It has got to be this one from Opera.
Try and watch the video below and try not to laugh, the guy demo’ing these amazing face gestures tries hard not to 
The other pranks and spoofs this year are well documented on Techcrunch.
Possibly what every person that works full-time realises after they return back from work after a long break is ‘I must take more breaks, and give myself time to relax’
Relaxing is a time to reflect. When you are away from your professional environment you will find that burdens are not so troublesome.
So, get out into the daylight, go cycling, go to visit the sea, go and walk up a mountain, go to a concert, a non-techy event. Doing one of these or all of them results in broadening your horizons and enriching your life..
‘In this age of mobile phones, cybercafes, wifi and satellite links its harder than ever to escape, and live life off-line’
We’ve returned from our annual weightwatchers trip. Where we (my future wife and I) (try to) shed a few pounds, we decided to use our bikes this year.
The plan: To cycle the Sustrans West Country way bike route from Bristol to Padstow. A 300 mile part traffic free route which leads us from Bristol to the quiet and country lanes of Cornwall.
We camped throughout the journey, apart from our night on Exmoor where where had the luxury of a B&B in Dulverton.
The trip took us 6 days from start to finish, covering 3 sets of interesting hills – The Quantocks, Somerset. The Exmoor National Park, Devon, and various Cornwall hilly bits.
We were covering about 50 miles a day on average, and carrying around 80 litre capacity clothing, food and camping equipment.
Work can all too often take over our lives outside the office with various ways to ’stay connected’.
However, I encourage you to make your office hours more productive by offering the following relaxation techniques every geek can use.. try the following tips that I use, you may find they will allow you to see things differently and achieve your work/life goals more successfully and more effectively.
Well, the creme de la creme Web Design and Development Conference in Austin, Texas certainly lived up to its formidable reputation.
And it’s hard to put into one blog post an event that encompasses so many aspects of the web, real time social networking, some marketing, and a lot of partying with new friends.
One interesting statistic was that it was thought 20% of America’s iPhone users were at SxSw. There were a lot of iPhones, and Apple products everywhere you looked. It felt like being part of a community just by having similar gadgets with these folks.
I really loved the openness of the event, it’s true – you can sit next to a Vice president of Yahoo! on one side and an A list web celebrity on the other.
After reading Mr Nice, which was a fantastic insight into his ‘high’ life and times, I discovered Howard Marks and I have a few things in common, here they are:
Mark’s now leads a quiet life in Europe, come back to Brighton soon Howard.
A very easy web app for making your own lifestream, like the one for Jayonline
Check out Carlo’s magical badge builder at escaloop
This can be integrated into any site as long as you know the RSS feed for your flickr, or Twitter feed for instance.
Example of how the Escaloop badge works:
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