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2008-07-10 links

Jacqui Smith kick-starts yoof ID debate site, site kick stops | The Register
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autosport.com – Subaru owners to honour McRae
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African solutions

African leaders keep claiming that they need "African solutions to African problems", however their response to the Zimbabwe "problem" is fence-sitting inactivity to a degree beyond which even the Liberal Democrats aspire.

This is shameful, irresponsible, gravely unfair to the oppressed Zimbabwean people and a disgrace to the leaders' own people. Were they really elected to do so little?

In response, my personal "European solution to African stupidity" is quite simple; African goods will join those of China and Burma, and remain on the shelves of the shops I frequent. This small gesture in itself may do little, but I encourage others to do the same.

2008-07-08 links

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2008-07-07 links

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2008-07-02 links

Openatownrisk
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Using AVG linkscanner against itself
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And we have a winner...

The winner of the ticket for Mobile 2.0 Europe is Moof! Very apt as he's the only English guy I know who can speak fluent Catalan (and a host of other languages). I'm sure he'll enjoy Mobile 2.0 Europe

So thanks again to Rudy for the ticket, looks like it's going to be a great event.

Up, up and away

Following Saturday's mention of the Orange Animals Balloonacy I've now signed up for my own balloon, you can follow its travails/travels here. If you seee it come past your site, please give it a wave!

I ought to file this under "Odd, but strangely compelling".

Mobile 2.0 Europe; Do you want to go?

Courtesy of Rudy De Waele I'm in the exceedingly lucky position to have a ticket for Mobile 2.0 Europe to give away (value € 299 + VAT).

If you want this ticket you can win it here. In the best tradition of online quizes I'll make this nice and easy, send me the names of two of the people speaking at Mobile 2.0 Europe, and I'll put your name in the hat. Last entry by 18:00 UTC tomorrow and I'll announce the winner shortly afterwards.

Valid entry methods: XMPP/Jabber/GTalk: jimh@jabber.org.uk Email: jim@feetup.org Twitter/Jaiku: JimH SMS: If you've got my number :-)

Background

The Mobile 2.0 Conference is coming to Europe on July 4 in Barcelona, Spain. This one-day event focusing on the Mobile Web and Disruptive Mobile Innovation, is brought to you by dotopen and the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee: Daniel Appelquist, Gregory Gorman, Mike Rowehl, Peter Vesterbacka, and Rudy De Waele in partnership with ESADE.

The MOBILE 2.0 EUROPE conference brings together experts and thought leaders from all aspects of the mobile ecosystem, including startups, investors, mobilecarriers, device manufacturers, and mobile application developers and web technologists. The conference is an opportunity for companies to connect to industry leadership and startup innovation and broaden your C-level relationships.

The event will be held at the Espacio ESADE FORUM, Barcelona and will run from 9:00am to 6:00pm with a reception at the Espacio ESADE FORUM afterwards.

Balloon Racing

So I'm balloon racing for Orange, if you look at the bottom right of the page you should see a small orange balloon bobbing around (click on it if you dare), tip of the hat to Tom's site for pointing me towards this balloonacy.

What does this mean? Possibly some more traffic to the site, and it's something suitably silly so I like it. So, for the newcomers, welcome (have you seen the wiki?), and for the regulars, yeah I've sold out (again) don't panic, it's short term and normal (shoddy) service will remain in place. Enjoy!