Amusing anecdotes & random ramblings
Who on earth is Margaret Atwood?
Edit: Ahhh, the author behind The Handmaid’s Tale. Must read it one day.
About the author
By day a BBC/Intranet content producer. By night, mildly obsessed by web, film, comedy, pop/digital culture, people, and randomness.
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Working for the BBC….
about 3 weeks ago - No comments
means a few surprises from time to time. Like telling people that it’s not a place where they shower you with money while you hang out backstage with Matt Smith or even Huw Edwards, for instance. Although there are a few fantastic non-financial bonuses, of course – like working on election night. Really must blog
FourSquare in the UK – finally there’s a use. Oh.
about 4 weeks ago - 4 comments
West12 Shopping CentreTaken by bonez007 Like many people who use FourSquare, I often wonder if there’s actually any point to checking in to a location, aside from point scoring and the fact I’m usually bored at a bus stop. American friends of mine tell of strange legends whereby if you show you’re a Mayor at
You can link in any time you like…
about 1 month ago - 3 comments
LinkedIn has become the defacto premiere website for making business connections, so as a consequence all these groups have sprung up promising to connect you to more and more people. I joined a few groups, but they weren’t quite what I was looking for. So I wanted to leave a group. You’d have thought a
Fighting a losing battle against copyright
about 3 months ago - 7 comments
So… on the night when David Cameron finally became Prime Minister, HyperHam and I had the following conversation: HH: “Why is Mrs Cameron standing at the back, pregnant and far away from her husband?” AW: “Well, we’re living in Tory times now.” To me, this was so amazingly funny and of-the-moment, that I immediately posted
No buzz with Buzz…
about 7 months ago - No comments
So Google Buzz has launched, and I’ve had a quick play with it. Unfortunately, it’s done the same thing as many recent Google product launches – it hasn’t brought anything new to the table, aside from the sheer gargantuan amount of data it stores about me. And the only reason it has so much data
G'on, ask me anything!
about 7 months ago - No comments
In the art of experimenting with new websites and new forms of communication, a new website has sprung me which allows you, the humble web surfer, to ask me anything at all. And to do it anonymously, if you so wish. Of course, there are many ways to do that, but with this website, any
Useless websites #158
about 8 months ago - No comments
SendSocial promises to send anything to anyone, without needing an address. They suggest that you could use it to send gifts to Internet friends of yours, when all you know is their Twitter address. How does SendSocial do this? By asking said Twitter person for their address, and then sending you a label to stick
The trouble with being everywhere on the Internet…
about 9 months ago - No comments
Miss H recently did a Google search for a local pizzeria near where I live and she works. My picture pops up – because I once wrote a favourable review of it. Better yet, if you then do the same search but concentrating on images, there’s a Google Ad inviting you to travel with 1200
about 1 month ago
Words fail me, really they do.