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Today
	Shared 2 links. — 7:37pm via Delicious Creating Polaroid Style Images with Just CSS - ZURB Playground - ZURB.com Try glasses on online before you buy at Vision Express with our Virtual Try-on. Upload your picture and choose your frame - Visionexpress.com
Yesterday
	Shared 4 links. — 8:10pm via Google Reader The future of Facebook Measuring Usability: Why you only need to test with five users Contacts in the Browser Lunakhod 2 Found
March 16th
	Shared Hmmmm.. — 1:00pm via Google Reader
	Shared 12 links. — 10:34am via Google Reader Chris Roane's Blog: 10 Things I Wish I Knew as a Web Programmer 10 Years Ago IE9 preview The Poles are back Briton is recognised as world's first officially genderless person - Telegraph Introducing... Comic Heroes What Panorama didn’t talk about: our rights Al Jazeera adds live streaming to mobile website and makes iPhone apps free WWE Heroes Is Not Very Good openended: Canonical's new COO gets religion on Linux desktop - http://arst.ch/gp1 The Amazing Art of Disabled Artists Email Marketing Hackable Linux clamshell goes on sale for $99
March 15th
	Shared 17 links. — 7:30pm via Google Reader What's Up With Texas? One Man's Theory Kill Busywork: The One Skill to Focus On What Matters | Zen Habits Sainsbury's is coming to Stroud Green Road - Woody's is going! 6 Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Wallpapers guardiantech: Blind soldier uses tongue device to 'see' http://bit.ly/aSjBkm REST: Resources, URI’s and Representations He’d spent years cultivating a perfectly messy study. So... A broadband catapult for America Solar Blog: Solar 1.0.0 Stable Released Struck by karma / gifbin.com How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - Bret Taylor's blog Close-up of Martian Moon Phobos iPad petition hits 10,000 signatures, "Apple-as-1984" meme spreading guardiantech: Facebook passes Google as most-viewed site in US in past week http://bit.ly/9q0Xni Top 6 Underground Search Engines You Never Knew About 15 Noteworthy Websites That Changed the Internet School Cancels Prom Instead of Allowing Lesbian to Attend
	Shared 2 links. — 10:35am via Delicious Panic Blog » The Panic Status Board How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - Bret Taylor's blog
March 14th
	Shared 5 links. — 8:56pm via Google Reader Update on Product Ideas for Google Buzz I did a timer for an auction based website.  Client after the review: “I want people to feel... Google Nexus One UK Launch Delayed, The Final Nail In The Smartphones Coffin? guardiantech: The future of Facebook: will it end up eating itself? http://bit.ly/aYUCJA Facebook Opening A Public Stream Firehose?
	Shared 5 links. — 5:02am via Google Reader Sneaking into Future: 25 Ultra Modern Websites Using HTML5 Comic for March 13, 2010 Integrating Wine Into Ubuntu With Vineyard Sunday Secrets Android will have PS3 graphics in 3 years
March 13th
	Shared 4 links. — 8:14am via Delicious Facebook threatens to sue Daily Mail | Media | guardian.co.uk BBC - dot.Rory: Facebook v Daily Mail Daily Mail lies about Facebook (updated x7) | Influence and networks | Global Dashboard Facebook Threatens to Sue Daily Mail Over Sex Predator Claims
March 12th
	Shared 8 links. — 4:30pm via Google Reader Littlejohn makes it up, even when claiming he doesn't Keep Your Daily Momentum Going With a 10/15 Split - Motivation - Lifehacker Here Come the Linux iPad Clones guardiantech: Lose yourself in the British Library's sound archive http://bit.ly/dap8nr Comic for March 12, 2010 The Future Of PHP Why did we build BBC iD? Why did we build BBC iD?
	Posted Vodex: finally recovered mail imported into gMail hidden as were unlabelled (search for unread, move all to inbox). Now has 3819 unread in inbox. — 2:02pm via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: launched http://bit.ly/a9WhVc recently for @sartorial_swash. But http://bit.ly/cYHrug finds nothing yet. Go go googlejuice!. — 12:24pm via Twitter
March 11th
	Posted Vodex: back from @skillsmatter talk on scrum and kanban: #scrumban. Once again have copious, random notes taking as long to write up as talk itself. — 9:52pm via Twitter
	Shared 7 links. — 12:51pm via Google Reader New Verizon HTC Incredible pics and specs All I Ever Want Is The Smartbook To Be Real When tabloids want to whip up a moral panic but the facts just won't fit - and why what they do is bad How I Explained REST to My Wife Google Maps – Street View Why (I think) Ubuntu is Better Than Windows A More Permanent Join
	Shared 11 links. — 1:22am via Google Reader A Blue Ocean on the Land Goodbye, privacy: The entire UK set to go on Google Street View tomorrow Being stuck in between two jobs, what to do? Should i just dump my former job? [closed] Finding awesome stuff online with Google Reader Play Earthquake-proof All Seasons Tent Tower in Armenia Plastic Wrap Door Trick Retro Futuristic Illustrations by Kilian Eng You Will Have the Power of a PS3 In Your Pocket In 3 Years [Powervr] Deal or No Finding awesome stuff online with Google Reader Play Finding awesome stuff online with Google Reader Play
March 10th
	Shared 3 links. — 8:00pm via Google Reader Lots going on here. Does it ever! Lots going on here.
	Shared Snapshot of the International Space Station. — 5:00am via Google Reader
March 9th
	Shared 18 links. — 9:00am via Google Reader 10 Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein The Single Sign On YouTube Fail Not Yet Time To Burn the Boats US anti-gay rights senator Roy Ashburn comes out Trillian for Web: Version 2.0 now available and free for everyone! Sneak peek access to Ethnographic Video Online Polyamory Is Wrong Mail Quiet over White Terror Plot Artist adds Street Fighter’s Ryu on Hoboken Interstate sign Smearing the Dead with Richard Littlejohn HUMAN HORSEPOWER iA’s 2006 Facebook Designs, Redesigned Internally Consistent Social media advertising comes of age, gets regulated The Single Sign On php|architect: Static methods vs singletons: choose neither Flash and Standards: The Cold War of the Web
March 8th
	Shared . — 4:11pm via Google Reader
	Shared Ummm…what?. — 2:00pm via Google Reader
	Shared Phytoplankton Bloom in the Arabian Sea. — 5:00am via Google Reader
March 7th
	Shared Smart cows.. — 2:00pm via Google Reader
March 6th
	Shared 4 links. — 5:11pm via Google Reader The Hickory Rancher 1/2 pound beef patty, muenster cheese, 7... digitalurban: Image Stacking: 8400 Images - Day and Night in the City http://bit.ly/bOW8NC 6 Critical WordPress Plugins You Should Have Installed "I do know a lot of people who will do it for free, so please hurry up."
	Shared Oh You Know. — 2:00pm via Google Reader
	Shared BNPea. — 7:16am via Delicious
	Shared Charlie Brooker's Screen burn. — 12:08am via Google Reader
March 5th
	Shared 5 links. — 3:30pm via Google Reader T-Mobile “Very Fast Mobile Web” coming March 14 CatsWhoCode.com: Getting started with CouchDB: a beginner's guide This Is Why that Amazing NASA Earth Image Looked So Familiar [IPhone] Eee PC 1005PR Announced at CeBIT 2010 The Blasphemy law is back
	Posted Vodex: wrote report summarizing info/followups/recommendations from #phpuk2010. It is eight pages long. Conference was useful then?. — 2:31pm via Twitter
	Shared 9 links. — 7:27am via Google Reader The Open UP Debate The New UI for ARM Based Ubuntu Devices « linuxuk.org Soft Skills are Actual Skills NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge Google and the Tor Project Google Chrome getting navigator.geolocation US creationists adopt climate change denial Ubuntu 10.04 "light" Themes Released [download link] Gesture Search for Android
March 4th
	Posted Vodex: waiting for PHPLondon to start. (know Buzz is new, but am I really the first for here?!) http://bit.ly/cSRvri. — 8:37pm via Twitter
	Posted waiting for PHPLondon to start. (know Buzz is new, but am I really the first for here?!). — 7:46pm via Google Buzz
	Shared 9 links. — 12:14am via Google Reader Microsoft to Double Down on HTML5 With IE 9 Red Hot Vigilante Crimefighting MKupperman: http://twitpic.com/16gj60 It was another lovely day. Google Index to Go Real Time Ubuntu Desktop In the Cloud Ubuntu's New Look - No More Brown! From the CEO of a Fortune 100 Company Ubuntu Gets New Themes, Logo, Boot Screen, Indentity and So Much More! Refreshing the Ubuntu Brand
March 2nd
	Shared 14 links. — 10:29am via Google Reader The only scary thing is how this stuff gets published Skinput turns your arm into a touchscreen « •||•• Edge of Tomorrow ••|||••• MKupperman: http://twitpic.com/1686i5 Pirates, Hoboes and Robots. Photo How peering is changing the shape of the Internet Apart from Freeview channel 9. And 14. And 19. And most of the others. Web Design Criticism: A How-To Google's SEO Report Card Why DRM doesn't work... Dark Roasted Blend: Hallucinatory Architecture of the Future Alex's Soapbox: Patterns of Failure Ibuildings techPortal: Habits of Highly Scalable Web Applications Reported Attack Site - recovering from gumbars Searching for gold during the Games
	Shared 2 links. — 8:00am via Google Reader Forget Touchscreens, The Future’s Going To Be Skinput Habits of Highly Scalable Web Applications
March 1st
	Shared . — 10:04pm via Google Reader
	Shared 2 links. — 4:19pm via Google Reader Announcing the Guardian Politics API ShareThis Introduces The Share Stream
	Shared Agile IT Team Performance Report. — 1:35pm via Delicious
February 28th
	Shared 5 links. — 10:59pm via Google Reader Dealing with rape and sexual assault Sunday Secrets “Let’s negotiate on the price. Don’t forget, my wife can do this for free.” Five Fabulous PHP Frameworks JOURNAL: Global Media vs. Spies
	Shared 6 links. — 8:24pm via Delicious Once in a Blue Moon T-shirt by zerobriant from Design By Humans 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know - Programmer 97-things A common dangerous night T-shirt by alvarejo from Design By Humans The moon is my balloon T-shirt Design by Naolito from Design By Humans Links to other 97 Things books - Softarch 97Things Electric Storm T-shirt by blackpinksoul from Design By Humans
	Shared 3 links. — 6:39am via Google Reader Sunday Secrets Nowadays, employers seem to think that all graphic design work is done by software and that the... Two feet of snow
February 27th
	Shared 11 links. — 2:53am via Google Reader USA INC Curmudgeonly essay on "Why the Internet Will Fail" from 1995 Fat-Free, a new PHP framework "We like the woman in the wheelchair, but we don’t want people to think being in a wheelchair makes..." Dawkins forum closure: the true reason milk Why Continuous Deployment is challenging for most companies? Six failures from poor application quality Comics’ Most Humiliating Defeats The 1-Second Linux Boot Texas Textbook Excerpts
February 26th
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 - great phone with lovely @sartorial_swash, just outside Facebook-paid bar; shortly off for Fri night debauchery. A good day.. — 6:46pm via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 - drunk geeks, awaiting prize draw, politely pretending the non-Xbox prizes are worth winning.. — 6:20pm via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 - grabbed last Hadoop book for much @astreetpress fun in the future. Conference 'over', the Facebook-paid bar is open.... — 5:39pm via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 D-BUS messaging, ringing random audience phone, via laptop. Extra spooky points for somehow displaying the caller's picture.... — 5:23pm via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 D-BUS messaging. Watching live demo of PHP interaction with Skype. This is great. Smelling good things cooking in kitchen.... — 5:13pm via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 last talk, on D-BUS messaging. Starting to think I've had too much sodding coffee.. — 4:47pm via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: @rchiswell @johnehgtir @paullew @PaulLomax @davegardnerisme @lupomontero Yep, walked out of PayPal talk. Tried to do it quietly but.... — 4:05pm via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 walked out of irrelevant PayPal talk, clompy boots whacking chairs and all. Snuck into reg-ex talk instead, like night & day.. — 3:54pm via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 monetisation strategy talk suspiciously like marketing tour of the Paypal API redressed as Conference Filler. Should've reg-fu'd?. — 3:34pm via Twitter

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