Playlab.net || Mark Rochefort

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• Look mum, no coat!! #spring #sprung #

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• Loving the new v5 @googleanalytics interface – quicker & much more intuitive! And the "Term Cloud" visualisation is an unexpected treat. #
• Are your brand's Facebook Page Tabs hidden when viewing over a secure connection? http://t.co/U1bStNE #
• Anyone know who to approach in #Lewes about an over bright street light? impossible to blank out w black out blinds. can't sleep! #
• There's a lot of silly green hat wearing going on tonight in london. I don't think they are Irish. #
• Excited to see the new site launch for @SageUK – great work everyone! Public beta at http://www.sage.co.uk/ (/cc @harvestdigital) #
• RT @dlwp: José González & The Göteborg String Theory (vid: http://t.co/1NH922u) performing @dlwp 10 April – now booking <– will be there! #
• RT: @LoganTod Listening to Tesco CEO say we need to 'listen harder to consumer lives' and segment more clearly #RWC20 <- any mention of FB? in reply to LoganTod #
• Just spotted google streetview car in #Lewes #

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We’ve been working on some Facebook Page Tabs, implemented as i-frames (see facebook.com/TescoGB). On Monday evening we noticed that if you enable your account security setting in Facebook to “browse on a secure connection (HTTPS) whenever possible”, Facebook will try to pull in the i-framed Page Tab over HTTPS. Bit of an issue, if you haven’t got an SSL certificate in place for the domain hosting your pages. So, we set about installing the secure certificate for the host domain. Crisis averted. Or so we thought.

This morning we noticed the Page Tab icons had completely disappeared, when viewing via HTTPS! This issue was raised as a bug and marked as resolved. It turns out the fix has introduced a new field in a Facebook app settings – under “Facebook Integration” – called “Secure Tab URL”. Set this and you are good to go again! Phew.

Oh the joys of working at the “bleeding edge”

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• Tesco GB launches official Facebook page, created by @harvestdigital – http://bit.ly/eiiKtU (via @BrandRepublic) /cc @Alisonbattisby #
• Transformed back yard from former building site into a garden. Now have lawn and veg patch. Plus rescued MTB from rubble Roll on spring! #
• The reality of all this isn't beyond comprehension for us however. Can't stop thinking about it but don't want to spectate on tv. #
• Am finding the reach & impact of this wave beyond comprehension. Our thoughts are with you all right now. #
• wow! $99 for all this? (AppSumo Lean Startup Bundle for SXSW) http://t.co/o1KAdPp via @appsumo #

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I do not consider myself a religious person and I certainly do not subscribe to the doctrines dished out by church establishments, but I heard something on Radio Four’s “Thought For The Day” this morning that really made me stop and reflect on the nature of existence, eternity, et al. It’s nice when that happens – it doesn’t happen often enough in everyday life.

The William Blake quote at the end is one of my favourites…

One of the great privileges of being a priest is that I often get the opportunity to be with people when they die. It frequently astonishes me that, despite the ubiquity of death, this is something a great many people have never actually seen. Little wonder we’re so frightened of death. It used to be something public, but now it’s pushed out of life. Whereas we used to die at home surrounded by friends and family, we now die in hospitals, often alone and hidden behind expensive technology.

It’s commonly assumed that Christians don’t really believe in death at all, that we subscribe to the view that when we die we go on living in some other realm, or in some disembodied form. Just to be clear: I believe nothing of the sort. I don’t like the euphemistic language of “passing on” or “having gone to sleep”. Nor do I subscribe to Platonic ideas about the immortality of the soul. When you die, you die. As the first letter of St. Paul to Timothy puts it: “God alone is immortal”

Today is Ash Wednesday. Like millions of Christians around the world, I will be marked with ash and told that I am dust and to dust I shall return. There is nothing depressing or morbid about any of this – in fact, quite the reverse. Personally speaking, it leaves me with a more intense sense of the preciousness of human life, something that’s intimately bound up with its intrinsic limit and fragility.

Indeed, the problem with the modern lack of experience of death is precisely that it robs us of this very intensification. Life without death is “just one damned thing after another.” For death gives life its urgency: now is the opportunity to love and respond to love, to be different, to make a difference, to change the world. There is no time to waste.

This is why I have little enthusiasm for the idea that science might be able to keep us alive indefinitely, that through cryogenic suspension or uploading our DNA onto computers we might be able to achieve immortality. I’m not saying these extraordinary things will never be possible ” who can say? ” but rather, that the best these technologies can ever offer is a life that goes on and on and on. And if I can put it like this: more and more of me, extended over time, doesn’t really solve the problem of being me.

When theologians like Boethius and Augustine speak of entering eternity they mean something altogether different from this: for eternity is outside of time, unrelated to temporal sequence. Which is why eternity can be as much as quality of our present experience, more an expansion of our imagination, a call to reach beyond claustrophobic self-absorption and to see the world anew. As William Blake so memorably suggested:

“To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour.”

The Rev. Dr Giles Fraser

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• TagMan / Econsultancy: interesting results on attribution – natural search & social "chronically under-rewarded" http://bit.ly/hR0M87 #

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• I do believe that is daylight out there. Just. #rollonsummer #
• Looks like 2011 is set to be full of spinning plates, finger pies and juggling of metaphors… #

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• As of today, you can build your facebook page tab apps using iframes instead of FBML http://bit.ly/hiXjwA #
• Watching… Waiting… #Egypt #
• Damn… hate it when I see a typo in tweet just when pressing send. I can spell, honest. #
• Something to look forward too: Paragliding over Brighton for £45 instead of £130, today with groupon http://bit.ly/gTk2I2 #
• Charlie Brooker – on the telly now and on top form. Brilliant. #
• bedtime thoughts from my son: "when I grow up, I want to be a fireman or a pilot or a sweet shop owner or a pirate" Keeping his options open #

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• BBC radio 6: rather nice tonight (just played lovely track called parallax by shadow dancer). Worth a listen, if you like that sort of thing #
• Chinese new year *and* my birthday today… Has to be lucky, right? #

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• Inevitable… Can't pack all our crap within baggage allowance for family trip to Ireland tomorrow. What to cull? Clothes or baby food? #
• How about next Wednesday? @NimbleOgre @sevenseconds @exmosis @Lee_Tucknott #exvr #
• Latest site launch at #harvestdigital – http://www.devittinsurance.com/ – well done gang! #
• Amazon opens up their scalable cloud infrastructure to mass email broadcast campaigns – http://aws.amazon.com/ses/ #

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• Looking down Keere St on way to work this morning in #Lewes – makes up for lateness after nursery drop off madness! http://flic.kr/p/9bsdfe #
• Wow – managed to get a few answers in university challenge. Must be the beer. #

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• "Twitter can twat off" #shitmywifesays #
• Crikey. All kicking off on radio6 tonight. Requests all seem to be from homebound parents w kids upstairs. And yep, I'm joining the party! #
• My tweet count has halved… Should I be so bothered? Maybe it was wrong before?! #

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• Excited to hear that @jonronson will be speaking at a @LewesSkeptics in the pub event in June (http://bit.ly/e7I6k2) #lewes #
• well, well, well – it's all going on over at quora.com #

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• And so we decided to explain that the lorry driving past, blaring music, with man "dressed like Santa" atop, was not the real deal #lewes #
• Oh dear. The web of lies spun about father christmas gets more complex every year. I feel guilty for contriving towards such a conspiracy. #
• And a selenehelion too http://bit.ly/gpqBMW #
• A "winter equinox eclipse of the moon"? Sounds kinda cool but… Wake me up if it actually is #

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• RT @paul_clarke: In the snow, how big is an airport really? http://rb.tl/dHJV1B #uksnow <– important: it's complex. Wish press said so! #
• RT @Delicious: What's next for Delicious? http://bit.ly/h7Dixp #
• Did Search kill Del.icio.us? http://bit.ly/gFKk4x (@timwhitlock) <- fair points. I certainly use #delicious less in last yr or so… #
• Gah! Damn auto bit.ly thing, you. #
• curl http://bit.ly/fu3EuY > bookmarks.xml #delicious #yahoo #
• Fun christmas party last night w @harvestdigital crew. Thx @kevinjoyner for putting me up LDN-BTN train rather civilised at this time too #
• Last minute revisions to pitch presentation over coffee… Wish us luck! #
• Heading up to Leeds tonight for meeting on Thurs – "I may be some time" http://ow.ly/3p9JN #
• Hinge has snapped badly on my MacBook air. Cut my finger too. Think this is a job for sugru (for the hinge, not my finger) @projectsugru #

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• RT @guardiantech: PlayStation 3 adds ITV and Channel 4 shows to on-demand lineup http://bit.ly/f65aPG #
• Fun party last night @theskiff – thank you @jot et al! I had a great time. Was really good to chat (rant?) with everyone Happy skiffmas! in reply to theskiff #
• I don't see what the fuss is all about. Can't we create an ad-funded model for uni funding? #halfjoke #slightlyprophetic #augmentedreality #
• Google's Chrome event — live blog by Engadget: http://bit.ly/eENZ9O #

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• Snow covering the memorial in #lewes and Christmas tree looks proper nice http://flic.kr/p/8XGSeu #
• That's a lot of snow out there! #Lewes is suddenly & beautifully silent – wrapped in a thick soft white blanket. Midnight sledging? #
• New found admiration for my wife today after I have attempted (& failed) to do what she does every day. The house is a bomb site. #
• Crikey. Twitter all about NO TRAINS to #Lewes & #Brighton now #uksnow For once I'm home due to tonsillitis ridden family. Good luck all. #
• Hey #Lewes – look out the window #

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• Watching #lewes #bonfire processions go past last night http://bit.ly/aWNtVJ #
• My ears are still ringing #
• Absolute madness outside our house and both kids are asleep upstairs! How?! #Lewes #bonfire #
• Google releases mod_pagespeed for Apache: http://bit.ly/apjGoM – crikey. And nice to see partnerships with host providers too #
• Hundreds of parking restriction notices going up all over #Lewes in prep for bonfire. Batten the hatches! #
• http://ht.ly/32pvF "geog & psych grads – better than av chance of getting work" / "IT graduates – bleakest prospects" (via @researchdigest) in reply to researchdigest #
• Wow – I might actually be at work on time today #daylightsavingbonus #
• Savouring this stolen extra hour with an extra glass of wine, before hibernating until 27th March #daylightsavingsucks #hopekidsstayinbed #

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• RT @VivaLewes: Unofficial twitter consensus on Lewes weather is that it's freezing cold out there! #hatsandglovestime <– beautiful tho #
• Ooooh frosty morning. #
• yes, okay Steve, you've got me. I want a new mac book air. Just stop it now. #
• Checking out @theskiff for 30 mins between appointments – hello all! Just passing through really #
• Prototype of an Open Web App Ecosystem :: The Mozilla Blog: http://bit.ly/cyrACF #
• Five Unique Calls to Action that Will Make You Click Twice: http://bit.ly/bmpou7 #
• "What users believe they know about a UI strongly impacts how they use it. Mismatched mental models are common…" http://j.mp/b4joDt #
• The night has a nip & chill about it and Lewes is already echoing with bangs. Bonfire… #

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• Something very comforting about the smell of wood smoke when getting off the train at #Lewes – bonfire is approaching #

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• At our son's request, my wife has drawn a map of #Lewes – you may find it useful too http://flic.kr/p/8EMHMP #
• Broken London-bound train at #Lewes station this morning. Trains being routed via Brighton. #

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• Waking up in Mountain View, sunny CA & coffee is being made. My first time @google HQ – here for the next few days. Quite excited really. #
• Catching up on Internet after two week holiday fast. Yep – it's still here. #

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• Cantabria, Northern Spain… Mountains, lush valleys, tapas, vino y mucho mas. I like it here #

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• RT @jackschofield: Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime – The New York Times http://nyti.ms/aQveX1 <– midnight. holiday time! #
• New food place in soho called otarian. Food with added guilt? #

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• Pixels rather than number of screens key for productivity http://bit.ly/d3e9qy #
• jquery mobile – one to watch http://jquerymobile.com/ #