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For years I’ve been interested in the way that people interact online, from chatting via the terminal at college, through blogging LiveJournal, to the constant barrage of Twitter and it’s new ilk. These days these are all rolled up under the rather inclusive banner of “Social Media” a term that I feel has little meaning. [...]

I wandered away from the post London Perl Workshop drinkathon while there was still free beer left in the pub and then spent a while getting back to the station because of the view above. Somehow I’ve not actually taken many (if any) pictures of the BT Tower before, so it was nice to finally [...]

Despite being off work and having talked at Amplified08 yesterday I have had little interaction with the world, not even the disembodied world that is the internets. Why? I hear you ask in a quavering voice. Why have you not graced us with your awesome (in the original “inspires awe” meaning) presence today? For why? [...]

This is the sort of photograph you take when you’ve been playing Dead Space for too long. It’s a dangerous thing seeing every scene as an over the shoulder moment before a necromorph tries to chop you up in an artistically pleasing fashion.

I like it when people put things online in a way that my brain works with and I especially like that when it’s people who I like. I like things I like and I like to like the things I like. Like, yeah.
So, The Monty Python team, or at least their incredibly well paid and [...]

Well, time has done it’s normal thing and flown, leaving me with a day before I help present a session on the Future of the Book with Annie Mole and Chris Meade tomorrow at Amplified 08. I’m the eBook person, it seems, and I’ve been formulating my various ideas about the wonder of future as [...]

It’s a difficult time to be a hypochondriac. In the good old days, unless you had a medical text book to hand or training in exotic disease, you made do with the old favourites – measles, rickets, brain tumours, syphilis, malaria, non-specific urethritis and the rest. However, with the introduction of educationals tools like the internet, [...]

The “one in, one out” policy I am currently operating on my games shelf (a rule that I will break next week with my purchase of Rock Band 2, although I am justifying that by claiming that Rock Band is not just a game but a lifestyle choice…) was activated a couple of weeks back [...]

Another from Brentford. I took this because of the colours, shapes and lines – I didn’t even notice the sign until my dad pointed it out on flickr…

I’m rather loving the ebook thing, even though my current read is a bit hard going, but book availability is still in its early days. Waterstones are the official partners of Sony in the UK and my first trawl around their site (pushed along by the £20 ebook voucher that I bought from them for [...]