Shadow Footprints

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Bob's Other Job at Where is Bob?

We agreed to meet at 9pm at a Starbucks just around the corner from the Apple Store. I had fun pretending that I was taking part of some covert spy operation (oh, like you don’t do that). Even Jason the intern showed up to see what the “crazy old folks” were up to. Some of us even brought our spouses and significant others, mostly because they never believed any of our outrageous stories about Bob. Since we rarely do things together outside of the office, this turned out to be a fantastic, albeit surreal, bonding experience for our team.

We were so caught up with giddiness about our venture that we completely overlooked a major flaw in our plan. “How are we going to explain the presence of our entire staff here,” Nick mused as we walked through the door. It was a bit too late to consider an alternative, because Bob spotted us right away.

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The Temples of Syrinx in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, by Michael Dehaan

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We're Sorry - Google apologising for Gmail troubles.

We heard loud and clear today how much people care about their Gmail accounts. We followed all the emails to our support team and user group, we fielded phone calls from Google Apps customers and friends, and we saw the many Twitter posts. (We also heard from plenty of Googlers, who use Gmail for company email.) We never take for granted the commitment we've made to running an email service that you can count on.

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10 Movies That Shouldn’t Have Been Made This [US] Summer

1. Disaster Movie
2. Postal
3. Meet Dave
4. The Love Guru
5. Swing Vote
6. Hancock
7. X-Files: I Want to Believe
8. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
9. The Happening
10. Star War: Clone Wars

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Google Maps

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The Unusable Door at Simple and Lovable

For anyone that thinks usability is stupid, let this be a lesson to you. When you make something unintuitive, people don’t blame you, they blame themselves. They actually feel stupid. And since that is not a great feeling, the chances of them trying again are slim to none.

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Time by Yves Lorson

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HELP. STUCK IN MEETING. SEND SUPPLIES! by Mike Forbes on Twitter.

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10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything at Lifehack

1. Public Speaking
2. Writing
3. Self-Management
4. Networking
5. Critical Thinking
6. Decision-Making
7. Math
8. Research
9. Relaxation
10. Basic Accounting

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Social Media in Plain English

Haiku Tuesday is the day twitter gets a lot of haiku tweets.

My tweets today:

Forgot my ipod
Must listen to city life
Pleasantly surprised

Wanting Friday drinks
Oh dear, it's only Tuesday
Maybe a pub lunch

Lunchtime. I wander
Outside, in crisp winter air.
A drink not needed.

Seven days too long
A Firstin order online
Lost in the ether

Darkness closing in
A full day at the office
Time to go home

Countdown here

If spammers are going to crawl my site for email addresses, then send me an email promoting their skills to improve my site visibility, then I'll add their email for them to email themselves in future.

web.site presence
Dear Gaygeekdinner

Your website looks like it would get a lot more visibility and traffic on
the search engines if it is easier to locate. With your permission, for
no cost to you we will analyze your site and your web placement
and show you how a few small changes could make the difference.
Email us now at courtneyh.h@gmail.com for your free analysis
with no strings.

Sincerely,
Courtney Ham
Key Media

If they had read it, they would have seen better contact details, and as I get on the front page of Google searches, I don't need their services.

I created a timeline of my twitter, this blog, and flickr.