What I've been up to by Text today

My daily digest of texts, tweets and status updates.

• 10:12 is wondering what colour the sky is where Mad Nad is from. She sounds so rational on the Radio until you pay attention to the words :-( #
• 20:52 is delivering leaflets with a 4 year old. She's much better than me. #

ETA: Nadine Dorries, referred to as "Mad Nad" was on Woman's Hour discussing abortion law. She was being as economical with the truth as she normally is on such things.

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Microblogging using LoudTwitter and Twitter. matgb_twitter is there if you're mad enough.

Linkspam for 1-5-2008

• Make My Vote Count: London-wide elections: good for the parties, good for democracy
  I agree with Luke Akehurst. Stranger things have happened I guess: 'This contest has proved that low turnout happens when voters think a race is a foregone conclusion. Presented with a...close contest they will engage ... enthusiastically.
  (tags: electoral+reform election luke+akehurst turnout)
• Charlie Brooker - Be a ZOMBIE for Dead Set!
  Londoners! want to be in Charlie's TV show? 'We need volunteer zombies willing to appear in Dead Set, a horror thriller type thing Iâ™ve written for E4 / C4. It will doubtless be the finest TV programme ever made'
  (tags: TV charlie+brooker zombies)
• Humphrey Lyttelton Day : News 2008 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
  A day of stuff about Humph. Has to be done. Shame it clashes with the FFW, ah well. Stephen Fry will present a newly commissioned profile of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, with extracts of the best programmes.
  (tags: humph Humour BBC radio+4)

[Blogging tricks] Shared Brain Syndrome

Yesterday, I had two posts I was planning to make at some point. Then my shiny new work laptop arrived, but it wouldn't stay online for more than 5 minutes and fixing it took me ages. But in another attack of shared brain^[1], Debi's done very similar to what I meant to do, so go read:

• a handy guide to how I use Firefox and other tools to make my internet life easier


• Del.icio.us has proven ideal for those days when all I have to post is a bunch of links

The former is a linkdump of Firefox extensions redone, I need to do one anyway to transfer to my new laptop so that'll happen. The latter is a how-to on linkspamming sharing with delicious and crossposting them to your blog (works anywhere but LJ needs some extra tweaks), but also has a how-to on using and/or hiding LoudTwitter posts. I really like the utility of the latter and like reading them, and dislike it when people cut them as I can't just scan past, but I know others dislike them intensely so if you do you might find it useful.

Anyway, the rest can wait, I have some campaigning to go do. Go vote people, especially in London (and remember, the GLA list vote really matters, unfortunately).

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[1] Debi has a habit of posting stuff as I'm thinking about the same thing, and we share a lot of "oh, cool trick" stuff anyway. Jennie, OTOH, has scary freaky same-as-me opinions on a lot of stuff, and we sometimes make the same comment at the same time in various places. So if you're missing my longer informed posts, I hope I'll get over the block that seems to mean I lack inspiration or inclination, but in the meantime reading innerbrat, Jennie's theyorkshergob or my old housemate and third "shared brain" unfortunate paulatpingu wouldn't do you any harm.

My Firefox plugins

Completely unsorted unformatted list from my extension list dumper, I'll probably go back and edit this into something more coherent later but I need the data posted somewhere so here it is:
( Complete dump of firefox extensions, for previous lists see the tag )

Those marked disabled don't work (yet) with Firefox 3—hopefully they will when it comes out of beta.