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				<title><![CDATA[San Francisco city guide map, for the prospective resident]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/09/04/san_francisco_city_guide_map_for_the_prospective_resident</link>
				<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine is moving to San Francisco, and asked me for advice on where are the nice places to live. This is a sufficiently common question that I decided to do a proper answer, in the form of a custom Google Map. I mentioned it on Twitter and it got quite a lot of responses, so here for posterity is my guide to the neighbourhoods of San Francisco:

View San Francisco Neighbourhood Guide in a larger map

Where possible I've made comparisons to equivalent areas in London, as that's where my friend is moving from. Comments and suggestions are welcome; Twitter is probably the easiest way.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:41:39 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Arrington is completely wrong about women in technology]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Michael Arrington's post on TechCrunch today about who to blame for the lack of women in tech was even more offensively wrong than I was expecting from the title, and that's really saying something. It goes off the rails right in the first paragraph:


Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn’t matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can execute, you can change the world and/or get really, stinking rich.


Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong. It matters enormously how old you are -- either too young to be taken seriously as an entrepreneur, or too old to be taken seriously talking about new tech. Your color is ridiculously important, because the people with money, who are almost exclusively men and mostly white, are more comfortable talking to other white men, and your nationality even more so, because of visa restrictions. Even your politics are important,...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:05:19 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[In defence of SQL]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/07/12/in_defence_of_sql</link>
				<description><![CDATA[If this title does not interest you, here are some alternative, linkbait titles:

Why ORM is the Dumbest Idea Ever
Why NoSQL is a Terrible Idea
OMADS: the future of data storage
Why SQL Will Eventually Conquer The World


A little history

SQL was invented in the 1970s at the same time that "large-scale" (read: millions of rows) data stores came into existence. It triumphed over other query languages not because it was particularly great (though it was easier to read), but because it was standard. Everybody building a data store could write to the SQL standard without having to re-train all their clients and customers. It reduced friction all round. It was a huge success.

SQL is awkward

There's no escaping that SQL, as we use it day to day, is not pretty.

Keep in mind that what SQL is really designed to express is relational algebra, a type of logic essentially invented by the ridiculously clever E.F. Codd (along with nearly all the other theoretical underpinnings of relational databases). If you're not...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:25:21 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[A letter from a mother]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/07/11/a_letter_from_a_mother</link>
				<description><![CDATA[I've already posted this letter from the mother of a gay son to her local newspaper in Vermont to delicious, but it's worth putting in as many places as possible. It's really brilliantly written. The phrase in particular that I wish every anti-gay religionist in America was required to read before opening their mouths ever again:


If you want to tout your own morality, you'd best come up with something more substantive than your heterosexuality. You did nothing to earn it; it was given to you.


I want this on a t-shirt. And a billboard. And written in the sky.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:41:53 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a political failure]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/05/30/bps_oil_spill_in_the_gulf_of_mexico_is_a_political_failure</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The ongoing oil spill from BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico is a tragedy. A human one -- 11 lives were lost in the initial explosion -- and an environmental one; the heartbreaking pictures (via) are already emerging, and there will be more.

There's a lot of public anger over the spill, mostly directed at BP itself, brilliantly captured by the BP Global PR Twitter feed. And there's a lot to blame them for. As the New York Times reports, BP officials knew weeks in advance that there were problems with the rig and had deliberately scaled back the rigorousness of the federally-mandated testing they were doing on the rig -- a very unusual practice; usually the tests get more and more strenuous. They knew something was up.

The Wall Street Journal (free article) has a lot more detail: they chose an inherently risky well design, skipped a lot of standard safety checks, ignored best practices, and were in an almighty hurry to get things finished. Furthermore, they might even have avoided loss of life: there's...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 02:42:07 -0500</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Seldo</dc:creator>
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				<title><![CDATA[Towards a real distributed social network protocol]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/04/26/towards_a_real_distributed_social_network_protocol</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Last week Facebook announced its Open Graph Protocol. It sounds exciting, but is unfortunately a completely misleading name, being neither open, nor a graph, nor a protocol. Instead it is a Facebook Social Data API, but since they already had one of those and it was broken you can see why they felt the need to re-brand. Elsewhere on the web Google and others are working on the OpenSocial APIs, which are at least accurately named. But they are just a standard way of accessing everybody's isolated walled gardens. Neither effort do anything to achieve the inter-operation of social networks that I imagine when I hear the names.

What would an open graph protocol really look like?

The reason the web works is because it is independent, decentralized, and simple. There is no prescribed ideal for the way web pages should fit together. Indexing is independent of representation, and indexing is open to anyone. The web is a graph, a real graph, where no node is more important and any path is possible, and the protocol...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:38:38 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Apple's ban on intermediate platforms, and what this means for web apps]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/04/11/apples_ban_on_intermediate_platforms_and_what_this_means_for_web_apps</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Dear web developers hoping to build apps for the iPhone: we're fucked. But Apple is shooting itself in the foot.

Some background

There's a big fuss right now because as part of the iPhone OS 4.0 release, Apple has explicitly banned the use of intermediate platforms to create iPhone apps (and hence presumably iPad apps, since they run the same operating system).

Their motivations for doing so are the subject of debate. The supremely well-informed Jon Gruber of Daring Fireball thinks Apple is doing it to lock in iPhone as the de facto standard for mobile development, in the same way that Microsoft managed to get a lock on the PC market despite the many flaws of Windows -- by attracting critical mass of developers, and hence apps, and hence users, and hence developers, in a virtuous, monopoly-creating feedback loop.

This interpretation has been tacitly acknowledged by Steve Jobs himself. However, Jobs placed the emphasis on another aspect of the post, saying

intermediate layers between the platform and the...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:16:08 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Re-Expressed]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/04/06/reexpressed</link>
				<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago the Trinidad Express, one of Trinidad and Tobago's major national newspapers, redesigned its website. The result is an unreadable mess of tiny fonts and hundreds of blinking, flashing ads. Literally unable to read it myself, I quickly hacked-up a script that reformatted the front page. Some friends liked it, so I expanded it a bit.

So now, after a few weeks of tweaking, I give you Re-Expressed: the Trinidad Express, made readable. I hope you find it useful.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:39:19 -0500</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Seldo</dc:creator>
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				<title><![CDATA[3 years, 3 days]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/03/22/3_years_3_days</link>
				<description><![CDATA[It was March 18th, 2007 when Barack Obama visited Oakland and I went to see him speak in person for the first time. It was there I first heard him promise universal healthcare by the end of his first term in office. "And I want to be accountable for this," he said. Of his speech that day, I said:


Above all, it was a message of optimism: yes, the system is broken, but it can be fixed, by us, right now. And this funny, sincere, incredibly, hypnotically charismatic man seems like just the right guy to do it


Today, the trust he inspired has been validated, and the promise he made has been -- as far as I am concerned -- kept. Sure, the coverage is not quite universal. And lots of things won't kick in until 2014, after the end of his first term. But that's politics. It's a business of compromise, and incremental advance. But he promised the biggest change to healthcare in a generation, and here it is.

Good going, Barry.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:26:32 -0500</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Seldo</dc:creator>
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				<title><![CDATA[Seldo.Com is 10]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/03/15/seldocom_is_10</link>
				<description><![CDATA[I registered this domain ten years ago today, sitting in the chair by the window in my brother's apartment in Clapham South -- I had just moved to the UK from Trinidad, and hadn't found my own apartment yet.

The 10th anniversary of this blog is a little further away -- the site was mostly static until March 2001. This morning I grabbed a quick set of screenshots of some of the oldest designs of the site; they are pretty funky.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:04:41 -0500</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Seldo</dc:creator>
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