Why remember facts any more?

August 12th, 2010

Just had a call from my girlfriend. Nothing unusual in that, we speak most days.

The unusual part was that she called the landline, when normally she’d call my mobile. She’d left her mobile at home, so had to go hunting for my work number to give me a call.

Of all the people in the world, my girlfriend is the person I speak to most on the phone – and yet she doesn’t know my mobile number off the top of her head. Which is fair enough, as I don’t know hers either.
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Twitter recruitment video

August 11th, 2010

Now this is how to make a recruitment video.

Those crazy guys and gals at Twitter have taken some inspiration from geek classic Rushmore to create the video you see below. Nice.

(for a refresher of the relevant bit from Rushmore, click here)

Top video from a top fella…

August 10th, 2010

It’s the Internet generation folks, where 1,000,001 talented people are making music (and a few quid) without the need for major labels. One such person is Chance, a top fella from the States who I’ve been fortunate enough to listen to – and exchange emails with – for a four or five years.

After a year off, he’s back with a great new song and a fantastic new video.

Enjoy.

Watch the video in higher quality here.

Find out more – and buy the single – at mynameischance.com.

PC vs Mac: the debate goes on

August 10th, 2010

So, those folk at Microsoft have noticed that Apple has started to get popular on the computer front and decided to come out with their guns blazing.

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Scary stat

August 9th, 2010

Speaking at a the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, California, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the assembled audience that “we” (the human race) create as much information in two days now as we did from the dawn of man through 2003.

Now that is scary.

(found at Techncrunch)

Brand new, you’re retro…

August 9th, 2010

Devised by Brazilian advertising agency Moma Propaganda for a campaign dubbed “Everything ages fast” for  client Maximidia Seminars, these posters depict retro adverts for your favourite “digital properties” – Faceboook, Skype, Twitter and YouTube.
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Are we ever truly unreachable?

August 4th, 2010

How many ways can you contact a single individual? Off the top of my head, I can contact most of my friends via their… home phone, office phone, mobile phone, Skype phone (and chat), text, MSN/AIM etc, Facebook chat, Facebook email, ‘normal’ email, LinkedIn email and, of course, by knocking on their door.

So is it any wonder that, in this day and age we almost demand immediate response to our questions and queries?
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England goalkeeper offers me technical support

July 21st, 2010

Ring, ring.

“Hello, Ross Brown.”

Pause. Static. Click.

<thick foreign accent> “Hello, is that Mr Brown?”

“Who’s calling please?”

“My name is David James, I’m calling because we’ve received a number of error reports from the computer in your house – and I want to help you to fix them.”
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Stop sign designed by committee…

July 20th, 2010

It’s a couple of years old apparently but I’ve not seen it before.

And it’s still scarily-accurate.

Gratuitous list of links to make up for lack of recent updates…

July 8th, 2010

Morning all… it’s been a busy few weeks, with some exciting projects either finalised or proposed. Hope to have *very* exciting news in a week or so.

In the meantime, I thought I’d share three of the sites that take up space in my RSS reader. Please note, all of these at times can be rude, crude, unsuitable for kids and not always safe for work either. You have been warned!
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