Archive for July, 2006

Tribute to Friday

Days like today keep me going. I’ve nearly finished off my big presentation, and very impressive it is too. “The web: how it’s changing, and how it’s changing everything” - how’s that for melodrama? England 408-4, the best Guardian OBO coverage in a long while, plus the new Black Heart Procession album on my lunch [...]


I hate Qjump

Whoever ‘designed’ qjump.co.uk needs to fall off a very tall building. And then have an anvil land on their head, a la Bugs Bunny. Such an appalling website that I won’t even waste breath on explaining how it could be improved. Oh, and the bastards have charged me £52 to get to Bristol. Supersaver return? [...]


Drowning in data

Recently I’ve been drowning in data - my company has been asking local entrepreneurs for their opinions on the business environment. I’ll admit that the data entry side isn’t particularly exciting, but the answers have been illuminating. I won’t go into detail because we’re still at an early stage of the analysis, and of course [...]


Turn this crazy bird around

It’s a bit of a shame really. I quite enjoyed the role of the naive native who, at the age of 27, had never even been on an aeroplane. I’ve just got back from Barcelona, and I’ll admit I’m not a huge fan of flying. It’s not that it’s particularly scary (I have too much [...]