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@george08 San Francisco as Large Nerdron Collider strikes again. Trying to find the Berg Boson again...

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Thanks to @Caterina for paraphrasing Bertrand Russell: The purpose of an education is to protect ourselves from the persuasive...

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@Caterina And clearly talks are often deformed by employers, what you represent in public, being a professional 'evangelist' etc.

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@Caterina Some people I've talked to have argued myth-making, sales, being inspiring, a more noble 'end' (justifying the means)

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@Caterina Well clearly I feel this is a fundamental responsibility. However, many have argued recently political expediency, business needs.

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A question for the floor: What responsibility does a conference speaker have to speak the truth? And what recourse do we have if they don't?

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Really loving that I can have serious discussions with my friends about the acceptable ethical edges of good business practice.

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Right. Time to start ploughing through the dumb organisational jobs and cleaning. Will get my life in order if it kills me!

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@fabricoffolly Actually it was Dan Brown seven times. Is that bad?

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No, but in twenty mins

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@fabricoffolly You beat me, I managed seven.

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Anyone seen @andybudd littering the streets of San Francisco at all?

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@revdancatt Traditionally in order to make it seem fresher on the shelves you always point ahead. Spring 2010 would be my recommendation.

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Bah. No one understands my pain.

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Right. I'm going to try out Dropbox for a bit just for a few files and casual stuff and see how it goes. Wish me luck.

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@seldo Can be the best thing to happen to a TV show. Buffy possibly should have ended a couple of years earlier...

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Wow. It's unexpectedly good TV night! I guess it's mid-season breaks, but still, Dollhouse is rocking at the halfway point.

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Would like to store most of my files accessibly in the cloud. Any other options out there that are as good or better than Dropbox?

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Tum te tum. Ho hum. [Time passes] Oh, hang on a minute, Google's fucking terrifying all of a sudden. When did that happen!?

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A generally lovely day so far. Brunch and wanderings with @jamescridland followed by shopping. Even Stargate Universe was pretty good.

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Thanks to @kgreene for pointing me to this: http://doggles.com/ Can't tell you what I got the family dog, just in case she's reading.

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Working through Christmas shopping for my family in the UK. Started with the most important (family dog) and working my way down.

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Just passed a guy walking a dog. The dog was wearing sunglasses. After two years in San Francisco I can't tell if this is weird or not.

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This week's Glee is not exactly leaving me cold, but it's cerrtainly not as effortless as some of the others.

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Hm. Crap. It just got a lot better suddently. Whoa.

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Balls. Looks like it's another one of those bloody nights where I wander aimlessly around the house at 2.30am

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There are about as many gay people in the USA as there are straight people in all of LA. Why is it so hard to accept that there's diversity?

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Apple buying Lala sounds like a straight-down-the-line talent acquisition to me: http://www.nytimes.com/2009...

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Transferring everything over to the new iMac. This is without a doubt the most beautiful computer I've ever owned.

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A silver slice of cheese with silver skewers with mice on them? Apparently "Good Taste Costs No More": http://www.gumps.com/GIFTS/

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