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Some delicious bits of tech news from this week.

Contacts in the Browser – Firefox addon in pre-alpha that might one day provide a virtual Rolodex for all your online contacts and friends
When do I sleep? – You can find out when twitter users are least active and infer from that their sleeping patterns. Apparently, I'm most likely to be asleep between 10pm and 6am. Probably ignores daylight saving somehow as I reckon on …

These are my delicious links for March 12th through March 16th:

The truth about internet profiles – On the internet everyone knows you're a dog…and what breed, thanks to Facebook, MySpace, etc
It’s as if the Hi-Fi nuts never existed – Interesting take, by William Weir, on my recent article about the evolution and de-evolution of hi-fi
Completely clear Internet Explorer web history – A quick howto on clearing history in your browser, for IE …

These are my delicious links for March 8th through March 11th:

Lessons from Toyota: Has software become too complex? – It's not that automotive software is more complex than a fighter plane (which has 100 times fewer lines of computer code), it's just that it's bloated. Sounds like an inefficient coding issue to me. It's time someone reverse engineered, stripped out the garbage and recompiled it. Maybe then we'd see an end to all this …

It’s perhaps an obvious statement perhaps needing only one word to qualify it – successful business sells. As an allegedly going concern, if you’re not selling your products or services, then you’re not likely to remain viable for very long. It seems to be too easy for companies to be distracted from this mantra by legalese, regulations, spurious marketing meetings, conferences and symposia, white papers, their web presence, and most recently social media tools such …

These are my delicious links for March 2nd through March 5th:

Rapportive displaces Google Mail ads with contact info – Neat browser add-on that replaces useless GMail ads with useful contact details on a per email basis
Friday Weird Science: Do Your Balls Hang Low? : Neurotopia – Most men have more than the average number of testicles
Atheist guilty over cartoons left at Liverpool airport – This is disgraceful. Would he have been criminalised …