Bloggies 2006

Reading time: < 1 min Right, I’ve been doing something thinking about how I can win a Bloggie next year. I reckon there are several areas I need to tackle, but as I’m aiming for Best-Kept-Secret the first thing I need to do is increase traffic, and get noticed by all the right people. So, with that in mind I’ve…

Red Rag

Reading time: < 1 min Slept in this morning so had to rush to make the train, never the best start to the day. I’m then greeted, via the wonderful Metro newspaper (“the internet: printed” could be their slogan) with the news that Network Rail is set to pay executive bonuses despite those self same executives “forgetting about return journeys”…

Bloggies 2005

Reading time: 2 mins The results are in. But before I pick out some of my choices I thought I’d take a moment to jot down why I’m quite interested in the results. Quite simply, I want to win one. No I’m kidding (well kinda), despite all the easy arguments against this kind of thing I think it’s valuable…

Stupid is..

Reading time: < 1 min I’ve received several of these emails over the past few days, all have the same subject line: “Please open the Microsoft word document attachment to read this offer in Japanese” Now granted I am slightly fascinated by the culture of Japan and the Far East but, come on. If you want to infect my system…

Lutonian

Reading time: 2 mins I have to admit that I was a bit mystified when I read about this in the paper this morning. Luton, the town, ran an online poll to find the “Greatest Words Ever Spoken” with the results published today (although the poll still appears to be open). Apparently the winner would be inscribed on a…

Weekender

Reading time: < 1 min Well done Coco. Well done Scotland (hey we WON the second half 19 – 8!). Ohh and there was that article in the newspaper (scroll down a bit for that). Aside from that it was a fairly quiet weekend. Saturday saw me multi-tasking like a woman; finishing off some work, dealing with stroppy clients on…