Archive for 2007

The weeks roll by and those of us in the UK are slowly but inevitably discovering that everybody in the country is actually in possession of everybody else’s confidential information; all of which was accidentally printed onto the inside of seventy-five million packets of Kellogg’s Rice Krispies. I’m more aware than ever of the technological [...]

The blog design has made it’s first nervous steps out of default HTML styling. I’ve worked out the grid, I’ve got placeholders for some new content and most of the mark-up has been tidied up quite neatly.

Progress is, unsurprisingly, much slower than I’d have intended.

One rule I’ve imposed is not to alter the font until [...]

I have never been as happy with a piece of electronics as I am with my iPhone. It is the finest example I know of a device which is superior because it performs its limited functions astoundingly well, rather than many functions badly. The absent features (picture messages, sending texts to multiple recipients, an RSS [...]

Strongbow’s website is broken and I’m unable to email them, so instead, please read this aloud in your most quintessentially British voice.

Dear Letter Reading People at Strongbow,

I have at times enjoyed your rather witty television advertising for Strongbow Cider. By contrast, I find the advertising for your rival ‘Magners’ to be nausea inducing, tedious and [...]

I have a new mobile phone number. The old one will probably still function for a few months, but I won’t have it on me. If you know me and you want it and haven’t had it pushed at you from some other medium, just ask.