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Note: Blog upgraded to Wordpress 2.7.1

All went well!  And so begins another stab at blogging after almost a year off.  I’ve got loads to talk about!
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Note: Blog upgraded to Wordpress 2.6

All went well except for a short internet outage which left my blog in an error’d state for a few minutes.  Just upgrading plugins and testing out the google gears integration stuff.  Let me know if you see anything broken!
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Birthday Contest @ CodeSqueeze

Max Poole is holding a contest at his blog to give away a copy of Bamboo 2.0 (continuous integration software) and a copy of Slick Edit (suite of add-ons for visual studio) I’ve never used the Slick Edit product but I’ve got lot’s of experience using Atlassian products (Jira and confluence) and would love to get [...]
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NIRI and Web 2.0

For the past 2 years the amazing sales team that I work with at Q4 Web Systems have ventured out to San Diego for the annual NIRI conference. It’s a really important event for us and it’s always great to hear about it when the team get’s back. This morning while I was going through [...]
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Twitter, where is the value?

I’ve been using twitter for about 6 months with varying degrees of “using”. Sometimes it’s a passive view where I see what other people are doing and not really broadcasting what I am doing, other times it’s lot’s of little wonderful nuggets out of my life that make it on there, and the occasional [...]
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Note: Blog upgraded to Wordpress 2.5

Just finished upgrading the wordpress installation that runs this blog to 2.5, the latest release. There isn’t much to see in terms of changes on the public site, but the admin interface has gone over a pretty major overhaul. The firm Happy Cog did the design. So far everything seems to work [...]
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Popular

Just found this killer new site Popurl. It seems to be the ultimate web2.0 news aggregation site, it certainly won’t be replacing netvibes anytime soon but it does a fantastic job of consolidating a lot of the sites i frequent on one page.
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top 500!

i don’t even think i could come up with my top 5 albums of all time… dusty is going to do it for 500 Exploding Now
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open source website(s)

Waferbaby has just gone open source I have been reading the site for a bunch of years and did spend a period of time in touch with the guy that runs the site (which is pretty hard when you are in canada and they are in australia). It’s a really cool idea to give back to the [...]
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wow ford

in my last post i talked about corporate blogging and how much i like it… well i happened to read today about ford moving into the world of video blogging! they’ve buitl a really slick looking site to present the content in and the video’s have a very personal and friendly feel to them… seeing [...]
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