Playlab.net || Mark Rochefort

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• squashing web app bugs from home today (got a cold). when my son asked what i was doing he was very concerned they didn't eat me. not yet #

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• Tkt machine asks 4 booking ref. Email has booking ref & collection ref. Only collection ref works! Nearly missed train #thetrainline #fail #
• #channel4 keeps freezing – can only imagine the panic @ c4 towers. A tad worse than a few website bugs! Wait why am I watching tv anyway?! #
• My son is obsessed with making traffic jams using all his toy cars A sign of the times? http://twitpic.com/16fbqm #

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• the slow death of the website: http://bit.ly/aCShQl (via @steverubel ) #
• Save BBC 6 Music, add a twibbon to show your support! #savebbc6music – http://bit.ly/cFlRBK #
• just walked past "banksy" attempting to do a stencil in soho in broad daylight – mobbed by camera phones. is that his style these days? #
• RT @pibbers: Dear Mr BBC – please see sense and drop Radio 1 – it's only giving the youth of today bad taste in music #save6music #
• BBC signals an end to era of expansion – Times Online http://bit.ly/94HUux #
• Hmmm. @DalaiLama has loads of followers yet only only fave – about himself. Transcend the ego, dude #
• Google moving on from Gears: Hello HTML5 – http://bit.ly/bwdaJA #
• Brunch at http://www.homebrighton.co.uk – good stuff. Nice people too #

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• HTML5 video from Vimeo – http://bit.ly/cJAFBI – it's the future, don't you know #
• #decode at v&a followed by drinks in next room to prince philip at arts club? Aren't we quite the lardeedar. Time for some urban toss… #
• Code (from decode @ the v&a)
  http://twitpic.com/13s3yz #
• South ken tube. Ergh. Half term #
• YouTube registered their domain name only 5 years ago – http://bit.ly/dreS8a #
• Nice intro to multivariate testing (mvt) – http://bit.ly/btozbh #
• Shorter working week soon inevitable, forecasts nef | the new economics foundation http://bit.ly/941RLb #

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• Buzz buzz buzz #
• Parents evening tonight – oh how the tables have turned. #
• you go @ppk! –> QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession http://bit.ly/c2vMOA #
• Looks like we're in for more snow then. @rosiesherry and other #Lewes peeps – is it laying there? Not sticking about in Soho… #

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• Sad about no Adam & Joe on BBC6 Music this morning but managed a mini rave in the lounge with the boy anyway (FSOL went down rather well!) #
• No brighton trains from Ldn vic. Told to bike to clapham j. No trains at cj. Told to bike to Ldn bridge. No trains. Should've stayed in pub. #
• waaa waaa wiggle eeeeek #
• My eyes are watering from the thumping techno in my head but it is helping me power through a mundane afternoon of coding intensity. #
• Clapham junction – the indicator at platform 13 reads "next train expected 0832". "Current time – 09:26" http://uktra.in/sn #
• I vote for @TheRSC for a Shorty Award in #culturalinstitution because… http://bit.ly/shorty #
• . @slicehost is my friend today #
• RT @Econsultancy: Website development is like having a baby http://bit.ly/bevJ8U <– great analogy #
• ooops. dye not die! #
• I wonder how many geeks are now working out how to convince their girlfriends to die their hair red #bbcrevolution #vrev #

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As you move differently in bed during the different phases of sleep, Sleep Cycle uses the accelerometer in your iPhone to monitor your movement to determine which sleep phase you are in. Come morning and it plots out a graph of your nocturnal activity. Here’s mine from the last couple of nights:

Sleep statistics for 30 – 31 Jan
Went to bed / woke up: 01:18 / 08:27 | Total time: 7h 08m

Sleep statistics for 31 – 01 Feb
Went to bed / woke up: 23:21 / 06:30 | Total time: 7h 08m

Can you guess when I woke to tend to our son? Now I *know* when I woke at night…

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• /cont: SWO – http://www.harvestdigital.com/insight/blogs/post/8 #
• RDFa could play an important role in SEO http://bit.ly/aIC2l7 <– this has long been a rant of mine – bring on Semantic Web Optimisation! #
• St James is awash with diplomats. Cars vary according to status. Liking some of the alt D plates: Italy have ITA 1, of course. #
• My mother-in-law has friended me in Facebook. Not sure if I should be impressed or appalled… #
• Brrr… It's colder down south than it was in Newcastle earlier. #
• RT @steverubel: Engagement on Social Networks Top Priority for Marketers – http://bit.ly/8SptXB <– "engagement" – suitably nefarious #
• Doh! Headed off to work on train this morning with my wife's car keys in my pocket. She needs the car for work. This is a job for Scrum #
• In Apple Tablet, App Makers See a Wider Playing Field – NYTimes.com: http://bit.ly/7LFCkm #

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• all fired up & ready to apply scrum to every aspect of my waking life, now that i am officially certified. i'm sure my wife will be thrilled #
• Just passed Gatwick on train through a practical blizzard of #uksnow! Again. #
• RT @exmosis: All children should be taught Cooking, Chinese, and Regular Expressions from the age of 7. <– heh, I'll see what we can do #

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• Dear office: After breakfast at gatwick, I'll be working from a broken down train – stuck in the #uksnow. Until batteries run out… #
• LGW runway still snow covered. Flights cancelled http://twitpic.com/xw9se #
• Sat in departures at gatwick, looking out of window of cafe, watching them sweep #uksnow off the runway but it is still snowing! #
• LGW: cancelled, cancelled, delayed… Uh oh. #
• And here begins an epic day of planes, trains and automobiles to Newcastle & back. Snowing but train arrived on time! So far, so good. #
• Spotted in #Lewes – several sledges, 2 skiers & a snowboarder on cliffe high st. #
• Just off to do some swift panic buying. #

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• The only sensible way to get about today in #lewes http://twitpic.com/ww3ey #
• bottom of #lewes high st / school hill closed. Fisher st closed. Friars walk is now two way. http://twitpic.com/ww2rh #
• #uksnow bn7 8/10. Thick snow outside & our son is sick. Not moving house any time soon! At least heat is back after local power cut earlier #
• Moving house tomorrow. It's the one time I'm not praying for more #uksnow! #

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• Starting to realise why parents keep the "father Christmas" thing going… Bribery #
• How to Run a Meeting Like Google: http://bit.ly/YRkc3 <- some points worth taking on board here! #
• Doing the #Lewes shuffle (#ice) #
• UPDATE: #uksnow WC1 9/10 !!! #
• A group of Hari Krishnas just went chanting past, below the office window, in the thick #uksnow WC1 6/10 #
• RT @AndrewGrill: How to prevent your own “Eurostar moment” http://bit.ly/eurostarmoment #eurostar (via @bluhalo) #
• Ditched the bike in favour of hiking boots this morning – too much #ice in #Lewes to bike to station. Feeling a tad over kitted in London! #
• RT @bluhalo (via @AndrewGrill) » How to prevent your own “Eurostar moment” http://bit.ly/eurostarmoment #eurostar #
• RT @This_Country: Via @jackbarnes http://twitpic.com/u74h6 This country. #
• Blown away by michael caine – desert island discs #radio4. Some real surprises! #
• Serious fireworks at Pelham House, #Lewes. Literally over our heads! Anyone know who/what for? Thx whoever u r – beautiful esp w snow #
• RT @jowyang: Clever Matrix: Linux vs Windows vs Mac http://i.imgur.com/YRoqC.jpg Perception is everything. #
• Am determined to answer every "why?" my son asks. Always seems to end up with me trying to explain the nature of existence. #

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• 8 inches on the car http://twitpic.com/tzyxo #
• #uksnow 10/10 bn7 http://twitpic.com/tzy2d #
• #uksnow Lewes – alpine scene looking across the station http://twitpic.com/tzwnv #
• #uksnow Lewes – out the back of our house. Very pretty and so peaceful! http://twitpic.com/tzn76 #
• #uksnow Lewes – looking down the street http://twitpic.com/tzmrl #
• #uksnow lewes – my street this morning http://twitpic.com/tzmfy #
• Thinking about my wife stranded in #uksnow. Hoping she stays where she is! #
• #uksnow Lewes http://twitpic.com/ty2sz #
• #uksnow (over excited) http://twitpic.com/ty1zk #
• #uksnow http://twitpic.com/ty1s5 #
• Nobody going nowhere #uksnow lewes http://twitpic.com/ty1gy #
• #uksnow at Lewes station! http://twitpic.com/ty0ru #
• #uksnow deep at Lewes station! http://twitpic.com/txzu1 #
• RT @jemimakiss: http://twitpic.com/txu9n – Haven't seen that much snow since The Grand Scive of 2009. #uksnow BN2 <- bound to last til tom #
• #uksnow near lewes – sat on train looking out to proper blankets of snow. Not moving #
• White out! I'm surprised the trains can even run on this! proper deep #
• RT @AlexCooper: Impress your boss with Google Analytics Annotations! – http://is.gd/5qgXw (via @jamieriddell) #
• Tube closed but what's this? A civilised and orderly queue for the bus? In london? #
• Just biked across London in the snow. Great fun to see tourists enjoying it but cold! #
• Beautiful frosty scenes across the downs this morning #
• Defrosting my face (after bike ride home) #

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• Struggling with the collective lie we tell our kids about father Christmas! #
• 'Father Christmas' just reversed down our cul-de-sac, with a bunch of of middle aged men in reflective jackets collecting money in buckets. #
• Letting the train take the strain for another swift mission to newcastle. Any suggestions while there? #

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This is the first post I have managed to type out in months, besides the regular amalgamations of various Twitterspheric streaming that this site has become. It must be because I’ve just read something that pushes my psychology / computer science / internet geek buttons just enough to warrant a little more rambling than the usual delicious tag or tweet. Jakob Nielson has published an article that cites the classic seven plus or minus two of short-term memory capacity (i.e. executive function) in the context of Website User Experience. Ooooh.

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• "The Real Future of Augmented Reality": TED – Advertising Lab: future of advertising technology http://bit.ly/5VEs6P #
• Harvest Digital (@harvestdigital) is recruiting… looking for a talented Web Developer, based in Soho – http://bit.ly/6SwbwG #
• Very wet #
• Wet #

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• A week of great news @harvestdigital: Won that Newcastle pitch; Royal Shakespeare co = happy client; we're official google conversion pros #
• Wow… A day full of good news. House stuff, work stuff, life and more all seeming to fit nicely into place. Something's up. What next? #
• Newcastle for a pitch and back to Lewes in a day. Lots of train action #

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• At home today – 2 parcels delivered that I had forgotten about but not yet the one I've been waiting for… new #iphone w00t #

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• Things are cleaned up and back to normal in Lewes now – but my son still wants to wear his striped bonfire boy jumper again today. he he #
• Lewes bonfire. Wont be druv. #
• Badge night in lewes. Air full of misty bangs and anticipation. #
• "Loose women" on day time TV is enough to make anyone get better quicker… overwhelming desire to shoot any middle aged women in the street #

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• Olympic kerfuffles begin already. Just biked past them setting up for hand over at buckingham palace. #
• been playing with Google Wave for a couple of weeks now & still not convinced. Only having a handful of people to chat w prob not helping #

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• Blue skies, Apple Fest yesterday and a cracking bike ride today sees the last full weekend of BST '09 off with a glorious autumnal glow #

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• wow! check out that sunset… #
• expecting non-stop boyzone to be played on jukebox at work tomorrow #

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• Thank you fellow harvest people for a refreshingly outdoors-y weekend away! The best one yet imho #

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• Office move back into proper soho. Happy about that. #
• RT @greg_a – Spot on: "Why front-end developers are so important to the future of businesses on the web" http://bit.ly/foR0 #
• RT @monkchips open source is now dead on the web. Microsoft WebsiteSpark lets you use their stuff for free for 3 years- http://bit.ly/FvCVh #

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• bbc r4 – v gd #
• Uke club at the george. Brilliant. #
• Toasting the last of the summer with a pint (or two) of Harvey's best… #