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Forkd gets the elevator pitch treatment over at the PDA blog.  And a stumping great picture of me.  Which is nice (if you like pictures of people in suits looking simultaneously smug and stoned, that is).

Sperm cube.  That is all.

This thread over at AskMeFi (Plone vs. Drupal) is surprising in its vociferous hatred of Plone.  Part of me really wants to get involved; wade in on behalf of Plone and explain exactly why Drupal is a labyrinthine mess…  But…  I can’t.  The last week I’ve been struggling to get to grips with Plone 3.x.  It’s been really tough.  Today is not the day to defend something that’s been pissing me off constantly for the last week.

Right now I’d be happy for any alternative on the Python CMS front (Exotypes, anyone?).  If this is the way Plone is going I’m not sure I want to follow any more.

You can’t do strike through in PowerPoint.  But that’s OK, because you can always replicate it using the drawing tool.

It would appear these people are serious.  I am amazed.  These people are not.  I like them more.

We got the Squeezebox talking to last.fm today.  And in our recommendations stream?

Ozzy Osbourne and Dweezil Zappa doing Stayin’ Alive.  Oh.  Yes.

UK politics makes yet another attempt to claim Open Source as its own.  You tried last year…  What happened?

The real question here is why someone would have made a purple hat with a leopard print band, and not put a feather in it!?

They are indeed. My beta invite to Lovely Charts turned up today, and I have to say it’s about as awesome as I had hoped. Proper Visio-esque drag-and-drop chart, wireframe, and network diagram generation all within the browser. Yes it’s still beta (there’s no print, for example) but it’s really rather fine.

Was this really 19 years ago?  From one of my favourite albums of all time; the Arch-Drude himself.

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