November 2008
9 posts
listening to "Dirty Epic - Underworld" →
disappearing down the tubehole in Farringdon Street, with whiplash willy the motor psycho
4ip and the need for a revolution of sorts
There was an interesting event at the Channel4 building on Horseferry Road last night organised by Glasshouse. The title of “Making a Difference : Delivering Public Service in the Digital Age” promised much and the panel was a very good line up to match such a weighty title:
Eric Auchard - Reuters
Saul Klein - Index Ventures/The Accelerator Group/Seedcamp
Zenna Atkins - Ofsted
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Reaching out in 140 characters or less
Under the hood of my Guardian Hack Day hack was a data importer which pulled data from DabbleDB. I really like DabbleDB, so this isn’t an attempt to make them look bad at all. In fact it’s an attempt to show good customer service (which could in some ways have been great if there had been more information given or the invitation to start a conversation about what the consumer would...
Guardian Hack Day 1
I was lucky enough to be at The Guardian’s first ever hack day last Thursday and Friday. I had promised myself that I’d blog from the event but then ended up taking on that most foolish of commitments; a hack that would be used by all participants and also one which another hack relied upon for data.
It was a really great 2 days, stimulating talk and a scary amount of brain power in...
GMail docs and calendar widgets →
Built on Shindig… Google is building a sneaky social network around the friend graph within your emails.
local franchise + engaged community = healthy low...
It’s been a while since we moved to South London from Crouch End. Astronomical prices and crazy commutes forced us into a migration. I love many things about our new area; wonderful places like Morden Hall Park are a stone’s throw away with the best leaves to kick through. I do miss one thing about Crouch End though which is something I never thought I’d miss… Budgens.
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I will listen to you, especially when we disagree
This was a phrase which really struck me this morning from Obama’s acceptance speech. There were so many beautiful, eloquent phrases in the speech, it felt like a reboot button for the world has been pressed and I amongst many others I know have been very moved by listening to the speech.
The thing which struck me about this phrase the most is that it’s a great maxim for so many...
listening to "nina_simone-feeling_good - " →
it’s the first thing I thought when I woke up and heard the news