30-something Web developer based in Birmingham, England. Managing Director of Made Media Ltd.
I hold a particular view of the “recession”; it was patchy, not universal. Its impact ranged from the catastrophic (if you were in house building, car manufacturing, or banking), to the liberating (with interest rates at an all time low, many households were between £100 and £150 a month better off). Public money was drying up, but private/personal money was plentiful.
— Your Financial Business Support » Blog Archive » What is your Plan B?
iPad worked well for creds meetings today, very chilled navigation, even if video scrubbing is a bit duff.
Too hot for Red Kites I fear.
Need to get 3G working before I can ditch the laptop completely though. Can’t get much useful work done on this train journey.
House prices for location lead me to believe that Banbury must be a shithole. Am I right?
Covent Garden. Sunshine. Gap in schedule. Might just stop for a bite and some WiFi.
Medium-to-high level caffeine users, however, did not become any more anxious after caffeine, implying that regular consumption helps build up a resistance to its anxiety-inducing effect. People in this group who were genetically predisposed to anxiety drank more coffee than the rest, suggesting mild feelings of tension might even contribute to their enjoyment of the caffeine buzz.
— Drinking coffee doesn’t make you more alert, caffeine study reveals. Ringing a few bells this.
From a brilliant Made Media offshoot project we never had time to finish, back before Google earned total dominance in the webmail market. The domain names
are now available to the highest bidder.
Contact Made.
Awww. Thanks Emma.
iPad has turned up. Yay!
I don’t think anyone would argue that Dalvik isn’t a high-performance VM, especially starting with Android 2.2. And there are absolutely some interesting debates about VMs versus native compilation — but those are developer debates, and no concern whatsoever to actual users.
The reason social media doesn’t matter is because, upon further review, it doesn’t exist beyond a label. While all the categorizing, classifying and departmentalizing was going on, that which was called social media simply settled into the center of marketing and business strategy and behavior. Everything that we called social media is irrelevant and mislabed – there’s a new way of doing business and marketing for sure, but it’s a behavior and focus on customer involvement that’s become a new norm – and that’s all there is to it.
— Why Social Media Doesn’t Matter Anymore | Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing
On the train down to Glyndebourne to see Billy Budd with @carltimms, @markjames and @fireloop. Looking forward to a great evening.
Doing Business in Birmingham - Marketing Birmingham If you concentrate really hard, you might spot me mumbling something incoherent about business and culture.
In case anyone was in doubt; SkyPlayer does indeed suck balls. Yes it does.
