Archive for June 2007

Pitching for the lucrative tourist market

30 June 2007 | Category: News/Media/Sport

Click on photo for larger-scale image This photo in The Times today caught my eye. No, not the people coming out of the tube station at Piccadilly Circus. But what’s showing on the massive animated advertising hoarding in the background. Can anyone explain it? Sadly, the blokes with the mobile tat stalls in the area [...]



Imagine a film of your life soundtracked by an iPod

27 June 2007 | Category: Entertainment

It’s one of those games which you have to have a go at, once someone’s mentioned it. Imagine a film of your life, with various scenes. Stick your iPod on shuffle (for your whole record collection, no cheating), and you get a track for each scene. I’ve seen one or two where the music is [...]



Educate the voters back to the polling booths

20 June 2007 | Category: News/Media/Sport

Gordon Brown is reported to be looking for Big Ideas as he becomes PM. Here’s one he can have for free.



Effective banner ad design

13 June 2007 | Category: News/Media/Sport

I just posted this to a private newsgroup in answer to a question, but it’s worth repeating more widely. Here are six ways to make your online banner advertising better value for money!



Hands-on Review: Panasonic SD-255 breadmaker – Beat the supermarkets’ cash extraction strategies

11 June 2007 | Category: Gadgetry and IT

So how can owning a breadmaker actually save you significant amounts of, er, bread? Easy. Quoting from my own Panasonic SD-255 breadmaker review (highly recommended, by the way):



And another thing that annoys me…

9 June 2007 | Category: News/Media/Sport

This could become quite a long series as I get to be a progressively grumpier old man, but Another Thing That Annoys Me is the tendency of newspaper columnists and other London-based media dahlings to prefix every main London road with “the”. As in “the Finchley Road”, “the Edgware Road”, “the Holloway Road”, etc. Hey, [...]



When something’s just not important enough…

8 June 2007 | Category: Entertainment

So… what are the thought processes you go through – perhaps subconsciously – in making a decision to do something? It was something I was thinking about today when I realised I didn’t have the same enthusiasm for the new gym routine I’d been given than I had for the one I’d been doing for [...]



Loopallu here I come

7 June 2007 | Category: Entertainment

Woo! The lovely Jackie, my favourite Highland Girlie, has got us tickets for Loopallu 2007 – Saw Doctors! Yay! Loopallu. See what they did there? Good grief, it sure is a long way north though.