Category: General

IMG_3436 Originally uploaded by RachelC. On the first leg of my trip, I’m spending a day or so in San Francisco, made easier my the kind hospitality of Tara . On a glorious spring day – sunny and warmish – I wandered round the nearby Golden Gate Park and visited the Japanese Tea Garden.

Why would a national paper (Daily Mail) offer a digital camera as a prize for a photography competition and demand that you send a print of the image? (you can tell I was bored yesterday – the few times I read papers is whilst waiting and travelling)

Following this picture, with not a women in sight at a tech conference, Kasia proposes a solution. Reduce or remove registration and entry fees for women who go to tech conferences. A great idea to improve my cash flow – but it would not necessarily increase my attendance. But as the Girl Geek Dinner in […]

Piggies in LIne Originally uploaded by RachelC. Wandering round the Meatpacking District with Piers we can across these little piggies, lined up staring at the goods in the window. So more than one little piggie went to market on this day.

I, along with a number of other bloggers, have been receiving Flickr mails asking us if some of our photos can be used in some new city guides from Schmap. It builds on the geotagging move in Flickr in some way, adding images to maps. The email links through to an ‘approval’ approval page, where […]

The discussion between Gia and Anina has been interesting, as both try to explain their position to the other. Gia has now posted a list of what she thinks women shold do… I have no time for women who think that the be all and end all of existence is looking pretty and being nice. […]

waiting Originally uploaded by RachelC. Waiting on the tarmac to board my flight to new york. Only took forty minutes from leaving the house to be sitting in the lounge..But nearly did not make it as i frantically searched for a passport. I thought for a moment i had left it at work but finally […]

For Sale…or to give away One old, fold down dining table, free to a good home. Will deliver locally. West London Listing, Furniture, table edgeio-key: 9a56da35144c85504c996353b873ff167bf84965

4 Generations Originally uploaded by RachelC. A family gathering – 4 generations of the family, with the youngest being 2 week old Joshua. He’s the first boy born in the direct family for 60 years. My mother immeidately wished she’d cleaned up – but this is what you get with a 5 year old and […]

Disclaimer: I still work for this company (but only for the next 2 weeks…) so this is little bit of an ad for a site, but thought it would be interesting to share some of the process behind the scenes and the challenges of digital marketing in an alcohol company. Over at guinnessblog.co.uk you’ll find […]

Scoble’s test of blog Search Engines is now giving 235 posts on Technorati with the made up word in and has driven the search to the top of Technorati’s list. Interesting word – I have to check the spelling everytime I try and write it. – of course, it means that’s probably the only word […]

Feedflare…announcing an API to “extend the usefulness and reach of your syndicated content by integrating third party web services and offering them as linked actions users can take when viewing feed content, wherever it is displayed ” feedburner.com

How to Build an Enterprise Web App on a Budget Ryan Carson – DropSend Definitely the most practicaal – reall figures and good advice. Why it’s important What’s the big deal? you don;t have to be big anymore…this has changed the landscape Why now – broadband; people are comformatble with web apps. They provide ‘common […]

Shaun Inman : 10 Reasons Why You Need to Build an API still no spelling – it may be tidied later mint.com What is an API: a documented means of interacting from one application to another. A successful one obscures the storage format and the retrieval process Don’t change it – people rely on and […]

David Heinemeier Hansson – Happy Programming with Ruby on Rails. Still my typing sucks! Introducing a Silver bullet…MOTIVATION motivation has a stronger influence on productivity than any other factor (this falls into the No Shit Sherlock statements…but it’s too easily forgotten) Motivation comes from happiness. SO you need to optimise your tools for happiness. Beautiful […]

Tom Coates: Designing Web 2.0-native Products for Fun and Profit Update: The Presentation can be found on plasticbag.org – which sort of makes these notes redundant. This was one of the most enjoyable presentations of the day. Despite Tom commenting on the URC channel through the previous 2 that all his ideas had gone, the […]

As reported in the Guardian, Ricky Gervais’s podcast (as hosted by the Guardian) is hitting records when it comes to downloads. Since starting in December, there have been 2.9million downloads, an average of 294,755 per episode. WOnder what the hosting/bandwidth charge is?

I’ve probably watched more TV ads today than I normally do in a week. Google and AOL both have a collection of ads that were shown in the US showing of the Superbowl last night. I’ve seen lots of build-up for what appears to be the prime placement for TV ads every year, including releases […]

Waiting at Airports Originally uploaded by RachelC. Today waiting at the airport is not as boring as usual. The lounge is full of people from the company all travelling to a conference in dublin. I think we’ve taken over the plane.

testing moblogging Originally uploaded by RachelC. Richard volunteered to be the first subject to try out the camera