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2013-07-29 (Monday)

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    Oliver Eric Rawlings must be relieved he apologised. His mum will never find out now.

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    @iamdanw You funny.

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    @blech She was keen on @samuelpepys a year or two back.

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    @blech Oh, ta! Is this a purposeful omission? twitter.com/LouiseMensch/s… Understandable, just wondering :)

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    @tomcoates Yeah. I like having it as an idea of what I think personal sites should be, an accumulation of everything. But even so.

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    @tomcoates I want to keep doing it but… time. Even once it’s done and running, everything needs updating, always moving.

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    @6to5against @samuelpepys It’s his patron, Edward Mountagu: pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/1…

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    Years of writing, tweets, books read, photos taken, music listened to, sites linked to, locations checked in to. All of it moving.

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    That’s the difficulty with “own your own data”. Over the years you accumulate so much that the processes become onerous.

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    I should rewrite it. But the last Frankenstein’s monster, from the previous attempt, lies half-finished on the table, already obsolete.

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    My personal site is gradually rotting, interactions with services breaking, libraries no longer being updated, features disappearing.

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    @productclub Eek, hope it’s all OK!

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    Writing some PHP, no framework or anything. I feel like I’m cycling my childhood bike downhill with no hands. Brilliant! Wheeeeeee!

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    @stml I assumed the “Victorian Reptilians” thing (also, what?!) was going to be about Doctor Who: matthewashton.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/madame…

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    @annegalloway From memory, this talk by @warrenellis was good on utopias youtube.com/watch?v=RLTs4R… (It was good generally too.)

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    Migrated my Blogger blog to the new format. It only contains two test posts, one from 2000, one from 2007. Due for another soon.

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    Sigh. Time to choose the new book's new author photo. Vote on it: