Notes from a curious life.

Well done to Anglian Water. Woke up this morning to find that when flushing the toilet the water backed right up the bowl. Ah I thought the pesky drain blocked again (at one time it was always getting blocked) so I took my trusty rods to the end of my drain (we share it with […]

Suzanne forwarded me along the web address of her chairmaker. If anyone could benefit from a good blog like English Cut did then Dan could! Just imagine a blog eulogising about the creation of an English chair made from coppiced ash. It could follow the cycle of tree management to the creation of the chair […]

What is so special about Tuesdays? Why does everyone seem to want to organise events for Tuesday evenings! Tomorrow night I have the choice, in Cambridge UK, of the following events:- CHASE Postwatch – The postal services – Tue 7th Feb, Meet first Tuesday in every monthCFEL David Cleevely (Serial Entrepreneur & Founder of Analysys) […]

Arrived home, in the UK, from LIFT06 to discover that Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s book has arrived, delivered from Amazon, Frankfurt, Germany. Pity it didnt arrive before LIFT as it would have been good to get it signed by Robert. Now just need to read it and see how it compares to their original […]

For all those of you, including me!, who where fans of Robert Scoble’s link blog. Here is its latest reincarnation at del.icio.us I met Robert at LIFT06 where I mentioned my enthuasism for del.icio.us, my page at del.icio.us is here although it can also be seen, with all my blogs on the superglu mashup here […]

Xavier has just finished his talk, here at LIFT06, The ordinarys people revolution. He has introduced two new words:- Transformactors are people who transform human action into an algorithm.Consumactors are doer’s who takes an unfinished product eg ipod easyjet and complete it. He highly recommends a book by Alain de VulpianFrom a rigidly regulated mass […]