• Today is a day I wish I wasn't on @TelecomNZ for broadband and mobile #
• @TelecomNZ yes I am thanks. Hopefully DSL and mobile don't go offline together again. #lostwithoutthenet #
• It's finally snowing here #
• Cool, no power… Makes for a productive evening… Not! #
• Power is back on, waiting for the house to boot up. #connectedlives #
• oh dear, my car does not like being covered in snow and this cold. #
• Listening to the latest Saturday Tech Show, I get the feeling this You Tube live guy is just blowing his own trumpet… #
• Ok, I've been up for a while. Is it bed time yet? #sosleepy #
• oh dear, couldn't 'keep it up' RT @TelecomNZ: Full credit to the opposition – we're stopping the Abstinence campaign http://t.co/d3XmGM3 ^RI #
• RT @brattnz: Holy shit – $4.50 for a crappy "push the button machine made" coffee at Arena Manawatu. Better taste good you rip off! #

• Eeeek, Monday morning already? I was just getting comfortable in bed! #
• It's Star Trek Jim, but not as we know it. #

• "@brattnz: WTF? Y has traffic stopped on the harbour bridge? Dorklanders should be @ work already. Bugger off and let us out of this place!" #
• I feel a little more than slightly shattered, as such have pretty much ignored twitter. #
• I think my cat is happy to be home after spending 17 days at the cattery, she hasn't left me alone all day and is fast asleep on my lap. #
• Seems @twitter have forced the 'new twitter' on me, but it only displays the top bar and nothing else. #fail #
• @5hameless oh, I must have missed that memo then too #
• Yippee, the weekend is here. Time for a beer #
• And don't believe so called celebrities RT @ManukauPolice: Key message from Counties Manukau Police this week – think before you tweet! #
• Spent the afternoon migrating Delphi code to Lazarus, so far so good. Now to test cross compiling from Linux to Windows. #
• @nzcspaul no, I stopped keeping up with Delphi releases after CodeGear was formed by Borland. Been on Delphi 6 way too long #
• Nom nom nom our roast pork and vege's are nearly ready. #nationalroastday #
• @johnk100 I was tempted to go for a walk to see if I could smell out any other roasts, but decided it was too cold #nationalroastday #
• Watching snow boarding on U (old TVNZ6) waiting for the landings to turn to custard. #

• Our logo looks good just under @WhittakersNZ in the list of supporters http://t.co/pKZNsKF #
• Just had a rush of players through the massage room. #
• This afternoon has slowed right down. #
• low lifes like this should not be allowed to remain anonymous RT @ManawatuNZ: Porn man keeps suppression http://t.co/epgkJc6 #
• Feel absolutely shattered. Day 4 of 7 was an early finish. Individual (badminton) comp start tomorrow. Going to be some knackered kids #
• RT @massagenz: Well into day 5 of 7, massaging at the u15/u17 age group badminton champs. lots of tired & sore kids coming through #
• Feel like I could sleep for a week, only 3 hours to go. #
• Starting to look pretty thin on the games going. Might be able to head home a little earlier tonight. #
• Nice to be home and relaxing. 2 more days of massaging at the u17/u15 badminton champs here in palmy. #
• I think an early night is in order, another long day in store tomorrow. #
• Day 6 of 7 massaging at the u17/u15 badminton champs. Looks like it'll be a busy day too. #
• 3 hours to go, I feel absolutely shattered. #
• Finally home after a very long day of massaging at the badminton here in palmy. Just tomorrow to go then I can sleep for a week #
• Final day of the u17/u15 badminton champs, which means the last day massaging at Arena Manawatu and the last very long day for a while #
• This has been my office for the past 7 days http://t.co/gVoItVh #
• Finals are under way for the u15/u17 badminton champs. Head down to Arena Manawatu if you want to watch some games this afternoon #
• Wow, end of a very long week. Time to go grab some dinner and head home to rest. #
• Ok, now I feel absolutely shattered. Time for a nice long hot bath, followed by an early night me thinks #
• It's the middle of the day, yet I feel like I should still be in bed. #recoveringfromlastweek #
• Just got that DOH! moment when you notice you forget to install php5-curl after upgrading to php 5.3.x #
• Listening to "Buggles – Video killed the radio star" is the a "Twitter killed broadcast media" yet #
• I hope jetpack for wordpress gets google +1 button support soon, just put the mods back in after the last update. #
• The smell of corned beef cooking in the slow cooker is really making my mouth water… Why is dinner not ready yet #
• baawahaaahaahaa @3newsnz can't spell… It's "Manawatu" not "Manuatu" #amatures #
• My god, I just ate way too much home made cheese cake.. #
• @StrudelNZ lol, I sense coming down off this sugar high is gonna be bad #
• @StrudelNZ well that sounds like a good reason to have a little more then hehe #
• @StrudelNZ at this rate, you probably have 5 minutes before it's all gone #opps #
• Starting to get quite a nice collection of these, might need a bigger rack soon http://t.co/1N6T0yu #
• Nearly all sorted to head up to Auckland tomorrow for 5 days #roadtrip #
• The car is all loaded, watch out Auckland here we come #
• Good morning Auckland, how are you today? looking pretty grey on the shore at the moment. #
• Having a lazy Thursday afternoon, I think yesterday has caught up. #

• Our logo looks good just under @WhittakersNZ in the list of supporters http://t.co/pKZNsKF #
• Just had a rush of players through the massage room. #
• This afternoon has slowed right down. #
• low lifes like this should not be allowed to remain anonymous RT @ManawatuNZ: Porn man keeps suppression http://t.co/epgkJc6 #
• Feel absolutely shattered. Day 4 of 7 was an early finish. Individual (badminton) comp start tomorrow. Going to be some knackered kids #
• RT @massagenz: Well into day 5 of 7, massaging at the u15/u17 age group badminton champs. lots of tired & sore kids coming through #
• Feel like I could sleep for a week, only 3 hours to go. #
• Starting to look pretty thin on the games going. Might be able to head home a little earlier tonight. #
• Nice to be home and relaxing. 2 more days of massaging at the u17/u15 badminton champs here in palmy. #
• I think an early night is in order, another long day in store tomorrow. #
• Day 6 of 7 massaging at the u17/u15 badminton champs. Looks like it'll be a busy day too. #
• 3 hours to go, I feel absolutely shattered. #
• Finally home after a very long day of massaging at the badminton here in palmy. Just tomorrow to go then I can sleep for a week #
• Final day of the u17/u15 badminton champs, which means the last day massaging at Arena Manawatu and the last very long day for a while #
• This has been my office for the past 7 days http://t.co/gVoItVh #
• Finals are under way for the u15/u17 badminton champs. Head down to Arena Manawatu if you want to watch some games this afternoon #
• Wow, end of a very long week. Time to go grab some dinner and head home to rest. #
• Ok, now I feel absolutely shattered. Time for a nice long hot bath, followed by an early night me thinks #
• It's the middle of the day, yet I feel like I should still be in bed. #recoveringfromlastweek #
• Just got that DOH! moment when you notice you forget to install php5-curl after upgrading to php 5.3.x #
• Listening to "Buggles – Video killed the radio star" is the a "Twitter killed broadcast media" yet #
• I hope jetpack for wordpress gets google +1 button support soon, just put the mods back in after the last update. #
• The smell of corned beef cooking in the slow cooker is really making my mouth water… Why is dinner not ready yet #
• baawahaaahaahaa @3newsnz can't spell… It's "Manawatu" not "Manuatu" #amatures #
• My god, I just ate way too much home made cheese cake.. #
• @StrudelNZ lol, I sense coming down off this sugar high is gonna be bad #
• @StrudelNZ well that sounds like a good reason to have a little more then hehe #
• @StrudelNZ at this rate, you probably have 5 minutes before it's all gone #opps #
• Starting to get quite a nice collection of these, might need a bigger rack soon http://t.co/1N6T0yu #
• Nearly all sorted to head up to Auckland tomorrow for 5 days #roadtrip #
• The car is all loaded, watch out Auckland here we come #
• Good morning Auckland, how are you today? looking pretty grey on the shore at the moment. #
• Having a lazy Thursday afternoon, I think yesterday has caught up. #

• okay all my sites are upgraded, WordPress 3.2 dashboard is kinda cool. #

• Great, did some twat @Telecomnz contractor just fuck around at the exchange. Lost ADSL, it came back with up stream down to 296 from 768 FFS #
• FFS, now our @Telecom ADSL up is 604kbps and Down is 3096kbps (was over 11) FFS tune the fucking card at the exchange and leave it alone #
• keep going @TelecomNZ tech at exchange.. Now 10624kbps down and 772kbps up.. You can do better, I KNOW you can. It's been better…. #
• Damn… Anyone have a Google+ invite they'd like to share? #
• @psychorn yeah, just found the android app in the market #
• Heh, I have the new black bar on google for my business googls apps acct, but not my personal gmail. #
• WTF? and no i didn't alter it and re-post it. Something screwed up though. http://twitpic.com/5ixpdu #
• Fuck. I think I need sleep or at least a strong drink #

Well, I’ve seen a lot of people bitching on twitter over the last few days. Google seem to be finding out that “You can’t please everyone all of the time”

Google has unleashed what some think is the “Black bar of death” Now, not everyone has this bar and I only have it on my business Google Apps account. But I kinda like it. It’s clean and easy to read. Yeah, I like black but hell it could be worse. It could be fluro yellow or green..

Anyway, I fail to see where the problem is, Why do so many dislike it?

What are your thoughts? Do you like the black bar or not. I for one hope it sticks around.

• When there is nothing else to do, pick up the acoustic guitar and jam miss 14 who is playing the flute. #
• When there is nothing else to do, pick up the acoustic guitar and jam with miss 14 who is playing the flute. #
• I'm at arena manawatu (23 pascal street, Palmerston north) http://4sq.com/jbDryq #
• Yay, sleepy time. Night night everyone. #
• Ohhh this is going to be interesting, the guitar sheet music for Metallica – Master of Puppets is 19 pages. #
• Yep, like the Auckland house wives that watch masterchief are gonna go hunting. yeah fucking right #tui #
• I think I may have just driven my voice into the wall with that last podcast recording. Going to be a quiet afternoon from me I think. #
• 'tis a good day to be snuggled up on the couch with laptop, working on my android app #
• @websam it's an appointment/scheduling and reminder system for our massage (@massagenz) clients #
• Hmm, I am unable to get to Facebook on @TelecomNZ broadband. Every other site is fine.. #odd #
• @scottjpalmer According to http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ FB is up @telecomnz #
• @scottjpalmer ahh, cool thanks. Nothing to worry about then @telecomnz teach me for not watching twitter more closely #
• @PeteMarcroft: Apparently not funny thing is though isup.me shows FB as being up, my Traceroute fails at a ***.global-gateway.net.nz IP #
• @MadWomanMeg: I don't think it's a facebook problem. I can get to FB via a US proxy server, I think it's a gateway problem. #
• @MadWomanMeg If you're in the US you'll have no problem with FB. It's an internet gateway problem somewhere routing to FB from countries #
• and Facebook appears to back up and operational as per normal again. cc/ @telecomnz @madwomanmeg @petemarcroft #
• @MadWomanMeg: Yeah, seems it's gone again. ae0.pabr4.global-gateway.net.nz is as far as I get to.. /cc @TelecomNZ @petemarcroft. Coffee Time #
• Ahhh Sunday! Who said you could arrive so quickly, I was just getting use to Saturday! #

• I'm at UCOL (Cnr King & Princess Streets, Rangitikei St, CBD) http://4sq.com/ivXEgU #
• Woohoo, I'm caught up on my work for tomorrow. #
• I'm at Countdown (Rangitikei Street, Featherston Street, Palmerston North) http://4sq.com/kDzujk #
• Kinda glad we came home last night, have had a nice relaxing day overall. #
• What a crock of shit #
• Ok I'm up though not necessarily awake. #
• Picked up my cat from the cattery, she won't leave me alone. Not sure how much work I'll get done today. #
• It would seem @TelecomNZ broadband once again proves it's third world.. its not f'n IPv6 capable. #
• Hell, its not even 7pm yet. #seemsmuchlater #
• RT @techdelight: Facebook quietly switches on facial recognition tech by default #technology http://bit.ly/kFcKH8 #
• Sweet, I can get to IPv6 sites without any issues now and I have a 9/10 score for the IPv6 test via http://www.test-ipv6.com/ #
• Heh, again mainstream media over dramatise a storey to get read. Sad really. #
• Such a crappy day, trying to get motivated but it isn't working. #
• @5hameless: hehe, I'm kinda use to my office being barren and desolate. #
• Given that it's crappy outside, I'm having a productive morning in the podcast studio #
• Miss 11 kindly made me breakfast, fried potato and a fried egg. Very yummy #