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05.07.08Things I might write about at some point, but not nowBeing a list of things which I've been meaning to write about here or elsewhere, but haven't had a moment. New forms of storytelling The rise of the renaissance journalist Hotel life Why I don't write much about work here Flickr video Personality blogs and the cult of the meme (pron: Me! Me!) On returning to Canada Agile development - the business/product owner's perspective Being hobbled by technology Some new commandments for polite living Team operating agreements Hopefully, by putting these out here in public I will be shamed into actually finishing one of these posts (currently on draft). Please feel entirely free to hassle me in the comments into actually completing ...
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04.18.08The sound of silenceSorry it's been a bit quiet around here recently: I've been variously in Istanbul, working working working working working in the Isle of Wight for Easter being a rapporteuse at an Ofcom/OII social networking conference (must write up my notes on that) in hospital being attacked internally with lasers lying on the sofa feeling sorry for myself (oh alright, and playing Lego Star Wars) working some more What passes for normal service around here will resume at some point. Or is this it resuming now? Very possibly. In the meantime, I'm dealing with more spam being inserted into the footer.php of this site and I'm at a loss to ...
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04.03.08As You Like It.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; border: 1px #c0c0c0; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The other night, out for dinner with friends, we found ourselves discussing the perfect food. Not favourite food - that's a different question - but perfect food, which works in a number of contexts and is flexible and suits all palletes. Cheese, we thought, maybe. Or pasta. Or even bacon. But you know what we came up with? Toast. Toast and Marmite, originally uploaded by jovike. Think about it: It can be a morning food or an evening snack. It can form part of an entire meal (beans on ...
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03.30.08“Nighthawks” at the Chippy?.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } From the top of the bus the other day, while stuck in traffic, I took this (rather crappy) image of a fish & chip shop on Gray's Inn Road, and its Friday night clientèle. Looking at the image later, I thought there was something familiar about it in a way. It's just occurred to me that there's something quite Hopper-esque about the scene... Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks", originally uploaded by glynnish.
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03.06.08The Jet SetI've been away for 48 hours in Istanbul, where I was invited to attend and speak at a conference for a global NGO. I'm sorry I didn't have more time to spend in the city, but the tantalising glimpses of it I was able to snatch during cab rides and a trip into town for dinner gave me plenty of food for thought - something which I'll expand on in a later post. But I've been thinking a lot over the last couple of days about how transitory a lot of our jobs - and lives - are these days, ...
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03.02.08Some Totally Unsolicited Advice from an Old Married Woman on the Occasion of Your Wedding(Cobbled together for the recent nuptials of some friends, and based on my experiences of weddings, as guest (multiple), participant (several) and hostess (single). Please add your own!) On Wellbeing (Physical and Otherwise) Everyone will tell you to relax. You won’t – you’ll have not enough sleep and too much to do, and the whole thing will be full-on and in your face and a bit mad. But that’s ok. In fact, that’s more than ok. The extra adrenaline will get you through. Don’t sweat the small stuff. It doesn’t matter if it rains/something breaks/someone stuffs up their line. It’s not supposed to ...
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01.27.08Technique needs a little refinement, perhapsA scene from this weekend's family gathering near Arundel, West Sussex, in which your humble author is playing hide and seek with her beloved three and a half year old nephew, T. Meg: ...sixteen...seventeen...eighteen...nineteen...twenty! Coming, ready or not! [she springs up from the chair on which she has been sitting to count] ...Now, where could he possibly be? T: [somewhat muffled] I'm hiding in the cupboard, Auntie Meg!
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12.17.07Reflections on Le Web 3Last week, I went to Le Web 3 in Paris with my boss (who was participating in an onstage recreation of this debate and m'colleague Neil. It was a good event, mostly, and great to connect with a variety of people I like and admire both personally and professionally. I go to a lot of conferences - both as speaker and participant - through my work at The Guardian (and previously at AOL) and in a personal capacity, so it's always interesting to get another perspective on the industry we work in. This time, it was with a distinctly European ...
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12.13.07Dear SantaFor the avoidance of doubt, for Christmas/birthday/Festivus/Winterval/etc I would like: An Asus EEE PC 701 with optimal RAM etc A DAB Pure Evoke radio A Lomo LC-A Some stripy socks Some extra RAM for my iMac ...and that's it Geek, much?
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11.23.07Overheard at the bus stopOldish woman wearing a red coat, to another, with bulging handbag: 'Scuse me...I think I recognise you from somewhere. Can't think where, though.... Other woman: [smiles] Off the telly? Maybe? First woman: [cocks head on one side and pauses] No, that's not it... Second woman: I'm an Actor? In, um, Eastenders? [smiles at the other people in the bus stop, as if to indicate that this happens all the time] First woman: [studies the other woman for another moment] OH! I know! You look like that woman in the lamp shop down the road! Second woman: [looks confused] ... First woman: [reassuringly, smiling] ...it's the hair. Second ...
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