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14/11/11
I remember the day I saw an iPad for the first time. It was on Waterbeach station and I was setting out on one of my "50 at 50" trips. Two young nerds were getting very excited over something and when I asked they showed me. And it was very cute: they had a "Winnie the Pooh" e-book open with full colour illustrations and they were scrolling through it. Touch screen, crisp graphics, page turn animations. Lovely. read more ...
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29/05/11
For a while now I've been drifting towards the conclusion that it's time to dump my LinkedIn account: I've never really seen any benefit from it, increasingly the people who want to connect with me are people I only know peripherally and wouldn't recommend or introduce to someone else, which I thought was at least partially the point of LinkedIn. read more ...
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07/03/11
Before I start today's posting here's a photo for you all to pause and look at to remind you that it will be the summer soon. read more ...
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01/02/11
I've been seeing mutterings around the Net for a while now about the perils of putting your content on other people's servers. Of course user generated content was one of the core concepts of the whole Web 2.0 thaang. Now the chickens are coming home to roost. read more ...
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18/01/11
A very old e-friend of mine posted a link to Joseph Perla's blog where he was claiming that Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme. He may have a point... read more ...
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08/01/11
There have been a couple of new stories over the last few days which illustrate two facets of the same issue. read more ...
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06/01/10
Great buzzword crowdsourcing and, like a lot of them, it means what you want it to mean. But #uksnow is a good example. ... read more ...
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16/12/09
You can't say spammers aren't inventive: they're always looking for new ways of getting past the spam filters. ... read more ...
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08/12/08
It's been a frustrating day, not least because the video and photo in yesterday's posting don't seem to be accessible to some... read more ...
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02/12/08
After having this domain hosted at UK Shells since the last millennium we've finally moved it today to our own server at
Bytemark... read more ...
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