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From the yearly archives: 2009
When I was a student, I had a brilliant idea. Why not have a stand at every train station where you could sync your Palm Pilot with the latest news?
Insert a pound in the slot, press the button for The Times, aim your handheld’s IrDA at the blinking light and ZAP! All the [...]
I wander around the world in a perpetual state of confusion. Why is the world the way it is? Why do people make bad decisions? Why – when there are so many better alternatives – do people choose the worst of all possible worlds?
Rather than getting bogged down in philosophy, I refer to the [...]
There are many reasons to love Open Source Software. It’s free (as in you pay nothing), it’s free (as in speech) and – perhaps my favourite reasons – it’s free (as in liberating).
By liberating, I mean that one isn’t tied down to the product roadmap and release schedule of the developers. If I [...]
Once again, I dive into the confusing world of Mobile Internet Advertising. A world, so we’re told, where the streets are paved with gold.
Based on the evidence I’ve accumulated, mobile advertising is subject to a lot of hype and not a lot of professionalism.
Take this example as seen on my BlackBerry 9000.
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It sounds like a Judoon war cry – “Na Blo Po Mo!” But rather than legions from the Shadow Proclamation, it is an amassed horde of bloggers poised to do battle with the enemy.
Gentlemen – the enemy is us.
I noticed that I had averaged a blog post every few days in [...]
I first heard of Dans Le Noir? last year and have been itching to go ever since. Dans Le Noir? is a restaurant with a gimmick. You eat in the dark. I don’t mean that the lights are dim; there are no lights. Mobile phones and watches with luminous dials are banned. There’s not [...]
Earlier this month, the lovely people at FreshCase sent me some boxes of wine.
Alex Hilton wanted to know how easy it was to recycle. So, for your edification and delight, I present…
Recycling The FreshCase Disclaimer
These boxes of wine were sent to me for free. Enjoy alcohol responsibly. Do [...]
I feel a bit guilty about including NatWest’s latest mobile advert in my Badvertising section – because it’s mostly very good. But it shows exactly why you need to carefully examine every link within your site and see how useful it is for your customers.
You may have noticed this animate banner as [...]
America and Canada both celebrate a holiday called “Thanksgiving“. Although, for complex reasons, the celebrate it at different times of the year. Outside of North America the holiday simply doesn’t exist. Much like the US doesn’t celebrate Guy Fawkes night – the British don’t celebrate Thanksgiving.
So, I was a little surprised to [...]
I’m an Apathist. It’s a funny sort of mix between the various flavours of Atheism and Agnostism.
At its very root is the fact that I just don’t care. Arguments about religions and their various gods are tedious; by their very nature there is no way of resolving them.
So, lets take some points. [...]
For the last four years, I’ve been using a chipped XBOX as my media centre. Running XBMC, it has managed to play everything I’ve thrown at it. Recently, though, it has had a real problem playing standard DVDs. Aside from percussive maintenance, the only way that I know to fix something is to crack [...]
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