Terminal 5: My experience

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Two weeks ago I found myself at Heathrow Terminal 5 bound for Los Angeles.
Much has been said about this new building in the past month…most of it negative. So naturally I was on tender hooks wondering firstly if my flight would ever actually leave the UK and secondly if my luggage would accompany me on […]

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Windows Vista: Rubbish logic

April 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Every now and again, I think… where’s the flippin’ Recycle Bin?! After a bit of searching around, I usually find the control panel which allows me to add the Recycle Bin to the desktop and voila!
…but hold on, didn’t I have a Recycle Bin already? Hmm…Ok, I’ve got bad memory so maybe I never had […]

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Fit for purpose: Green principles?

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments

On my way into work this morning (Charing Cross station), I was handed two packs of Three mobile branded post-it notes.
My immediate thoughts were, why would I use these when my company kindly provides me with non-branded post-it notes with more space to write my messages. Plus, I don’t pay for the stationary so I […]

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The top ten commuting bad habits

March 5th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Every now and again I have a trip into work which sends me loopy. I start thinking about: other means into work, different public routes, change of lifestyle…change of countries blah blah blah. Then I think, hmm…I like my job, friends and flat so I should probably stick around for a while.
Even so, I […]

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Is Thunderbird really a Turkey?

February 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’m a big fan of open source software, so it will come as no surprise to hear that I have been using Mozilla’s Thunderbird as my main mail/calendar client for a number of months.
What I particularly like about Thunderbird is the large number of third party add-ons which allow you to adapt the software to […]

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Why do I use Google search?

February 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Its a question that I’ve only just started to challenge. I have worked at Yahoo! for around 4 months and until now dismissed Yahoo! search as a poor relative to Google in the search industry. An age old ‘has-been’ whom anyone who knows anything about the internet would never use. But is this really true? […]

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Please sir, can I unsubscribe? UNSUBSCRIBE!!!???

December 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Thanks for your clear communication Orange
Originally uploaded by badboyuk.

So how hard is it to unsubscribe from mailing lists these days? Despite having UK anti-spam legislation since 2003 - some companies just don’t seem to be living up to their responsibilities.
I have not been an Orange customer for over a year now and even when I […]

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BBC NEWS | Business | The US sub-prime crisis in graphics

December 18th, 2007 · No Comments

BBC NEWS | Business | The US sub-prime crisis in graphics
I found this on perusing popurls.com today. It’s been in the top ten of del.icio.us throughout the day.
Its great to see the Beeb visualising this sort of niche stuff. Hats off to Dan Chambers and crew - great call and good work.

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The BBC new home (beta)

December 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments

BBC - Homepage
Never in all my years have I seen a home page design that has caused so much controversy. In the days when, RSS feeds and web apps such as netvines and igoogle are deemed to rule the waves - why is there still such a cufufle about one page.
Personally, I think the new […]

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The BBCs internet blog

December 17th, 2007 · No Comments

BBC Internet Blog - From Microsoft To The BBC
I am very pleased to see that the BBC finally has an internet ’service’ blog. I have no idea how long its been on the website, but its a very welcome part of the new media focused BBC. I do hold a fairly rational fear that, the […]

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