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	<title>Shortboredsurfer</title>
	
	<link>http://shortboredsurfer.com</link>
	<description>About Paul Seys and ShortBoredSurfer. I'm a user experience designer and web strategist as well as mediocre surfer, snowboarder and mountain biker. The opinions expressed in this blog are mine and do not represent those of my employers, they can get their own opinions.</description>
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		<title>A quick and painless review of Meetdraw3: The Meetcounter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[IF you don&#8217;t already know (and if you don&#8217;t where have you been) Meetdraw is a series of informal meetups organised for and shaped by people working in digital.  Its for anyone work in or interested by digital; whether designer, developer, blogger, UX practitioner, account pimp, social media guru,  search specialist, twittaholic or student.
Nice to meat [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Mountain biking, misdirection and peanut butter sandwiches</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Recently I took part in a 30 mile mountain bike ride. It was quite a challenge and on reflection made me think about not only my cycling ability but also user experience design, naturally!
This post explains how I&#8217;ve made the tenuous leap from mountain biking to UX and then to my thoughts on Jared Spool&#8217;s lunch.
My DorsetDirt experience

The [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>D-List celebrity: My UX design interview with D-Lists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A while ago I was asked by Michael Wilson of D-Lists if I&#8217;d be willing to answer a few questions. I double checked to make sure the graves hadn&#8217;t been disturbed, burnt the clothes I was wearing &#8216;that night&#8217; and tentatively agreed.
Thankfully Mike wasn&#8217;t working undercover and all he wanted to know was how I personally got into [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Writing with sixcrayons</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A new site aimed at designers launched yesterday called sixcrayons. It consists of six front end web design blogs made for everybody that&#8217;s interested in learning and sharing more. It&#8217;s been setup by Harry Ford a designer at Fubra, surfer and fellow fan of Winston Churchill!
I&#8217;ve been asked by Harry to contribute to sixcrayons and not wanting [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>JustGiving a little something back to Brand New</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;re not familiar with the site Brand New its sole purpose is to chronicle and provide opinions on corporate and brand identity work, focusing mostly on identity design and a modest amount of packaging.
Although its been awhile since I&#8217;ve done any brand identity work its nice to keep a hand in and Brand [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Footage of snowboarding in Whistler (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Shortboredsurfer/~3/vuSkDm9B2x8/</link>
		<comments>http://shortboredsurfer.com/2009/08/footage-of-snowboarding-in-whistler-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the next video in the series I mentioned in my previous post. Part 1 was purely made up of footage featurin a buddy of mine Stu Cox, part 2 is all about the man, the myth, the legend James &#8216;Bestie&#8217; Best. Enjoy.<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Footage of snowboarding in Whistler (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Shortboredsurfer/~3/HRb7J_wIceA/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Back in 2007 I traveled to Whistler (British Columbia) with a bunch of friends for a spot of snowboarding. We had an amazing trip and some of the best conditions snow we&#8217;d ever experienced. I shot a whole load of video footage and made a promise to edit the footage together as soon as we [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>The ultimate User Experience book league table</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 08:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Since setting up my little pet project @UXBooks I&#8217;ve been meaning to write a related blog post but haven&#8217;t managed to put aside the time until now. At a similar time to me setting it up UXBookClubs started to pop up around the World. If you haven&#8217;t heard about the idea before basically:
A UX (User [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Bournemouth surf – Monday 27/04/2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Surprise waves at Bournemouth Pier again this evening so I thought I&#8217;d take a few photos. These were all taken using my iphone and then mucked about with using iPhoto. Once again my fingers are crossed that this will still be around in the morning but it&#8217;s doubtful.<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Geeks in the garden of Eden: a review of Bamboo Juice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just returned from the Bamboo Juice web conference which was held on Friday at the Eden Project in Cornwall. If you&#8217;re not familiar with Bamboo Juice here&#8217;s a brief explanation in the organisers own words:
Bamboo Juice is  a one-track, one-day web conference, held at the Eden Project, in Cornwall.
We’re aiming it at ordinary web [...]<div class="feedflare">
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