ICT Enthusiast and photographer.
Damn it, I’ve seen 3 Threadless T-Shirts I want to buy, but can’t due to Threadless still only accepting Visa, Mastercard or American Express Cards for payment. I really can’t wait until the day that changes, I would love it if I could pay via some other form of payment like Switch/Maestro/Solo or even PayPal. But until then I’ll guess I’ll
Emma Clark, known to many as the voice of the London Underground due to having voiced most of the in-train and station announcements for the tube, has recently been fired after telling the Mail on Sunday that she thought the transit network was dreadful. “The thought of being stuck in the Tube with strangers for minutes on end and having to listen to
December’s green thing is all about buying an old thing, not a new thing. New things are the fanciest and most specced-up things and have the almost irresistible appeal of being the latest things. But manufacturing a new thing uses resources and energy, all of which creates CO2. So instead of buying a new thing, buy an old thing. Old
New research into the habits of 1,626 UK PC owners has revealed that a staggering two-thirds (65%) have lost precious data or files that were stored on their PC’s hard drive. The research, conducted by Tickbox.net on behalf of online backup provider Carbonite (www.carbonite.co.uk), also found that despite this high rate of data loss experienced, almost a quarter (24%) of
Kevin Colvin, an intern at Anglo Irish Bank’s North American arm, was busted when he told his manager, Paul Davis, that he’d be missing work due to what colleagues took to be a “family emergency”. However yet did he know that when he posted his drunken photos that his boss would find out what he was really up to! 🙂 There
The Green Thing is a new, not for profit community site that’s just launched. The idea is to unite people against climate change by making it easy and enjoyable to be a bit greener, with the help of London’s creative industries. Every month you get a different Green Thing to do October’s is ‘walk once’ and all you have to
A Vision of Students Today is a video created by Professor Michael Wesch and the 200 students enrolled in ANTH 200: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, Spring 2007. It began as a brainstorming exercise, thinking about how students learn, what they need to learn for their future, and how our current educational system fits in. It’s pretty interesting to
Sarah Blow has been offered two free conference tickets to the Web 2.0 Expo in Germany. However due to other commitments she is unable to use them and as such is offering the opportunity to two female university students in the UK via a very short competition. And just in case you’re wondering why a short competicion… it’s because the event is on from the
The Kent IT Clinic (KITC) at the University of Kent has been awarded Technology Enterprise Kent’s ‘Enterprise and Training Award for excellence’ under the category of IT Support. The award, which was presented to David Soud, Co-ordinator of KITC, on 4 October, is in recognition of ‘the considerable achievement of KITC consultants in delivering the intensive assists on behalf of
Well it’s been a busy and crazy week but I’ve finally got some time to tell you all about my 3 Days in London attending The mashup* demo event and of course the awesome Future of Web Apps Conference and Expo which included the Live Filming of Episode 118 of Diggnation and the Carsonified Relaunch Party! 😀 Unfortunately I didn’t