This is going viral, originally from TES: Dear Michael Gove, You will never read this, but I feel compelled to put it out there in the faint hope that more people will realise the repercussions of your latest initiative. I am proud to work at a small school, on Continue Reading
What Do You Think of Microsoft’s New Logo? (Updated)
It has been 25 years since the last redesign but here it is, Microsoft’s new logo: What do you think? Microsoft’s New Logo I do believe that companies should refresh themselves every so often. Microsoft’s old logo is a classic and timeless so there must have been something significant Continue Reading
Top 10 Jokes from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
A panel from excellent Brit TV channel, “Dave“, have compiled their Top 10 Jokes from the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Here they are: 10. Nish Kumar My mum’s so pessimistic, that if there was an Olympics for pessimism… she wouldn’t fancy her chances. 9. Lou Sanders I waited Continue Reading
The Gentlemen’s Guide To Toilet Etiquette: Part 3
Taxonomy Taxonomy is the classification and categorisation of… uh, stuff. First we will look at the various kinds of toilet paper you will find, bog roll if you will, their properties and the differentiators between them. If you go into your local supermarket-me-do, you will notice that for a half-decent Continue Reading
Push vs. Pull
There are two ways make a product successful: either you saturate consumers with marketing so there literally is no other choice but to buy it (“push”), or you make the product so appealing that it hardly needs any marketing capital at all (“pull”). Apple Right now, Apple is proving Continue Reading
“Don’t Be Evil” – Do You Trust Google?
Do you trust Google? Should you trust Google? Can you trust Google? Google is on the fast train to becoming an international scandal. In May 2010 it emerged that when the company sent out its roving camera cars to take all those “Street View” photos, it also slurped up any Continue Reading
Twitter Borked
I’ve spent the last half hour clicking a “Download” link in Hotmail trying to get something to… ahem… download, but it just sits there doing nothing. Absolutely sod all. Naturally, I switch to Twitter, fully intending to spout some completely disproportionate rant involving lava and fire and incurable, groin-rotting STDs Continue Reading
Google Launches Chrome Packaged Apps
Google has announced the release of Chrome version 22 to developers. The exciting thing about this version is Chrome Packaged apps: a mechanism which allows web applications to behave much more like native applications, blurring the lines between the two. Packaged apps are installed for offline use by default and Continue Reading