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11:41 A recent listen: Girls – Lust For Life bit.ly/4n9tzQ bit.ly/jrwifm #

13:54 I just generated my #TweetCloud out of a year of my tweets. Top three words: Shoulda, woulda, coulda. (@djwrighty) #

16:27 @UraGraymalkin I had The Pains of Being Pure at Heart down for Friday, I take it that was an old fruitless plan, right? bit.ly/71H0e5 #

18:15 Just ordered some ink from #Dell on-line – I only had to click "Confirm and Proceed to Checkout" 15 times. Result! A triumph of usability. #

20:47 Somewhat atypical Sunday evening, with my casserole already cooked and consumed. Often I’ve only been starting to prepare it at this time. #

20:54 @WHISKYhost Cheers, interesting post about your #Japanese tasting sesh. I’m not able to get the 18 or cask, but I’ll try the 12! #whisky #

23:10 @Dan_Whittaker_ Have you seen this? Sunday Express: Barrie Wells: The 2012 hopefuls’ secret millionaire bit.ly/7HFuRX #

23:15 Local #Lancaster entrepreneur spreading the wealth – Barrie Wells: The 2012 hopefuls’ secret millionaire bit.ly/7HFuRX #

23:51 A recent listen: Bon Iver – Blood Bank bit.ly/4BLaZJ bit.ly/jrwifm #

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17:26 A recent listen: Albert Hammond, Jr. – Blue Skies bit.ly/5rprqm bit.ly/jrwifm #

21:03 Lawks! Pa Pa Power by Dead Man’s Bones is good – #lastfm: bit.ly/5tTcZ #

21:16 @atl I was contemplating making a xmas gift of the Yamazaki to a scotch loving friend. IIRC you’ve tried it, is it a winner? #whisky #

21:19 Top 3 weekly #lastfm artists: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – 26. The Mountain Goats – 25. Arcade Fire – 21. bit.ly/fewIS #

21:28 Just listened to Dead Man’s Bones properly for the first time. It’s extraordinary. Grab a drink and listen: bit.ly/DMBones #

22:20 @atl Ta, I’ll go with that. Also, I bet he hasn’t had it & it’s a bit different (for us at least). Might have to get one myself… #whisky #

22:22 No time like the present =>RT @foreignoffice: PM announces major conference on Afghanistan in London on 28 January #CHOGM ow.ly/GySi #

23:37 A recent listen: Dead Man’s Bones – Flowers Grow Out of My Grave bit.ly/7DtlHc bit.ly/jrwifm #

23:47 RT @jeremylimb: While in Middlesbrough I got a job drawing pupils onto the Angel of the North; I just had to cross the Tees and dot the eyes #

23:59 I’d forgotten about The Thick Of It, yay for PVRs. Watching it now with a pint of Strangelove and the Old Pulteney to hand (NOT a euphemism) #

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00:01 Right, just got some partitioning (disk, not Berlin) to do, then I will be allowed to sleep. So much for an early night. #

00:32 Drat! I can’t affect my work laptop with either partition magic or gparted. I assume because the disk is encrypted. Waste of space. Geddit? #

00:38 @Pete_Eaton It’s OK, they’re very understanding about these things at airport security. Did you put some grey plasticine in her bag, too? #

09:17 Just listening to the Food and Farming Awards on R4 while I finish my breakfast. Pity my car radio is bust, I’ll have to leave it there… #

09:18 Hmmm, tasty pies and properly hung meat. Which reminds me, have to go to work now. #

09:35 A recent listen: Dead Man’s Bones – Paper Ships bit.ly/5bTa3w bit.ly/jrwifm #

15:37 A recent listen: Arcade Fire – My Body Is A Cage bit.ly/7smbob bit.ly/jrwifm #

21:32 Fantastic #whisky offers on at #Booths. Just picked up an Old Pulteney for 15 quid. FIFTEEN QUID! See the list here: bit.ly/5um2CQ #

21:59 Got to go and sing jingle bells with William. #

22:04 Sorry, I of course meant SHOUT JINGLE BELLS with William. #

22:07 Beer, nachos and House S5E5. Go! #

22:11 @galg Indeed. OP is one of my faves and coincidentally the cheapest listed. Lots of great offers though. Will be back! #whisky #Booths #

22:18 twitpic.com/r7uvq – Beer #1 – Spitfire, Shepherd Neame #

22:27 @UraGraymalkin Shepherd Neame weren’t really Britpop, though. (Did we see Spitfire? I know I did, can’t remember who they supported. Lush?) #

22:35 This has been stuck in my head for the past couple of days, and is now apposite. It’s the weeeeeeekend! song.ly/2j1hw Jason Lytle #

23:21 A recent listen: Asher Roth – Bad Day (feat. Jazze Pha) bit.ly/5HRbnQ bit.ly/jrwifm #

23:24 @mcdent Proper matching glass, too. Enjoy! #

23:25 @campdave Game On! #

23:33 @mcdent Too right. Can’t stand it when they serve ale or lager in a Guinness glass, or vice versa. So very, very wrong. It’s against nature. #

23:37 twitpic.com/r87ff – Beer #2 – Goliath, from Wychwood. #

23:42 RT @jeremylimb: Got tickets for Tristan and Siegfried at Bayreuth next year. I hope Christopher Timothy has a cameo. #

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00:07 Now, if #Spotify had a Linux client so I didn’t have to run it in wine on my eeepc, THAT, right there, would make the subs worthwhile. #

00:09 (This because I want to listen to this @UraGraymalkin playlist – bit.ly/74TPp5 – while I read Alexei Sayle’s Mister Roberts in bed.) #

00:12 (The problem with running #Spotify under wine is it breaks other audio and I need to reboot after I’ve used it. Hmm, not much reason…) #

00:26 @GregWoods Agreed – in the race to get new sexy hardware and apps out the door, functionality and useabilty is forgotten. My N96 is useless. #

00:52 @GregWoods Indeed. Nokia have lost a customer here, no chance I’ll risk them again. I’ll look to Apple, Android or Blackberry. svcs ftw! #

10:09 Aargh! Why has #Tomboy deleted files from the server AND locally during sync? Why would it do that!? #

12:29 twitpic.com/qzzmo – Look! It’s like I work in a proper IT department! Beards and whiteboards everywhere. #

13:53 "The British love affair with curry boils down to the imagined glamour of the Raj" – Er, really? Are you sure? bit.ly/6Ut5MN #

14:04 @UraGraymalkin That’s quite a loose definition of ‘loose definition’ isn’t it? Also, this is the internet, it’s spelled ‘lose definition’. #

21:28 A recent listen: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – God Is in the House bit.ly/7v4IvP bit.ly/jrwifm #

21:43 Right, who’s on #bbcqt tonight? (don’t answer that, it’ll be a nice surprise.) #

21:56 RT @bbcquestiontime: …best wishes to the inaugural #pubqt – thanks @markinreading… Not officially endorsed, but appreciated! #bbcqt #

22:30 Scotch loon writes about Jesus visiting England. Academic credentials: refers to ‘olden days’. bit.ly/6Wlnwc link via @markinreading #

23:21 RT @markinreading: Melanie should absolutely be put in charge of making all our laws. On her own #bbcqt #pubqt #

23:44 I’ve been watching #bbcqt with a brew and a couple of ltd edition Oreos. Just been told how much they cost. Need to lie down now. #

23:51 @paul4july Baked, signed and individually numbered by Mr Oreo, each with a certificate of authenticity. #

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00:31 Midnight-30, so much still left undone, but I is away to sleep. #

08:19 Remind me to check this out => RT @Spotify: Pitchify – Spotify links based on the best Pitchfork reviews bit.ly/8OA4e3 (via @afront) #

08:45 @campdave I don’t. Might blow a tenner on a month’s sub and see if I get any value out of it. Will let you know how it goes if I do. #

08:51 @campdave I know the feeling. Are you aware of Mobbler for scrobbling from the S60? Works well with the inbuilt player, and can do stations. #

15:23 A recent listen: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – People Ain"t No Good bit.ly/4osWlF bit.ly/jrwifm #

21:24 A recent listen: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – (Are You) The One I’ve Been Waiting For? bit.ly/8SM86y bit.ly/jrwifm #

22:26 @UraGraymalkin What is this ‘Dead Man’s Bones’ of which you speak? #

23:24 I’m raving, I’m raving! #buzzcocks #

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15:13 A recent listen: The Mountain Goats – This Year bit.ly/6JqAQq bit.ly/jrwifm #

19:35 Home alone with the kids (mummy at badminton). They’re going to force me to play on the X-Box. Then I’m going to force them to go to bed. #

19:44 twitpic.com/qs5i2 – Playing Spiderman with William. He’s rubbish, whereas there are no computer games of which I am not master. #

19:46 Er, anyone know how to open this door? #xbox #

21:16 A recent listen: The Mountain Goats – Love Love Love bit.ly/6iFNW2 bit.ly/jrwifm #

21:57 Tamzin Outhwaite and Dave Gedge – Together at last! twitpic.com/qsodn #paradox #

22:06 Finally, a google wave invitation! Anyone impressed? Didn’t think so… #

22:35 Wondering if Spotify for Symbian (which my GOD AWFUL phone runs) will tempt me to subscribe. Probably not at £10 pcm, even with off-line. #

22:41 My new debit card lacks the cheque guarantee function of the old one, or at least it’s missing the Will Shakespeare ‘cheque guarantee’ logo. #

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19:15 A recent listen: The Mountain Goats – Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy.. bit.ly/4SdFEb bit.ly/jrwifm #

23:02 Just got in from Badminton so first chance to open my new debit card which arrived today. Valid from 1st Nov. Really taking the piss. Cross. #

23:20 Oops, OK, so for those of you looking at that last tweet about the bank and wondering why I’m cross, it is October 23rd today, right? #

23:26 The Abbey really wouldn’t have understood what had hit them if I’d stormed in tomorrow with my own special brand of invective and derision. #

23:39 @jabe666 Bit of a stretch when you consider that they don’t really understand the meaning of the phrase ‘banking’. #

23:41 @jabe666 Their definition of the word fraud is, ‘one of our customers using their own card to buy something with their own money’. #

23:45 @UraGraymalkin They are already experiencing @pete_eaton levels of confusion, I don’t want to aggravate that while they still have my cash. #

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00:01 In bed, but can’t get the Gregg’s sausage rolls I know are in the fridge out of my head. What would Anne Frank have done? #

00:05 She’d have gone and eaten them with tomato sauce. Quietly. She would! #

00:09 (I’m reading the diary right now, for the first time, and visited the annex last week. Where can one direct the anger and pain?) #

09:42 We’ve all slept in. I’ve just woken up to find all 4 of us in mummy and daddy’s bed. The kids didn’t even go to bed that late. #

09:51 @UraGraymalkin ‘I had forgot Midlake’? How potent was that whisky? We haven’t tickets. I think it be February. Manchester. I’ll find out… #

12:13 Going to a christening. Won’t be a boozy one for us, though, got to get away to take the kids to *yet another* birthday party later. #

13:51 A recent listen: Bishop Allen – Dimmer bit.ly/5P7pbT bit.ly/jrwifm #

15:01 Sat at the christening reception at The Greaves Hotel and contemplating eBook readers – "What to read on which reader" – is.gd/514FM #

15:07 Starting to like the idea of an eBook reader more now that I’ve confirmed that most work with PDFs & Word docs. Could be useful for work. #

15:34 @UraGraymalkin Oh, I’m sure you can get a sticker for the back. Or the front. #

18:12 @TheWineyard Seems plausible, this from 16:51 RT @campdave: Wigan losing 8-1. Eek! #

22:04 @UraGraymalkin Midlake, Manchester Academy 2 on Wednesday, 17th February 2010 bit.ly/8IGqtA #

23:22 Watching the @watsoncomedian episode of Buzzcocks. His script writers are good! #

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00:03 Whisky! #

11:53 Brilliant. Not only does my card not work but also online banking is blocked. I can’t have it activated by phone coz I don’t know my TBN. #

11:54 Off to the branch. To complain. #

12:52 In the branch waiting for a personal banker. Can’t help thinking they’re keeping me distracted while they wait for the police to arrive… #

14:39 Well, nobody at the bank was able to do any better than me at finding out why my account is locked down from the call centres. #

14:43 Got some cash from the desk. Got a complaint form. Not got access to my account. Could be ‘up to 10 days’. WTF? This started 2 weeks ago. #

20:16 Watching DW with Toby, the traitor. He keeps saying "I know what happens". #

21:07 @UraGraymalkin He also kept going on about being ‘Toby Victorious’, so I shot his mum in the head. He cried. #

21:17 @campdave I think Abbey (for it is they) are having massive Santander merger/takeover difficulties. OH 3 others with similar card probs. #

21:19 @campdave Personal banker was getting very cross with the call centre. She was being passed around like a customer! Funny she had to call… #

21:28 Top 3 weekly #lastfm artists: Wilco – 27. Luke Haines – 18. God Is an Astronaut – 3. bit.ly/fewIS #

22:00 @UraGraymalkin Then it shall be Leeds. Wow, prospect of Midlake and Shearwater early next year. How good is that? #

22:28 Watching ‘Later…’. Enjoying David Gray and the jazz band, hating Big Pink, The Low anthem, The Decemberists. Who says I can’t do sarcasm? #

22:37 Yeah, cheers Jools. Why did you have to have a section plugging Vic Reeves xmas book (very musical, great), but only 1 Low Anthem track? #

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07:50 At last! Lazy, lazy musicians –> RT @NMEmagazine: New Interpol album expected for early 2010 bit.ly/1SkN8d #

09:23 Feeling slightly cheered by crumpets, coffee, a blackbird bathing in the garden and Red House Painters. Slightly fed-up about going to work. #

09:26 At least work will be sweet relief from the burglar alarm that’s been going off down the road since c.7am. I might check it’s false first… #

20:03 @idiotjohnson Relax. It’d be much weirder if you washed them up and then DIDN’T recycle them. Like me. Not that what you’re doing is weird. #

20:05 @idiotjohnson Noooo. Not weird at all… #

22:26 Trying to catch up on the True Blood backlog, plus drinking beer. Biiig beer backlog. #

23:56 @UraGraymalkin No idea about Who, I was counting on you to tweet links to you tube clips in a couple o’ days #ChildrenInNeed #

23:59 Watching some show on BBC2. Very excited about Annie Lennox and David Gray. This is "The Execution of Annie Lennox and David Gray", right? #