July 2011
2 posts
Lemon cupcakes
Today’s daily make was a lovely batch of lemon cupcakes with a dollop of lemon curd in the middle and some buttercream icing and sprinkles on top.
They were so tasty that… ooops, I forgot to take a picture of them! The lemon curd idea is from the Hummingbird Bakery book, but the cupcakes recipe is my own, adapted from an Ocado one.
Tomorrow is mostly being spent commuting to and from...
May 2011
1 post
Honestly They're Pretty Good →
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Good year of music indeed…
Ads by Project Wonderful! Your ad could be here, right now. I don’t really have a “best…
April 2011
2 posts
Wedding Invitation Turns Into a Paper Record... →
Bet you’ve never received a wedding invitation like this before: Folded just so, this card turns into a manually operated paper record player that plays a song recorded by the future…
Why British geeks just can’t bear to look a TSB... →
Last week the UK’s Technology Strategy Board, run by the government as a booster of the tech business world, unveiled a new £1m fund to support “digital businesses” in the small area around…
March 2011
5 posts
9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month →
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster) a VC at GRP Partners. He blogs at BothSidesoftheTable
I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement” as…
Why Your Email Inbox Is Bringing Home the Bacon... →
Bacon (or “bacn”) is known as the more legitimate cousin of spam. The big difference, though, is that bacon is something you ask for. Good examples of…
Roger Ebert’s Inspiring Digital Transformation →
With the help of his wife, two colleagues and the Alex-equipped MacBook that he uses to generate his computerized voice, famed film critic Roger Ebert…
February 2011
2 posts
Tracing touchscreen user patterns →
Making the invisible visible with fingerprints. Eat your heart out, David Caruso! More here
September 2009
33 posts
40 Very Colourful Websites →
My Google Profile →
Check out my new Google profile.
9 Ways Marketing Weasels Will Try to Manipulate... →
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5 minutes reading the case studies and you no longer need to read the book. Save yourself the time and read this :)
I recently read Predictably Irrational.
The new Campaign Monitor t-shirts →
Way back in May this year, we asked you guys to come up with some new ideas for our popular range of email nerd t-shirts. I the end, we had nearly 150 hilarious (and some kinda scary) ideas that…
RETAIL WAR: Microsoft Cherry Picking Apple Store... →
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So Microsoft can replicate what Apple’s been doing - with success to be seen. Copying only gets you so far, though, and it’s only innovation, not copy-cat behaviour,…
Creative Review - Dixons gets honest Very clever,... →
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Speechless at the brutal honesty of this ad!
Creative Review - Dixons gets honest Very clever, if brutally honest, set of advertisements for an infamous…
Knitted Wool thumbhole Arm Warmers & Armwarmers,... →
cute armwarmers from a small UK company. Lots of cute dresses as well
Neil Patrick Harris Mocks the Internet at the... →
Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, the musical short film produced for Internet distribution, got a cameo appearance in tonight’s Emmys thanks to host (and Dr. Horrible star) Neil Patrick…
Online communities love to play follow the leader... →
Community building means making members feel... →
Newsflash: Building an online community is hard... →
How to build an online community | Community... →
Social Media Policies from 80+ Organizations →
20+ Mac Apps to Increase Your Productivity →
Years ago, one of the criticisms lobbed at the Mac platform was that when it comes to software, there just isn’t much out there.
Any Mac user will know that that stopped being true a…
How to Boost your Business by Developing... →
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Silvermans Office Furniture - Cambridge →
Cambridge furniture place
Cheese or Font →
Some great tips for writing a great blog covering... →
30 good tips on keeping things going when blogging
Microsoft Targets Linux (and Macs) with Latest... →
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What a load of nonsense!
Microsoft’s marketing team considers ridiculously skewed comparison charts to be a killer weapon in the war on competitors. It’s only…
Which peripherals are covered under AppleCare? →
Filed under: Hardware, Peripherals, Airport, Troubleshooting
In the wake of our earlier post on possibly time-bombed Time Capsules, there was some confusion as to whether or not…
Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us →
So we’ve had our fun with Facebook over the years (Why We’re Suing Facebook For $25 Million In Statutory Damages, Republican PR Director Calls Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg “totally full of…
7 Simple Steps to Meeting Deadlines →
Julie Langan →
The Printable CEO IX: The Plain Old 5-Day Planner →
16 Customer Service/Help Desk Apps That Make... →
LiveScribe Pulse pen: Where were you all my life!? →
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I know, I know… sharing my own post, but it’s such a fab gadget, I can’t help telling everyone :)
As an early birthday present to myself, I bought a Livescribe Pulse…
Skip "References Available Upon Request" and Other... →
Whether you’re looking for a job or already have one, it’s important to keep an updated resume on file. If you’re looking to refresh yours, weblog Divine Caroline suggests skipping common…
Behind the scenes: How the Campaign Monitor team... →
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Between the custom sandwiches and the team-spirit-building ping pong tournaments, I just love these guys’ mentality towards being a team. They give a damn, unlike most…
A Dreamy Tale of Nine Cities →
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Hopefully I’ll get to visit them all in the future, wey-hey! ;)
The sunshine is making me dreamy.
Pimms and Prêt sandwiches on London’s Primrose Hill with a…
Comic for September 5, 2009 →
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sounds only too familiar, hah!
Best 5 Hand-drawn Social Icon Set [woork] - zhiQ →
Blue Pulse Pro Pack | Digital Pens | Magicomm →
August 2009
20 posts
Prep Your Mac for Snow Leopard [Snow Leopard] →
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I’ll take the paranoid track, I suspect…
An operating system update like this Friday’s release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard is a perfect time to clean up your…
xkcd - A Webcomic - Tech Support Cheat Sheet →
The dirty tricks of food photographers ::... →
Google Reader's "Send to" Feature →
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Oooh I like the idea of send to Delicious so that the item is bookmarked more permanently
Google Reader added a new feature that lets you share posts in other services:…
Internet University Cast by ~elontirien on... →
If the popular social networks were people