nil desperandum

I mentioned on Twitter that I did a crash course in using Twitter to some of my colleagues. They needed to know how it could be used for networking and marketing.  I was asked what my thoughts on marketing using Twitter were. I said I would write something up and get it posted.

I started writing an article, which I will finish eventually, but it was more about getting started with twitter and how to network/market with Twitter.  With the recent viral marketing campaigns that have been going on on Twitter I realised what the content of this article should be.

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Previously I wrote a number of weekly blog round up of the 100 or so blogs I'm subscribed to, but I've let it get all out of date and I've not been reading as much as I should.

A few months ago, in an attempt to try to get back into the habit of scanning, if not reading, blog posts, I set up a twitter account and twitter feed from a folder in my google reader account.  If you're interested its http://twitter.com/nilBlog, but it didn't work very well.

So now I'm taking another look at making sure I do read more and letting others read what I read as well.

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My first post for ages!  Sorry about that....

Something quite exciting, that I've had a crack at fixing myself, but the combination of my poor java and python skills has prevented me from completing this adequately.  However, the combined skills of the trac developers and the development team for Mylyn and the Mylyn Trac connector have managed to combine to finally provide the highly awaited Mylyn, Eclipse and custom Trac workflow integration!

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I few weeks back I wrote an aritcle for the bdaily bulletin on Web 2.0.  I ended up writing a little too much and it ended up as a two parter. Here now are the two parts back to one article.

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Yesterday I was doing a bunch of testing of a site that went live in the afternoon.  Most of that testing involved making sure that there were no faux pas in the CSS that broke the display in Internet Explorer 6.

After spending so much time making sure that the design worked in Opera, Safari, Firefox 2 and 3, IE7 and IE8, I bregrudge running a virtual machine to with IE6 in it to then break the design in every browser by making it work in IE6.

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