April 5th 2009Momentarily, I misunderstood the BBC News page. I have edited this pic, to emphasise what I thought I saw. A funeral pyre in Bermondsey, for Jade Good[...] Read the rest »
April 2nd 2009I picked up a set of about 12 self-help manuals in a charity shop a few weeks back. They have proved to be mightily entertaining. I think Harry Robert[...] Read the rest »
March 24th 2009Meg Whitman was the CEO and President of eBay from 1998 to 2008 and is now pursuing a bid for the Governorship of California. She led one of the bigge[...] Read the rest »
March 17th 2009I’m loving Twitter at the moment. I got an @wilsondan from the great Sir Stephen Fry over the weekend and today, the Member for Twitter, respond[...] Read the rest »
March 17th 2009One ‘amended’ To Let sign is unfortunate. Two looks like carelessness. Snapped tonight, these two are back-to-back for the same big old Vi[...] Read the rest »
March 15th 2009This is a bit of an aide memoire for me and a solicitation for suggestions. Are there any books I should be reading? Fiction preferred this week, I th[...] Read the rest »
March 14th 2009Seeing as some Conservative goon rather foolishly gave the whole interwebs the opportunity to customise the Tory logo with new straplines, I rather th[...] Read the rest »
March 11th 2009Anyone with an interest in eBay could do worse than make some time to work through Scot Wingo’s post on what he terms ‘eBay 2.0’: a future, flou[...] Read the rest »
March 10th 2009Do you remember the hyperbole that estate agents used to pop through the door? Times have changed. This amused. Translate as: “People keep sayin[...] Read the rest »
March 10th 2009I spotted this in a Brighton gig guide. It’s an intersting little iPod accessory. Just plug it in and, well, just plug it in. It’s all rea[...] Read the rest »
March 9th 2009eBay really ought to understand classifieds by now. It has (at least) two phenomenal businesses in the portfolio that are exemplary playbooks to emul[...] Read the rest »
March 3rd 2009Just went to bag my ticket online for the Great Escape festival in Brighton in May. It was great fun last year and the 2009 line-up is shaping up nic[...] Read the rest »
March 2nd 2009I love the BBC. It can’t flagellate itself enough. See the Gaza DEC appeal fiasco or Ross/Brand. They take the hit, refer it to the BBC Trust an[...] Read the rest »
February 26th 2009All it needed was a cheery ‘thanks very much, we’ll look into it’ and all would have been well but that easy-going Irish humour was lacking rece[...] Read the rest »
