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I refuse to go to big American chains when I'm in another country. I won't be that guy. So, here I am, in a big French chain. Good wifi.

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My phone is being throttled to 128kbps. Yet somehow, my hotel wifi is slower.

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Testing to Slack

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I'm demoing Known!

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@thierrymarianne Great photo!

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Replied to a post on erinjo.is :

That looks like a really exciting book.

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The French gave us the word "entrepreneur"; we gave them the phrase "business model". Fair swap.

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Learning, sadly, that my GCSE French has left me, a mere 20 years later. Time for lessons.

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Quick slack test.

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I'm going to be talking about Known at Mozilla Paris in an hour. Excited!

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@hugoroyd I don't see why not!

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Bonjour, Paris.

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Fell asleep briefly and awoke to the French countryside whizzing past my window. Eurostar is pretty cool.

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On Eurostar for the first time ever. See you soon, Paris - come join me at Mozilla tonight!

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Finding people who share your values and core assumptions shouldn't be taken lightly. It's so important, and so hard.

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Educational videos curated by teachers for teachers - but snazzier. Congrats @EduCrateco on your relaunched site! http://educrate.co

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I love the murals in San Francisco.

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@sarahdal Please let them go to Germany next

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@mgsiegler Or: take care of yourself and mitigate the future symptoms so it doesn't hit as hard?

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Through objective testing, I have determined that classical carols are 937% more Christmassy than seasonal pop songs.

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Needed towels for my stay; bought some at Primark. Less than a week and a half later, I need new towels again.

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@laura_ritchie Thank you!!

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@problemsdog But normally that makes things run faster :(

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@erindubitably Completely wonderful. Thank you again. The second link references projects I worked on, so you'd think I'd know this ...!

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@brianloveswords Regular, which is why it's so weird.

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