Where is Bob

As an experiment with Google Latitude and my first stab at using JSON data I can tell you where I am :

Of course, it's really telling you where my phone was last seen, but in any case, is this is dumb thing to do?

If anyone is interested in the details of how this is done, leave a comment and I'll write it up.

First Light (3)

So, we have a new baby - born at three thirty-eight this morning, after a short labour, a baby boy (oh no! Not another one!) - weighing 9lbs 11oz - with everyone happy and well.

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More pics and words to follow later.

(You will note the comments are open.)

::edit::

He has a website Asa Mitchell

Sets

This is a online, browser-based tool that implements set operations such as union, intersect, difference on lists of things. It is implemented in Javascript.

Scratch an itch. Right?

I wanted an easy way to take a list of email addresses, de-duplicate them and remove any other names that appear on another list.

This could have been done in several tools (I used a combination of Excel and the GNU utility comm (although it was probably possible to do it all in the spreadsheet), but I wanted a single-use tool that I could pass to other people that was simple, quick enough and I could make changes to.

It could probably be used for other things, but I can't think of any right now.

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Web Analytics Wednesday

We have a Web Analytics Wednesday coming up on the 17th of June in London.

• Presenter - check. (Aurélie Pols)
• Venue - check. (bluu - Moorgate)
• Guests - check. (about eighty and running)
• Drinks - check. (sponsored by Mtracking)
• Shameless promotion - check. :-p

(although there must be things that I've forgotten)

If you want to know more and to register go to http://www.sclanalytics.com/waw

Kids and Cake

For reasons that I won't go into right now, Claire and I have created a new forum, it's called 'Kids and Cake' and you can find it at http://www.kidsandcake.net .

It's a general parenting forum, aiming to be free / open / fair and I am trying to get new people on-board.

So, go along to http://www.kidsandcake.net and register and/or send the link along to someone that might like it.