November 14, 2008 – 4:37 pm
The mystery behind the driedonpaper rubber stamp was revealed rather early yesterday morning, the excitement in question being the launch of the new INQ1 (pronounced “ink one”) Facebook phone on 3. I went along to the launch party in the evening to have a play with the phone (and eat their canapés).
First impressions were that [...]
November 12, 2008 – 1:39 pm
I’m gonna keep this quick, ‘cos I gotta eat, but there are two places in London’s Chinatown that you should not pass by without dropping in to sample their dumplingy delights.
Jen Café! stand up and be counted! Dumplings are made in the window and they even serve up tea with chrysanthemum flowers boiled in it. [...]
October 2, 2008 – 5:26 pm
A handful of us went down to Brighton about a month ago (wow, I’m really doing well with those timely posts) for this year’s dConstruct. For those what don’t know, dConstruct is a very awesome design conference aimed at web people, organised by those charming fellows at ClearLeft (who do loads of stuff, but most [...]
September 22, 2008 – 11:44 am
I bought a Flip camcorder on Thursday and have been test-driving it over the weekend. I’m overjoyed by the thing, although a number of people have told me they don’t quite get it - why, for example is it better than using a phone cam?
The Flip looks pretty popular from the reviews I’ve seen (apparently [...]
September 16, 2008 – 5:31 pm
If you’ve ever wandered the streets of London, MacBook in hand, searching for somewhere with adequate wifi, decent coffee and a generally chilled out mood, look no further. I present to you the “Camera Café“, a tiny hideaway on Museum Street, almost in the shadow of the British Museum.
“Camera” has the most awesome downstairs space, [...]
September 8, 2008 – 9:30 am
From the TiddlyWiki Google Group,
“I tried xxxxxPlugin a year or more ago, had some problems with it but never got any replies so I dropped it.”
It sounds almost blindingly obvious, but this is possibly the most important lesson to learn from TiddlyWiki as an open source project - there will always be another plugin, another developer, [...]
I’ve just finished “The Economic Naturalist“, in which Robert H Frank seeks to unpick a series of puzzling situations we observe in the world around us. Questions such as, “Why does a light come on when you open the refrigerator but not when you open the freezer?” and “Why do many schools require children to [...]
I’m joining a growing list of my colleagues trying the 25 words writing project, but I really like the idea. As I’m abroad right now, here’s this:
Amsterdam’s canals are possessing of a very lovely aspect. Rotate the view by 90 degrees to see pot and prostitutes. Not sure I like that.
On Monday, I went to Camden’s Koko to see the Black Kids and Foals play as part of the iTunes Live festival. I went as a reporter for website and iptv channel TVBOMB.
The review is on the TVBOMB website.
Late last Summer, Osmosoft got off the ground as a part of BT. We’ve now been through two roughly identifiable phases of the experiment: the first was characterised by building the team and figuring out our place in the world, and culminated in releasing the first version of RippleRap at LeWeb3 in December; the second [...]