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Who wants an organic kale breakfast scramble with smoked salmon and a big mug of coffee? No-one? Oh well. Your loss is my gain ...
Picking up my life after ma's discharge has been interesting. I think I need to find someone to talk to about everything that's going on.
One more piece of work to finish & then it's me, a glass of red wine, & my Mubi subscription. I ought to organize some kind of movie night.
The good folks at Esri have four new open source JS projects (three involving geodata). Handy: http://aaronparecki.com/articles/2013/07/12/1/new-esri-open-source-javascript-projects-leaflet-geose...
If I never hear another album full of ironic songs about business methodology by an ousted CEO, it will be too soon.
My friend Fred Crawley reviews Pacific Rim in the New Statesman: "I failed to have a single thought." http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/07/during-132-minutes-pacific-rim-i-failed-have-single-thou...
If you're not motived to ally yourself with your users, or if you don't care about them as people, you're going to make crappy software.
Caring about, and being motivated to create for, users is the most important part of software development. More than empathy, it's alliance.
Officially reached the "eccentric bachelor" stage of living alone.
Whoa! Congrats to <a href="http://twitter.com/afsanehgray">@afsanehgray</a> on her new opera (about Jade Goody): http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/news/and-the-crowd-wept-jade-goody-becomes...
At this stage in my bay area existence, it'd be a better promo for startups to accept T-shirts for recycling than to give out more.
If you're making a web platform for people to build on top of, ship the smallest workable template you can. Then ship fancier alternatives.
@barnabywalters It also contains Manchester, Portsmouth, Dover, Bedford, Durham, Rochester, Hanover, and, er, Greenland.
I'll never get tired of watching people use things I helped design and build. Loving the feedback loop.
My little sister is 30 today. If anyone needs me, I'll be confronting how old I actually am. Lovely day though!
The Lullaby Factory at Great Ormond St Hospital. Lovely. http://www.studioweave.com/projects/the-lullaby-factory/#.UeI9oGRgbDl /via <a href="http://twitter.com/celiaka">@celiaka</a>
Gotta say, it's kind of third world for it to be possible for a guy to shoot a kid and for it not be murder. This is bigger than Zimmerman.
@problemsdog "Just Oxford it" though? Also see: Bunburying.
@problemsdog Yep, and I'm not the first. "Latakoo it" genuinely used in news.
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