This is an important personal project, and I would love your help on it: I’m compiling a collection of ‘inspirational’, wise quotations about life and/or love, which will be put together into a booklet and given away to the guests at my best friend’s wedding. The quotations need not be from famous people, and can […]
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My friend Russ Willey has written the London Gazetteer, a brilliant book which explores all of the lesser known nooks and crannies of this city. Russ is a life-long obsessive about ‘Hidden London‘, and if ever someone was born to write a book like this, he was.
On October 12, Will Self wrote the following in […]
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I’ve returned from Egypt with a couple of medical complaints (nothing major - a double ear infection and some kind of flu bug - but enough to keep me away from tonight’s TechCrunch UK launch party, sadly). I called my doctor’s office to see if I could be seen on short notice, and luckily the […]
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I guess we’re supposed to be impressed by this. If the screening the airport workers receive is as ‘intense’ as the screening that passengers get, I’m not.
Antoine advised me not to blog about this, but: I made my way onto our flight to Egypt with several banned items on my person, despite being patted down […]
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This Daily Mail article about how (in)frequently women have sex in Britain (total trainwreck reading) includes a case study of a 22-year-old virgin. For some reason, the idea of a 22-year-old who chooses to remain a virgin seems a lot less weird to me now than it would have even a few years ago. The […]
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Good to be back in the UK. Lots to process, including the sick feeling I got this morning at Heathrow when I spotted three guys hovered together beside the baggage carousel, hunched over their Crackberries, thumbs a blur, mainlining connectivity. I was riveted by the sight of them, and the pang of recognition of myself […]
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Gosh, this is just the saddest news: Zopa CEO Richard Duvall passed away on Monday morning, after a brief battle with cancer. I only met Richard once, back in July (pictures here), when I darted out of the conference to catch him before he left the building. I wanted him to know that I appreciate […]
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Via Guido:
“The Deputy Leader of the House is living in a delusional world if he thinks he can turn up on a politics programme and wish away the professional criminal investigators who are now investigating the Labour party. For a Government Minister to announce that the Crown Prosecution Service has pre-empted a police investigation, which […]
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At the pyramids
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
We leave Cairo tomorrow at a stupidly early hour. (Who booked such ridiculous tickets? Oh yeah, I did.) I have 340 pictures and a few videos still to upload to Flickr. We’re very sad to leave our hotel, but pretty eager to get back to the UK, despite the warmness […]
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It’s downright scary how it doesn’t seem to have occurred to any of the people quoted in this story that non-governmental aid even exists. I guess those are the kind of smarts a state indoctrination education gets you.
This reminds me of a brilliant ad I saw recently - and I hate ads, so that’s a […]
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Me + Pyramids
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
(Okay, bad pun.)
Well, we’re here - and loving it. We haven’t really done much touristy stuff, but we will in the next couple of days. Mostly we’ve been hanging out by the pool, swimming, playing Scrabble, and watching TV. We don’t watch TV at home, for the most part, because […]
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Sorry, I can’t resist pointing out this gem, a collaborative effort between Adriana Lukas and Sun Microsystems’ Alec Muffett: The process of introducing and implementing stuff that actually works in companies. Should hit close to home for anyone who’s been told by IT that the best and most preferred tool won’t see the light of […]
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Sorry, couldn’t resist adding this before departure: Antoine got a letter this week, telling him he’s been chosen to receive a flu jab. Since he knows a thing or two about influenza vaccines, being a pharma editor and all, he wanted to make sure it was the good stuff. So he popped into the doctor’s […]
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We’re leaving for Egypt now. I won’t be able to moderate comments until I get to Cairo and turn on my laptop, and the latter may take me a few days, since this is supposed to be a holiday. Non-urgent emails probably won’t get answered, either. Soz. Frankly, I just want to get to the […]
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