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Today is World Porridge Day, which is being promoted by Mary’s Meals. Mary’s Meals provide a daily meal of maize porridge (likuni phala) to some of the world’s poorest children. It makes a bigger difference than you might think - for many children it’s the meal that allows them to attend school.

Insights, where I work,  supports Mary’s Meals, and ( Read more... )

On Friday we were encouraged to come to work appropriately dressed for a Cowboy vs. Aliens Nerf battle.


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One of the team who’s leaving today created these:


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The founder of the company I work for has an unprovable but reasonable claim to having originated the term "Beatlemania".

There's an article in the Observer about the phenomenon that opens with some of Andi's memories.

…that the World Wide Web entered the public domain. I’m pretty sure I first used it later that year when I returned to university in Dundee (along with ever-more-occasional Gopher use).

By the time I was looking for a job three years later, the Web was so much of a part of how I worked as a developer that I dreaded the possibility of working for a ( Read more... )

There’s been quite a lot of attention paid to the new user interface in Windows 8, especially the Start Screen that’s replacing the Start menu, but perhaps if you’re a web developer you’ve been thinking none of this has much relevance for you.

Whether that’s actually right depends a bit on what sort of devices you’ve been targeting up until now.

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