Author: nickjones

Apparently I’m the 162nd person, according to Hear from your MP ,who is wanting David Howarth to have a “more genuine sort of interaction than just being sent newsletters.” What we really need is a bulletin board like Grant Shapps MP runs here for his constituents in Welwyn Hatfield. They have had 1564 posts by […]

Well, enjoy it while you can, because it might not last much longer if the UK government get their way according to an article here. The “Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill” is going through Parliament virtually on the nod. This bill gives Ministers and their lackeys the ability to amend, replace, or repeal existing legislation […]

Just visited the Helio webside. Helio is another 3G virtual mobile operator. However, these guys are teaming up with Myspace so you can post content directly to your Myspace account. Just love this, in their section “become a partner”“Helio is looking for Agent Partners to be part of our new brand. If you are interested […]

Sixteen days ago I did a blog post on the Nevada Sports, Les Gets website. A standard (ie poor) Flash jobbie. Prior to my previous post, Nevada Sports didn’t even appear in Google when you entered in Ski Hire or Snowboard hire with Les Gets. Now nick reports:- [17:29] Nick: have you seen that page […]

Just booked for Thomas’s excellent conference Reboot8 in Copenhagen on the 1st/2nd June. Hopefully, it will be as good or even better than last years. Have decided to stay on for a couple of days after the event so I can get in some walking or cycling.

Another excellent article about Myspace here by Tom Foremski with a copy of this delightful poem, which I found very appealing as a father of three great kids. Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though […]

Micro Persuasion: Another Company Goes Blog OnlyI’m sure Ellee will be delighted to read this. The comments are particularly interesting “Idea Grove is designing Web sites based on Blogger and an open source platform, with content included, for $7,500. Before we started using blog software, our Web sites started at $15,000. So it’s cool stuff.” […]

Yesterday Philip and I went to the excellent lecture by Prof. Dan McKenzie given in my old workplace at The Cavendish Labs. I also got to ride a Segway, but thats another story! The lecture was the final event in the Cambridge Science week. Dan started with a slide of of Hess’s work which got […]

Further to Tom Armitage’s talk I now notice on Engadget a story speculating about the new controller for the Sony Play Station 3.

Here is the most gut wrenching tale of what really happened at one of the July 7th bombings in London recounted by one of the survivors Rachel who helped set up the survivors action group “Kings Cross United”. It is staggering to think that university college hospital was only 6 minutes away and the incompetence […]