As heard in this morning’s BEA Tech Talk presentation .. Sorry Gartner, but the term ESB means only one thing to us brits .. beer! But OK, after a couple of these you’re going to be fairly loosely coupled.

The other week we took the boat to Greenwich to see the Tintin exhibition at the National Maritime Museum.
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Trawling my bookmarks for a work related link i happend again on the excellent Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer quiz. So i’m OK to attend oscon if only i could get someone to pay for my trip ..

I have thus far studiously avoided commenting on Web services here, that’s my day job, but Tim Bray is bang on the money in his post on Web Services Theory and Practice. Not a single word in there with which i disagree. Amen brother!

Hmm… i was hoping for something that made me seem a little less shallow such as:

I was in Amsterdam last week attending XML Europe 2004.
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The last of our purple sprouting broccoli steamed for supper whilst the remainder bolts under the spring sunshine.

Another day and another word added to my vocabulary ‘Kerning‘ thanks to Edd Dumbill commenting on his XML2004 keynote slides. (and i was there!)

Some time ago Dave Orchard blogged on the countries visited Meme sweeping the world. I did write a comment for Dave to create his own visited countries map but that was a redundant sub-meme as several others provided a link to the same site.
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Nice sunny day, so we all went for a bike ride.