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It’s my birthday today, I am now in my 30th year. 29 years old! Hopefully this won’t mean lots of pontificating over the next 12 months about what I have achieved, and what I am going to do with myself in the future.

Anyway, I had some lovely gifts, including a top selection of dead tree web 2.0 reading material:

The Future of the Internet Johnathan Zittrain	Everything is Miscellaneous David Weinberger	Groundswell Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff

Plenty to get my teeth into there.

I also got lots of lovely birthday well-wishes via Twitter and Facebook - so thanks to everyone for that. Best of all though was this from Paul Caplan via Flickr:

At work we are having our personalities dissected through the wonder of Myers-Briggs. It’s a way of finding out how your personality affects the way you work, and how you interact with others. Hmmm.

Anyway, it turns out that I am an ENTP, that is to say an Extroverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving type person. According to Wikipedia, this means I am:

ENTPs are frequently described as clever, cerebrally and verbally quick, enthusiastic, outgoing, innovative, and resourceful. ENTPs are motivated by a desire to understand the world they live in, and improve it. They are usually very accurate when sizing up a situation. They may have a perverse sense of humor [cool!] and sometimes play devil’s advocate, which can create misunderstandings with friends, coworkers, and family. However, ENTP’s are quite ingenious and are quite adept at directing relationships between means and ends. More so than other types, ENTPs can “think outside the box” and come up with fresh, unexpected solutions to difficult problems. However, they are less interested in generating detailed plans or following through than in generating ideas and possibilities. However, when the ENTP is used correctly on a team, they offer an incredible depth of understanding and a high degree of flexibility and problem solving ability. The ENTP regards a comment like “it can’t be done” as a personal challenge, and will spare no expense to discover a solution once properly motivated.

Interesting!

…including me. Jeremy Gould points us towards his latest bit of furniture - the ‘Dave‘:

It’s a pretty handy looking laptop table, and only twenty quid from Ikea. Face it - every home should have a Dave.