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Turns out January 2006 has been a great month for blogging for me.
Note to self: Keep it up!
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It is never a good idea to stick a target on your back and run around clucking like a chicken on heat. Strangely that seems to be exactly what Ford has done with their latest Ford Focus ad-campaign:

The benchmark? The benchmark? I do not want to drive the benchmark. The benchmark is the minimum. You [...]

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While SNO continues to lie inanimate on the ground, we cannot continue to tolerate Telkom’s outrageous monopoly. And thus it is with great defiant pleasure I introduce you to “Wireless Networking in the Developing World” – a practical guide to planning and building low-cost telecommunications infrastructure.

What’s more – this book is free (as in [...]

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A mystery parcel was ready for collection at the Post Office this morning. I had no clue what it was…

It turns out it was my Creative Commons schwag – a small gift to say thanks for donating in the CC fundraising drive. Yay! Free stuff that actually made it all the way from the U.S., [...]

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Rather make that title “Mandatory Reading”.

An oldie but goodie:
‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Steve Jobs says.
Here’s a newer spin on the same theme, How To Do What You Love, from Paul Graham.
Ideas for Startups (once again from Paul Graham).
And moving into the sci-fi arena,
i, robot. By Cory Doctorow.
Best quote from the above texts:
“Stay [...]

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I’m pleased as punch to say that Wednesday was a great building day. I can’t say too much because there isn’t much to show, but hopefully in time I’ll be able to relate a few stories and show off a thing or too. Let’s just say that getting to know AJAX is rocking for me [...]

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From Overheard in the Office:
11AM Strategy Meeting
Project Manager: He needs to step into my office. The office of my fist. If he messes with my developer one more time, I’m gonna drop him like a bad habit. And by “drop” I mean “drop kick”. And by “bad habit” I mean “communist hobo”.
ROFLMAO. Great stuff!
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If you’re feeling down, sad, depressed, lonely, bored, angry or unhappy, don’t worry – according to Brit Cliff Arnall, a health psychologist at the University of Cardiff, mathematics states that Monday, January 23 will be the unhappiest day of the year.
Screw that! Here’s a few smiles just to prove Mr Arnall wrong.
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How could so many have been so wrong?
Technorati Tags: banana, peel, boingboing, monkey, genius

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I’ve been playing around with Seth Godin’s Squidoo lens creating thingy. I must admit it is pretty funky and relatively easy to get into, allowing you to quickly create a site using aggregated feeds from numerous services. In fact, you can pull in any content that has an RSS feed, meaning Flickr, del.icio.us, podcasts, technorati, [...]

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