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I’m lucky to be going to the Future of Web Apps conference this October… and unlike last year, I’m there on a proper student ticket this time. That means I get to go see talks from the likes of Digg, Google, Dopplr, Rev3, Twitter, Sun, Amazon, and Facebook (deep breath), as well as some from [...]

Put this map together this afternoon, and it scares me quite a bit. It shows the 25 teenage boys and one girl who have been killed inside the M25 since the beginning of 2008 (I think I got them all).
The Google Map is embedded, so click through if you can’t see it in an RSS [...]

I’m not doing much to counter the theory that there is too much free time in the world. Spent half an hour this evening going through my address book to create a Google Map of people I know, so without saying any more:

To be honest I am a little disappointed in how concentrated the pointers [...]

I’ve opened (with difficulty) a student account with Natwest – anecdotally, it’s incredible to see how well they’ve done just by offering a free student railcard (which gives one third off train fares). The guy in Barclays tried to sell me on free cinema tickets… faced with a choice between cheaper travel between York and [...]

May 3rd this year was spent at Sony’s 3Rooms in central London – the event was advertised as an “unconference about games”, and that’s exactly what was delivered. About 120 guys and girls gathered to discuss hardware hacking, the future of gaming, or just play Rock Band. First off, Sony’s venue is… incredible. There are [...]

I’m never, ever going to understand what gives an automated system the right (or even, ability) to call me up any time of day. And why is there nothing at all that can be done about it after the fact?

/ rant