From the Simon Willison/Natalie Downe dream team comes yet another very useful service for Google App Engine developers: jsontime.

I have been meaning to blog about this for some time (no pun intended!)

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Update: Paul McDonald, Product Manager on Google App Engine, emailed me to offer their support. Thanks, Paul, I really appreciate it.

I wrote to Google on April 19th, 2008 to ask for the quotas to be lifted on the upcoming new web site for the Singularity Web Conference.

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Sometimes, when I connect using my T-Mobile USB stick, I can't get Safari or other apps to recognize the Internet connection. I believe this happens with apps that had previously connected to the Net using another interface (e.g., WiFi/en1).

The way I get it to work is to try to load a page in Safari. As it's trying, I disconnect the T-Mobile connection. Then, I reconnect.

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The Pistach.io Flash Pack is proud to support the PaperKing3D Papervision3D Contest with pro bono ads.

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I'm writing this blog post while on hold to the Co-operative Bank which I left in June.

Or thought I'd left in June.

It's easy to think such a thing when you walk into your bank branch, tell them that you want to close your accounts, zero out your balances, and get told by the branch staff that all your accounts are closed.

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