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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Local Service
Will Wheaton’s wistful and inciteful column over at Suicide Girls had me thinking that the replacement of local shops, which provide some kind of community connection, with the commoditised big chains has been a factor in the development of recommendation services such as Library Thing or Pandora. If we can’t get suggestions from the local […]
Soundtrack to my life
I’ve finally got me, time and my music all together in the same place to answer Ewan’s tagging of me for the latest meme to go round. What is the soundtrack of your life, if your soundtrack was on random. So, following the instructions, open the library, press random play, see what you get. Opening […]
Sky and Timeshifting programmes
Sky is bar far the largest purveyor of DVR/time shifting services in the UK. A review of their service released last week shows that they have over 2 million boxes out there, with around 5million people using it – that’s around 8% of the UK population. As a long time user of TiVo, where the […]
Geni – a living family tree
Geni, a new venture from ‘former executives and early employees of PayPal, Yahoo! Groups, Ebay, and Tribe’ is a different take on social networks, using the hook of family history and genealogy to get users and connect people. But where it falls down with me is that it is focuses on living people; it’s not […]
Luck of Seven
Noel Hidalgo is trying something different with Luck of Seven. on the luck of seven is an open-source, around the world project by noel hidalgo (aka noneck). for seven months, he will visit the seven continents, sail the seven seas, and visit the seven ancient wonders of the world. Using a wiki, noneck will harness […]
JWT Job Site
This is one of the more interesting job sites I’ve seen. It’s a very different take on the company I currently work for who are recruiting entry level people – are you Ready to Sell Your Soul?
Slingbox working
My dad’s finally got the router working at home and now I can log into the Slingbox and Tivo to watch and record Uk programmes. I love technology at times 😉
Searching for fractured neck symptoms
It looks like I’m currently the top search result on Google for ‘how do you know if you have a fractured neck’. I hope the person who came to my site after using that term ended up going to the doctor and getting an X-ray!
Five Things You Don’t Know Meme
Round and round the meme goes. Five Things you don’t know about me. SoloSEO has done a good job of tracking the initial spread of this. And now Tom has tagged me. So let’s see. 1. I’ve been knocked out twice in life. The first time was playing rugby at school and I hit the […]
Joined Twitter
I’ve gone and joined Twitter; it’s called peer pressure, all my friends are doing it so why shan’t I. And it’s strangely fascinating in an old school reality show way. That’s the old school like Castaway or the Edwardian house, not Survivor or Big Brother. Where it was more a challenge documentary rather than a […]
Connectors and adapters
I’m trying to find some way to plug the various entertainment bits and pieces I have together without spending a fortune on replacing everything. But so far no luck. I have a PC with a VGA output but a TV with a choice of HDMI, SVideo, combination or composite inputs. And I have a UK […]
Post 1000
After just over 2 years on this blog, I’ve reached post 1000, (a number with significance only if you count in base 10.) I’ve moved from the tentative steps of working out why I was blogging to a changed mindset where things I read and hear about are put through a mental filter of ‘can […]
World AIDS Day
MIT Open Courseware
I’m a fan of continued education.  I’ve carried on learning formally though the OU for many years. But the OU courses available in the US are few so I’ve been looking around for something else.  Many of the available courses in New York that would feasibly fit into my schedule are the more practical or […]
Bar Community Marketing
The bar over the road from me has a wonderful Word of Mouth scheme for getting new customers.  Every Thursday, it opens up the bartending role to guests – that is, anyone who wants to have a go.  The only catch – you have to bring in your friends. There’s a big sign up behind […]