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  • The real-time web is sort of coming soon

    A couple of interesting but not unexpected developments today, first Bing announced it was including <a href="http://www viagra suisse prix.bing.com/twitter/”>real-time Twitter updates in its searches(this doesn’t look that live yet), then a few hours later Google announced the same. Real-time updates have been coming from a few directions in the past few months. There has…

  • How Google Notebook can help with your Christmas shopping

    As well as search, Google Reader, and Gmail, there is one other Google product I’ll use every day, and that is Google Notebook. It works so well for me for making todo lists, storing links and information, and sharing with other people. You need a Google account to use it, and once set up you’re…

  • Movember

    Welcome to Movember! I, along with several colleagues at work, will be growing a Mo (moustache to the rest of us) during November in aid of the Prostate Cancer Charity. Today I am clean-shaven for the first time in nearly a decade. The money raised by Movember is used to raise awareness of men’s health…

  • BarCampOxford announced for September 2008

    Quietly excited to see the announcement of BarCampOxford. Barcamp is a series of user-generated conferences, where participants provide the content, and help to run and organise it themselves. I can remember reading about the rise of BarCamps a couple of years ago, and I’m very interested to see it in action, get a feel for…

  • Graeme and fab

    A nice surprise today, I am the 4th Graeme on Google UK, and the 21st on Google.com. Imagine being so highly rated within the world of your own name! I aim to improve, and am setting my sight on being the No.1 Graeme in the UK, and to try and break the top ten Graeme…

  • Hold tight whilst I make a few changes here

    I’m just starting to update the presentation of the blog, so it may look slightly ropey for a couple of days. Hopefully won’t be too long. As a quick aside, there is a strong rumour apparently that Google are looking to buy up Godaddy. Which would be fantastic for me, I’d love to integrate my…

  • From Pixels to Plastic

    I’ve just been reading a presentation by Matt Webb called From Pixels to Plastic. Really inspirational ideas about how we could get the products we want doing the things we want them to, drawing from various ideas such as desktop widgets, and applying them to more physical items such as washing machines. Along with some…

  • Captcha – How very annoying

    I’m sure I must not be the only one whose heart sinks a little whenever I see a Captcha box on a form. The above example is taken from the signup for a hotmail account. I understand the reason of protecting against automated applications for servers, but they are hard to read, often cause you…

  • XPday 2006 – Love in the age of Software – James Noble & Robert Biddle

    These notes are taken from the above talk on 28th November 2006, given by James Noble and Robert Biddle. Pretty much free-form soundbites, which was the manner of the talk in some ways. We now best now. Order is best. Modern is best. Perfection – Repetition – Iteration. BUT Why do the robots lose to…

  • XPday 2006 – An Introduction to Scrum – Joseph Pelrine

    What follows are my notes on the XP Day talk given by Joseph Pelrine, on Tuesday 28th November 2006. Scrum is nothing to do with software, it is to do with managing work. In any project, requirements, technology & people are all changeable, all come with uncertainty. Scrum can manage and prioritise this complex domain.…