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RSI and accupuncture
Danny’s got RSI. You can actually see me getting RSI in real time here. My RSI – numbness and loss of strength in my left arm and a horrible pain in my shoulder (I was pretty sure I’d had a stroke) – coincides with leaving my job and my Aeron chair and taking up residence…
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Soho Lunch with Juliet, Azeem and Duncan
(there’d be a picture here only it’s gone)
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Hail Freedonia!
With the unreality of Firefly’s Freedonia, the British pop media is now entering its third continuous week of multi-page coverage for the fact that the Prime Minister’s wife was made to look stupid (I mean really, really stupid) by not one but two scumbags – a ‘lifestyle guru’ whose CV includes a period spent as…
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An infinitely hot and dense dot
Geeks – at least those with any vision – dream of ‘the singularity‘. For the social software geeks, this singularity will arrive when information space collapses into a sort of zero-dimensional dot. The distance between related concepts will approach zero. The relevance of any given link will rarely drop below 100%. Connection will be automatic…
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Government content? exciting, huh?
Mike Butcher blogs a deal between the UK Government and MSN to offer Government content to MSN users. Mike draws out an analogy with the recent discussion of Azeem Azhar’s BPL idea. I think the comparison is valuable but the big difference it that so much Government content is paralysingly boring so it’s unlikely that…
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So what is next?
I wrote a piece for The Guardian. I was asked to to write about what I might do next but it was rushed and I wound up cataloguing the current buzzwords – Wi-fi, Social Software, Web Services and Moblogging. I mean it when I say these are the things that excite me right now but…
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Jack’s Google tips
From the outboard brain department, here’s Jack Schofield’s October piece documenting the neat things you can do to improve the results of your Google searches. I searched for this article for about twenty minutes using The Guardian’s search function and then it occurred to me to use Google… Duh. Jack’s a great exponent of the…
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Old geezer? Moi?
The FT ran a little piece about my departure from another.com in their ‘People’ section. This is the section usually populated by old geezers in bad suits taking jobs running Northern engineering businesses or 200 year-old City firms. Have I finally acquired old geezer status? Don’t answer that (I do own several bad suits).
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Mitnick on Markoff
The most interesting thing about The Guardian’s Mitnick piece is that he doesn’t seem bitter – except maybe about Markoff: My argument is not that I shouldn’t have been punished, but that the punishment didn’t fit the crime,” he says. “I wouldn’t have sat in prison for five years, I wouldn’t have been held without…
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Anyone give me odds?
This may be my weblog’s first authentic scoop. A ‘friend’ (picture removed) – an author and publishing insider – tells me, with some credibility, that Michael Crichton’s Nano-frightener Prey will be followed by two more books – each focused on extinction-level threats to humankind – from Robots and Geneticists respectively (but not necessarily in that…