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Check the new shiny

Just put a new design live on the Connected Flow blog. Much better than Kubrick!
The story behind this is the story of a smart business move. I blogged about how much I hated the design of connectedflow.com. It’s such a programmer’s web design, with all its sharp corners and hacky layouts.
A couple [...]


On Location

Evan Williams writes about the factors that led him to the Valley and his take on the perceived need to ‘be there’. It’s an interesting topic for someone who lives thousands of miles away from the supposed epicentre of their chosen profession. One could argue that the Pacific Northwest is really the hub of [...]


British Pigs Are Worth It

So I’m spending another Saturday sick in bed thanks to little children and their diseases, with the complicity of parents who won’t do their duty to public health and keep them away from the rest of the world. And, yes, I’m grouchy.
I’m catching up on the latest issue of The Spectator, when I come across [...]


What’s your core competency?

Playing off my earlier post, Duncan talks about buying a laptop in an emergency. I had a similar situation once too: my MacBook (then my sole machine) had been afflicted by the random shutdown problem that some early units had. I can’t exactly remember what I was working on, but it was about [...]


The Value of You

During WWDC, I had dinner with a friend who held a senior position at a large company in the valley. We were chatting about various things but, as so often in this global village, the topic turned to air travel. I recounted the sorry tale of my uncomfortable trip to WWDC on some [...]


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