Archive for January, 2009

Twitter Updates for 2009-01-31

Posted By admin on January 31st, 2009

Just saw a portrait banknote. Venezuelean I think. #
Not on the island tonight. Arrived Madrid. #
Quite like Viigo flight update tool. Actually I like the way viigo works all round. At least on a blackberry 8110 #
Rss feed on blackberry says easyjet flight is delayed but nothing in the airport to that effect. #
Different airports have different crowds. Gatwick south is a zoo. Every tribe of humankind represented. #
Rail replacement bus from Richmond to clapham takes longer than the normal bus. London creaks along these days. 2012 is going to be hell. #
Downloading a bunch of Podcasts including Late Night Live for a flying visit to Madrid. #
@websinthe Sailing started in Auckland yesterday. Audio Coverage is at http://is.gd/hSat but video is resricted to NZ. in reply to websinthe #
suggest #lvps for Louis Vuiton Pacific Series. Only 3 or 4 twitterers so far on the topic. #
RT @yachtbusiness: Alinghi beat Luna Rossa in the final race of the day in the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series. #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-01-30

Posted By admin on January 30th, 2009

Seems live streaming of the Louis Vuitton Pacific Cup, even in 3D virtual format is only available live to people in NZ. What a wasted opp! #
waiting for Day 2 of the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series to begin. Hopefully th coverage will be better than yesterday. http://is.gd/hR4p #
@stephenfry one of the best QI ever, but you missed the lyre bird that imitates a violin playing classical music. #
Wonder how long it will take for the new America’s Cup boat to appear in Virtual Skipper 5. #
Wondering if the strike against foreign workers will extend to Aussies in London. Or is it just some foreigners? #
Waiting half an hour and then some for a district line train to Richmond. Wondering how they justify fare increases. No info or apology. #
Americas Cup 33 Design Rule published. http://is.gd/hOpk #
Browsing books. In a book shop. Sometimes old media is better. Slower. More considered. Sometimes. #
Louis Vuitton coverage a little bit amateur today… http://tinyurl.com/cdzlnd #
@Alfie Perhaps the 3 strands of user created media dna are ASL – in which case your phrase would be partially true. in reply to Alfie #
Trying to find highlights from the first day of the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series, but proving elusive. #
I hate sites with video on the homepage that when a new video is launched opens in a new window and you get 2 soundtracks. #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-01-29

Posted By admin on January 29th, 2009

Going to get some sports celebs twittering. Wonder which ones are up for it and which ones have fans that care enough with the right tech #
Having a meeting with the cool folk from @sbmktg – plotting yacht racing campaigns for 2009 and beyond. #
Vodafone Best Care Healthcheck email trying to tell me that it’s overseas calls pushing up my bill when it is actually data roaming charges. #
@Alfie wow I was 4 years early with hotspotted personally these days I like the wifi indicator tshirts #
Nothing better than a pub lunch and a chat about the state of yacht racing and sponsorship. #
Will be around Green Park between 3 and 5 today if anyone wants to catch up for a coffee. #
Upgrading @yachtbusiness site to Wordpress 2.7. Fingers crossed. #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-01-28

Posted By admin on January 28th, 2009

Twitterings for the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series mainly out of New Zealand. Usual suspects. Hopefully the sailing world will wake up soon. #
@expedia Used to be so easy to use, but recently every transaction is blocked or rejected and customer service is no help at all. #
ah poor starbucks. It was inevitable though. Nothing says excess like a Venti Caramel Latte. #
Bookrd to go to the opening event of the world match racing tour in marseilles. #
Schedule has opened up for tomorrow…. what to do? Lots of things re @darkbluebook need attention. Start there. #
With a big umbrella comes big responsibility #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-01-27

Posted By admin on January 27th, 2009

Oh. For those of you wonderinh who Anna is? She was a guest of Christina at the little ship club. #
I am having dinner with Anna at the little ship club. #
Is off to drop in on the ‘little ship club’ and catch up with a few folk. #
You’d think that in the year 2009 people would understand the difference between cc and bcc on a mass email. #
I used to like Expedia. It used to work. I haven’t had a seamless error free booking for ages. Time for a new travel partner I think. #
Testing an auto-tagging plugin for wordpress, but it doesn’t work too well. Some things humans still do better than machines. #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-01-26

Posted By admin on January 26th, 2009

Cutting sponsorship and marketing in hard times is crazy talk says rubython in sports pro magazine #
Amazon’s mobile site is pretty cool. Just read about a book in sports pro magazine and ordered it before the train got to the next station. #
Blackberry 8110 with GPS and google maps rocks. Found address in the middle of londons back streets, even gave directions. #
On my way to an Australia day event at a new members club in the city. Don’t know much about it yet. #
Finally got around to updating the Pilote Media website, though still to add portfolio. #
Australia Day nearly over in Oz. Just beginning in the UK. #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-01-25

Posted By admin on January 25th, 2009

All @darkbluebook resources collected. The USA still the top source of listings. Europe and UK lagging behind. An online effect perhaps? #
Is going to open the ‘Real Mackenzie’ scotch for Burns night later on. Found it in Athens and just had to get a bottle. #
Is uninstalling Allsport GPS from blackberry. Good service but don’t use it enough to pay for it. #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-01-24

Posted By admin on January 24th, 2009

@Allix I know. As a once travel writer I’ve debated the pros and cons often. Personally still on the fence. The theme is a good one though. #
@Allix I’ve got some friends who would be up for those walks. But there might be some mp3 tours about on that theme. Gets rid of the guide. in reply to Allix #
Anyone know how to password protect a self-hosted wordpress blog? #
Slowly moving sites over to Wordpress 2.7 – seems to be working okay so far. #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-01-23

Posted By admin on January 23rd, 2009

Red lanterns in chinatown lloks great #
Going to write today off. Some japanese food and a movie I think. #
So. Bluehost is up again – for some. But now another problem on my box. No ETA. Total downtime today 7.5 hours. #
Server status at Bluehost says all okay but site still timing out. Wasted day. 3 projects that have hosted CMS with no work done. #
Seems Bluehost would do well to use twitter to communicate their problems. Would get rid of the 52 people waiting on hold. #
Some say that all applications will run in the cloud. But days like today, when a server goes down for over 5 hours suggests otherwise. #
@rscibetti Could be. Try this link http://serverstatus.bluehost.com/ in reply to rscibetti #
Bluehost Update: “Heat issues in H – Shutting down server until this is taken care of.” Not really useful. #
@ThierryRoget Actually I have been pretty impressed, this is the first time I have had problems in a year. in reply to ThierryRoget #
Bluehost server down – all my websites and mail not working. Grrr.. has been an hour and a half already. #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-01-22

Posted By admin on January 22nd, 2009

Catching up on taped episodes of jon Stewart. Its been too long. Hope he can be funny in a non-bush world. #
Audi med cup 2009 dates announced. See @yachtbusiness tomorrow for details. #
Is going to unfollow anyone on twitter who repeats information without stopping to ask ‘is that actually compete bollocks?’ #
Have decided that social media is just media. In some cases worse. Some old media still checks facts before sending news into the universe. #
Traveller tip. Dusseldorf airport charges 1 euro for clear plastic bags to get your liquids through security. Seems pricey. #
Ishares cup dates announced. Kind of. Keep a lookout over the next day or so. #
Is done with boats for today. Happy though. Background all done for @darkbluebook – next week will be intense. #
Ok. So I love boats with sails, but ribs get cooler day by day #
Surprised that puma are not activating their Volvo ocean race sponsorship at boot.de – well they might be, but not that I can see so far. #
Spotted. A yache with manufacturer sponsorship livery. Dufour getting the message. Racing sells crusing boats. #
Ysa yacht design ‘black pearl’ made entirely of black carbon fibre. Beautiful, but must be as slippery as anything when wet. #
Boot.de sailing hall has more racing yachts than London including the enigma 34 and a canting keel sport boat #
Pretty impressived to see the stp65 ‘container’ out of the water in hall 17 of boot.de #
Well there may be a recession and there may not be many visitors right now, but anyone who says this is a poor industry is deluded. #
Is off to Boot.de with @yachtbusiness and @darkbluebook. Will be interesting to compare to recent Paris and London shows. #
@amcup ‘Coutts recruited by Team Oracle?’ How old is this story? Several years? in reply to amcup #
Nice to have the time for a proper breakfast. Helps when it is all laid out and all you have to do is choose and eat. #