Off to watch Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with 9 work-mates. Should be a blast.

Walking on the way to collect Thai take-away I saw a 70 year old couple holding hands and talking like loved up teenagers. On the way back a mother and young son talking away. As I walk past he says “He’s a funny guy!” and the mother mouths “So sorry!” but I just laughed. Kids

You know what I want to build? A WWAN access-point on a solar-powered blimp that hovers at a set location. It should respond to worsening weather of course and also possibly automatically re-position based on demand.

Reading this I wonder if Balmer has ever thought of hiring coders to subtly break Linux.

Some strange tales of jet lag including the custody avoiding mother who flew her kid 120 times between New York and Amsterdam. Then she died. Must say jet lag does not hit me hard. Didn’t feel it at all after flying to Las Vegas from Dublin and didn’t feel bad after flying Dublin to Jakarta. But I don’t have a regular sleep cycle anyway.

Brief but interesting article on whether broadband brings benefits or not. I think widespread basic connectivity is more important than spotty broadband.

NewsGator’s live APML URLs are a good idea. However I don’t use NewsGator so my APML from them is useless. Wish Google Reader did APML.

If you want an EverNote.com invite give me a shout, 20 left.

Good old WebMonkey is back and this time as a wiki.

What Twitter is saying is; Don’t use a CMS to build a messaging system. Who would have known?