Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

If you’re in the market for a new tattoo, are looking for inspiration and enjoy video games, tech & science, look no further than the Revenge of the Tattooed Nerds site or just the images.
My fave’s are the Escher sketch, logo brick, a DNA tattoo on a wrist and Blake’s spinal DNA tattoo. I’m not […]

Dalya Alberge and Lewis Smith have a piece on timesonline about an interesting case in the US.
Lionel Sawkins, 75 has just won a case in the US courts to enable him to collect royalties on the sales of a CD based on his work. He pieced together reference information that he collected from round […]

I’m finding computer directories really bad for filing these days. Even using shortcuts to cluster related work, it’s still inconvenient shuffling up and down directories.
What every happened to the desktop element of computing? It’s very restrictive only having one desktop. There should be one for each project that your working on that you can swap […]

There are just so many phone frauds going on these days it’s really hard to keep up, Internet diallers that replace you ISP’s number with a premium rate number; brief calls to your mobile that charge you a fortune when you call them back; the list goes on and on.
In the old days the frauds […]

While I was in Singapore in June at Broadcast Asia 2004 and took the metro/train/tube a couple of times. It was a very pleasant experience compared with the London tube as it had air conditioned, large trains.
I took the opportunity to do a bit of people watching, in particular how they were with technology. Here’s […]

It looks like clothing brand French Connection is in trouble. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), who are the industry body who self-regulate some sectors of advertising in the UK, have demanded that any FCUK poster advertising be cleared with them before publically displayed.
French Connection, who were re-branded FCUK by Trevor Beatty, pushed it a little […]

Following the announcement last week from BBC Technology (BBCT) about Siemens being their preferred bidder, ie the one they want to purchase them, the union BECTU has carried out a ballot. 207 of the voting BECTU members said they were in favour of strike action against 40 who said no - giving 83.8% voting in […]

You realise that you’re getting old when there are whole portions of language that you don’t have the faintest idea what it means.
I came across one of these today - Chav. In my youth the probably equivalent was probably Casuals - people who wore ’sporting’ attire in pastel shades - Lacoste, Sergio Tacchini, etc. […]

There’s quite a buzz around London today. Most people can’t actually believe that there will be F1 cars driving around Regents Street and it appears to have come as a bit of a surprise to most people. Those who have been following it know that it has only recently become definite after some F1 politics.
The […]

This looks like an interesting idea that I’ll have to try next time I’m in West London. OYBike let’s you hire a bike for as little as 15 mins. When you find the bike you want, you simply call up their operators and a code is texted to you to unlock the bicycle and away […]