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I went to last night’s Geekdinner with Moo, which was pretty interesting. My friend Mitch and his wife were there. I was enthusing about my recent thinking about startup environments especially after reading Paul Graham’s short essay on Cities.
Mitch is a great person to bounce stuff off, especially if it has some relevance to innovation. […]

So TipJoy has been getting some press lately, which is good because I like it. While Clay Shirky apparently says Micropayments are dead I really like anything I can do immediately (in a very GTD). TipJoy makes it easy for me to share a small amount of love in a very instant gratification kind of […]

After my post about the Wattson I started poking around with the idea of more homebrew electronics. In particular the homebrew ambient orb (another one made a with PIC) seemed really cool. While reading about that particular marvel I found out about the Arduino.
The Arduino is an open source prototyping board. The system is powered […]

Yahoo have their London office on South East tip of Soho. Sometimes I like to get a coffee in one of the better Soho coffee shops. While I can’t complain about the coffee (just the opposite actually) sometimes I’m a little disappointed about the lack of a startup hacker community that is available to me. […]

I’m always really pleased when someone uses interesting advertising techniques to engage me with a product. Today I got given a free banana on my way into the tube station. Attached to that banana was a sticker with the details of a local gym. I think the idea of associating something healthy with a gym […]

The Wattson is a design object from DIY Kyoto. It provides a visual indication of the current level of electrical usage in your house and how it compares to your average.

There are a bunch of things that I love about the Wattson. I love the design object, it’s beautiful, as you might expect from a […]

I’m writing this from the tube. Nearly opposite me is an older guy. He doesn’t smell so good, he doesn’t seem like a tramp, but he’s almost certainly a wino judging from the Gin he’s pouring into a Lucasade bottle.
When I sat down this end of the carriage was deserted. I saw people actually get […]

This week I’m going to two Green events, a networking party run by AMEE and GeeKyoto. Given that I am such a treehugging (carbon neutral), duck-squeezing (vegan), person I’ve been wondering what it is that makes some geeks care so much about green.
My simple conclusion is that geeks feel like they are empowered to make […]

I’ve been reading YCombinator’s Hacker News a lot recently. It had a great link today to post about Lifecycle Messaging by Josh Kopelman.
Josh points out some really good things, and it all comes back to one of the current calls to arms at Y!, relevancy. It really is the holy grail. If you can send […]

TinyDB is a new micro database app that allows you to easily get and set data to a URL and then access it again. It supports JSON and XML formats. I really like the concept a lot. The ability to throw up a simple datastruct or two in a very light way is definitely a […]

Phew… it’s been a long time since I last blogged here.
I’m writing something based on the sure knowledge that the one thing that will never have you blogging is meaning to. The only thing that gets you blogging is actually doing it. After blogging fatigue and just being busy interrupted my blogging habit, good intentions […]