• TAT » TAT Kastor
  (tags: tat mobile ui)
• The Cats' House: Cats Overhead! And, Photography for Hire
  (tags: cats house)
• Lean Contracts
  Target cost contracts
  (tags: agile lean contracts target cost)
• Selling Agile: Target-Cost Contracts
  (tags: agile target cost contracts)

• Chess on roller coasters
  (tags: amusing chess rollercoaster)
• Google Pushes Tailored Phones To Win Lucrative Ad Market - WSJ.com
  (tags: google mobile)
• Geek Bonding (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Star Trek) - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
  (tags: management dev geek)
• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Orangutans use 'charades' to talk
  They "intentionally modify or repeat their signals to get their messages across"
  (tags: orangutang ape culture language)
• Surly Adopter: Stop praying for a GooglePhone -- you already have one - Valleywag
  +1. And you're all online, all the time ;)
  (tags: google phone)
• What we’re up to with Satisfaction at Demand Satisfaction!
  "Satisfaction is people-powered customer service for absolutely everything. We’re building the start page for customer service online, powered by the people that actually use the stuff: the customers."
  (tags: customer service startup)
• iain tait | crackunit.com » Blog Archive » The 7 Deadly Sins of Digital
  Heh.
  (tags: sins digital advertising ad)
• Fytte 8: Screwpole anticipates the arrival of the Consultants... | Reg Developer
  (tags: software pm amusing)
• Thai vegetarian green curry / ImportFood.com recipe
  (tags: thai recipe vegetable curry)
• net.wars: The house always wins
  'The industry's response to the news that Laurie could clone ID tags was to complain triumphantly that Laurie's clones "don't have the same form factor"'
  (tags: adamlaurie security passport id theft)

• 'Til Tech Do Us Part - WSJ.com
  "some couples say it can be equally tricky to navigate intimacy in the digital sides of their lives. They're running into thorny questions regarding how much to share and how much to keep separate in areas ranging from email addresses to online calendars"
  (tags: social couple online digital)
• YouTube - Minoru Kanetsuka
  Kanetsuka doing his own special brand of magic. I recognise a couple of the Ukes - Russians?
  (tags: kanetsuka aikido)
• Facebook: Developers, beware. Facebook really is the new Microsoft. - Valleywag
  (tags: facebook apis open)
• Articles: Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User's Notes, by Lucy A. Snyder
  (tags: linux badger amusing)

• LA Weekly - Art/Books - Corpsefucker Makes Good - Doug Harvey - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles
  “the last potent seed I had,” he recounted, “was spent in a cadaver.”
  (tags: art corpse fucker)

After a quietish summer, I'm on the move in the next month or so.

• In a couple of weeks time, on 14th August, I'm giving a talk at the £5 apps event about the gritty realities of setting up a software company;
• I'll be stepping in for Joh and hosting the Coding Dojo on 22nd August, at Future Platforms' offices in Brighton.
• Then I'm skipping across the pond with a trusty band of pals to Black Rock City. Can you tell how excited I am about that? ;)
• We get back from the US just in time for dConstruct 2007, which is looking absolutely fantastic;
• Swedish Beers follows on the 12th September. FP will be shouting loud about something then too :)
• On 18th September, I'll be panelling at Mobile Web 2.0 on the subject of "defragmentation";
• 25 - 29 September, I'm in Amsterdam for Come Out And Play and PICNIC07
• 14th October, it's the Future of Mobile conference, where I have the pleasure of speaking about mobile user experiences with Marek Pawlowski :)

So a busy couple of months... and closer to home, we have the lovely Loop Festival arriving in Brighton on the 18th and 19th August. And rumours of an interesting name in the Aikido world who might be paying us a visit in September - I'll post more here when I can.