See You On The Other Side
In a few short hours I’ll be jetting off to South Korea; my sleep experiment to avoid jet-lag has felt like more of a lesson in…
Read articleYomiko Readman Lives Here
I came across this picture of a rather insane book store earlier today and it immediately reminded me of the residence of a certain Yomiko Readman…
Read articleReturn to Korea
© Topic Photo Agency/Getty Images This time next week I’ll be at Heathrow airport about to embark on a rather epic journey (for me anyway) to…
Read articleAnalogue People
The Japanese apparently have a saying for people who aren’t much good with technology – “Analogue Person“, literally translated. Futurologists have long predicted that eventually an…
Read articleKnock-on Effects
My innocuous little post yesterday about the Skype Outage had some quite unexpected effects – within a few hours I’d had thousands of hits and nearly…
Read articleSkype Down Worldwide
If you’re like me and use IM pretty much constantly throughout the day then you can imagine what it’s like to have it suddenly turned off……
Read articleCombating Jet Lag
I’ve been on a fair few flights recently (15 in the last three years and counting) and, climate change issues aside, the one thing which I…
Read articleSEO
Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google, recently did an interesting talk on search engine optimisation (SEO) tips for bloggers – if anyone should should be…
Read articleVisually Frivolous
There is so much creative (and sometimes perhaps frivolous) visualisation work being done at the moment – I really couldn’t resist posting this, the Uniqlock –…
Read articleBritish Ingenuity (or lack of)
Why is it that the Japanese have had bullet trains (Shinkansen) for decades which can travel at over 300 km/h (186 mph) and experimental Maglev trains…
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