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2009 Resolutions

January 1, 2009

2009 Resolutions
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These are my New Year’s resolutions for 2009 – the things I need to work on, or achieve. You’ll notice that there are no work related ones – well, that’s because the work changes I need to make will fall naturally out of doing these.
I’ll check back in at the [...]

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Automatic links postings from Delicious. Annoying?

October 6, 2008

Judging from the massive take-up of the feature, I sometimes think that I must be the only person in the world who thinks that automated blog postings full of people’s bookmarks on delicious.com are really annoying.  A lot of people who do this are excellent writers, producing content I love to read.  It’s always a  disappointment [...]

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Strengths Finder 2.0

September 29, 2008

Visiting the most excellent Ian Hughes last week, I spotted a book called Strengths Finder 2.0 on a table.
Ian explained to me that the book, along with an online evaluation tool, form a program to help identify personal strengths.  This immediately resonated with me, as it intersects with a long running train of thought that [...]

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What’s it for?

September 20, 2008

When I hear people raving excitedly about a new social networking thing, I always go and look, just because I love these things.  I love connecting with other people, and finding things in common.  I just do, and always have.  Recently, though, I’ve started to notice a problem.
When I arrive at a new site, I [...]

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Delicious Library v2

August 28, 2008

I’ve been in the process of cataloguing my large collection of books into Delicious Library for a while now.  Version 2 introduced a web publishing feature, and so you can now visit my library online.  It’s just a bit of fun really – I’m doing it because it’s cool, rather than because people need to [...]

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Naa na-na na na… Space Pirates!

December 29, 2007

When you live with a three year old in the UK, you tend to find yourself seeing a lot of CBeebies – the BBC’s television channel for young children. This has a wide variety of programming which I find varies considerably in its appeal to the adults who are absorbing it along with their toddlers. [...]

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