Things that made me happy this morning:

• Pestering my colleagues in the US late last night made sure that we have YQL tables for Google Buzz
• In case you ever go to Bergen, Norway, beware the Scuba Divers in the street
• Mashable has a nice infographic of the state of the internet
• Safer Internet is a Europe-wide campaign to tell kids about the dangers of going online – very cool videos. I especially like the golden rules of communication (but notice the URI fail)
• Minify is PHP5 script to, err minify scripts
• Phishing with Google wave shows a potential attack vector
• 12 reasons why gay marriage should be illegal has some very logical points, like “Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.”
• Anatoly Zenkov has a cool mouse tracking utility that records what you with your mouse in the background and creates an overlay image.
• Twilio now has a SMS API

I am right now sitting at Heathrow Terminal 5 in London on my way outbound to a two week stint in the Silicon Valley (Sunnyvale/Mountain View) to meet with the US team. And here are the things that made me happy this morning:

• Ian Pouncey continues to put together good thought-pieces on accessibility with Web Accessibility Myths.
• Robert O’Callahan talks Video, Freedom and Mozilla and debunks some H264 myths.
• In case you feel like beeping, there is a cool online Morse Code translator
• The back side of a Mozilla business card finally reveals the truth about how websites work – I knew that there were monkeys and gerbils involved!
• The Royal Pingdom has a good roundup of The Internet 2009 in numbers – guess where most of the Internet users are from?
• Vimeo has a new HTML5 video player and you can kick its tyres.
• Liz Danzico wrote a wonderful piece called confidence for good on how making a leap of faith in your career is sometimes very necessary.
• UK House Prices, my entry to the data.gov.uk application showcase went down really well on the day of the release and got about 5000 hits on the first day. Now to pester the UK government to do more YQL and expect less SPARQL.
• Constructing a POUR web site has some very solid advice on how to build a good web site. I am tired of people shoe-horning new acronyms though. POSH was a bad idea, so was HIJAX. Not because of what they stand for but for giving a way out. Hearing sentences like “yeah the solution is bad now, but we will go for a POSH one soon” or “this will be redesign with HIJAX in mind at a later stage” make me want to scream – an I heard both several times.
• We have a winner of most inappropriate prank in a job ad – hands-down.
• ReadWriteWeb have a good open thread on Sexy Girls, Smart Women and Tech (and I am already looking forward to the referrers linking to this link)
• How programmers of different languages view each other and How a common LISP programmer views users of other languages both have poster potential for the office.