zen bones...: Archive

Tweeting for the last time in 2008. Happy New Year!

Dec 31st

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Dec 30th

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Dec 30th

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Cuil Fail: Traffic Nearly Hits Rock Bottom →

Uh, told you so! (see my prediction on July 30 2008 - “Not So Cuil”)

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Dec 13th

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Dec 13th

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How South Africans use Google

by Steve Mathew Google has just announced their 2008 Zeitgeist, and like most years I am as perplexed as ever. In case you’re not sure what Google Zeitgeist is - it’s the top search phrases for the year across the world. (And most years the list includes all the usual suspects - Britney, Paris Hilton and Brad. Except this year. Yep, at last, they don’t feature in the top 10....

Dec 12th

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Dec 9th

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Dec 8th

10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy

“In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and ethicist Stephen Post have studied people all over the world to find out how things like money, attitude, culture, memory,...

Dec 8th

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Watch

Everything you always wanted to know about Google…But were afraid to ask.

Dec 7th

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Dec 3rd

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Getting Real About Agile Design

“Agile is here to stay. The economic difficulties of the past months have finally put waterfall out of its misery; now more than ever, long requirements phases and vaporous up-front documentation aren’t acceptable. Software must be visible and valuable from the start.” If you’re doing any software development at your organisation - you best read this article, soon! (via A List...

Dec 3rd