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Today
	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
Yesterday
	Shared 7 links. — 8:38pm via Google Reader 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] Earthquake-proof All Seasons Tent Tower in Armenia 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
	Shared Lots going on here.. — 8:00am via Google Reader
	Shared Snapshot of the International Space Station. — 5:00am via Google Reader
March 9th
	Shared 12 links. — 8:58pm via Google Reader 10 Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein YouTube Fail Not Yet Time To Burn the Boats US anti-gay rights senator Roy Ashburn comes out Sneak peek access to Ethnographic Video Online 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
	Shared . — 3:30am via Google Reader
March 8th
	Shared Ummm…what?. — 2:00pm via Google Reader
	Shared Phytoplankton Bloom in the Arabian Sea. — 5:00am via Google Reader
March 7th
	Shared 6 Critical WordPress Plugins You Should Have Installed. — 3:55am via Google Reader
March 6th
	Shared BNPea. — 7:16am via Delicious
	Shared Charlie Brooker's Screen burn. — 12:08am via Google Reader
March 5th
	Posted Vodex: wrote report summarizing info/followups/recommendations from #phpuk2010. It is eight pages long. Conference was useful then?. — 2:31pm via Twitter
	Shared 3 links. — 9:58am via Google Reader T-Mobile “Very Fast Mobile Web” coming March 14 Eee PC 1005PR Announced at CeBIT 2010 The Blasphemy law is back
March 4th
	Shared 5 links. — 11:36pm via Google Reader The New UI for ARM Based Ubuntu Devices « linuxuk.org Google and the Tor Project US creationists adopt climate change denial Ubuntu 10.04 "light" Themes Released [download link] Gesture Search for Android
	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
March 3rd
	Shared 7 links. — 6:42pm 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's New Look - No More Brown! Ubuntu Gets New Themes, Logo, Boot Screen, Indentity and So Much More! Refreshing the Ubuntu Brand
March 2nd
	Shared Forget Touchscreens, The Future’s Going To Be Skinput. — 9:38pm via Google Reader
	Shared 13 links. — 9:25am 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 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
March 1st
	Shared . — 8:10pm 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
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 avoided post-talk crowd by sneaking through the large stamp exhibition. Not into stamps, but... a surprisingly guilty pleasure.. — 3:21pm via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 - I can't be the only one to have noticed the facebook stand has mis-spelled 'memcached', can I?. — 2:06pm via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 PHP5.3 w/ @fabpot; hearing singletons are eeeeevil in second consecutive talk today. It is 'bad' that we all know what they are.. — 12:19pm via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 antipatterns w/ @spriebsch straw poll; approx 70% of audience use #mvc. That's... surprisingly low.. — 11:43am via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 antipatterns w/ @spriebsch: did NOT just say that every antipattern can be found in magento. Uhoh, here comes the God Class.. — 11:40am via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 antipatterns w/ @spriebsch straw poll; approx 50% of audience have heard of #dependencyinjection. — 11:24am via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 antipatterns: @spriebsch appears to like wearing suits. — 11:08am via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 @joshholmes simplicity keynote: chock full of agile principles, but 'A' word avoided. Some Microsoft 'not invented here' thing?. — 11:01am via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: #phpuk2010 'simplicity' keynote by @joshholmes: one feature took 9mths of 18mth project, but has 1/75th user usage. — 10:30am via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: in & breakfasting at #phpuk2010 - we seem to be doubling up with a stamp collectors convention! geeky.: in & break... http://bit.ly/bQG1RM. — 9:38am via Twitter
	Posted Vodex: waiting for @g4egk at #phpuk2010 - attempting to Buzz instead of Twitter, but will it #twitterfeed fast enough? Wifi holding up so far.... — 9:28am via Twitter
	Posted in & breakfasting at #phpuk2010 - we seem to be doubling up with a stamp collectors convention! geeky.. — 9:01am via Google Buzz
	Shared Unfortunate picture (part 3). — 12:00am via Google Reader
February 25th
	Posted Vodex: at #phpuk2010 "lightning talks" pre meetup. Talks a bit overdue...: at #phpuk2010 "lightning talks" pre meetup. Ta... http://bit.ly/b5puHN. — 10:56pm via Twitter
	Posted at #phpuk2010 "lightning talks" pre meetup. Talks a bit overdue.... — 8:12pm via Google Buzz

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