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Monday, October 26, 2009 8:52 PM

Possible End of the World

It can surely be no coincidence that on the day that the BBC reports that the Large Hadron Collider has had beams of particles injected into it that I came across this worrying statement from Prof. Brian Cox (the Madchester Britpop icon of Particle Physics):
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Monday, October 26, 2009 8:51 PM

Do The Green Thing: Simplifying Green Stuff So Even I Can Understand It

I've spent a bit of time recently with James and the gang from DoTheGreenThing which has been a lot of fun. Apart from the generally very positive message around, well, doing the green thing, I think they've done a great job of simplifying the - sometimes
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:46 PM

MSDN Beginner Developer Center

There are times when I feel like a beginner developer these days, but I suppose I'm not really: more of a lapsed pro (I use the term 'pro' fairly loosely: they used to pay me for it if that counts). Maybe I'm just 'lapsed'. Anyway, if you are a beginner,
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 3:16 PM

That's Not My Dream Job...

Last week I gave a presentation on social media to a our latest set of MSPs (Microsoft Student Partners) . Most of what I talk about in this regard is borne from experience, or stuff from Malcolm Gladwell and Seth Godin ("Be Remarkable" is from
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:47 PM

25 Years of Elite

Man, I'm getting old - is it really 25 years since Elite was released? I feel like a member of a vintage car club. You can grab all manner of goodies for your PC here . A salute to Elite this is: I managed to play it on the BBC Micro, C64 and Atari ST
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Friday, April 17, 2009 8:57 PM

Bad day? It could be worse…

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Friday, April 17, 2009 4:09 PM

Bruce Lee – with Crayon Mode

Every game should have a crayon mode . I promise to do more technology stuff next week. I’ve been busy with dull stuff that you wouldn’t care to hear about (not that that has stopped me before…) This really was one of my all time favourite C64 games and
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 8:52 AM

Deadlines!

Loved this at Indexed this morning .
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Monday, April 06, 2009 9:50 AM

Flutter, Twitter (and Blither)

Liked this spoof of “nano-blogging” using Flutter for those who don’t have time to Twitter. Nano-blogging (in case you’re not hyper-connected enough) is blogging in 26 characters. Much as I like the idea of Flutter, I’d definitely sign up for a service
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:14 PM

Are you anonymous at work?

Loved this guest post on Chris Brogan’s blog. Although this post is accentuated to social media, I think it distils the basic essence of a solid “personal brand”. I always find that the best advice appears to be straightforward common sense, but is in
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:26 AM

Peek and Poke

Ah, the Commodore 64. You can keep your super-flexible PCs, your graphics and physics processors and your industrial design – I’ll take the C64 anyday. Thanks to Brighty, our desk area in the office is the proud owner of a C64. I hadn’t actually laid
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:08 AM

Everything Eats Itself

I’m trying to clarify some bits and pieces in my mind from the Seth Godin session yesterday – I’ll write about that later. Meantime, I spotted this in the TV Guide of the Evening Standard last night: OK, lousy photo, but it says: 8:00 Freaky eaters (S).
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:50 AM

Matterbox

Only a couple of posts into my Monday blog catch-up and this caught my eye from The Long Tail blog: Matterbox . This plays well to Chris’ themes around Free : in this case free stuff in return for direct marketing. I thought I’d take a look at the website.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:49 AM

TV Ad Music

Yet another site that passed me by, but if you’ve ever wondered what the music on a TV Ad was and don’t have handy access to Shazam then this site might help: TVAdMusic.co.uk I can now pretend to be cool by buying up CDs for all the music they put into
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Saturday, January 31, 2009 1:38 PM

Star Trek ReMix Genius

Loving your work!
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