My first websites
Way back when in 1997, I had been creating websites. I had been doing it for a while before then, but then it was all about just creating stuff at home and having fun. So, I teamed up with my good friend Nick to build some websites that would see the light of day.
Anyway, I [...]
Give me fruit, fruit & meat
I love startups, I really bl**dy do! Well, when they are exciting. I take the same view as Stefan Fountain that startups should be useful, fun to use at first, then they just get integrated into your life, they become something you just use. Some aren’t that useful and just fun, but hey, it generally [...]
Stars, geeky stars!
Many years back, I used to work at a very small agency (2 of us), it was a subset of a Hedge Fund thing, I think… something like that. Anyway, I read an article by one of the directors which was titled something like “Hedge Funds are the new rock ‘n roll”. It was mid-dotcom [...]
The Contacts Fiasco
I’ve just sorted a problem I have had for more than 10 years now. It took a while, but I think it is finally sorted.
What is this problem I speak of? Well, my contacts. I started using a mobile phone back in 1997. I had been using the internet for email and did have an [...]
Don’t dial 0870
There are days when you need to contact a company’s customer services of some kind. You tend to call and have to wait for them to pick up, sometimes for 1 minute, sometimes 10, sometimes 1 hour. A lot of the time, these services have an 0870 number which is a national rate phone number [...]
The security brick wall
Today I got into work, now sometimes I have to leave my PC on, mainly as I am in the middle of something, and switching it off would my path of work to be interrupted as I get in. Anyway, this morning I realised, my PC had restarted itself. I rolled my eyes, and immediately [...]
Turning spam into something beautiful
People who know me will know, in some capacity, that I am a very big illustration fan. It sparks an emotion in me and I have a long list of bookmarks in my browser so I can have a quick peek at something an illustrator has conjured up. It always makes me think “I wish [...]
My favourite social network
Before you assume it is Facebook, it isn’t. In fact, over the last year, social networks are becoming almost as common as porn on the web. All sorts of niche markets or slightly different variations on a theme are out there.
I’ve been trying out as many as I can and one stands out above the [...]
We’ve all thought it
Every morning as I wake up, I read my RSS feed reader, this morning was no different, I read all kinds of tech stuff etc. but I also read some cartoons, my favourite currently being xkcd, this particular one tickled me as it’s what we have all thought, in some way, at some point.
Put more speed in my pipes
Every now and again I get asked “I want broadband, who should I use?”. This question tends to get answered in 1 way, “go for Be” I say. And Be is great. Be is a Swedish company who know that speed is a big factor on the internet and don’t charge the earth. Be is [...]
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