We in the technology world are a self-centred bunch of people. I recently attended a training course where we were asked to complete Myers-Briggs tests to figure out our personality types. I’d never previously completed one and was initially sceptical, but after receiving my result I was a little more convinced. I’ll spare you the details [...]
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
I’ve been an avid reader of Private Eye since I was a teenager and my dad brought a dog-eared copy home with him after a trip to London. From that point on it was my connection to a wider world outside of my hazy Midlands youth; a cynical window on the grimy London media and [...]
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
“Are you a glory hunter, Lewis?”, Karen Brady asks a teenage scouser. “Yeah”, he quickly assures her, straightfaced. They sit across from one another in Lord Alan Sugar’s televised boardroom, as Lewis takes responsibility for his failure to adequately present their product to the buyers. Along the table, the perfectly-coiffured Harry M smirks with the [...]
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Ricky Gervais rejoined Twitter in the last few weeks, having sworn it off almost two years ago with the verbal shrug of “I don’t see the point”. Now he’s back, gaining followers, and tweeting with the frequency of an out-of-work student. For me, it’s a mark of Twitter at its worst. Now, I’m one of [...]
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Friday, September 23, 2011
Last night I attended Facebook’s annual F8 conference – their yearly chance to show off new features that will, in the words of Mark Zuckerberg, “change the world”. I’d already had some exposure to the new features, having been a “partner developer” through my role at the Guardian (whose app you can check out [...]
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I’d just walked out of the cinema in Clapham, South London, on Saturday 6th August at around 11pm, having sat through Spielberg’s Super 8 and found it pleasant enough. Idly checking my Twitter feed as the lady did the customary bathroom trip, I spotted some of the journalists I followed tweeting links to images of [...]
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As followers of my London blog will know, I’ve currently been in the process of moving flat. It’s been a fairly lengthy effort and it’s well-documented on the other blog. What this entry will cover is the mind-numbing frustration the websites of estate agents caused me over the last two months. Flathunting in London is [...]
Since graduating from Leeds University I’ve followed the path of the student newspaper, Leeds Student, with keen interest – I spent almost two years of my time at Leeds working on the newspaper and owe my current career to the experience gained writing and designing for it. In the era of “digital first”, though, I’m [...]
Earlier today I was checking out app recommendations over at reddit‘s Android community. Someone suggested an app called Glympse, which allows users to share their location, Google Latitude-style, but falling back to SMS when the recipient doesn’t use Glympse. Cool, I thought. I checked out the site and was greeted with this fancy intro page: [...]
I’m a fairly big Valve nerd, having played even the slightly less good outings in their Black Mesa universe with vigour and enjoyment. It was essentially a foregone conclusion, then, that I’d be checking out the recently-released Portal 2 within a few weeks of its release. You’ve seen the trailer and know the premise so [...]
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