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I spent today as a guest of Google, and I can highly recommend the experience - if nothing else it's worth it for the free lunch :) I'll do a more 'complete' post with reviews of all the talks I attended at the weekend, but for now I'll present some hig… more »

Last Friday I attended The Social Impact of the Web, an event organised and hosted by The RSA. It was one of two events I attended last week, but the only one I managed to be on time for :roll: so the only one I'm in a position to present my summary and… more »

After my post two weeks ago, where I exhorted non-technical managers to improve their communication skills rather than distract their technical staff with improving theirs, I came across two articles this week that struck me as being very related. Fir… more »

Last week I was reading a blog post on Angry Aussie - 6 essential communication tips for IT workers and it set me to thinking:So why are communications skills being focused on in IT roles where this has not traditionally been a prime requisite. In short,… more »

Much like the cool name AJAX made DHTML seem sexy again, the standardista blogosphere has recently started pushing POSH as a new umbrella term for semantic markup good practice. I'm here to do my part to add what little weight I can to the meme. Not… more »

I was saddened to hear today that Fred Fish died at home last week. I'd never met him, but his 'Fish Disks' were a big part of my Amiga infatuation, and my introduction to shareware and open source in general. The internet is very convenient, but getti… more »

Previously I produced an RPM for Mugshot 1.1.37-1 for SuSE 10.1. There's been a new release, 1.1.40, so I've built a new RPM (and here's the updated spec file). As before, you'll probably have better luck if you right click and 'save as'. more »