Archive for October 2008

To The Cloud…

Well… I made it to the University of York, and survived Freshers’ Week; making my way through two fire alarms, a few dozen pints of Guinness and more free Dominos pizza than I care to remember.
The newsy-thing that came up today is the flyer that’s displayed to the right – UoY’s Computing Services are asking [...]

Posted at 17:37 on October 22nd 2008, tagged as , , , , , , with no comments yet

FOWA Day 1

I’ve had just the best day at the Future of Web Apps conference. Early morning was Kevin Rose on “The Future of News”, followed by Edwin Aoki for ten minutes talking (more!) about web apps. He sort of set the tone for the day… ;)
A great talk by Joe Stump (digg) and Blaine Cook (ex [...]

Posted at 16:00 on October 9th 2008, tagged as , , , with no comments yet

The Kitchen

Today I finish three weeks of employment, the first proper work I’ve ever done. It’s been in a small restaurant startup in south west London, a place called The Kitchen. Owned, managed and run by Natalie Richmond and chef Thierry Laborde, the concept is something quite new and different. Here comes my ad copy:
You order [...]

Posted at 23:20 on October 8th 2008, tagged as , , , , with no comments yet

Facebook iPhone 2.0

Here’s a feature I haven’t seen reported anywhere yet. The new version of Facebook has a “Shake to reload” option. Gimmicky? Yes. Awesome? Yes.

Posted at 22:43 on October 2nd 2008, tagged as , , , with no comments yet