A last minute change: I'm going to be presenting my brand new session, Grab the Low-Hanging Fruit (or 5 Rules for Hedonistic Creatives) at Flash on the Beach next week. The session got rave reviews at previews in Amsterdam and Belgium this week and I hope you guys will enjoy it too at FOTB in Brighton. Here's [...]

As I posted last week, a backwards-incompatible API change to the JSON version of Yahoo!'s excellent GeoPlanet API caused the new teaser site for the Singularity web conference to fail. Today, I got an email from Eddie Babcock from the Y! Geo team informing me that this was due to a regression and that they will [...]

I just noticed that the Yahoo! GeoPlanet API made an API change to its JSON API that breaks existing apps. (I noticed because it broke the sign-up process for the new Singularity teaser site.) Googling around, I couldn't find any announcements from Yahoo! about this. I don't know if there's a notification feed somewhere that I'm [...]

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Last Friday, I blogged that the late night/early morning noise in my neighborhood was driving me batty and that I had written to the council about it. Well, today, I heard back from Edward Bulger from the Environmental Health & Licensing Pollution Control Team at Brighton and Hove City Council. From his email: I am now in [...]