From Twitter 06-03-2010

• 08:27:55: @Sgboy01 The process is called "garnishment" and can be very embarrassing when your employer finds out about your debt.
  
• 09:13:53: Morning, all. Next to last day in the nuthatchery, if all goes to plan. Inmates restless last night. Breakfast was late. :-(
  
• 10:13:45: The tank was used to store WHAT? Catfish fat? WTF? RT @AsCorrespondent 2 die in tank explosion in #Vietnam http://bit.ly/9hHQIx
  
• 15:24:57: My lodge is world-famous. Look at the picture on the left: http://twurl.nl/sdcs76
  
• 17:41:37: RIP Rue McClanahan - Golden Girl Blanche http://bit.ly/d0gncx
  
• 17:49:15: @TheBlackoutBlog I was very sad at Rue McClanahan's death. Tweeted to remind myself in later years.
  
• 17:56:30: @jonk whatta pain. Sorry, but you're lucky the lady noticed it rather than the cop who stops you later on.
  
• 17:59:04: @angelxxxcruz hey, my birthday's november 8th too! Lots of decades before yours, of course.
  
• 18:47:12: @hungskateboy which client is that?
  
• 20:37:19: RT @tug Simon Jenkins talks sense http://bit.ly/d514VM Shock Horror!
  
• 20:42:32: Two Rasta yahoos visiting my neighbour are whooping it up very loudly outside my room in patois 45 mins after visiting hours ended. Faugh!!
  
• 22:52:31: well, all, another day in the nuthouse ends. I hope to be home this time tomorrow, with my vacuum pump gently burbling beside me.
  
• 22:54:24: I would help secure it for him... RT DentonPolice: 06/03/2010 16:38:33 | 28 years old | FAIL TO SECURE LOAD http://twitpic.com/1tn44d
  

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Met Office #FAIL

The Met Office is the UK's official Weather Bureau. As with all such organisations, it has a spotty record of accuracy. Last year, in the spring, it predicted a "barbecue summer". Unless your barbecue was under an awning, and you were wearing your parka, no barbecue summer was to be had in 2009.

The Met Office has an iPhone app, which is normally pretty good. This morning I looked at the app to determine what the temperature would be this afternoon—I wanted to know whether I could wear shorts when discharged or would have to dig out my jeans. I got an error window: "Unexpected error". Besides the stupidity of that error message, I then pressed the button which normally delivers the 10-day forecasts. Nothing came up there either, so I went back to the main screen. The temperature was the only item which showed, and it read: 0 C. Quite a cold June this year.

Obviously they initialise the variable that holds the temperature to "0" rather than blanking it out until information is received from the connection. This bug doesn't manifest itself until you navigate back to the main window from another window.

At least they themselves didn't develop the app—Gorillabox.net did. I think they need an experienced tester.