Simon Roberts

Landed in Berlin. 2 trains and a short walk and I’ll be home #
At Blankenfelde – catching S2 train to LIchtenrade #
Installed Leopard. So far my HSDPA card (UMTS broadband) doesn’t want to play nice #

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About to start Sprint Planning. We’re going to try this timer: http://tinyurl.com/yvj2e6 #

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Plentiful Leopard suppy at Saturn in Berlin’s Europa Centre. Managed to resist and wait for Monday #

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I ordered Leopard from the German Apple Store when announced. The order status is showing expected delivery on Monday. I’m not impressed #

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Shocked and sad to learn of the passing of the writer and broadcaster Alan Coren http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2694149.ece #
This month we’ve lost Alan Coren and Ned Sherrin two stalwarts of quality UK broadcasting and both a big part of the soundtrack of my life. #
On my way to Mirchi 1 in Berlin-Mitte to meet with some [...]

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flow|state: Show mercy to keyboard users (yourself included) by setting the default keyboard focus In this post on flow|state the author explains the importance of setting the default keyboard focus in a web application – i.e. where text will appear if the user starts typing without clicking on a control or otherwise changing the focus. [...]

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I’m really liking Flock 1.0 RC – the People Bar does a nice job of giving me an overview of Twitter, Flickr and Facebook #
… and subjectively Flock is fast on my MacBook Pro #
LIstening to Carmina Burana, Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle, iTunes+ – nice recording #
Neil Young – Chrome Dreams and Chrome Dreams II [...]

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Listening to Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti – possibly their best album. I don’t have tickets for the reunion but I’ll be there in spirit! #
Back in Berlin after a week as a Bromptonaut in Munich. #

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Arrived in Munich on the night train from Berlin #
It"s a low CO2 week. Train instead of plane and bike instead of regional train #

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At MUC for the weekly commute back to SXF #
Looks like I’ll be coaching yet another Scrum team at my current client soon #
This is a very high visibility project so when we show that Scrum works a lot of people will notice #

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