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23rd July 2009 – 3:00 pm
3:00 pm
“Home is never far from our thoughts, though. How many times have you looked forward for months to a holiday, only to find that on day three you’re already dreaming of your own bed? But when you return, the process starts all over again.” Mark Mason in The Times, July 20th
Revenge is bad mkay?
30th March 2009 – 7:48 pm
7:48 pm
“According to the German national socio-economic database, vengeful people are more likely to be unemployed, have fewer friends and are less satisfied with their lives than those who occasionally let a bad turn go unpunished.” http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/27/german_revenge_inefficient/
Facebook killed TV
19th March 2009 – 1:27 am
1:27 am
“After decades of running an IV drip right into their audience, people in the entertainment business had understandably come to think of them as rather passive. They thought they’d be able to dictate the way shows reached audiences. But they underestimated the force of their desire to connect with one another.” Why TV lost: http://www.paulgraham.com/convergence.html
5 minutes with the Blackberry Storm
22nd November 2008 – 8:47 pm
8:47 pm
If you’ve not been living under a rock lately, you should have noticed all those Blackberry Storm adverts that Vodafone is pushing lately, with over £1 million spent on promotion! Anyway, I had a chance to have a quick play with the device at some random Vodafone store which was lucky enough to have one [...]