March 2010
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The Jolly Sailor, Orford for A Jolly Tweet-Up
The Jolly Sailor was one of the several Suffolk Tweeps (see below) that I approached for donations to the Bury St Edmunds Twestival the other night and Gordon Williams, the relatively new Landlord, kindly donated a whopping great £100 voucher for meals and accommodation adding “I don’t care if they use the whole thing for a massive piss-up” Gordon isn’t (YET) on twitter...
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Come on Suffolk, Twestival needs you.... like you...
Twitter has transformed our lives in many ways. Here’s your chance to transform others’ by attending the Twestival gathering in Bury St Edmunds tomorrow night. Since moving from London to Woodbridge, in Suffolk (and getting back into the social media circles after being ill for some time), I’ve been amazed at the number of individuals and businesses in Suffolk who’ve...
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Vodafone's SureSignal doesn't know where it is.
Those that follow me on twitter will have seen the pleasure I have had ditching O2 and moving my iPhone to Vodafone. The difference has been monumental and not only is the signal better in Suffolk but my day in London last week proved the same. Because we live on a farm in a house with thick oak beams, the signal can be patchy indoors so I excitedly purchased a SureSignal box from Vodafone. It...
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Process improvement: avoid complexity and...
Let’s talk process improvement. This morning I was in a huff about there being no clean cutlery in the kitchen (only myself to blame). It was all in the dishwasher which, inevitably, hadn’t been run overnight. So immediately resolved to make a trip out to Ikea and bulk-buy cutlery. In fact a week ago, I used a similar approach, and bought 20 identical coffee mugs just to avoid...
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Invictus, from the eyes of a South African UK...
Last night, we watched Invictus (here’s the trailer).I am South African born. I moved to the UK in my very late twenties which meant I was living in Johannesburg when Nelson Mandela was released from prison; later, I was fortunate enough to sit behind the posts through which Joel Stransky scored a drop goal in extra time to win the Rugby World Cup match of 1995. But more importantly, I...
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Web Application Development: an end to wireframe...
Not unique to web application development, ideas aren’t worth anything until you do something with them. Unfortunately, I am not a software coder and have to somehow communicate what’s in my head to a design and development team. Up until now I have used a healthy dose of telepathy and cigarette box scrawl to develop my Wireframes . (an ex-colleague used to use powerpoint, patient...
