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Saturday 22.11.2008

5 minutes with the Blackberry Storm

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 [...]

Gmail themes

7:44 pm

Finally, theming without needing greasemonkey hacks! I can finally inject some personality into the app. If you’re a Google Mail user and still haven’t noticed the changes - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/?utm_source=us-en-gmnav&utm_medium=et&utm_content=gmnav

Trick or Treat season 2

6:01 am

I have to admit, I’m a big fan of Derren Brown’s productions with his provocative insights into the human psyche. His Trick or Treat series is no exception – I somehow managed to miss season 2 on TV, so I am quite fortunate to find some decent quality streams on Vimeo. I’m missing 4 and [...]

Saturday 18.10.2008

Epic FAIL

8:48 pm

Why FAIL, instead of failure, or failed?

Friday 10.10.2008

Unfortunately named domains

12:26 am

How’s this for rather unfortunate domain names: Welsh IT – www.welshit.co.uk Speed of Art – www.speedofart.com Morrison & Foerster – mofo.com (sounds like a good law firm to work in, more of a selling point to me!) Therapist Finder – www.therapistfinder.com (is this therapy?) Auctions Hit – www.auctionshit.com (Ebay competitor, lack of confidence there)