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Month: August 2007

See You On The Other Side

In a few short hours I’ll be jetting off to South Korea; my sleep…
Korea, Travel 31st August 200721st January 2022 Comments 5 1 min read

Yomiko Readman Lives Here

I came across this picture of a rather insane book store earlier today and…
Anime 26th August 200721st August 2022 Comments 9 1 min read

Return to Korea

© Topic Photo Agency/Getty Images This time next week I’ll be at Heathrow airport…
Korea, Travel 24th August 200720th January 2022 Comments 2 1 min read

Analogue People

The Japanese apparently have a saying for people who aren’t much good with technology…
Future, Japan, Technology 19th August 200721st August 2022 Comments 7 1 min read

Knock-on Effects

My innocuous little post yesterday about the Skype Outage had some quite unexpected effects…
General, Technology 17th August 200721st August 2022 Comments 7 1 min read

Skype Down Worldwide

If you’re like me and use IM pretty much constantly throughout the day then…
Technology 16th August 200715th August 2022 Comments 125 4 min read

Combating Jet Lag

I’ve been on a fair few flights recently (15 in the last three years…
Travel 13th August 200721st August 2022 Comments 2 1 min read

SEO

Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google, recently did an interesting talk on search…
General, Technology 12th August 200721st August 2022 Comments 0 1 min read

Visually Frivolous

There is so much creative (and sometimes perhaps frivolous) visualisation work being done at…
Design 9th August 200721st August 2022 Comments 0 1 min read

British Ingenuity (or lack of)

Why is it that the Japanese have had bullet trains (Shinkansen) for decades which…
Future, Rant, Technology 8th August 200721st August 2022 Comments 5 1 min read

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