I love games/riddles/puzzles/etc — anybody who's heard about the Christmas parties I like to throw my staff at the end of each year will understand what "survivor meets the amazing race" really means (I need to blog about that soon; have some great photos from the last one).

Over the years I've collected a vast array of riddles (oh no, I hope that doesn’t mean I have a hobby… it’ll be carpentry next).

Anyway, some of these riddles I've written, others are just the ones I've collected that I thought were beautiful both mentally and literally. Unfortunately, most riddle sites on the web seem to be run by Einsteinian 14-year-olds wearing lab coats who seem to just throw up any old garbage (e.g. "How many letters are in the alphabet?" — I hope you anwered 11)

So I thought it might be good to share the best ones I have with the world… slowly. And of course in the true web 2.0 spirit I created an RSS/wordpress/feedburner powered blog aptly named TheDailyRiddle.com to kick things off. I'm using the blog to post a selected riddle each day and give everybody 24 hours to comment with the answer. Hope you enjoy them and feel free to submit any you personally like… I’ll send you a Tangler cookie if it's any good.

And thanks to Nik who pushed me to announce this.

Hey all you skype buddies, think about an update.

It seems Google have decided to quietly drop Trillian from Google Pack. Whilst no reason was given you have to imagine it was because it competed with Google Talk.

This begs the question as to why Trillian was included in the first place; something that always puzzled me. I'm guessing Google Pack was intended to be an independent application distribution platform — something that could be used to enable the equivelant of Windows Update, but for other software. This would kind of make sense. Though I have a sense I'm looking for sense amidst senselessness.

Either way, Trillian via Pack looks to have run headlong into internal competition. Google Pack will now be more of a "Google" pack than ever… and that's all.

So after considerable effort, endless refinements, complete about faces and six months of time, here's Tangler's new logo.

Thanks to Rhandy Lado for his considerable effort and skill managing this to reality and to the team at Loaded, who ultimately did all the hard work in taking our requirements — "well it's gotta be a chaos, but organised… you know, tangled up simplicity" — and turning it into something both athestically pleasing, simple and unique all at the same time. Well done… we love it.

I've started using Glance as a tool for doing web demos and presentations. It's a great little application that does simple, quick sharing of what's on your desktop with other users over the internet. Basically they can see what you're doing on your machine using only a browser (they don't need to download and install anything). It's neat (that's my new word after being in the US too long).

Whilst testing Glance I decided to try connecting to myself! Hmm I thought, will it do what I think it will? Yep. It rendered my desktop in my browser window, but the picture it rendered contained the browser, so it then updated the desktop containing the picture of the desktop, and so on. The Glance hall of mirrors! It's geeky, but I still love it.

And please Glance, change your pricing model. $50 a month is just an opportunity for someone else to trump you. $5-$10 is more like it for such a simple service.

I'm off to the US tomorrow to start the setup of Tangler's US office (in San Jose), see some VCs and lots of potential partners. If you're in or around San Francisco and the Valley and feel it would be worthwhile meeting up then drop me a line. I'll be there all of May.