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SPA 2006 looks like another good year. Not least, of course, because I’m rerunning Storytelling with FIT with Mike Hill and Getting to know your Customer with Andy Pols

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This one is run by the theorists

Brian Foote has linked back to my posting and now I realise that I’ve broken blog etiquette by not providing a “via” link, like this one:

via Brian Foote

Bill Caputo (hi Bil!) has been readiing Jared Diamond’s Collapse. It’s possibly one of the most depressing books I’ve read. Bill writes about how societies cling to established practices, even when they’re disastrous in the current situation.

There is another lesson from the book. There are a couple of examples where societies, for whatever motivation, have […]

I don’t even remember how I found this artice

I was trying to avoid working on my lecture slides at the time.

I’m not sure I agree with everything, but it’s a good post

Of course, I especially liked:

I’ve been working on a prototype of something at work - where I started off the usual imperative programming style. Realizing that this wasn’t going to scale, I rewrote it in functional style making full use of C#’s anonymous delegates […]

I know these images are slightly unfair, but they do seem to express the cultural difference between these well-known IT companies:

via Presentation Zen

This is not what I want, this is. 5.6lbs weight. Dongles for VGA (forgot mine again this week). New, incompatible power connection.

Another year to wait, then.

I was trying to upload a keynote presentation to backpack and they wrote up the bug in public…

Described here.

Via lemonodor