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@calumland Oh yeah, it was the same for us. Endless walks and general swanning around. #notbitteratall

@kitmacgillivray That AR Twitter tool: how long until the majority of apps will just be WebKit instances?

…Photos and videos are good too. Like yesterday when Obama visited the @FoxLand office. http://yfrog.com/17uy8ej

…Voice Control: fails. Doesn’t help when your partner is called ‘Meadbh’ and co-worker is ‘Inayaili’. “Play Pixies” doesn’t even work.

Surprised how much I like my new iPhone 3GS. Thought it was just going to be more of the same. The speed bit makes it feel ‘lighter’ to use.

Also: looking to hire a car in Munich. The Sixt website is the first trad car hire site I’ve ever used that works really nicely.

Playing with @stevenf’s Internet Garage Sale. Very nice for 2(?) days work. Not sure why I’m bidding on an iPhone, but whatever: FTW.

Also: waiting for my new iPhone to work

Pathetically excited by the prospect of a Judge Dredd film, assuming it is directed by Danny Boyle http://bit.ly/4oLcCL

I love the slide next to the stairs here: http://bit.ly/156c6L from Chloë Lederman’s photography website.

Visited Casper, Sally and @calumland today. One was very sleepy and tiny, one heroic, one emotional. Not (necessarily) in that order.

Overheard: “I hate things that are meant to be great”

Showing @briefly’s project http://cnolle.com/poa/ to a friend who loves it.

These are my links for July 17th from 11:16 to 11:16:

• FT.com | Tech Blog | App stores are not the future, says Google –
• Marco.org – Serious doubts about the App Store –

@worldofchris I like it! Is that the new BBC homepage concept?

@_ade Cheers Ade. No ground-breaking reality-altering navigation techniques used… yet.

Rethinking blog navigation conventions with @yaili

It’s the day before the day before the day before Christmas: my new iPhone 3GS arrives Monday.

‘Back to top’ links at the bottom of web pages: I instinctively feel they’re clutter, but I may well be wrong and people actually use them.

These are my links for July 16th from 10:22 to 10:22:

• The makings of a brand leader | The Observer –

@calumland Showing pictures of young Casper to the office… hoping that is okay!?

@ivanka Yay for Friday! Can i go home now though?

@jasonsantamaria Something to do with default <meta name=”viewport”>? We get similar shrinkage issues if it isn’t set wide enough.

These are my links for July 15th from 11:51 to 20:49:

• Clever PNG Optimization Techniques | How-To | Smashing Magazine –
• Principality of Sealand – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –

Playing with iWeb for my parents and their holiday home website: http://foxwestridge.co.uk/

@calumland Congratulations Family Land! Can’t wait to meet the new team member.

Whoops. Wrong account.

Laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed.

Also: ace.

re: iPhone dying: @O2 being nice about it. Getting new iPhone 3GS over the next few days. Video on a mobile: who’d have thought!?

Listening to The Sound of Music soundtrack at the office: more controversial than expected.

Links for July 14th through July 15th:

• http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/07/13/i_want_my_cybor.html –
• Web-kreation – 4 Ways to Exclude WordPress Category from RSS Feeds –
• From Print to Web: Avoiding Common Design Mistakes – Moving from print to the web is not as easy as it may seem. I had to do it myself a few years back, so I can speak from my personal experience of the process and also from my experiences coding designs that have been created by print designers that w

In other news: excited.

Three different versions of the Sound of Music soundtrack on iTunes… choices, choices…

Watching a bizarre and inappropiately angry piece on BBC Breakfast about swine flu.

@stevenoverman Cheers Steven! It’s taken us way too long, but we’re happy with it. Now I need some sleep.

iPhone really dead now. Contemplating expensive options.

And finally, the new FoxLand (in beta): http://www.fox-land.co.uk/ (via @foxland)

A new blog post from @yaili “From Print to Web: Avoiding Common Design Mistakes” http://is.gd/1yfwI

Links for July 13th through July 14th:

• Built to Fail: How companies like Google, IDEO, and 37signals build failure-tolerant systems for anything! | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen –
• gregorywood.co.uk // Broken Leg –
• Rollip – Create Polaroids from your photos! –