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Coming up for air (Agile 2009)

6 Aug 2009

I’ve been mostly off-line for a couple of months: no blogs (reading or writing), no twitter, no open source (sorry, users), very little chat. That’s because Nat and I have been finishing up the copy editing of our book. We’re very much looking forward to it being done.
With that out of the way, I [...]

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Asian trip. Anyone interested?

1 Sep 2008

I’ll be travelling for personal reasons to Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, and Hong Kong in late October.

I’ve already been making enquiries, so if you’re interested in getting together then please drop me a line.

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Travel to XP2008?

5 Jun 2008

In preparation for my (first) tutorial at XP2008, I’ll be arriving at Shannon airport at about 7:30, Tuesday night. If anyone wants to share a ride to Limerick, please let me know. Comment on this blog if you don’t have my address.

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Am I a B-Person?

14 Jun 2007

There’s a movement started in Denmark to support later risers in society. From the B Society web site

B-persons has an inner day-and-night lasting 25-27 hours, whereas A-persons has one that runs through approximately 23 hours.

A B-person has a strive for staying awake untill late at night — for instance, to go to bed at 1 [...]

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Sometimes I really like living in London…

7 May 2006

It’s not every day you get to see a three-storey elephant and 5 metre girl wandering around the city. More from the BBC. Even if they are French…

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Disk Crash!

20 Feb 2006

If I owe anyone a response, please drop me a reminder since I’ve finally suffered a disk crash and, of course, my backups are a bit out of date. The horse having bolted, I’ve been rushing around buying Firewire disks and that sort of thing.

The thing that really took up time was the [...]

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SPA2006

23 Jan 2006

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

Sign up before the end of the month to get the discount!

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Looks like all conference committees are the same

22 Jan 2006

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

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No, no, no, Mr. Jobs!

11 Jan 2006

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.

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My bug report made the headlines…

10 Jan 2006

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

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