Category Archives: life

mmm… stuffed piquillo peppers

We had our OsmoXmas party at my flat on Thursday evening and I cooked a few things to keep the evil alcho-gremlins at bay (the Belgian beers confounded that). I think the most tasty thing was a plate of Italian piquillo peppers stuffed with a funky tuna and nutmeg mixture. They went down pretty well, [...]

So this was weird

So I was in the pub last night, happily typing away, and a lady came to talk to me about stuff. For some reason that is lost to me now, she had me search for her on YouTube (Gina Joy if you’re interested) and was amazed when this little gem from the 80’s turned up:
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Idiocy in Somerset

I don’t like stereotypes. Having said that, while I was in beautiful Wells, Somerset for a wedding this weekend, I happened upon some unusual incidents of carelessness, which may or may not be evidence of an over-consumption of scrumpy.
1. The most useless ‘In Use’ indicator in the world

At what point could a prospective hand-dryer user [...]

Tim Ferriss comes to town

Tim Ferriss, author of “4-Hour Work Week“, rocked up in the Trafalgar Square Pitcher & Piano last night, for 3 hours of meeting the fans and answering questions about his Lifestyle Engineering exploits.
This was in aid of the launch, today, of the UK version of 4-Hour Work Week.
Tim announced that he’ll be giving his 1st [...]

Snowboarding in Russia

As my Twitter buddies will know, last night I went snowboarding just outside of Moscow. It was exciting enough to make some time to figure out this Cyrillic computer and get some photos up. In the process, I even created a proper Yahoo! ID - jayfreshUK (idea borrowed from Tom Coates).
This is me and my [...]

Now on JayByJayFresh.com!

Update your bookmarks (as they used to say in 1997)!
http://jayfresh.wordpress.com is now http://JayByJayFresh.com. Lovely.
If you’re subscribing through the FeedBurner feed, then you don’t need to do anything, it’s been updated.

We’re all at BarCamp!

It’s Saturday morning and I’m in BT Centre - why oh why? Well, it’s BarCamp! BarCampLondon2 to be precise… almost 200 geeks getting together for the weekend to do the community thing and present some interesting stuff.
Looks like it’s going to be fun. The rules say a lot about the attitude here…
Here’s Simon McManus, a [...]

News, news and more news

I like to read lots of news. Don’t really get the chance, but in an ideal world, here’s what I’d get through in a day - most of these I view through NetVibes (such a time-saver).
- blogs -
TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com
OmMalik’s GigaOm: http://gigaom.com
TechMeme: http://techmeme.com
JP Rangaswami’s Confused of Calcutta: http://confusedofcalcutta.com
Andrew McAfee: http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee
Charlene Li: http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/
Venture Capital: http://networks.feedburner.com/VentureCapital
EuroTelcoBlog: http://eurotelcoblog.blogspot.com/index.html
- sites [...]