NTL becomes Virgin Media, but will they provide the light so badly needed?

NTL today re-branded itself as ‘Virgin Media’ in a bold move by Virgin. Why is it a bold move? Because the Virgin brand (with the exception of their phones) are a trusted brand – NTL is completely the opposite. Changes include a new ‘download movies/tv shows’ service for broadband users (something I’ll certainly be looking…

Inspiration, a fortune cookie special

Everyone needs inspiring from time to time, and one of those great times is being surprised by a fortune cookie when having a meal. The following are cropped…

Five reasons bad clients are good for us

This article is also posted on DevLounge.net and can also be read there. I find people complain a lot about bad clients and how much they hate them (naturally). But instead of writing yet another one of those tired old posts that are so popular slating them and their inability to understand things that are…

MyUniverse Web Comic launched

(Click here for the My Universe post 00 ‘My-Tuts launch’) MyUniverse, a web comic from the genius that is Richard Shilling launched today. Whilst it’s still heavily under construction in terms of design, we’ve decided to put it online with all existing comics uploaded. There are 24 in total so far. Richard will soon be…

Digital receipts

Why haven’t receipts gone digital yet? Why is paper still used for this? I don’t know about you but when I receive a receipt at my local Co-Op or Tesco I simply put it into the bag and it gets thrown away along with the bag once my shopping is put away. And I can’t…

Seth Godin: Purple Cow

Purple Cow is a great book of 1-3 page tidbits accumulating in a book about how to make your idea/business so unique that people have to look at it. The idea is that if you create a purple cow of a product/business amongst a field of ordinary cows then anyone looking at a cow in…

New characters and some humour added to the layout

First off – i’ve added some new versions of myself to the top header, these will appear on work, goals, articles and contact pages. So in posts in related categories, sub pages of those categories and the main pages themselves. I’ve also added four rotating banners to advertise my RSS feed. I felt the layout…

Chelsea 3 Nottingham Forest 0

Last Sunday afternoon was one of those moments in my life that I’ll always remember. After 8-9 years of supporting Chelsea instead of my hometown team of Nottingham…