Archive for September, 2006



Start my new job tomorrow :)

The last couple of weeks have been rather hectic.
A month ago on Monday I handed in my notice after accepting an offer at Work Communications, it wasn’t a bad offer, good money - better work - nicer office, but I knew it wasn’t going to stretch me THAT much.
At the time of accepting the offer […]

Stumble Upon

A great new way to surf the web, Stumble Upon is a plugin/toolbar/extention for Firefox or IE that serves you freshly discovered sites direct to your browser.
You can set the sorts of things you like to find as well as entering a search criteria in the toolbar. It’s a useful little gadget for filling that […]

Web 2.0 vs Star Wars

I’ve mentioned before that I find the whole “Web 2.0″ thing a little over hyped to say the least, this is a really nice twist.
Are the following 43 names of Web 2.0 start-ups or Star Wars characters?
Get your geek on!

Daily Mail-o-matic

Daily Mail-o-matic - My favourite so far: COULD IMMIGRANTS GIVE BRITISH SOVEREIGNTY CANCER?

These guys really do have too much time on their hands
Full video here

Gotuit.com

Gotuit, is a very slick Flash based YouTube.
There are a couple of really sheet features:

The whole interface is build in Flash so you can browse and watch at the same time
You can zoom the video and it hardly misses a beat

It’s still beta (of course) but there are also a few things they could do […]

Magnetic paint…

It sounds unbelievable but, someone has invented a spray paint that’s magnetic, think chalk board paint, but, magnetic!

There’s a very interesting write-up on Windows media vs. Flash Video, the nice thing is it’s objective. Just try and ignore the rather lazy design.
I mean I can scream and shout with the best of them about how rubbish every other format is, but my opinion is only partly based on exprience.