The personal blog of Dominic Wellington. There is a thread joining all of this together, but I can’t find it quite now.
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Unlinked
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A story in pictures
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Book review — Seeing Like a State, by James C. Scott
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Oh, Siri
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Elephants and graveyards
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That old open-source business
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Book review — Escape, by Marie Le Conte
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For the record
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Vertical, horizontal — or entirely circular
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Work live, unplugged
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Sunny days
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Get your head out of the cloud
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Too much AI?
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Beach reads
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Up and down through history
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Book review — October, by China Miéville
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Arrr, Here We Go Again
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On The Trail Again
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Explaining Europe
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Apple, Pomme, Apfel, Mela
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Closing the Books on AI
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Recent Appearances
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Book review — Babel, by R. F. Kuang
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Teams, Alone
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Book review — The World - A Family History of Humanity, by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
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Public Betas
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In-Office Mandates Considered Harmful
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Defensive Moves
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A Good Old-Fashioned Platform War
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Up The Amazon Without A Paddle
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Migrating — Again
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Back On The Pilgrim Trail
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Book review — The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, by Malka Older
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Book review — Exordia, by Seth Dickinson
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Book review — The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera
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Book review — Cahokia Jazz, by Francis Spufford
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Book review — Maror, by Lavie Tidhar
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Words to live by
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Dragging the Anchor
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False Positive Attitude
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Algorithmic Networks and Their Malcontents
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The Ghost In The Machine
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Let’s Go To The Castle
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Can You Take It With You?
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Pulling On Threads
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Deliver A Better Presentation — 2023 Edition
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Twitter of Babel
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PrivateGPT
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Artificial Effluent
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Why The Best Recommendations Are The Worst
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Printing Money
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Good Robot
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Disappearing In The Hills
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Pilgrimage
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Information Push
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AWS re:Invent 2022
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Marketing Without Surveillance
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Retracing My Steps
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Business Case In The Clouds
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Network TV
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Draining The Moat
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Fun In The Sun
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Growing Pains
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Sights From A Bike Ride
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Nice Tech, Pity About The Product
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Good Outcomes Grow From Failure
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Systems of Operation
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From Provincial Italy To London — And Back Again
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Old Views For Today's News
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Kids
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Help, I'm Being Personalised!
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App Stores & Missing Perspectives
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2022 Predictions
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How I Work From Home
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Spending Tim Cook's Money
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Generalising Wildly
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Textual Podcast
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Long Way Up, Short Way Down
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A Long-Expected Holiday
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Rebirth
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The Hard Work Of Success
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Easy Like A Sunday Morning
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Living in the Past
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Lessons in Hiring
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Midweek Ride Through The Shire
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Interoperable Friendship
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The Changing Value Of Mistakes
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Omnichannel
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Serendipity Considered Harmful
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The Wrong Frame
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The Framing Continues
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In The Frame
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Who Needs Alps Anyway
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Clubhouse — But Why?
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That Feeling When…
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Who Needs Four Wheel Drive?
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Tech and distribution
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The Long Way Round
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Why The M1 Won't Kill The iPad Pro
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Hipster Bike Downtown
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Say Comma Again, I Dare You
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Gravel Bike In Its Natural Habitat
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Three Car Garage
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Important, But Not Exciting
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Rider On The Storm
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Branded
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Whammo, Camo
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Remote Events
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An Unexpected Holiday
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In-App Drama
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One More Missed Opportunity For VR
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KonMari The Home Office
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New WFH setup
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Growth
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The Thing With Zoom
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Quarantini
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A ray of hope from Italy
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Things That Happen When You're Working From Home
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Working From Home Is Good, Actually
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Tecniche di Sopravvivenza al Lavoro da Casa
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How to Survive the Home Office
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Ominous clouds above the pass
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Hello there
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Note taking
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Good morning!
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The Internet of Unwelcome Gifts
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Classification
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Power Tools
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Won’t Somebody Think of the (Virtual) Users?
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Halfway Home
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Conference Booth Do's and Don'ts
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Problem Solving
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Be Smart, Use Dumb Devices
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New York, New York
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Discoverability
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Don't Blame The User
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Wait, they sell books now?
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The view from dinner
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Once More On Privacy
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When All You Need Is A Knife
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Turning Over A New Leaf
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Piercing The Clouds
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Future Trends In Due Diligence
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Gatekeeping
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Rainbow 🌈
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First Impressions
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Good Morning!
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Micromobility At Macro Scale
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Advertise With The End In Mind
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The User-Unfriendly Web
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The Shape Of 2019
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Those Apple Numbers
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Benefits of Integration
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Conference swag
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Amazon's Private Cloud
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The Problem With Self-Driving Cars – And Self-Flying Planes
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Listen To The Heart
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How To Throw Away A Sale
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End Of Term Report
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Rome, the Eternal City.
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Foundations
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Start to Stop
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Companies Turning Down My Money
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Which Algorithms Will Watch The Algorithms?
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Going From Caffeine To Amphetamine
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Seriously?
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Scheduling
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Keeping The Data Lake Clean
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How Much Trouble Is Facebook In?
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How Do You Say Apple In Mandarin?
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New Frontiers In Driver Idiocy
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Shocking News — Water Wet
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Let’s Shed Some Light on This
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The Road To Augmented Intelligence
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Unintended Consequences
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Why Sales People Will Always Be With Us
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Privacy Policy
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The Driver Behind The Curtain
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Right Time Some Time
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The VP of Nope
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Apple Abroad
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Needy Much, Facebook?
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Cloud Adoption Is Still Not A Done Deal
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Privacy Versus AI
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How To Run A Good Presentation
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When Robots Kill
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Becoming An Adult
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Work From Home
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Don't Tell Me What I Can Or Can't Do
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Surprise: Uber, Lyft Actually Increase Traffic
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Unbundling and Rebundling
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War of the World Views
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Travel Observations (An Ongoing Series)
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Very Metal Hurlant
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Good Morning San Francisco!
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Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
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Still Beautiful
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ML Joke
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Goddess
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Water Wet
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What's A Computer?
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Think Outside The Black Box
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The Smoke from the Air
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The office is wherever I am
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Riding the rails
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Hello Frankfurt!
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More of Me
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Stick THIS in your carry-on!
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The Internet of (Insecure) Things
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Living in the Future
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Algorithmic Reality
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Check In and Chill Out - Part Two
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Check In and Chill Out
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Sowing Bitter Seeds
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The Middle Cannot Hold
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This Is Where We Are, July 2017 Edition
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Not Biting My Tongue
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New Economy, Meet Old Continent
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Biting My Tongue
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Law in the Time of Google
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The Enemy Within The Browser
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Thoughts about WWDC '17
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Incentives Drive Behaviour - Security Is No Exception
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It Has Come To This
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Talk Softly
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A New Law
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New Mac Fever
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Let Me Tell You A Story
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Smart Swatch
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New Paths to Helicon
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Replace or Augment?
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Own Your Interfaces
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Category Error
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Thinking Two Steps Behind
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Talkin' Bout a Revolution
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What is Twitter for?
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Reference This!
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Mr Cook, Tear Down This Geo-Fence
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IoT Future: Saved by Obsolescence?
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How To Lose Friends and Influence People
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Bimodal or Bi-Model
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What about those new Macs?
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What if…
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A Conversation about AppleTV
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Updating the Car
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Dinosaurs Evolving
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Head in the Vapour
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Nonne videtur
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Adtech considered harmful
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Flattering Apple
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Send In The Clones
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That Old Enterprise Software Business
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Dream Garage, Hall 2
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When is a Cloud not a Cloud?
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Enterprise Sales - What, Why, and How
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Pity the Vendor
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Emails, Meetings, and Slides, Oh My!
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Security AND Usability
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Speak like a Foreigner
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Stupid Car Review, One Year In
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The curve points the way to our future
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It’s Tough to be King
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Multimodal IT
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Finding My Audience
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Letting go
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Bad Sales
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Dream Garage
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The Starman has gone home to the stars
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Quick Text Shortcuts
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Misunderstanding Tools
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In which I make a Discovery
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Uphill Both Ways
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Advice from an Old Fart
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Apple Bottom Drawer
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Apple TV Siri Annoyance
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On Learning Languages
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Enterprise Brand Advertising
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Sit Back and Recline - Maybe Not
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Guest blog
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Judgy McJudgerson
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Social Reaction
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Social Professionals
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Self-Quote
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Not Thinking It Through
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Packing for a trip
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More Thoughts on Ad Blocking
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Crystal Will Not Kill Media
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DVDs: Dead Video Discs
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PFY story
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Signs of Hope
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Presentation Mode
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Clause Marks
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Wishing for a Wish List
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A quote
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Big Brother, Big Data
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Dashboards and Information
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Take Pride.
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As one chapter ends, another begins
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Alternative Ties
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Apple Watch
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Spring is a time for new beginnings
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Online Shopping
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Luggage and packing
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Ads and Ad Blocking
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Problems that only affect me
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Faster disruption
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Happiness in Typesetting
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Management agents
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Ever tighter ouroboros
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Details matter
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Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
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No Booth Babes
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Courage
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In the watch business, timing is everything
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The Dangers of Cycling
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PSA
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What is up with this message?
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Out with the old, in with the new!
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Password to the Ivory Tower
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Living in the future
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Cube dwelling
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Random thought
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People, not places
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Air… BUS?
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Advertising
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Lowering the Barrier to Cloud
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Form over Substance
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Not NoOps, but SmartOps
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Debug mode for humans
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Suits You, Sir
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Oh, Microsoft
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The Modern IT Service Desk
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Security Theatre
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Adventures in Screen Sharing
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Models and Examples
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Gender and Language
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Plaintext
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Wow, these grapes are sour!
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Surveys
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That character
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Dark Security
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Enterprise IT Kill Switch
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A maze of menu options, all alike
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Clothes make the… what?
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Tinkering with Black Boxes
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Australia
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One more time
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Quote of the Day
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Phone features
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Here we go again
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Form versus Content
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Cloud Elephant
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Signalling
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Privacy? on the Internet?
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Two Pizza Disruption
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The Three Stages of Technical Learning
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Developers
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SMAC My Pitch Up
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Home Office Backlash
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Are you KIDDING ME?
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Why Shadow IT exists
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On the humble URL
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The Law of Unintended Consequences
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I'm published!
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It's the little things
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Analogy
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I have come not to bury Twitter, but to praise it
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Futurology
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The Bigger Picture
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Amateur Hour
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DevOps is killing us
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Apple opens up OS X Beta Seed Program
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Skype for Teams
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When is a Wearable not a Wearable
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Minimum Complexity
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Tech in Layers
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The Bus Number
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They put me in the Zoo
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Marketing is a four-letter word
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Caveat Vendor
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The Android Centipede
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Not Surprising At All
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A Hail of Bullets
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Wearables
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Cloud as utility
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Assisted living
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Microsoft Office - on an iPad? SACRILEGE!
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Backlog
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Motivation
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The Efficiency of Inefficiency
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Hunting the Elusive Private Cloud
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A face full of palm
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Android as Windows
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Unicorns in the cloud
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White Elephant
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The Problem with CarPlay
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Ban All Acronyms (BAA)
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Protect the base
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Lie ^W Sit back
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Know your audience
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Enterprise IT on the shelf
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Desperation
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Adventures in AppleScript
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Stop helping me!
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The circle is complete
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Languages
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Flappy Mario
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Il nuovo latino
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Feature-complete
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(Not so) Benign neglect
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Intersections
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We don't have to care, we're IT
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Jumping the fence
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Apparently, borders are still a thing
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Internet of Meh
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Where is cloud headed in 2014?
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Feeping creatures
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Babe Got Talent
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Banking in the cloud
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Blast from the past
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Brown M&Ms
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The personal is political
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Metrics and indicators
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Imported archives
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Predictions
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The social net
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Minimum Acceptable Standard
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Ties that bind
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Ephemeralization
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Monday Realisation
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Pulling The Long Tail
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Travel mysteries
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Why can't Big Brother ever lift a finger to help out?
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Read it out loud
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One more thing
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Mendacious metrics
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In which I disagree with Marco Arment
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Il tempo è relativo
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headshot
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DevOps fatigue, you say?
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Aggregators or scams?
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Easiest blog platform ever
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Adapt and evolve
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All Software Sucks
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Through a Prism, Darkly
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Clouded Prism
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We need the Culture, now!
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Teleworking
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The joy of making up words
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Collisions
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Platform wars are here again
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Missing the point
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Badvertising
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EVERYONE is Waldo
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Stop doing that.
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I brought my device for me, not for you!
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On Art.
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First they came for the brogrammers
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Daily essentials
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Windows 8 fun
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For the record
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Waiting for the other shoe to drop
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Adventures in Airplay
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Surprise!
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Multi-hypervisor
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Hyundai ix20 review
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Got my car back
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Ford Fiesta review
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iPhone vs BlackBerry
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On Piracy
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