The big news in business and the big new in tech this week is that twitter has gone Public. Facebook did this fairly recently, and the cynic in me says it could be the harbinger of doom. I've never been a huge fan of…
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A lab, a workbench and look-out post. A documentation of Matt’s observational and experimental forays into the avoidance of doing himself any lasting damage with technology.
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Twitter owes me $57- Lots of screen
A day that involved lots of screen time. Video conference screens to two other countries, Laptop screen + extended monitor whilst chucking around shapes in Axure and Agile planning in TFS. Watch screen to keep an eye on…
"The impossible photograph""The impossible photograph, that's really what's at the heart of my work" Richard Mosse. When I mentioned in my blog post last night that I'd like to try out some colour infraded film, old friend and fine art…
The Jony Ive LeicaIt's interesting, using the internet to look back on a story. Just over a year ago, I (vaguely) recall a story that was bubbling away in which Apple's Chief Designer; Jony Ive, was commissioned along with Marc Newson to…
Generation DI received a belated birthday present this morning. A National Semiconductors' Digital NOVUS LED Watch. I absolutely love it to bits. When these came out - 40 years ago, when I was born (the model I've been bought is a…
NatWest Ideas BankThis struck me as a good idea. NatWest Bank have introduced a thing called " Ideas Bank ". I discovered this after getting in touch with them via twitter, where I ranted about how I was sick of their single track hold…
Audio FileA few months ago, Google rolled out a service to the UK called Google play Music where you can upload, then use up to 20,000 songs to their cloud - free of charge. Once uploaded, you can access the tunes from wherever,…
- Auto Pilot Audio
Embedded video **In this blog post, I'm going to talk about my alternate to radio whilst commuting strategies, and how the library now loans audio books. ** It's quite a big week for me. I'm back from finishing my last…
- Elon Musk is up to something...
Inventor, founder of PayPal, SpaceX and Tesler Motors is up to something. If you don't know who Elon is but have seen Iron Man, think Tony Stark. He's an inventor who actually gets stuff off the ground, literally. He's…
- Smellography
I've often joked in meetings about how some ideas are a bit 'pie in the sky'. An example that I've jokingly referenced in such conversations (as a benchmark of the particularly untenable) would be 'Smell-o-Vision'. The…
- Speed reading
I'm in the process of teaching myself how to speed read. The idea that I'll be able to take on-board information up to around 5 times quicker, appeals. At the start of my quest, I was clocking from around 215 words per…
- Twitter
Just over 7 years ago @jack tweeted the worlds first tweet : “just setting up my twttr". Since that first tweet from user number 3 (after @twitter and @biz) around 554,750,000 others have joined the ranks of twitter and…
- Instagram does sharing
Instagram post (embedded in original — not directly hotlinkable, click through) Yesterday, instagram (owned by facebook) announced on their tumblr blog (owned by Yahoo!) the ability to embed instagram hosted content on…
The Tea Chronicles"Oh? You're going to to a blog about it? A blog about a blogger?" said Felix (my son, age 14) just now. Charlie McDonnell, aka charlieissocoollike is a "Professional Internet Human" (his words), his content is pretty…
- Codeacademy vs Minecraft vs Cricket
Today my boy Felix (age 14) got cracking on www.codecademy.com . He has been expressing an interesting in learning 'code' and finding out about the how the internet is made for some time, so I pointed him there. I've…