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'Irish Blood, English Heart' Venn

‘Irish Blood, English Heart’ Venn

(I'll be popping a few more of my homages to GraphJam and Indexed up in the next few weeks. Keep 'em ... Read more »
Brighton Scenes #3

Brighton Scenes #3

Waitrose on Western Road. The checkout lady asks me if I'll need some bags. I ask for two. The woman in the queue behind me, the sort of forty-something social worker type who puts the 'right on' into Brighton tuts. She then chides me for not bringing reusable bags: 'we all need to make small ... Read more »
eBay: Thanks for the encouragement.

eBay: Thanks for the encouragement.

It's taken me about 4 years to get to 1000 Feedback on one of my accounts. I got my red shooting star. The next star is 5000. Thanks for the encouragement. ETA ... Read more »
A sonnet by a broken-hearted geek

A sonnet by a broken-hearted geek

Sonnet by a broken-hearted geek Shall I compare thee to a MacBook Air? No. Thou art confusing and much thicker. Ctrl. Alt. Delete: You crashed our affair. I found out why by looking on Flickr. And now you're running Boyfriend 2.0, Ignoring all my pokes and pings and tweets, I know your ... Read more »
Top Tweets: 3 Great Twitterers

Top Tweets: 3 Great Twitterers

I'm seriously loving Twitter at the moment: 140 letters to say something banal and ordinary. If you haven't had a look, find me here. It's great for keeping track of friends. Lots of firms and organisations use it too, mostly rather badly. But some people really get it and are a pleasure to ... Read more »
Thisismoney.co.uk: Unemployment Reaches 8 Million

Thisismoney.co.uk: Unemployment Reaches 8 Million

Friends were talking about how the media is talking down Britain just the other day. So, how disheartening to see Thisismoney.co.uk (otherwise known as the Daily Mail) taking that to a totally fictional extreme. 8 million unemployed? How many people received this TOTALLY INACCURATE email? Real ... Read more »
Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand: Offensive can be funny.

Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand: Offensive can be funny.

It's created an almighty and completely unnecessary fuss, it certainly doesn't need to be raised in the House of Commons, it's no business of the Prime Minister, the Daily Mail et all have blown it out of all proportion and the BBC almost certainly shouldn't have broadcast it (even if suspending ... Read more »
Why isn't eBay promoting Skype?

Why isn’t eBay promoting Skype?

Spotted this on ebay.co.uk today. Isn't Skype the internet phone service for small businesses? ... Read more »
Pub's Clever £1 Credit Crunching Grub

Pub’s Clever £1 Credit Crunching Grub

I'm really interested in how small businesses are coping with the oncoming recession and the credit crunch. Needless to say, I'm even more passionate about how pubs are tackling the downturn: too many are closing already. The Four Crosses in Cannock is playing a blinder: bargain grub is getting ... Read more »
31 things I have learnt in the past year

31 things I have learnt in the past year

Last week I became 31... here's are 31 things I have learnt in the last 12 months: 1) Online scrabble is great. But time-consuming. 2) Very few people know what an Oxford Comma is. Let alone give a fuck. 3) I was wrong about Catherine Tate. She was a superb Doctor Who ... Read more »
Vampire Weekend: the end of the affair.

Vampire Weekend: the end of the affair.

On saturday night I saw Vampire Weekend for the last time. There were as entertainingly dazzling as they have ever been but my giddy schoolgirl obsession has to stop. I've seen them live six times this year. They're undoubtedly my 'band of the year 2008'. But it's just different now. Not as ... Read more »
I'm Backing Britain, 2008

I’m Backing Britain, 2008

It turned into a bit of a farce in the end, but the 1968 campaign 'I'm backing Britain' sprang to mind when I was sat having my my hair cut at the barber's shop round the corner. Business is OK but people are scared, the barber opined. The man in the sandwich shop had said trade was very slow ... Read more »
Calling small businesses using Wordpress

Calling small businesses using WordPress

At the risk of sounding like a scratched record: I love Wordpress. Its simply superior SEO sexiness, the endless flexibility of the themes, plugins galore and the slick backend make it such a pleasure to use. But who's using it? I'm really interested in hearing from small businesses who use it ... Read more »
Number 10: The West Wing UK Style?

Number 10: The West Wing UK Style?

Until now, the nearest we've come to a British West Wing style political drama is probably the 'House of Cards' featuring the unspeakable Francis Urquart. And that was never that close. Superb as it was, it wasn't hopeful as The West Wing was and neither did it extol the potential nobility of the ... Read more »