• C of E starts Lent SMS campaign
  "For the 50 days covering the period of the Christian celebration of Lent, those signing up will get a daily text message encouraging them to behave in a more Christian manner."
  (tags: christian god text sms)
• Iconfactory : Software : Twitterrific
  Seems glance-ish to me. Want nicer interface than the web-based one and not managed to get IM working yet... (I also finder twitter less intrusive than IM)
  (tags: twitter mac twitterific)
• Panache
  "it wasn't being reasonable, it wasn't an apology - it was extravagance, it was panache, it was that "aw f--k it' gesture, where you throw it all away, jumping completely out of the fight/flight equation and end up somewhere else."
  (tags: aikido panache extravagance)
• orbific2 » The Power of Nightmares
  (tags: noseybonk nightmare scary)
• Ultimate iPhone FAQs List, Part 2 - Pogue’s Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog
  Jobs: “Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.”
  (tags: iphone java mobile dev)
• Universal exec - say goodbye to the old record co. | The Register
  ""Users are creating free content for YouTube. Maybe the question should be, 'How much is YouTube paying its users'", said Kenswil."
  (tags: drm music license)
• Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" - (37signals)
  Fantastic book.
  (tags: comics scott mcloud)
• Mobile Opportunity: Impact of the Apple iPhone
  Excellent analysis
  (tags: iphone apple analysis)
• iPhone trails - (37signals)
  Nice idea, and something that suits any pen/touch-based UI I reckon (no idea why UIQ don't have this for the P900 series). But nothing new - Black&White had these didn't it?
  (tags: gestural ui interface pen iphone)
• Lifeblog: T9onym - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Anyone for a riot?
  (tags: t9 sms t9onym predictive text)
• iPhone locked down, Apple confirms | The Register
  "this is how network operators like it - and it's their network"
  (tags: iphone symbian apps)
• Eventyr: Agile Games
  I want to play more of these :)
  (tags: agile games play dev software)
• Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development
  Boom boom!
  (tags: agile amusing waterfall)
• Web startups are just like garage bands
  (tags: startups bands)
• TechStars: TechStars 2007
  (tags: startup funding)

• Beautifully simple games
  (tags: casual games art)

• Signs that Sky will go mobile? | The Register
  "One huge advantage of having a Sky mobile brand would be the opportunity to use the mobile as the back channel - just by linking the mobile number with a subscribers set top box "
  (tags: sky mobile itv backchannel pressred)

• Yahoo Plan B - The Unofficial Yahoo Wiki From Wikia - A Wikia wiki
  (tags: yahoo planb wiki)
• Fatherly advice to programmers
  (tags: dev software advice programmers)
• YouTube - Jeff Han on TED Talks
  Amazing interfaces
  (tags: ted ui interaction touch screen demo hci)
• Call Me Fishmeal.: Ad nauseam...
  I'd echo this experience, advertising a company. Ran a full-page mag at in The New Media Magazine at the height of the dot-com boom. Resulting calls: 2, both from folks I already knew to say "nice ad".
  (tags: ad advertising)
• MobileCrunch » Weighing in on Apple’s iPhone: your MC analysis one day later
  Some interesting analysis brought together here, but nothing ground-breaking.
  (tags: mac iphone)

Another plug here for the Joh Hunts Coding Dojo, which is run at our offices every couple of weeks. Next weeks meeting will focus on attacking a problem in Java (a familiar format for anyone who's been so far), but on February 7th we have another, based around Ruby, which looks interesting (and which I'll be unfortunately missing in favour of LIFT07).

If you're a software developer in the Brighton area and haven't been yet, I thoroughly recommend it - it's a fascinating way to watch the development process happen at a small scale, notice patterns of behaviour writ large in more complex projects, pick up tips and tricks, and meet interesting local folks.