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$5 Apps – a new geek meet

Quoting from The Five Buck Idea: “Face it, startups are cool” “You aren’t looking to build a service that solves world hunger, or manages the schedules of entire companies, or does anything really that complicated sounding. You want something simple, almost to the point of ridiculousness, and heck, worth probably about five dollars. Extra points […]
18 years ago

2nd Brighton Ruby Meet-up

James had organised the 2nd Brighton Ruby meet-up for Tuesday, at The Eagle in the North Laines. I went along and met a bunch of great people, including Dan Glegg, the organiser James, KevTheDev, Jon Markwell and the Geek Dinner organiser Simon (he’s looking for consultancy work, btw). Dan did a great talk on his […]
18 years ago

Radio Paradise

It isn’t often that a site comes along that suddenly captures a chunk of my daily attention – but Radio Paradise has quickly reminded me of ‘radio of old’. I say ‘of old’ because I haven’t used my digital radio in over a year, I got quite fed-up with the silly adverts and inane chatter. […]
18 years ago

K9

I’ve slowly been working my way through Tom Baker’s Dr. Who episodes whilst working from my sofa on ShowMeDo (there’s nothing like some childhood sci-fi running in the background whilst working!). And here I am watching The Invisible Enemy when up pops K9 – I’d always wondered when he appeared. Aww, the little tin doggy […]
18 years ago

8th Sussex Geek Dinner

Last night I attended the 8th Sussex Geek Dinner (organised by Simon Harriyott) where Mikel Maron gave a great talk about his involvement with the OpenStreetMap project (they plan to finish mapping Brighton by Spring, and the entire Isle of Wight was completed last year). The talk was great, beer was drunk and I had […]
18 years ago

Sunny Brighton Morning

We had our first sunny and warm morning in Brighton this weekend past so I met John for a late breakfast. We play chess on and off (and John always beats me) and we couldn’t resist a slow game. Fantastically, this game I finally got to beat John…there’s a first time for everything: Wandering back […]
18 years ago

Spam giving rise to new-breed A.I.?

It is Christmas and I exercise my right to wave my hands in the air, tell a story and make a bold prediction. You may exercise your right to comment and tell me just what you think of my idea. During this year, especially whilst growing ShowMeDo, we’ve had to contend with a rise in […]
18 years ago

Christmas wishes

Right, no posts for absolutely ages…that’s because our ShowMeDo.com is growing really rather nicely. So well in fact that as of January, backed by a bank-loan, I’ll be working 50% time on growing the site, attracting more authors and adding in a few sensible revenue ideas to make the company grow in a sustainable way. […]
18 years ago

My First Wikipedia Edit

I have been using Wikipedia for years and have always wanted to contribute – and I never knew how easy it could be. Having noticed that the Wikipedia entry for Star Trek mentioned: A common and fondly-held superstition among fans is that the even-numbered Star Trek films are superior to the odd-numbered Star Trek films […]
18 years ago