Real Time Twitter News: I’m Connected

Over the last few years I seem to have stopped watching the TV news, listening to the radio news, nor do read newspapers.
I don’t tend to have a daily dose of news. I’ve done this on purpose, it’s mostly negative and dreary, and there’s little that actually really effects my day to day [...]

Walker’s Builder’s Breakfast

So, Builder’s Breakfast won the Walker’s Flavour Election.
I though it was okay, kinda meaty and saucy at the same time. Just like a builder then!
The other flavours were less nice.
Fish and Chips: reminded me of scampi flavoured Nik Naks.
Cajun Squirrel: kinda hot and meaty, I liked these the most.
Chilli and chocolate: just weird, tasted [...]

Have you read .net magazine lately?

 
Back in the mid-90s, .net magazine came along and told all us geeks about revolutionary things like commercial websites, popular newsgroups and dialup accounts.
 
I read it for a year or two, and then forgot all about it.  Recently it caught my eye in Tesco.  I picked up a copy, and it seemed to have changed, [...]

Dutch Bike Feature

@shiraabel tweeted this feature article about the Dutch Bike in the New York Times
The content of the article is fantastic: sharp and informative.
But what I like even more is the way they’ve done it, self-playing audio, picture slideshow, it works really well.
I hit the page and was startled by the audio, but, if it hadn’t [...]

Dorchester Woolworths: Well Worth The Money

I’ve just watched BBC One’s
How Woolies Became Wellies: One Woman’s Fight for the High Street
A great fly on the wall documentary about how the Dorchester Woolworths became the Dorchester Wellworths.
Give it a watch, and look out for the delightful twins at 52 mins in!

Google buying Twitter: Twoogle?

The rumours abound that Google is looking to buy Twitter. They say that Twitter’s real value is in it’s search, and Google kinda knows how to do that.
Google has bought similar sites in the past (Jaiku, Dodgeball) and done nothing with them.  I guess the difference now is the popularity Twitter has, it’s a [...]

Wired UK: The Magazine Returns, again…

The ‘UK LAUNCH ISSUE’ of WIRED magazine is currently on the shelves of newsagents around the UK.

I was a BIG fan of the last WIRED UK, when it was published back in the mid-90s.

So what’s the new version like?