Here’s something to consider (especially at this time of year, with oodles of cards being sent by post): Royal Mail tend to wrap their post bundles with red rubber bands, a fact which won’t be news to most people who live in London. Mainly because they drop them all over the damn road.
The map portion [...]
Posted at 15:50 on December 22nd 2008, tagged as environment, life, london, with one comment
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 fowa, fowa08, london, with no comments yet
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 life, london, restaurant, work, with no comments yet
…but I still need to decide for sure what I’m going to go and watch. Here’s what I’m really looking forward to, and the choices I can’t quite decide on just yet.
Day One, Thursday 9th October
Obviously I’ll be first second (sorry, she’s ahead of me) in line to see Kevin Rose talk on The Future [...]
Posted at 23:45 on September 24th 2008, tagged as conference, fowa, fowa08, london, with 2 comments
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 [...]
Posted at 20:25 on September 22nd 2008, tagged as conference, diggnation, fowa, fowa08, london, with no comments yet
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 [...]
Posted at 19:30 on September 14th 2008, tagged as london, mapping, murder, teen, with 5 comments
