I recently had cause to provide advice to an organisation that was trying to take babysteps into using Social Media tools to link to a large body of persons with whom they had a long term relationship. The relationship was long term but it was not a real close one, and they need to draw [...]
Entries from October 2007
October 28, 2007
The S710, T-Mobile and Roaming
About two months ago I suffered a little problem on my brand new S710. My phone decided to believe it was roaming within my home country and network. Telephoning T-Mobile, they could not help and suggested it was my brand new (unlocked) S710. It seemed interesting to me that at exactly the same time that [...]
October 27, 2007
Geek Humour and Music from Network Engineers
Well, I found this via Twitter – thanks to Scoble. Well indirectly anyway, went after the intrusive comments being made on Valleywag and found a Youtube clip as follows which is pretty funny, in a geeky way.
October 27, 2007
Dumbest Criminals in the World
You have to laugh. The amazing gall of a group of criminals to actually attempt to fool anyone into thinking that very large denomination notes were in circulation. Even I know that anything above a £20 is never accepted anywhere, and even the £20 is not accepted in a lot of places. For a £1000 [...]
October 15, 2007
Google visibility
As I have posted before, I am quite visible on Google and the Internet in general. One thing that has bothered me though is that many of my old friends and peers from many years back, all of whom should fall under the rule of being techy, are not as visible. In fact I would [...]
October 6, 2007
Is it a Podcast or is it just media…
In a recent post on his Leoville blog, Leo Laporte wrote a Podcast Expo Absentee blog post. This post was drawing the conclusion that it is not the medium, it is the content that is important so stop calling it Podcasting. The medium is all about making it easy to use the content. Anyway, why [...]
October 4, 2007
Google me lucky man
Via Twitter, I found my way to this article which describes Matt Mullenweg’s interesting and sparse business card as shown here.
I tried this for my own name and blow me that it worked. At least I can for google.com, presenting my Linked-in Public Profile. The default setting of Google though is to provide the local [...]
October 1, 2007
David Allen and the Cult of GTD – Wired Article
Spotted this interesting article on Wired.com about David Allen – a good reasonable interview.











