If you hate the day, love the day but failed to have a good time, or just like random violence and things going bang, take a look at this wonderful My Black Valentine, (tip from YesButNoButYes). Choose your object of hate, click and watch as a bullet smashes through it, destroying the whole thing. Can […]
Robot Loving
Scott Adams has been asking if you would sleep with a robot. And the answers have been mainly in the positive, with some reservations. Many of you were concerned that the software in the robot would be provided by Microsoft. First of all, I think we can all agree that the name “Microsoft†is bad […]
Top Gear hits Alabama and Alabama hits back
I got told that I had to watch Sunday’s Top Gear. If this clip is indicative of the whole programme I think I’m going to have to. Typical piss-taking from the presenters getting them in some real trouble. Too late…looks like they pulled it. Thanks to Keiron who points towards another copy. How long before […]
Updates on Behind the Buzz
The other blog is ticking along so pop over if you want to read things such as: BarCamp and Press releases – the misguided attempt of a PR agency to send a Press release to the organisers of the event they are publicizing. CSI and Keppler – how CBS are extending their online properties but […]
Meta Comments
Anyone else finding it bizarre that the spammers have now gone meta and are telling me that spam sucks and to delete it? Akismet is doing a great job of capturing it all, but I just find it funny.
Beer Goggles
I love this BBC article about the scientific explanation for Beer Goggles. The study, from University of Manchester, was sponsored by an eyeglass company Bausch and Lomb, I’d have thought that if they have a study released for PR, they may have at least put it on their site but nothing on the UK or […]
Blogher Business
I’m quite excited to be on a panel at Blogher Business 07, in New York in March. A 2 day event, looking at how social media, including blogs, can be used in a corporate or marketing environment. The event is split into 2 distinct days; the first focusing on getting everybody on the same page, […]
Vodafone Betavine
If you had gone to NYC Mobile Monday or just like developing things for mobile phones, you may be interested in the launch of Vodafone’s Betavine Developer network.
Walmart Video and the importance of cross-browser testing
Walmart launch a new video download service today. Apparently their development team is browser challenged as they only appear to have IE available to them. Under that app, their site looks, well, not beautiful but at least OK. However, on Firefox it looks like this: I know that sites sometimes launch without full testing…and that […]
Employment Laws
Reading this long comment thread on Slashdot about a guy who is being sued by a company for resigning bought home the huge difference in employment law in different countries. the stories of just walking out, of keeping journals of everything that goes wrong to use in ammunition, to tales of what people can do […]
Superbowl and Prince
Whilst chatting with Ewan as we watch the Superbowl on different sides of the atlantic, we got to Prince and the half time show. Neither of us were impressed to say the least. But best quote of the night so far goes to Ewan about Prince’s ‘Nora Batty’ headscarf it might be the wardrobe malfunction […]
What next with YouTube
Updated with some traffic figures. I wonder if this is related to this. Or if the former will cause more of the latter. Networking sites can change in popularity at a moments notice for a large number of reasons; here, poor technical support and the lack of communication and customer service about the issues seems […]
New Kit
For some reason, I’m drawn to go buy a Mac. No real need for one (except for the oddities of my current PC) so I’m trying to resist. I think I’m being brainwashed by the sheer volume of Apple stuff in the office.
Google Speaker Event – Adam Bosworth
The second event on Monday was the first in 2007 Google Speaker events. This looks to be the start of a series of events that Google is planning in their new space in New York. And a good, large space it is, even if painted a depressing battleship grey. But the lovely spread of food […]
Another Yahoo issue with Flickr
As if upsetting a whole bunch of customers by forcing Flickr users to sign up with Yahoo to logon to the service, Yahoo now shoots itself in the foot by breaking their own terms of service. Yahoo’s new vertical brand sites, such as their Wii page, are pulling content from the rest of the Yahoo […]
Movers arrived
The next few hours are going to be interesting. I apparently sent 43 boxes to the US and they are being delivered and unpacked as we speak. I’m trying to stay out of the way.
Flickr and Yahoo accounts – relationships are hard to break up
It’s finally arrived, the time when you have to merge your Flickr and Yahoo accounts. It was obvious it was coming and now they want to move the final 5% of users across to the Yahoo! login system to simplify things. 95% of your fellow Flickrites already use this system and their experience is just […]
NYC January Mobile Monday
Update: I got the wrong impression from the talk (see, told you that this was all new) and Chaals has updated more in the comments and gives me a far clearer picture of what I was trying to understand. On Monday I went along to Mobile Monday, this month a 5 hour celebration of SVG […]
Waiting in Chicago
I’m sitting here in Chicago after travelling here at the last minute, only to have arrived and find that the meeting I’m here for has been cancelled. Whist waiting to see of something else is being organised I’ve managed to find a desk at our local office. Of course, without the work PC little work […]
University or Not
An interesting article in The Sunday Times examining the state of the UK universities and whether it is worth going to them to get a degree. Nothing too new in the writing, it’s a story that pops up every few months in various papers. On the one hand you need a degree to get a […]