http://fluffy.org Owen O'Leary Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:11:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Update for anyone who reads this - Packing + loading on Monday in Seattle, Flying to San Jose on Wednesday... contact details are the same as always for those who have them. http://fluffy.org/?p=210 Allright - so in the 17 days we were in Ireland, I was in a supermarket on 3 of them (that's 17% of the days!) on or around 10pm, when they called out "we have to stop serving alcohol at 10pm, please bring your purchases to the checkout now". ... http://fluffy.org/?p=198 Dog dog dog Originally uploaded by ooleary. Robin had one too many glasses of wine and collapsed on our bed. Obviously he'd been busy looking up doggie social networking just before then. http://fluffy.org/?p=201 JRA Bike Shop - you truly are Seattle's friendliest bike repair shop. And I've been to a few. via JRA Bike Shop, Friendly bike repair in downtown Seattle. http://fluffy.org/?p=177 January was the coldest in Dublin for more than 45 yearsJanuary was warmest on record for Seattle area http://fluffy.org/?p=174 Ruby on rails "just works", apparently. Someone should tell them what "works" means. http://fluffy.org/?p=164 While (for the Nth time) failing to find an item that Ikea's website claimed was in stock, I asked a helpful staff member "Why?" and I finally got an answer. The floor works on a JIT deployment system, whereby just enough stock for the day is brought out overnight, depleted ... http://fluffy.org/?p=161 Suspicious suitcase blown up at Burien Park and Ride From king5 news http://fluffy.org/?p=159 If only 2% of our electricity comes from non-renewable sources (source: http://www.seattle.gov/light/FuelMix/ ), instead of the 89% of irish electricity (source: http://www.energycustomers.ie/electricity/index.aspx, how does that affect the carbon footprint of appliances? (Or in other words, I don't accept that one tumble dryer load generates 2kg of CO2) I'm all for saving ... http://fluffy.org/?p=157 Mostly for my own benefit - because, strangely enough, there's no link to this on the gmail page! Gmail search terms: from: {email address} from: {name} to : {email address} to : {name} subject: {subject} label:{label} is: starred|sent|read|unread after: {date} before: {date} in: inbox|chat|drafts|spamtrash|anywhere has:attachment http://fluffy.org/?p=156