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Sunday, May 11th, 2008Whitstable
Thursday, May 8th, 2008We went to Whitstable last weekend on the Bank Holiday Monday. I did a few videos on my Nokia N95.
Avatar Love
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008OK, so I thought I should put a few points down regarding the whole idea behind chinposin.com, the importance of avatars, the fun you can have with avatars and the significance of avatars.
Chinposin was borne out of James Governor asking me:
“Can you grab all the chinposin avatars from twitter?”
I said, “Sure, no problem”
I’m not going to expand on the features list, but the study of avatars has become an obsession.
This week, I decided to change my twitter avatar to monotone twitter cyan. If you know twitter, you know the colour. If not, go there and find out.
Soon after, there was an abundance of avatars, all monotone. The point came to me, as usual, after a glass of wine. But I was amazed how people went monotone and followed the craze.
Let it be said that me and james are thinking alot about avatars. Avatars really interest me and James. Hugely. And if I am not emphasising that enough, let me underline it. We fucking like avatars.
Tracking avatar behaviour and watching how the visual community changes is pure wizard. That iswhere we see chinposin. Tracking avatar behaviour across time.
A Chinposium for the Chinerati
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008OK its kind of kooky but me and James noticed some time ago that op-eds they always pose with the chin in hand. Do we really walk around and hold these poses? Some do sure, but its such a strong photographic idea, particularly on the cover of computer books.
So last week James used a silly avatar pic on twitter, with a chin holdin pose. Lots of comments and a week of gestation later he had a dumb idea. Lets try and get other people chinholdin. Why not make it a Fun thing for Friday on Twitter.
So I cobbled together the first release and we did pretty well. We’re up to about 70 people this week. Next week we’ll do better. Twitter users just need to make their avatar pic a chin pose and then follow @chinposin.
Please join us for a chin and tonic some time. And now let the fun begin. Oh yeah - here is the chinposin aggregator site- there are some classics there.
Question to sharepoint team about Academy Mobile
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008I have been following Michael Gannotti and his great Michael on the Go podcasts for a long time. I have also heard great things about Academy Mobile, which is a video service developed by Microsoft, built on sharepoint for an enterprise conversation. At the moment tho, it is only available intrnally at Microsoft. A great tool being used with great results at Microsoft. This needs o be released!
There is a huge conversation going on over at seesmic. I have been hugely guilty at wasting loads of time over on seesmic, and more recently over on utterz. I hav been talking about Academy Mobile for much longer than seesmic has been around.
I am dying to see Academy Mobile released. The enterprise needs this type of tool. The consumer needs this type of tool. I guess Microsoft is guaging all these markets and deciding on a startegy for release. At least I hope.
So I decided to ask Michael Gannotti the question as he *did* say leave questions.
It’s Sunday. Trying Some Stormhoek
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
It’s Sunday, and the corks have popped after a couple of hours weeding in the back garden.
I stumbled over a bottle of Stormhoek Pinotage 2006 in Tescos Gravesend and thought I gotta buy it. Mainly because it’s the first time I’ve noticed it in a supermarket around here after seeing Hugh MacLeod blog about it for so long.
It’s what I would describe as quaffable. Perfect for Sunday afternoon blobbing out on the sofa.
Taken with my HTC Touch
I made Seesic du Jour 77 too :)
Friday, February 8th, 2008Conference Call Golf
Friday, February 8th, 2008The idea of Conference Call Golf came about after seing that @kellypuffs was having yet another extremely looooooong conference call. So the idea was born.
The Rules
If the opposing team (anyone else on the conference call) start scoring points, you must counter these attacks, after all attack is the best form of defence.
The Points
Music on hold 10 points
Not muting phone 5 points
Not introducing yourself 3 points
Leaving and rejoining for no reason 2 points.
All RFCs on new standards welcomed. Should we create a league?
Bill Gates’ Last Day
Friday, January 11th, 2008
Video: Bill Gates Last Day CES Clip
I’m Just a Consumer Within the Big Enterprise
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007There has been a huge amount of talk recently about enteprise software, misunderstanding enterprise software, enterprise software not sexy and trumped by James Governor’s post - the best thing I’ve read all year.
Dennis Howlett nails one majorly improtant factor:
Last week in Paris, some 2,000 tech innovators gathered for LeWeb3. The speaker list reads like the great and the good from the innovation side of the tech house. A good 80% were carrying MacBook Pros. There wasn’t a PowerPoint to be seen.
Microsoft must undoubtedly be aware of the huge move by all the cool kids to using Mac Book Pro, iPhone and/or iTouch. iw00t! The thing is, like it or hate it, video and webcams is everything to do with what is cool right now. The quality of the built in we3bcam on the MBP beats any windows web cam i have seen. From a consumers point of view, or an increasingly geographically dispersed enterprise user dangling on the end of a vpn and remote access, if it is meant to work with myiPhone or iTouch, cool. Bring it on.
In the mean time, show me where you can buy a Zune in the UK or Europe, and that’ll be the reason why I’ve never had my hands on one. This brings me to a point that I have been making for some time now. Everyone, from one man bands and SMB want enterprise features, but with a consumer attitude. It just so happens that the MBP delivers that.
The need for Mac and Windows networking support and integration is sure to be a growing factor over the next year. I’m gladI have a good support guy for that.
When Springs go Ping
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007I fixed the front door today. Long over due. It had been locked shut and we were using the other door instead. So the operation involved taking the door locking mechanism to pieces. It’s the sort of thing that when done as a kid, always involved springs going ping and nearly blinging you. I thought I was clever by taking a photo of the mechanism. Good job I didn’t need it.
Tomorrow I will mostly be going to the party
Sunday, December 16th, 2007I’m really looking forward to meeting quite a few people I have been tweeting and collaborting with over the last few months at the party tomorrow. Come along.
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Nearly spat my coffee out cartoon style
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007Yeller DredMonk Partay! December 17th
Saturday, December 8th, 2007OK - we have a venue. The Macbeth in Hoxton, just across the road. It should be unstructured, low-key, but alcohol-fueled. Expect the odd celebrity programmer and such. Hopefully we won’t end up in prison for perverting the course of justice
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Train Runs Through Bangkok Market
Saturday, December 1st, 2007Seen on seesmic.com. Wonder what the British risk assessment would be like.
A BPMLogic Dopplr RedMonk YellowPark mashup party Monday 17th December
Monday, November 26th, 2007Venue TBD.
we’ll get drunk. hopefully you will too.
New stormhoek label design
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
I never fail to be amazed by the number of blogs and cartoons that Hugh MacLeod over at Gapingvoid continues to churn out. One thing that did catch my eye today was his tweet about the new Stormhoek labels. They now include the Blue Monster.
Thought I’d write a post and give an emphatic
Yes, it would be great to check out the new Stormhoek.
Wear the fox hat
Friday, October 19th, 2007My favourite tune right now
Sunday, September 30th, 2007My Perfect Apple Dumplings
Saturday, September 29th, 2007I have been really slack here. Kelly Drahzal submitted a My Perfect set on flickr and I haven’t gotten round to posting about it.
I started the My Perfect series after sharing a photo story of how to make My Perfect Coffee and invited people to submit entries. This escalated into a series of My Perfect Dog Walk and MyPerfect Peach Tarte Tatin. You ca see all the slide shows over on the My Perfect homepage.
Well, I was over the moon when I saw Kelly had submitted My Perfect Apple Dumplings. I need to sort out a slide show for this, not sure how I can grab Kelly’s photos into my slide.com account, but we’ll get there.
Thaks for the subission Kelly. I was going to ask for the recipe when I saw your tweets and you topped it!
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