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The Chromebook & me

October 1, 2011 – 1:15 pm

I just went to have a look at the Chromebook in the “Chrome Zone” at Tottenham Court Road’s PC World / Curry’s. I’ve resisted buying a tablet for more than a year, despite my gadgety inclinations, because of the general lack of keyboard, 3G and access to the software I use to do my job. [...]

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Twitter’s new image upload feature & your rights

August 11, 2011 – 9:12 am

Yesterday, Twitter launched its own image uploading service, which competes directly with TwitPic, yFrog and the like. Whilst this is all very interesting for those guys, one of the important things to know about before making use of this service is what rights you have to any images you upload. Remember the fuss when TwitPic [...]

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1000 days of Airbnb or “how to get press”

April 27, 2011 – 9:08 am

I just watched a video from November last, of an Airbnb founder, Brian Chesky, talking about the first 1000 days of his company. It’s one of those times when I’d had the browser tab open for about two weeks before getting to it, but I’m glad I did. In case you don’t know Airbnb, Brian [...]

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The experience of bad coffee

February 23, 2011 – 10:08 am

“Two cappuccinos please”. I see the operator pick up two cardboard cups. They have a terrible pattern on them. So I say, “Sugar in one please”. I’m hedging my bets. “Brown.” The ground coffee comes out of the hopper without a whiff. There is a light tamp, if you can call it that, when it [...]

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Kurt Vonnegut & Destructive Testing

November 21, 2010 – 8:42 pm

I’m reading Kurt Vonnegut’s fantastic Breakfast of Champions at the moment. It’s the kind of book you can sail through, and reading it feels like unboxing a load of toys. About half way through (where I am now), he has one of the lead characters, a man called Dwayne, who is going crazy, tell a [...]

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Employee effect on the world’s biggest companies

July 11, 2010 – 11:55 am

I was wondering on Saturday how you could reasonably compare a large company with a loose band of freelancers, where the word “employee” doesn’t operate. I dug out of Wikipedia some statistics on the world’s biggest companies, figuring that a reasonable comparison would be the amount of money made per employee. The data is likely [...]

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Maemo Summit 2009, Amsterdam – a bit of an open-source eye-opener

November 12, 2009 – 6:40 pm

Last month, Tager Communications (a customer) took me out to the Nokia-sponsored Maemo Summit in Amsterdam to help figure out whether Maemo could play a part in the national message Nokia’s marketing division puts out about its new N9xx series. The most striking thing about being a visitor at the summit was how large the [...]

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Why I love Osmosoft and why leaving is the best thing I can do for BT

June 28, 2009 – 7:58 am

I announced my intention to leave Osmosoft in a blog post just over a month ago, and it became real this week. When I posted my resignation, it was all about me – why I was leaving, what my plans were – but said nothing about my relationship with BT and Osmosoft, so I thought [...]

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Alto Coffee comes to the new Maida Hill Market

June 14, 2009 – 12:54 pm

At the quiet intersection of the busy Harrow Road and lengthy Elgin Avenue, a gourmet food and gifts market has been set up by Westminster Council, opening this weekend and breathing new life into a space that has functioned as a haunt for local drunks and drug dealers. The cheery green and white awnings of [...]

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A warning about Agile methodology in early-stage development

June 9, 2009 – 11:33 am

Late last year, I helped Dan Morris with a project called “Geekmap“. The idea was to create “a social infrastructure for geeks”, as he put it, which resembled a social network like LinkedIn in that it allowed people to make professional contact, but the whole interface was focussed on navigating via geography and people’s skills. [...]

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