General Ramblings

No. Have a read of this piece on the BBC Magazine written by a poor poor journalist who has been forced to experience the internet and phone signal in an area previously untouched by such modern inconveniences. Sorry, I know I’m sounding snarky. The thing that gets my goat here is that it’s wonderful to…

Thing is, when you’re building an API – doesn’t matter if you’re the BBC, government or a start-up – it’s so very tempting to add the line ‘only for non-commerical use’. It was the line that allowed us to pursued people at the BBC to release data via backstage. It’s a really handy way to…

inspired, originally uploaded by iamjon*. Back for the second week it’s Friday Foto Fun. This week I’ve chosen a shot of the Minster at York. I lament sometimes that as a nation, we’ve lost the art of and forgotten what it is do Great Things. York Minster is Great. It’s Awesome and the very presence…

Biking to Work, originally uploaded by buteijn. Biking to Work This, pulled over from the flickr explore section, caught my eye today to mark a return to the Friday photo posting – simple things that inspire or make you smile on a Friday afternoon. For me this image captures the end of summer, the slow…

It seems only yesterday that I was posting here about my new and very exciting job at Lonely Planet. The Innovation Ecosystem Manager (no, I never stopped having to explain to people what that meant – in the end I went with ‘do cool shit’). In fact it’s been nearly two years since I left…

Being advertised at in facebook is a pain in the ass – the ads are never relevant and regardless of how much time I spend clicking the little crosses and telling facebook I’m not interested in free holidays to spain…. I still get adverts selling me free holidays to spain. For the first time ever…