Throughout the diary there are various quotes from people, and quotes from tracks that I like. We now have a cunning little processor that will extract the details of these so that we can produce an index. That index is here, in all its glory. These quotes are most recent at the top to oldest at the bottom. There's a couple of handy links below so that you can jump more easily.
This page lists the quotes in chronological order. They can also be sorted by their source.
Quotes (earliest) | Song quotes (earliest)
| Date | Title | Said by | In |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Apr 2008 | Snapped off | Ian and me | |
| 8 Feb 2008 | Ordinary | Ian and Justin | |
| 20 Jan 2008 | Normal | Justin | |
| 26 Oct 2007 | Drunken Lemurs | Dilbert | |
| 20 Oct 2007 | Odd expectations | Joseph | |
| 20 Oct 2007 | Bug reporting for Jive | Justin | |
| 10 Oct 2007 | Test Code | Me | |
| 15 Sep 2007 | Reincarnation | A friend | |
| 3 Sep 2007 | Women | Jogu | |
| 8 Aug 2007 | What If ? | Justin | |
| 8 Jun 2007 | Magnetic Penguins | Vicki | |
| 30 May 2007 | Memory and Worry | E. Joseph Cossman | |
| 22 May 2007 | Re-writes | David Chess | |
| 21 May 2007 | A Pony! | Ian, Hedley, and I | The Talker |
| 19 Apr 2007 | Fractals | Mnem | Talker |
| 19 Apr 2007 | Infinity | Heds | Talker |
| 19 Apr 2007 | Frogs | Ian | Talker |
| 9 Apr 2007 | All I want... | Me | |
| 1 Apr 2007 | Backups | Linus Torvalds | |
| 27 Mar 2007 | All MP3 players use Plays For Sure | Tom Archer's blog | |
| 25 Mar 2007 | Dodos | Primeval | |
| 25 Mar 2007 | What's important | Primeval | |
| 24 Mar 2007 | Camberwick Green | Sam Tyler | Life On Mars |
| 3 Mar 2007 | Opportune Moment | Jack Sparrow | Pirates Of The Carribean |
| 2 Mar 2007 | Theory Of Relativity | John | Yellow Submarine |
| 1 Mar 2007 | A lonely place | Yellow Submarine | |
| 28 Feb 2007 | Decision trees | Chris and Justin | |
| 27 Feb 2007 | Can I speak to Mr Fletcher | Phone and me | |
| 26 Feb 2007 | Jazz Club, annotations | Justin | |
| 18 Feb 2007 | Can you live on Aeros ? | Jogu, Ian, Justin, Aardvark | |
| 1 Feb 2007 | Upgrading | Windows Media Player | |
| 30 Jan 2007 | Google Spreadsheets | Jogu | |
| 28 Jan 2007 | Jabberwocky | Lewis Carroll | Through The Looking Glass |
| 19 Jan 2007 | There is a fault | EDF Energy | |
| 17 Jan 2007 | The 1980s called | petemaild | |
| 15 Jan 2007 | Time | Justin | |
| 10 Jan 2007 | Humiliating people | House and Wilson | House |
| 18 Oct 2006 | Futility? | Dilbert | |
| 15 Oct 2006 | Useful advice | Proverbs, King James Bible | |
| 13 Oct 2006 | Unique ? | Ian | |
| 13 Sep 2006 | A cunning plan! | Jim and Peter | Earthworm Jim |
| 19 Aug 2006 | Jumped the shark | Martin | Stargate SG-1 |
| 19 Aug 2006 | Without any actors ? | Martin | Stargate SG-1 |
| 19 Aug 2006 | Never underestimate your audience | Cameron | Stargate SG-1 |
| 19 Aug 2006 | The best way... | Sam Carter | |
| 19 Aug 2006 | Badness | My server | |
| 14 Aug 2006 | Faster than the speed of light | Interplanetary Internet: Architectural definition | |
| 7 Aug 2006 | One we didn't think of | Snakes on a Plane | |
| 19 Jul 2006 | Blood-flavoured lollies | BBC news | |
| 14 Jul 2006 | Ready ? | Last.fm holding page | |
| 11 Jul 2006 | What now? | Two agents | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| 26 Jun 2006 | Heard so much about you... | Cherry Bombs | Howard The Duck |
| 2 Jun 2006 | Cat acting in bad faith | National Arbitration Forum | |
| 22 May 2006 | I don't care | Salem and M'lady | Sabrina The Teenage Witch |
| 18 May 2006 | CheezAtoms | Pedro | Talker |
| 16 May 2006 | What are we talking about ? | Heds and I | Talker |
| 13 May 2006 | Metaphysics | Ron and Yvonne | Goodnight sweetheart |
| 26 Apr 2006 | Procrastination | Ian and I | Talker |
| 23 Apr 2006 | Pimping a Polo | Pimp My Snack forum | |
| 14 Apr 2006 | Making fun of things | Me | |
| 24 Mar 2006 | Doing stuff | Rube | Dead Like Me |
| 25 Feb 2006 | Disappointment | Dr Breen | Half Life 2 |
| 22 Feb 2006 | Can't be bothered | Reginald Perrin | The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin |
| 13 Feb 2006 | Making sense | Susan and Patrick | Coupling |
| 12 Feb 2006 | Using NetSurf | A friend | |
| 11 Feb 2006 | Bombshell | Narrator | Arrested Development |
| 5 Jan 2006 | Combination | Lynda | Press Gang |
| 5 Jan 2006 | A lodger ? | Colin | Press Gang |
| 28 Dec 2005 | Fake Marriage | Newton Davis | HouseSitter |
| 5 Dec 2005 | Fox email disclaimer | ||
| 30 Nov 2005 | Does life get any better? | Me | |
| 26 Nov 2005 | Nuclear physicist | Julian | |
| 24 Nov 2005 | What's going on ? | Me | |
| 20 Nov 2005 | Hardcore hackers | Me | |
| 18 Nov 2005 | Open with things | Charmed | |
| 16 Nov 2005 | Why using memcpy to store bytes is bad | Me | |
| 11 Nov 2005 | Talk | Someone | |
| 10 Nov 2005 | Interesting | Jack Sparrow | Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl |
| 9 Nov 2005 | Go to sleep | Me | |
| 30 Oct 2005 | BST change-over | Last.fm | |
| 10 Oct 2005 | Brain in a jar | Diesel Sweeties | |
| 4 Oct 2005 | Elephants! | Me | |
| 2 Oct 2005 | Lobster Pate | The Tanners and ALF | ALF |
| 28 Sep 2005 | A tired mind | Me | |
| 28 Sep 2005 | Julian's friends | Julian | |
| 23 Sep 2005 | Plays of Sophocles | An Analysis of Bagpuss | |
| 23 Sep 2005 | Quo | Les Battersby | Coronation Street |
| 19 Sep 2005 | The Borg ? | Juliet | Dark Skies |
| 19 Sep 2005 | How much before it's a good idea ? | ||
| 19 Sep 2005 | Obsessed is a strong word | Grosse Point Blank | |
| 18 Sep 2005 | Just neat | Spike | Buffy, The Vampire Slayer |
| 16 Sep 2005 | Strange things | Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure | |
| 11 Sep 2005 | Passport caution | UK Passport, page 2 | |
| 26 Aug 2005 | I'm outta here | Kevin | Diesel Sweeties |
| 19 Jul 2005 | Relationships | A couple of people | |
| 19 Jul 2005 | Goodbye | Girl | |
| 18 Jul 2005 | I'm not nice | Jaye Tyler | Wonderfalls |
| 16 Jul 2005 | My tombstone | Justin | |
| 12 Jul 2005 | A challenge | Jogu | |
| 6 Jul 2005 | London 2012 | Train announcer | |
| 4 Jul 2005 | Committed ? | Alex | |
| 2 Jul 2005 | United Nations | Kofi Annan | Live 8, Hyde Park |
| 2 Jul 2005 | Thank You | Bob Geldoff | Live 8, Hyde Park |
| 29 Jun 2005 | Who would know me | Justin | |
| 28 Jun 2005 | Out in thunderstorms | Ian | |
| 25 Jun 2005 | Unknown tagline #11 | 13 Sep 2004 | |
| 25 Jun 2005 | Unknown tagline #10 | 13 Sep 2004 | |
| 25 Jun 2005 | Unknown tagline #9 | 21 Jun 2004 | |
| 25 Jun 2005 | Unknown tagline #8 | 05 Apr 2004 | |
| 25 Jun 2005 | Unknown tagline #7 | 13 Dec 2003 | |
| 25 Jun 2005 | Unknown tagline #6 | 23 Nov 2003 | |
| 25 Jun 2005 | Unknown tagline #5 | 09 Nov 2003 | |
| 25 Jun 2005 | Unknown tagline #4 | 15 Oct 2003 | |
| 25 Jun 2005 | Unknown tagline #3 | 05 Oct 2003 | |
| 25 Jun 2005 | Unknown tagline #2 | 31 Aug 2003 | |
| 25 Jun 2005 | Unknown tagline #1 | 27 May 2003 | |
| 23 Jun 2005 | Randomness | The past | |
| 21 Jun 2005 | Clearing the air | Julian | |
| 20 Jun 2005 | Poisoning | The Brewsters | Arsenic and Old Lace |
| 16 Jun 2005 | Lonely Simon | Justin | |
| 15 Jun 2005 | Developer's Guide | Solaris Open Source website | |
| 5 Jun 2005 | Peace and Harmony | Justin | 11 Aug 1998 signature |
| 4 Jun 2005 | Security considerations | RFC 1135 | |
| 14 May 2005 | Dreams | Biography of Gabrielle | |
| 14 May 2005 | Sometimes it happens | Brian Patten | |
| 11 May 2005 | A Mess | Scrubs | |
| 9 May 2005 | Geocomtex support | ||
| 20 Jan 2005 | Joey | USA Today | |
| 12 Oct 2004 | Mobile Phones | The Register | |
| 4 Oct 2004 | Mismatched listings? | Channel 4 | |
| 30 Sep 2004 | 4am | Julian | |
| 24 Sep 2004 | Updated reindeer flight exemptions | Salt Lake City, Title 16, section 16.16.180, amended 29 Sep 2004 | |
| 15 Sep 2004 | Reindeer flight exemptions | Salt Lake City, Title 16, section 16.16.180 | |
| 17 Aug 2004 | Got the t-shirt | Beka Valentine | Andromeda |
| 31 Jul 2004 | Core breach | Computer | Voyager |
| 31 Jul 2004 | Override authorisation | Beka Valentine | Andromeda |
| 17 Jun 2004 | Deeds | Piers Anthony | Thousandstar |
| 8 Jun 2004 | Awkward? | Phoenix Feathers | |
| 3 Jun 2004 | The Catavari | The Invisible Man | |
| 17 May 2004 | A grey area | Susan | Coupling |
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