In No Particular Order

Spotted at a client: so nude, it’s invisible.

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This Thursday, 20 May, the community near Columbia Road, E2, is putting on a charity auction, with some stupendous works of art, of generosity and fun in order to raise money for Sonia.
Sonia is a young and much-loved teacher who suffered a devastating stroke last year leaving her severely disabled. This auction is to raise [...]

So, leaving aside any nitpicking points about whether “premieres” is a verb, or whether it’s Polanski’s film or Olivia Williams‘, suffice to say that it’s the ‘Olivia connection’ (via Sophie, Olivia’s sister, longest-standing friend etc) that has Vicky heading off to Berlin on the 12th for the premiere of the film at t’Berlin Film Festival.
Here’s [...]

In between the rain and snow, a brief and uplifting moment of sunshine on Newport Beach (“traeth mawr” or ‘big beach’).
We’d determined to ‘walk the kids’ every day for a couple of hours, come rain or shine, and this was the first time that the “shine” part had kicked in.
Made it all worthwhile.
The image, btw, [...]

Wow – I love this!
A friend’s brother’s just won an art prize and when I initially looked at the video (distracted, sorry), I didn’t really “get” it. Half way through it hit me – great idea, beautifully executed and recorded with restraint. Tip: look at the leaves…
Anyway, Clem won the Celeste Prize in the Video, [...]

We’ve been fans of Nelly Duff for ages, and our growing collection of prints attests to this. Cassius & Co are not only knowledgeable and infectiously enthusiastic, but also full of great ideas and a sense of fun.
The latest ‘wheeze’ was collaborating with Eine (rumoured to be, ahem, Banksy’s print-maker and of course recognised creator [...]

Just updated Flickr with some images I took in Amsterdam while at the IADS conference.
I managed to get a couple of hours’ wandering done after the conference and was lucky with some bright, early spring weather: low sun, nice contrast and best of all wonderful wandering weather.
I took a stroll up to the Central Station [...]

So, the ugly, ink-swilling, temperamental Epson Stylus Pro 1270 finally died a death. Total inability to feed paper (bit of a disadvantage in a printer). So, with Vicky having a book to get ready for London Book Fair it was back to the PITA of finding an A3 colour printer for high quality home office [...]

My travels with a near 30-year-old camera continue: my tired but still lovely Minolta CLE from 1981-ish.
I had a great time in Paris last month with the camera on my first day, but since then I’ve put a few more films through it. The results have been variable and I have some learnings to share…
1) [...]

It’s been a busy time on the speaking front of late.
I started the week in Paris speaking at the ACSEL event on social media in eCommerce and then in London for the inaugural eConsultancy.com Alumni evening. Slides from both evenings are available on Slideshare by following the links to the blog posts.
In the next couple [...]

Just off to the Mediafutures Conference in Ally Pally (reaches for A-Z) and wondering whether there’ll be great broadband/mobile reception there ‘cos we’re under a mast?
Interesting day lined up but here’s a quick heads up that there’s a twitter channel at (predictably):
Twitter / mediafutures
I’m not going to promise an update since Nico’s notes are generally [...]

Update: 2010-06-16
Vodafone has released New_Vodafone_Mobile_Broadband_4.01.03.00.dmg available from here:
http://www.business.vodafone.com/site/bus/public/enuk/support/10_productsupport/laptop_connectivity/40_software/software/10_latest/p_mac.jsp
This rather nicely installs without having to be root (huzzah) and magically recognises more modems (I got plug n play with a Novatel 2352, not just the Huawei 220) and is an informative, useful piece of software. I’ll leave the rest here for those not running the latest [...]

24 years ago, eh? Most people know that I’m a bit of a mac fan (or victim – take your pick). Given that I spend so much of my working life at a keyboard it’s a real testament to the OS+hardware combo that I still enjoy the very processes of _using_ the computer. Apart from [...]

View Event :: Manchester Digital
I spoke in Manchester last night at the Digital Shorts event, organised by Manchester Digital and e-consultancy. I spoke at this event last January and this gave me the opportunity to review the predictions I’d made, compare this last Christmas with that of 2006 and consider the key areas of interest [...]

Leeds digital shorts | Events | E-consultancy.com
As the evenings draw in and Santa’s little helpers are doing their stretching exercises, Ian Jindal, Editor in Chief of InternetRetailing.net, will be reviewing the key developments of note to ecommerce professionals during 2007.
Looking forward to heading up to Leeds tomorrow to speak at a Digital Shorts event, entitled [...]

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Here a photo of the olives after their first week in brine.
Since starting on the preserving olives route last month I’d been soaking the olives in plain water, changing daily.
Last week I moved onto the soak-for-a-week-in-brine and this is the state of affairs just before I rinsed them and put [...]

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This is a really fun training day and you can (see details of the event) and I was speaking on “Emerging trends in social media”.
This is a photo of the audience as I manifestly fail to update my site via SMS… thankfully it worked the second time
The slides from [...]

This is a great story – even if you’re not a ‘landy’ fan: individual enterprise, regeneration and employment, core engineering skills, waste-no mentality, sustainability, exports and – to cap it all – a bit of M&A intrigue too.

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We’re hiring again at Internet Retailing
Job Description
Our readers say we’re good but our ambition’s to be even better. Our growth is allowing us to appoint a dedicated Web Editor for our newly expanded web portal (being released at the end of September).
We require someone who has the experience and panache to turn our [...]

Saw this via Notebookism – great use for an old Bic.

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