Now and again I get to do something really interesting at work.

...ve never written any SQL before. SELECT ShoppingLists.Name, TransferPoints.Code, CustomerItems.CustomerItemCode, ...=ShoppingListItems.CustomerItemID LEFT JOIN TransferPoints ON ShoppingLists.TransferPointID=TransferPoints.ID WHERE CustomerItems.CustomerItemCode='L003323' GROUP BY ShoppingLists.Name, TransferPoints.Code, CustomerItems.CustomerItemCode, CustomerItems.CustomerItemDescription

Cosmic string

Until she was converted to feminism, my mother used to write 'string' on her shopping lists when she meant 'tampons' or 'sanitary towels'.  I have long been fascinated by this - the unspeakable being unwriteable; the panoptic sense of surveillance which means that you are accountable for what you write in so private and impermanent a medium as a shopping list (although perhaps she was wise to ...

Work, work, work, sleep, work, work...

I seems like I only work, eat and sleep these days. No, wait. It _is_ all I do these days! But it's OK. A lot of information is going in to my little head right now, it might explode any minute. But my new job is going very well, and I have already started to write shoppinglists for Christmas. Had a lot of bills to pay this month, but I will still manage a couple of gifts... :D

Tempted by nihilism

...it mildly life-affirming by the time it got to the end. Mind you, I don't really see a point to life either, so I'm probably the intended audience. R2bC2: The new lj community shoppinglists , for posting shopping lists you've found. Far more entertaining than it really has any right to be. R2bC3: I got my Blog a Penguin Classic classic through this morning. It was Confucius's first ten...

Hats off to gleet , for he has started what is surely destined to become the finest community on livejournal: shoppinglists .

Welcome

Hi, Welcome to shoppinglists ; a forum to post photos or scans of found shopping lists. I found this today in a trolley in Waitrose car park in Southsea: I wonder what spatial is.

lists, killings and fixes

...fridge/freezer for a while. Make sure to use the freezer, and eat the food in there. No need to go shopping for one meal if you've got a full meal ready to be cooked already. Make shoppinglists and stick to them. No buyings of stuff not needed. Do your budgets. Get an overview of money ASAP and set aside money for crisis (not for chocolate and sweets, but actually crisis) Use the library ...

Scripty Goodness

I've finally moved my personal repository over to Subversion and added some recent scripts . g2export will grab all of the images from a Gallery 2 website, preserving the album structure on the website as a folder structure on the disk and taking file names from captions if available. ul2shoplist is designed as an iPhone bookmarklet for doing shopping lists. It takes the first unordered ...