Chris Norton

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  • Mum asked today if she could get an iPhone. Apple claims another ignorant victim. #
  • Damn you people playing music at this time of night. Especially when they're songs that are going to get stuck in my head. #
  • Hearing "Blue" by Eiffel 65 just reminds me of high school. #
  • Ah, the party is over. Time for some sleep. #
  • The great Fontis office move of 2009 is underway. #
  • Most of the equipment has been moved, awaiting setup. Might have this done before the end of the day! #
  • Move is complete. Fontis is now at Suite 2, Level 9, 167-169 Queen St. Easiest move ever! #
  • @chadnickbok New place is awesome. You'll have to come up and see it. in reply to chadnickbok #
  • Tram is nicely air conditioned. Much better than the heating they decided to use this morning. #
  • Karaoke works better with alcohol. Which I am lacking. #
  • @dhewlett Each beer is GMed & creates various crazy effects in the drinker; time travel, gender swap, etc. It could be comedy or horror! in reply to dhewlett #
  • Hour 3 of the most epic apartment cleaning ever. Amazing how much easier the new bookcase is making things. Time for a break! #
  • Finished with cleanup for now. Still not done, but I'm satisfied that "phase 1" is complete. #
  • Actually hit the gym today. Feeling good, just need to keep it up. #
  • Finally got my PS3 to connect to a UPnP server running on my laptop. Seems either the PS3 or router only likes UPnP over LAN, not WLAN. #
  • Using MediaTomb for media serving. Not to get it finding the media to serve… #
  • @lloydhazlett I'm waiting for Chrome Mobile. Might need an Android phone for that though. :( in reply to lloydhazlett #
  • @m_p_p Agreed. I don't care if the architecture is better – the GUI sucks. in reply to m_p_p #
  • Delays to flights to and from Canberra due to the weather. Current departure estimated at 40 mins late. #
  • Oh bed, how I've missed you. It's a shame we will be parted again so soon. #
  • RT @spolsky: New article: Capstone projects and time management http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/10/26.html #
  • Sleep eludes me. Damn insomnia. #gripe #
  • @m_p_p Is it meant to? in reply to m_p_p #
  • One week until the first @magmug meeting. I'm excited! Be sure to RSVP on the Facebook event! http://bit.ly/34XKvI #
  • Trains are running over 10 minutes late. And the last one was so packed I couldn't even get on it! #
  • Just realised we have 5 boxes of tissues in the office. Surely we don't need that many. #
  • Damn you Amazon – offering me with cheap magazines as a "reward" then during checkout telling me I can't have them! #slapintheface #
  • Just ordered "Heat Wave" by @WriteRCastle – now I can't wait for it to arrive! #
  • In a queue to get an autograph from Matthew Reilly. Seems my weekends have become about queues and autographs. #

Intrigued by a post I found on Alexander Dickson’s blog, I had a go at the Zend PHP 5 Certification Self Test. I scored an average 5/8, which is apparently enough to be told “It looks like you are ready to take the Zend PHP Certification exam.” Will I do it? Perhaps – it’s not that expensive – but does anyone really care about certifications? After the Magento Certification I’m in no hurry to do another one!

  • @chadnickbok I've been looking into XBMC recently – pretty good, unless you need full PVR functionality. in reply to chadnickbok #
  • RT @lloydhazlett: Mad Men S2 on store bought blu ray, disc 1 has ads that play each view as your reward for purchasing #fail #slapintheface #
  • RT @alyankovic: Isn’t it ironic that Alanis Morissette doesn’t know the definition of the word “ironic”? #funnyin1996 #
  • RT @magmug: Blog: Inaugural Meeting – Oct 27th @ 7pm http://bit.ly/4sr4eE #
  • Excellent! RT @magento: Magento – Now Officially Accepting Code Contributions – http://bit.ly/1aiCle #
  • @chadnickbok Of course! in reply to chadnickbok #
  • Ah, peace and quiet. Time to get some actual work done. #
  • Why do drive thru customers get priority over walk in customers? #slapintheface #
  • Just bought xkcd volume 0, along with a funky xkcd poster for the office http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#xkcdvolume0 #
  • @chadnickbok Laputa? in reply to chadnickbok #
  • Cleaning out some of my feeds from Google Reader. As if I really need to keep up with the latest game technologies! #
  • @tcmg Wait – you're using Google Wave? No fair! in reply to tcmg #
  • I always forget how fantastic high def anime looks on a big screen! #
  • I also always forget how crap Windows is! Funny how I can watch a video and get a random BSOD halfway through. Fail. #
  • The queue to get in to Armageddon is huge! Guess I should have brought supplies… #
  • Almost walked right into Joe Flanigan. He needs better crowd-parters. #
  • Got my autographs and shopping done at Armegeddon. Heading home before my feet decide to abandon me. #

I discovered Shazam in the Ovi Store list of recommended apps. This is something iPhone users have had for a while but has had only limited availability for Symbian devices. Curious, I decided to try it out.

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