Blog
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The Facebook Douchebag Quotient
Facebook is my second, ok, third favourite new geekyness of the year (after my iPhone and lolcats). Despite the wonderous waste of time in hitting 'ignore' for the latest inane pirate / ninja / super-awesome-totally-better-than-the-last-super-wall oriented application I receive an invite for, it has actually provided the ability to contact people I haven't talked to for ages, and allowed me to email people who change their real email address / lose their phone more often than I complain about tourists dawdling outside of my work building trying to get into Century 21.
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Wondering where your Gmail IMAP access is?
I was very glad to hear a few weeks ago when Google announced IMAP access for Gmail, the main reason being that this will mean my iPhone view of my email is much more closely tied to the Gmail application's view of my mail. They've even done some clever stuff like using IMAP folders to simulate some of the Gmail experience (e.g. to remove a mail from inbox, but leave it available in the 'all mail' view, delete it from your IMAP inbox and it still appears in an 'All Mail' IMAP folder.)
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Leopard First Impressions
I’ve now had some amount of 3 days to play with Leopard, the new version of Apple’s OS X operating system, after lining up outside the SoHo store on Friday night - yeah, I’m a fanboy. Here are some first impressions (and consider I purely use OS X at home, not at work (yet )
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Wordpress updated
I'm still using Textdrive (Joyent as they are now) to host this site and have recently upgraded to version 2.3 of Wordpress. Shoot me an email if you see any problems with RSS, etc.
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alt.net conference review [altnetconf]
Last Friday saw me on an early flight from New York to Austin, Texas, for the (first?) alt.net conference. This was a 'not organised by Microsoft' open space format weekend event for people with background in, or a desire to see more, .NET development done in a 'way' that may not necessarily fit the norms as suggested by .NET's own documentation or Microsoft's knowledge base as a whole.
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On open plan offices
Today I read a good little piece (via Garrett Smith) on open plan / open space offices (i.e. no individual offices). A particular gem came towards the end (emphasis mine):
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Changing the 'lock screen' keyboard shortcut in Ubuntu
Sometimes it's the simple things in life that make me happy...
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XP NYC Blogs
Thanks to the web 2.0 goodness of Yahoo Pipes, I've setup an aggregation of XP / Agile blogs of people based in NYC. You can see it at http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=nBxJoGVb3BGBtu7ty6ky6g
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I'll be at the alt.net conference in October
I'm not doing much coding at the moment, and none of it in .NET, but that's not stopping me going to the alt.net conference in Austin, TX, for the first weekend in October.
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Now about that iPhone price reduction
Let me get this straight from the get-go : I'm not expecting or desiring sympathy.