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Hello, Still Here

I've been away for a week. Well, I was away from Tuesday to Friday - I went back to Kent, had two days of meetings with various peoples, and came back again. So I'm back in Cornwall now, and back on the work. Lots to catch up on. It's Leela's turn this week - she has set off for a week of partying and presentationing at some hospital in Devon.

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Here's A Suggestion: Ban Answerphones

Answerphones make me nervous. I don't know what it is - maybe it's the fact that I'm getting no feedback as I'm talking. Or perhaps it's that any tiny mistake I make will be preserved for all eternity for the recipient to listen to and play back to everyone else in the room, over and over again, while they roll around on the floor with tears streaming down their faces, clutching their chests because they're all laughing so hard it hurts, and then they'll record it to their mobile phones and use it as ...

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Joy!

Well, it took long enough, but... it's finished! Hurrah!

Yes, that's right, I've finished the second Flash CD. Well, not quite - I've finished the first draft of all of the activities. Now, I know that doesn't sound quite so good, but some of the activities have already been through preliminary testing a couple of times and are pretty close to the final versions. For most of the activities, all that's left is a little bit of tidying up - some still have a few unresolved bugs, but the majority of the work is done. The ...

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A Sign From Truro Coach Park

I've only just got round to dragging this photo off my mobile. Leela took it last week on my birthday after we spotted it when we were walking in to town:

I think it's a sign.

Although, just out of interest - who decides to book a coach holiday to Truro in the middle of the winter?

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RSS - The Saga Continues

At the risk of this turning into the latest RSS blog, I have been reading the discussion on Scoble's blog about whether to offer full or partial feeds, and a lot of the comments said what I've been thinking since I first came across RSS - full feed will mean less visitors.

A full feed means that it's more likely that people will read what I write. That's good I guess - not much point writing things if nobody reads them. But readers don't equal visitors, and by offering a full feed, I lose the opportunity to ...

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