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Golf aficionados amongst you have now been hearing me extol Camilo Villegas for some time now, the healthiest “product” ever to come out of Medellin. He’s just won his first PGA title a few minutes ago. You’re going to hear a lot more about him in the majors next year. He’s extraordinarily fit, he’s young [...]

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There’s a not-so-quiet battle going on during the US election, one that is going to get harder and grittier as the days go by. On the face of it, it’s a battle between “Mainstream Media” (or “MSM”, as it gets called) and “New Media” (principally the blogosphere, flickrworld and twitterverse).
I think that the battle can [...]

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I love the Web. I love Twitter. I love the way elections are becoming sources of entertainment. Take a look at this:
Little known fact Palin
Now that is viral.

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I live in Windsor. At least I used to. Until it got just a teensy bit hotter than I would want. Which is what would have happened if the BBC forecast, shown below, was accurate…..

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I had some unusual habits when I was young. [Didn't we all?] No, really.
I ate cockroaches. Apparently. This was when I was crawling around on all fours in Calcutta. Every now and then, my parents would hear a tell-tale crunching sound, come running to wherever I was, only to see the last vestiges of cockroach [...]

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Can’t afford to go to Burning Man? Don’t have a ticket? Not your cup of tea? Worry not, help is at hand.
[Thanks to Mary Harrington, the Chief Community Officer at School of Everything, who brought this to my attention via Twitter].
It’s not every day you come across a Chaucerian blog; I’d seen it some years [...]

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Having watched him and tracked him for quite a while now, and with the form he’s shown in the last two majors, I cannot help but believe that Camilo Villegas will win a major soon. You heard it here first.
He has this crazy insouciance when he plays, as if it is perfectly reasonable and normal [...]

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When I read this evocative piece by Tim O’ Reilly on Linking To Yourself, and began to understand just how widespread the “habit” had become, I began to wonder. Doesn’t it make you go blind, or something like that? It should.

I thought Peter Kirn’s comment summarised it elegantly:
1. Link externally when appropriate; don’t create a [...]

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Last night, as we entered the dining room at the country club, we were greeted by this wonderful sign:

Gentlemen, please remove your hat. Something quintessentially Texan about that (and no, I’m not quibbling about the grammatical correctness of that notice). Not being far from a golf course at that time (and for that matter, not [...]

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I’ve been lazing all week, thinking about as little as possible, spending time with my wife and children, spending time with close friends, spending time with myself.
And in that spending of time, a phrase I read somewhere came back to me:
Leadership is about taking the risk of managing meaning
There’s only a finite number of books [...]

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