My Killer iPhone App

Having bought myself an iPhone, I’ve started thinking about what applications I’d like to build for it, so here is my first family of applications: iDoggin A location aware application that shows a map of the local area, pins in the map indicate people with similar sexual preferences to you,...

Who’s Playing?

www.whos-playing.com is my latest web app, and here is the announcement I made over the weekend about it’s soft launch. Who’s Playing is a new service for people who organise after work, social 5-a-side football games. It aims to take the slog out of emailing a whole bunch of people, collating...

Body Worlds 4 at MoSI

Councils should concentrate on providing data, not services on their websites.

Every morning I wait for the bus to work next to an overgrown field, a few weeks ago I spotted that someone had dumped about 10 beer kegs over the wall, so when I got to work, I used FixMyStreet to report the problem to my council. What follows is an except from an email [...]

The Perfect Checkout

If you’re an online store, you should be interested in helping your customers get through the checkout as quickly as they can, think of a supermarket, customers dont have to register and confirm a bunch of details before the pay for their goods. Many checkout processes have 4 or 5 stages punters...

Lightning won’t work with Thunderbird on Ubuntu 8.04?

Bee Orchid

Bee Orchid, originally uploaded by Roger B. Bee orchid (Ophrys apifera). Photographed...

Bigby Update

Yesterday afternoon I added another species to my Bigby list: pied flycatcher.Liz and I were walking along the bank of Agden Reservoir when a male flycatcher alighted on a branch just a few metres ahead of us. He looked very handsome in his striking black and white livery.This sighting brings my total...

A Letter to my MP

Dear Angela Smith, I was pleased to see that the cabinet office has published a report that proposes “monthly crime information should be published to include … details of crimes committed”. [1] Could you tell me what format these statistics will take, more specifically if they will...

IM Shortcuts for my Mum

Here’s a quick post for my Mum, who has recently retired and discovered instant messaging. Shortcut Meaning Real world usage \o or o/ A wave, hello or goodbye Matthew & Hannah waving from the car. :-) Smiling You’re happy about something ;-) Cheeky wink Yes, of course I’ll...