Posts tagged in ‘random thoughts’

Racebook - brilliant sitePosted on October 21, 2009

John Safran’s Race Relations showed on the ABC last night (you can download the episode here or subscribe to the vodcast here) and it was just as funny as I’d hoped. I’ve loved John Safran since he put a voodoo curse on his ex-girlfriend in Race Around the World, and he’s just gone from strength [...]

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One year time lapse from clean-cut to gypsyPosted on September 1, 2009

BoingBoing just alerted me to an excellent time lapse of a guy who walked across China for a year, aiming to walk to Germany. He took a photo of himself every day and has made a video documenting his beard and hair growth, as well as his amazing journey.

The Longest Way 1.0 - one [...]

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Privacy and social networkingPosted on March 25, 2009

Sam Leith has written a fantastic article in the Guardian on the Home Office’s plan to start monitoring social networking sites. I assume it’s basically the government starting to monitor Facebook and Twitter, in addition to tracking who is googling how to make a bomb or take down a plane with some hair gel.
He’s [...]

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Ada Lovelace dayPosted on March 24, 2009

Today is Ada Lovelace day, and I’ve taken the pledge to blog about a woman I admire in technology. Why is this important? Well, women are still a minority in the web space (and technology in general) and therefore women aren’t written about, talked about, asked to speak or in the spotlight as much.
I [...]

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Reflections on living in the futurePosted on March 15, 2009

I had one of those moments last night that made me stop and think and realise how much technology has crept up on us and how much we take it for granted.
We were driving over to a friend’s place for dinner (looking up the address from my email into Google Maps in the car [...]

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Abbey Road timelapsePosted on February 19, 2009

A fantastic time-lapse film of Abbey Road, where tourists try to recreate the image of the Beatles walking across the road.

Reminds me of all the times I took an original and quirky photo (flicking the Eiffel tower, pushing the Tower of Pisa, etc) only to find that I’m the 9 billionth person in the [...]

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Seven thingsPosted on January 8, 2009

I’ve been tagged by Kelpenhagen in the Seven Things meme. You need to share 7 things about yourself, and then ask 7 people to do the same.
I’m not so sure that there are 7 interesting things about myself (at least that can be published on a work blog) but I’ll give it a go.

I [...]

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The power of communityPosted on January 6, 2009

Living in the city, we’re used to not being part of a community. Whilst I know the neighbours in the apartments next door and opposite me, I’ve never said hello to my next door neighbours or even know what they look like.
But my online community is different. I feel that’s where I get an [...]

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Twitter and contextPosted on December 18, 2008

Paul Boag has just posted a story on Boagworld reminding us of the consequences of off-hand twittering that can be taken out of context.
The gist of it is he was going to a family Christmas dinner, and got stuck on flooded roads along the way. While he was stuck in traffic he tweeted:
This [...]

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Pick your own grannyPosted on December 12, 2008

No sooner had I published my last post about Emblogger (in under ten minutes too), then I stumbled across GoldenHook, a website that allows you to create your own beanie, then select the granny who’s going to knit it for you.

It’s such a cute idea, kind of like Innocent Drinks with their Big Knit [...]

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