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I enjoy walking - being outside, fresh air, clearing the head or thinking. I was taking a walk in a place just outside Stockholm that I know pretty well; I've been for several walks out there during the last summer. I know the paths and routes, so I didn't bother to take a map. Being an 'experienced' fell walker from back in England, I know one should always take a map; but this is a small area, and I know it well. Weather is changeable Anyone who does any amount of fellwalking will know that weather is changeable. Something that looked friendly and inviting can become unenjoyable and even dangerous very quickly. Take the right gear no matter what. Take a map. It's snowed a lot in Stockholm over the winter, and you'd be suprised how much it changes things if you didn't stop to think about it. The paths you know well are hidden, the route is different; sometimes impassable. The map helps you work out where you, and what options you have to go forwards....

I'm not a designer, but... From wickedpaedia .

I read an interesting article over on Rands's blog ( http://www.randsinrepose.com/ ) the other day. I thought, that's interesting; where should I store that so that I can come back to it when I need it? Favourties I 'favourite'd it in the RSS feed in google reader ( http://www.google.com/reader/ ). There's probably some very smart way in google reader of searching through such things for what you're remembering that you were looking for. Google is usually full of very smart things. Sometimes us mere mortals even find, understand and use them! Research Then, at a customer, I was asked about a certain type of software estimation method. Being a 'process monkey' I took a look through the internet at various random links to good looking weksites, cheap looking websites, people who seemed to know what they were talking about, and people who didn't. Just because you write it doesn't make it right - wikipedia is not a citeable source of the tru...