Apologies Mendeley API, I'm giving you a bit of a hammering in my testing!

When struggling for motivation, in writing, at the gym, programming, I recommend listening to Masters at Work!

EDL protests aren't "marred by Islamophobia, racism and violence"; that's their entire point :( http://bit.ly/gDGBxZ

New blog post: Pynchon reference in the Economist http://bit.ly/ebB74D

Forget the NYT, CNN or even Fox News. My Pynchon piece is where it's at, first-Google-result-wise for: terrorism irrational escalation

Some would call using a bigint data type for a year field unnecessary. To such pessimists I retort that it's optimism.

Thanks to all for saxophone advice - I played clarinet to a pretty good standard and while back, hence my soprano leanings...

So, help me decide, should I get a Soprano or Tenor Saxophone?

Just bought a copy of @GregMitch's "Age of Wikileaks" book.

Think I may have just fixed one of the final remaining bugs in the first preview of Mendeley for Android. Hoping to release this week.

I'd like to pretend that I'm in central London for the demo. In actuality I'm being dragged around the Habitat closing down sale.

Mendeley for Android listing the different types of author publication: http://yfrog.com/h8o1bhp

Ubuntu Accessibility team using Rheumatoid Arthritis as a case study: http://bit.ly/hJ88st

Off to Barbican to see Du Goudron et des Plumes, part of the International Mime Festival.

New blog post: A Statistical History of UK Pynchon Doctorates http://bit.ly/e91imQ

Would have definitely applied to Neo-Historical Exoticism and Contemporary Fiction http://bit.ly/fQ5WFR if wasn't already busy that day :(

New blog post: SSL Enabled http://bit.ly/hiFPr4 #nothingtohidenothingtofear #nthntf

Facebook blames "bug" for unauthorized posting. There was me thinking it was a design feature http://bbc.in/flhkMg #bearswoods #popecatholic

BBC News article on meritocracy, ethics, Kant and Aristotle http://bbc.in/eYhdDX

New blog post: What has social media ever done for me? http://bit.ly/eik73a

Latin non stultus est: spotting amendments to ancient graffiti http://bit.ly/edBDUO

Nice branching chart of the Linux boot process: http://bit.ly/hDoAvP

Andy Gray's lawyers: "it would be inappropriate for our client to comment at this time". Didn't think he cared about inappropriate comments.

What it doesn't know is that the rest is 65% awesome.

Interesting that peerindex thinks I'm 35% human. Ha! Like a machine would know that! #captcha

Interesting blog post I found on Marx's abolition of inheritance in relation to current neoliberal meritocracy http://bit.ly/fh2GGP

Much bile from "squeezed" middle class over EMA in Metro today. Where's the empathy in the world?

Natty Alpha 2 out on Thursday; my second SSD now has a purpose.

Do I need to do something different, like setup a joint calendar?

At the moment it shows up in both calendars so I get duplicates when we are both going.

Helen and I both have Google calendars. Anybody know how I can make android not show events we are both attending twice?

New blog post: Mendeley for Android: Progress update http://bit.ly/f9XBHx

Mendeley for Android; background sync is working! Now to pull the DB off emulator and check it's right ;) http://yfrog.com/h2phhp

Today's tweets have been brought to you -- in between periods of sleep and sickness -- by the letters M, I, G, R, A, I, N and E.

... and by test, of course, I mean: debug ;)

Just finished the initial write of the Sync Adapter for Mendeley for Android. Hoping to test over the next few days.

Just signed up for @Peerindex. Fairly interesting for quantitive value of social capital. http://bit.ly/yourPI

Feeling justified in recent badminton defeats as optician tells me that I have become twice as shortsighted. I knew PhD work was good for me

Tonight at 8pm GMT the Guardian will release confidential documents relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. http://bit.ly/cOFn3d

All the cool kids are firefighting their inboxes on Friday night. Mine is about to up the cool stakes by early bedtime reading!!!1!

New blog post: Picture this: Postcards Competition http://bit.ly/gZeqN3

Very cool blackbox reverse engineering XSS tool. http://bit.ly/gXIQii

<3 Kermit. http://bit.ly/i6g9A5

A good day: fix computer, gym, blog post, Arthritis Research UK funding meeting, thesis @ British Library

New blog post: OCZ RevoDrive on Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI http://bit.ly/hcBXg2

http://yfrog.com/hsxqkhj enjoying an evening of geekish improvements to The Rig

For one who professes a keen interest in classic Eng. Lit, Mr 'Gradgrind' Gove sure hasn't read Hard Times recently.

API portion of Mendeley for Android done, just filling it all into a nice db structure now. Then a GUI. Then I'll show you!

14 hour day in hospital tomorrow. Hope to get some Mendeley for Android code done and few hundred words of thesis. #useallthetimeyouhave

Would be participating in #phdchat but am down the pub.

New blog post: Rockaby: Mission Statement and Implementation Plans http://bit.ly/eWLcQU

New blog post: The Botnet: Webs of Hegemony/Zombies Who Publish http://bit.ly/fvBYsp

Dates changed/CFP extended: First Fictions conference http://bit.ly/fz30xn

Update with Open Access: Publication: ‘Local Transcendence: Postmodern Historiography and the Database by Alan Liu’,... http://bit.ly/hATVot

I owe my life to the NHS, and, quite frankly, the government plans to destroy it. http://bit.ly/dW6nQs

Today looks good. Book chapter proposal for Zombies in the Academy accepted and Richard Thompson at Festival Hall tonight.

Guardian pass notes on Android: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/17/android-mobile-operating-system-iphone

On to the final section of this chapter; about 8,000 words left and then I can... write the next part! #phdchat

For a research app, Qiqqa's "comparison" is hardly objective: no negatives? Cross-platform? Open Source? #phdchat http://bit.ly/gSCrTZ

(although note to would-be-triallers, you need a Firefox nightly as there's a bug in b9 that won't allow privileged extension calls)

Firefox 4 beta is great; going to be using it with Zotero beta all day today with the hope that it doesn't bork all my documents ;)

Android contentprovider gives no way to do transactions over multiple requests. Great.

Document sync on Android for Mendeley is coming on!

New blog post: BBC News: fathoming financial terms http://bit.ly/etlLzU

Anybody on #phdchat fancy writing something for the Vitae #dr11 blog? See last comment at: http://bit.ly/e3vFoM

A brief post on my use of social media on the Vitae research blog. #dr11 #phdchat (cc @pigironjoe) http://bit.ly/e3vFoM

New blog post: Getting a custom Sync Service and Adapter to show up under "Data and Synchronization" on Android http://bit.ly/eDgo4Y

AHAHAHAHAHA! I've worked out the elusive undocumented sync functionality in Android!

If some lovely Android-god fancied taking a look at my question: http://bit.ly/i41HFW, I'd make much better progress on the Mendeley client!

Publication: ‘Local Transcendence: Postmodern Historiography and the Database by Alan Liu’, Textual Practice, 24, 6 ... http://bit.ly/hATVot

iPhone app announced for @timeshighered - why no Android love?

A delicious pizza express with @liannedemello!

Ok, so SwiftKey is pretty impressive. It's winning me over from HTC IME.

Seems likely that I will have only sporadic net access for #phdchat tonight.

Great sentence: "It featured an eponymous superhero anthropomorphic duck" http://bit.ly/2trYV7

Committed the first working background sync version of Mendeley for Android!

Have tickets for David Tennant in Much Ado!

Pressing workshop attendance issues: will they have eduroam? Will it work? Is lunch provided?

HEA teaching workshop today and then the chapter writing resumes in earnest tomorrow.

.@crashplan just signed up; 4 year plan and it's great! Can you please do a seed service for the UK, though? 3 years estimated backup time!

Vanity Fair on Wikileaks overly critical, but makes some gd points. Conclusion is wrong, though. Not either, or. Both. http://bit.ly/dOggRV

Apologies for double posting that blog entry; typo fix in title triggered tweet plugin

Only 1 concessionary para to the fact that exercise is good for you so the article can brand gyms as a con http://bit.ly/g2RfAB

Sorry to have missed #phdchat - blame cardiotrainer on my phone. It told me to exercise and who am I to disobey?!

Scan Computers have massive delay to orders because of accident on Motorway. Fair enough. BUT THEY DIDN'T TELL ME. So I'm at home, not work.

Holy macoroni batman! On a whim I tried a small code change and now fixed the Android OAPI problems (haha, it was my fault :P)

Done lots of work on the @Mendeley Android client, but am now getting server error status 500 when retrieving /oapi/library/ (cc. @mrgunn)

OK, sussed what's up with @mendeleyAPI for @mendeley OAuth. Callback from auth url must be "http://", which is a bug.

Just performed a successful OAuth request to Mendeley from Android :)

Grr. Trying to write my @mendeley android client and, now using signpost lib, the @mendeleyAPI still doesn't work. Works fine on other oauth

Got soundly thrashed by Helen at badminton.

Cirque, even.

Helen has my old HTC Wildfire and is using it to control the stereo over WiFi, scaring the life out of me with Circle du Soleil soundtrack.

Today is a bit of university work, a bit of DIY and a bit of badminton.

Nice new SSD ordered with Christmas money!

Emailed @MendeleyAPI to hopefully resolve my Android OAuth woes and get on to developing the actual app!

Now digitizing my Samuel Beckett radio collection which Helen gave me for Christmas.

Advantages of not being able to drink much owing to immunosuppressants are truly felt on Jan 1st.