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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>Stuff that seems very interesting when in a pub, sometimes less so when not - from Ian Blackburn</description><title>Back of a beer mat</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @ianblackburn)</generator><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/</link><item><title>Encams know how to put an ad campaign together</title><description>&lt;img src="http://data.tumblr.com/8heAMwXGOgay4k7rvzf5fop1o1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.encams.org" target="_blank"&gt;Encams&lt;/a&gt; know how to &lt;a href="http://www.encams.org/publications/main.asp?cat=4" target="_blank"&gt;put an ad campaign together&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/59731708</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/59731708</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:28:18 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>The first console war!</title><description>&lt;img src="http://data.tumblr.com/8heAMwXGOgawyszh4DD7Z3ngo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The first console war!</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/59727510</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/59727510</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:55:50 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>France Smartphone get Windows Mobile 6.5 screen shots...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://data.tumblr.com/8heAMwXGOgal7i03QQJjVepbo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;France Smartphone get Windows Mobile 6.5 screen shots (apparently)</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/59685036</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/59685036</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:26:40 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>"Let’s say 30 per cent of your daily take? It’s not in your best interest to say no to..."</title><description>“Let’s say 30 per cent of your daily take? It’s not in your best interest to say no to guys like us. It’s bad for your health.””&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/27/dziuba_apple_app_store/" target="_blank"&gt;The iPhone App Store - a classic protection racket • The Register&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/57740466</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/57740466</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:33:12 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Smart Smart Cars</title><description>&lt;img src="http://data.tumblr.com/8heAMwXGOey6t9a2zqvu2B2Vo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/10/11/smart-smart-cars.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Smart Smart Cars&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/54116710</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/54116710</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:30:44 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>The End of the Internet</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm"&gt;The End of the Internet&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/53052721</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/53052721</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:37:55 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>steve clayton: geek in disguise : I’m Not a PC</title><description>&lt;img src="http://data.tumblr.com/8heAMwXGOekjzod4EnpW3howo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/10/01/i-m-not-a-pc.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;steve clayton: geek in disguise : I’m Not a PC&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/52709091</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/52709091</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:30:53 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Quake in Silverlight (with texture mapping) (via neopocott)</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/V2iS8LCAO8s"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/V2iS8LCAO8s" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Quake in Silverlight (with texture mapping) (via &lt;a href="http://youtube.com/user/neopocott" target="_blank"&gt;neopocott&lt;/a&gt;)</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/52487103</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/52487103</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:09:23 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>"If it’s so dangerous to have your ipod on during takeoff and landing, how come you’re allowed to..."</title><description>“If it’s so dangerous to have your ipod on during takeoff and landing, how come you’re allowed to have it with you on the plane at all? Does all the scolding actually increase safety? How?”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/09/random-travel-t.html" target="_blank"&gt;Seth’s Blog: Random travel thoughts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/52009039</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/52009039</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:14:06 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>steve clayton: geek in disguise : The Evilometer</title><description>&lt;img src="http://data.tumblr.com/8heAMwXGOe9z15j9Q7NNIZp8o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/09/24/the-evilometer.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;steve clayton: geek in disguise : The Evilometer&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/51603444</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/51603444</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:46:28 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>The Rolling Bridge, located on the Paddington Basin in London,...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1gB9dN4nk-E"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1gB9dN4nk-E" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Rolling Bridge, located on the Paddington Basin in London, was created by &lt;a href="http://www.heatherwick.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=25&amp;Itemid=28" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thomas Heatherwick&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It is twelve meters long and opens every Friday at noon.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sort of phalic if you ask me…&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/51238437</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/51238437</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:11:10 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>KANE KRAMER - The Inventor of the Digital Audio Player - 20...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://data.tumblr.com/8heAMwXGOdqy6m47siT7pPko_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kanekramer.com/html/development.htm" target="_blank"&gt;KANE KRAMER - The Inventor of the Digital Audio Player&lt;/a&gt; - 20 years ago…</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/49707526</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/49707526</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:15:05 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>"I’ve been developing .NET business apps for 8 years now (since beta 1) and have found..."</title><description>““I’ve been developing .NET business apps for 8 years now (since beta 1) and have found Silverlight very accessible. Keep in mind I do have WPF experience. But when I want to write some code in SL, not only do I know exactly what classes to look for, but I also bring with me the patterns I’ve used to develop with that specific set of classes for a long time now. The Flash people, of course, bring plenty of experience making animated images of monkeys swinging on trees ;)””&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.silverlighthack.com/post/2008/08/12/Silverlight-advantages-over-Flash-(not-another-Silverlight-vs-Flash).aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Silverlight advantages over Flash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/49583403</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/49583403</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:55:39 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Slightly spoilt by the National Coughing and Snot-Rocket...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hUJagb7hL0E"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hUJagb7hL0E" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Slightly spoilt by the National Coughing and Snot-Rocket Championships between the 2nd &amp; 3rd movement.</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/49377682</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/49377682</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:42:09 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>TODAY ON XANTIAR (MeeBOX) (via AdamBuxton)</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/X2o4W4-ULjM"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/X2o4W4-ULjM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;TODAY ON XANTIAR (MeeBOX) (via &lt;a href="http://youtube.com/user/AdamBuxton" target="_blank"&gt;AdamBuxton&lt;/a&gt;)</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/49230662</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/49230662</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:31:58 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>“If you can see the numbers all go up to eleven”
The...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://data.tumblr.com/8heAMwXGOdme6xlmIeR2wiHN_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;“If you can see the numbers all go up to eleven”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer" target="_blank"&gt;bbc iplayer&lt;/a&gt; goes up to eleven!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;embed allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d54UU-fPIsY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="180" height="165"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/49226405</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/49226405</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:44:24 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Windows Conquistador</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.windowsconquistador.com/"&gt;Windows Conquistador&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;img width="300" src="http://www.windowsconquistador.com/churro.jpg" height="1600"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;made famous by &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz6amk3P-hY" target="_blank"&gt;Gates and Seinfeld&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/49093651</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/49093651</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:21:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Are those trees moving?

Deputy dog uncovers another </title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aOM3WIZ1Ey8"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aOM3WIZ1Ey8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are those trees moving?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://deputy-dog.com/2008/09/02/are-those-trees-moving/" target="_blank"&gt;Deputy dog uncovers another &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/48464688</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/48464688</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:38:03 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>"the poster child of micro-blogging could rapidly become a prospector showing the way and never..."</title><description>“the poster child of micro-blogging could rapidly become a prospector showing the way and never reaping the rewards of its discoveries.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/2008/09/01/twitter-track-and-the-business-of-the-real-time-web/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Twitter&lt;/b&gt;, track and the business of the real time web | SmallBizPod - small business blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/48372497</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/48372497</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:24:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Google android reference phone demonstrated on the bbc</title><description>&lt;embed src="http://blip.tv/play/Aar+DInVCw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="243" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Google android reference phone demonstrated on the bbc</description><link>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/48371994</link><guid>http://backofabeermat.co.uk/post/48371994</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:18:32 +0100</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
