #
Okay… Beginning to doubt the 'randomness' of the iPhone shuffle. Makes me think… What does the 3G S use for entropy in crypto…? #

What I’ve been tweeting this week

Chris Maddern — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Three days until supposed iPad pre-order day :) (p.s. Apple – 3.1.3 should have had 2 changes; also add iPad to the dictionary please!) #
CodeOrgan seems to think this is what my page sounds like… http://www.codeorgan.com/?url=www.blogitech.co.uk #codeorgan #
Just fixed the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Open_proxies page on Wikipedia from a malicious edit… fun! #
Happy Birthday #stevejobs ! #
Turns out a quarter lodged underneath the 'B' and 'M' keys holding down the 'N' key perfectly simulates Win2000's missing 'No to all'.. :) #
@exsecrari God-damn. Wish I knew that earlier!!! Thanks exsecrari in reply to exsecrari #
Interesting.. shorting the bottom of a USB port with a knife resets every computer I've tried… :p #
"Buffalo Dualie Hard Drive + iPhone Dock" – Proof that sometimes two things are okay, as two individual things. http://bit.ly/doFBH4 #
@brlittle @findingnewo – Unfortunately, yes seriously – and I got scare that I had 'shafted' a motherboard – all's well that ends well tho #
Does anyone else find it ironic how many real estate advisers (the most physical thing) are on twitter (the least physical thing) #
@countrystar13 How is the marriage proposal working out for you? #
You never get paid as much as you think you may – damn tax :p #
Does anybody else find it suspicious that it was a J Cash (friend of Jobs') song that was 10,000,000,000th, not Lady GaGa etc..? #
Err… how the heck are we at Google Chrome 5 – wasn't 1.0 just released!??! http://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-503350-beta #
Lol… 777 tweets. Okay… 778 now :( My last tweet feels like such a waste now :( #
Brittish people in New York seem a lot less charming when everyone else in the damn bar is brittish; moving on… :p #
Okay… Beginning to doubt the 'randomness' of the iPhone shuffle. Makes me think… What does the 3G S use for entropy in crypto…? #

What I’ve been tweeting this week

Chris Maddern — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Create a mailto link without giving your email address to spam-bots: http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/ #
Dear Microsoft, Its great that you've made a UI not everyone hates; it doesn't mean the Zune/WP7 UI belongs everywhere http://bit.ly/cscGG3 #

What I’ve been tweeting this week

Chris Maddern — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Hmmm… AT&T GoPhone with UK iPhone and they just enabled 3G on my account. Yay! Shhh…! #
Do you ever send yourself an email and then get excited when you see (1) next to your inbox…? Sheesh…! #
Google show what they think Chrome's 'incognito' is used for – searching for 'Wedding Rings' http://tinyurl.com/yf3jkuy #

Average Exchange Rate between dates – PHP

Chris Maddern — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:46:42 +0000

I’ve written a script to solve a problem that I’ve been having recently; when calculating expenses while working abroad, I never know what exactly to use as the exchange rate – on the day of submission, at the beginning? etc…

I’ve settled on calculating the average exchange rate between the date the claim began, and it ends. To make this easier I’ve created a PHP page that calculates this given a start and end date.

You can find it over at http://www.chrismaddern.com/currency

Currently it works only with USD -> GBP, however the API has data for about a dozen currencies so I’ll implement more in the next few days.

Bug reports etc… in the comments.

Chris

What I’ve been tweeting this week

Chris Maddern — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Just read the mag-card on my Hotel room key. I see my name :s – and a lot of digits; suspiciously credit-card-looking!! #
Eep… Glad I'm not the McGraw-hill CEO right now – hope he isn't putting too many eggs in the tablet basket… Apple revenge perhaps…? #
Just heard somebody correct another person when they said 'rss' – no, it's said 'rs2'. Lol #
@thom_white Im inclined to agree that the tablet leak may have been in some way allowed. Seems too blatant to go publicly unpunished though! in reply to thom_white #
I hope that everybody has found a suitable place to sit… #apple #tablet #
I think it's great that the upas has back-compat to iPhone apps but looking at facebook iPhone on a 10" screen – no thanks. Devs – to work! #
Why..why..why… doesn't the iPad have a front-facing camera! Great… a $299 Eee PC can vid conference, but the iPad can't :(““““ #
The Wall Street Journal "A note about tracking cookies" banner – ironically only shown on the first visit by the use of tracking cookies..:p #
Argh.. .I have toilet water on me from trying to retreive my hotel key card from the toilet! :( #
I think OS 4.0 may be to the iPad what OS 2.0 was for the iPhone, however they didn't want to out the new OS with the tablet… Thoughts? #

What I’ve been tweeting this week

Chris Maddern — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Requesting an invite for Tweetboard Alpha (http://tweetboard.com) by @140ware, for my site: http://www.chrismaddern.com #
How many people use mobile passport-sized hard drives? What do you do for data-security? Is a TrueCrypt partition going to be annoying? #
Hmm… my GV Mobile Google Voice App has stopped working. voice.google.com works fine though.. :( AT&T ? #
Loving Google Docs. I just used it on a machine with Microsoft Word installed because I wanted someone else to be able to edit quickly. Yay. #
We always see huge speculation in the run-up to Apple events, never so many rumours wrapped as facts. The word is speculation people.use it. #
Create and compile applications in C#, VB or Java online with an IDE at http://www.compilr.com/ – looks pretty interesting! #
My boss just sang happy birthday to me :D #fb #
Okay.. the Tesla S Sudan looks HOT – http://tinyurl.com/yzycsjf. Like an electric Aston Martin :D #
@msantonia Thanks! :D @angineer82 Yes – he is :D #

What I’ve been tweeting this week

Chris Maddern — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Apple tablet all but official! Yay! http://bit.ly/5FLsg2 #
New shoes + nylon carpet = owww! #
CES Keynote from MS – seems to be saying 'Exclusively First' a lot – it's either exclusively, OR first. Sheesh! #
At work and remembered I'd forgotten to buy 2 things. One on ebay, one on Amazon. 2 mins 43 seconds later – done. Love 2010 :D #

What I’ve been tweeting this week

Chris Maddern — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Just played with a Microsoft Surface! Very cool, however actual usefulness; not sure! #
Is Twitter getting better or worse…? For you? #
Interesting to see peoples responses to how is Twitter doing. I'm finding that it's harder work now than ever to keep it useful… #
@ktdv1 haha – yeah, I've had some similar experiences trying to ship Xmas gifts to the uk. I decided against it in the end. in reply to ktdv1 #
RT @starbucks @chrispirillo Coffee. – lol #
Happy New Years everyone! #