I used to have an addiction to Snood. I’d only let myself play for a little bit every day, but I did play every blessed day. I went cold turkey in 2004, but often thought fondly of the little blue guy.
As I’m not feeling too brilliant right now, I thought I’d revisit my evil, Puzzle […]
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This is just…nothing. Dave says:
[W]hy isn’t it part of Blogger, or at least connected to Blogger, and where is the feed? The sites have no structure.
Where is the Mind of Google these days? Seems to be back in the mid-90s, re-discovering Geocities. Give me a ring when there’s at least some rudimentary content management in […]
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I read this from Scoble:
Axosoft is selling its $495 project management software for only $5 and it’s donating that to the American Red Cross. I’m not getting a thing, they just emailed me and I thought this was cool. It’s only for three days.
Right now, they’ve got $3,525 worth of donations for the Red Cross, […]
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Brian Micklethwait has written a lovely and glowing piece about my Antoine. Some of my favourite bits:
The man just knows so much about party politics, and about so many places…
Antoine has always taken a gleeful pleasure in the strange twists and turns that party politics can involve. For him, party politics is just fun. […]
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Here are some things you can do when you feel too crappy to do anything productive but will go crazy if you spend another minute staring at the ceiling and trying not to be violently ill:
Delete 565 MB worth of useless crap off your personal hard drive
Post a bunch of food photos to your newly […]
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Hillary Johnson writes for the Engagement Alliance on product development:
The phone that plays only some kinds of video is like a phone that only lets you call certain phone numbers. And designers and marketers get excited about highly specific applications they think are “cool”–but imagine a world wherein everyone had a cell phone, but were […]
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We are looking for a 2-bedroom flat to move into immediately - though we could be persuaded to wait a couple of weeks. There’s just no time like the present, is there?
We would like to spend no more than £1300 per month, but know we can probably get a nice place for a bit […]
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I haven’t noticed aggressive receipt check procedures so much in the UK, but that may be because all of my electronics purchases in the last year have been made in the US, Belgium, and France. In any case, they are annoying and bad business practice, and no store can legally force you to submit to […]
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Employees tend to quit their bosses, not their companies.
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I met tech and finance journalist Dennis Howlett last June at the Innovate Europe conference in Spain. He was introduced to me by his longtime colleague (and friend) David Tebbutt, who I met in 2004 during a blogging bootcamp for journalists that Adriana and I did for the Big Blog Company. Neither of them, it […]
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Doc Searls writes:
The most remarkable fact about blogs isn’t that a relatively few are popular, but that anybody can be heard on any subject they like. And, more importantly, anybody can create or add value to any number of conversations, and help move those subjects forward.
To me that’s an amazing and wonderful fact of life […]
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The Adam Smith Institute’s Madsen Pirie has taken over The Singleton Diet. This is the kind of easy, compulsive reading that’s good for those times when you’re feeling down and tired and have no idea what to do with yourself. Or so I hear.
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I know I’m the millionth person to mention it, but YouTube is pretty addictive. I’ve only had a bit of time to play around with it, but I did not want to stop. (What did I search for? It may or may not have started with “O” and ended in “prah”.)
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Journalist Dennis Howlett tagged me to respond to his post on Valentine’s Day dinners:
[W]here did you take/were taken by your loved one for dinner on St Valentine’s Day?
Well, we ended up enjoying a rare treat: Pizza ordered in from Domino’s. I was intrigued to try out their online ordering and see how it worked (perfectly, […]
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