The interweb
Get On Board
Over the last couple of months I’ve been helping out with preparing the launch of a new online magazine title for the US called ‘Onboard’. It’s a snowboarding mag, and it’s one of the first titles to really get the hang of Ceros, the publishing platform we’ve built here at FMG. The publishers, Factory Media [...]
Sweet. Nuff Sed.
So I got on the train at Kings Cross Thames Link this evening and sat down opposite a 9 year kid with his mum. They were quiet. The mother was probably thinking about dinner, shopping and the kid was thinking about …. what? HALO 3?
So anyhoo, The kid watched me take my jacket off and [...]
My boss Simon & his iPods & wi-fi
My boss came into the office this afternoon with an iPod Touch. It is, without doubt, the most brilliant hand-held device I’ve ever seen. If you think back to the early days. A landline telephone cordlessly connected to your ear. We’ve come a long way.
Bring on the iPhone. I want one and I want it [...]
Facebook goes loud
I deleted my account from facebook a couple of weeks ago. I explored it enough to understand it’s addictiveness and how and why people use it, and also because I have a few social network type site ideas gestating but in the end it just got on my nerves so I vanished myself.
Then today I [...]
The Adverblog - Finally starting to make blogging pay
Some readers might remember a short flirtation I had with introducing advertising to this blog. It didn’t go down well with the readers, and I tended to agree with them. I want this blog to remain a personal thing. But there are opportunities to earn money from blogging, and I’ve been experimenting with them recently. [...]
Airhead
I found this video on monkeymag today, and I’ve just got to post it here. Too funny.
Looking for lumberjack schools
Sometimes I get really sick of working with computers and start to daydream about what else I could do for a living. I call it looking for lumberjack schools because a few years ago I came up with the idea of going to Canada and being a lumberjack. Playing with chainsaws and all the smoked [...]
Project Management
I’m not very good at it. It’s got to be said. There are things I can do well, like finding elegant simple solutions to difficult technical problems. Black and White stuff I suppose. But managing projects is a huge grey area. Goalposts move, priorities shift around and it’s hard to keep focused on the goal. [...]
Macs. OK, they’re good
This post isn’t going to mean much if you’re not a developer - just a quick warning before I start.
So this past week I’ve been struggling to get my PC to serve up a website properly. It’s a pretty complex site, with a 50MB MySQL database,PHP & Apache and the bloody PC just wouldn’t do [...]
Focusing on time
I’ve been all over the shop recently. Unfocused and unproductive. Seeing as I’ve got a lot of new work starting this week and I really can’t afford to screw things up as I have been doing lately, I needed something new.
So I went and found some good, free time-tracking software and starting using it. It’s [...]
