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"Analysing our user’s behaviours with their consent is a very insightful exercise. We found for example that the average usage time of private browsing mode is 5 minutes. What does that say about performance?"

Heh :)

From: http://christianheilmann.com/2011/11/10/speaking-at-velocity-europe-on-performance/

Green flash -early morning sunlight in a bookshop not yet open.

I can think of several people including myself who want one of these :)

Alex turned me onto Bob Sutton, and this is a follow up to something Zac posted somewhere the other day:

Bad is Stronger than Good: Why Eliminating the Negative is More Important than Accentuating the Positive

Man this is much harder than just hitting 'share'.

Things like I could share with you if we were all on Reader and they hadn't fucked it. Anyway, onwards:

Porn Apartment Day!

Porn Apartment Day!

Well done Google, you have just made me use my 'Send to LJ' button more now that you've got rid of sharing.

Little buggers. Expect more random internet crap to turn up here soon.

New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

Been off sick for two days and in bed sick the day before that, I am currently watching Bridesmaids (umm.. why did anyone think this was funny?) .. what other films and TVs are on the box that I should watch to stop me going out of my tiny mind while I try not to cough my intestines across the room?

My phone is getting too hot from playing Plants vs Zombies and Tiny Tower constantly. HELP!

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Originally uploaded by symphonic knot.

Eating, drinking, Zac being awesome as ever, eating, ham, staying up chatting till 4am, drinking, winning pub quiz, lazing by the pool, eating, drinking and eating while lazing by the pool, ad infinitum. (I wish).

Tiny Towers, Plants vs Zombies, several John Grisham and Jilly Cooper "novels", plus catching up with Infinite Jest at night when it's not so hot I can't think - 35 today. All in all a great success.

Any of you real bleako fans out there, I recommend you pick up The Kite Runner. It's got it all, suicide, attempted suicide, gangland style executions of entire families - except the children, who are saved to be raped later - in front of those children, massive familial betrayal and loss, infertility, religious stupidity, deformity and disfigurement, war, poverty, selfishness, screaming. Tons of other really disturbing stuff I have already forgotten.

But like Pandora's Box, it also ends with hope.

It's also a very engaging read, despite the author insisting on never using contractions or shortenings of words in the dialogue - it's all "he will say this" and "I will do the other" - something that I've noticed in years of reading some really bad sci-fi usually leaves the characters feeling stilted and not really like real people. Or is this something that just happens in books anyway and I've just not noticed before.. or maybe the nature of the Afghan people he's describing, all humility and downcast eyes (except those nasty beardy Talibs, eh) .. or maybe just when someone's good it doesn't matter how they make their characters talk. Dunno.

I am obviously entirely failing to finish Infinite Jest - was struggling anyway, and lack of iPhone with Kindle app (and games! and Twitter!) means I am consuming approximately a paperback of real book about every other day.. Lend me more books, people! I am your neighbour!

http://www.fourhourbody.com/#contents

He told Wired he had found a way to reliably generate 15-minute female orgasms 95% of the time.

Think I need to get that book.

Oh yeah and some other stuff about losing fat, putting on muscle, staying healthy, living longer, yeah, whatever.

(see also http://fourhourworkweek.com/ but that looks much less interesting :-)

"Time's black assurances that the symptoms were merely signposts pointing up at a larger, more dire set of Withdrawal phenomena that hung just overhead by a string that unravelled steadily with the passage of time. "

Oh god oh god oh god