http://whoisfrancisgilbert.com/blog A blog of significant nothingness Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:30:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I promised myself I wouldn't get into political or religious discussion on this blog because, well, you should never discuss either with people you potentially don't know. Also, every other blogger and news reporter will be writing about the same old damn stuff. But, before I stay up all night to ... http://whoisfrancisgilbert.com/blog/2008/11/04/vote-now/ 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 ... http://whoisfrancisgilbert.com/blog/2008/10/31/my-first-websites/ For too long we have had mediocre snacks from the 1990s and 2000s. Everyone will be aware by now that Wispa is back. Lovely! However, nothing quite prepared me this very lunch time, as I popped out with friend and old time colleague Mr. Clive Murray for the weekly Subway, for ... http://whoisfrancisgilbert.com/blog/2008/10/23/get-the-80s-snacks-back-here/ 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 ... http://whoisfrancisgilbert.com/blog/2008/10/23/give-me-fruit-fruit-meat/ 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 ... http://whoisfrancisgilbert.com/blog/2008/10/18/stars-geeky-stars/ 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 ... http://whoisfrancisgilbert.com/blog/2008/10/18/the-contacts-fiasco/ 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 ... http://whoisfrancisgilbert.com/blog/2008/09/04/dont-dial-0870/ I've just seen something wonderful. For anyone not au fait with unboxings, they are usually a video or sequence of photographs showing the packaging of a product, for example, an ipod. It's usually done by Apple fans as Apple's product wrapping is great. This one's, erm... quite different. http://whoisfrancisgilbert.com/blog/2008/08/20/worlds-greatest-unboxing/ I recently attended the London CAMRA (CAMpaign For Real Ale) beer festival. A great time was had by my better half and I as we tried to get the best beers, a lovely night out. So I decided to have a look at the CAMRA website to look at what was ... http://whoisfrancisgilbert.com/blog/2008/08/12/beer-for-your-car/ So there I was, walking home last Friday. And I saw the photo pictured to, hopefully, the left of this text. I found this funny, why? I love these things. I love them because every time I am quite drunk round town. I look for the darkest alley I can ... http://whoisfrancisgilbert.com/blog/2008/07/24/those-outdoor-toilets/