Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

If you’re a fan of the Family Guy, you’re either going to love or hate this clip. Love it because you want to know everything about the show, or hate it because you’ll never be able to look a tthe drawn characters again without seeing the faces of the voice artists. The choice is yours.
(Interestingly […]

Now in my new WordPress clothes, I’m looking for ways to use it better.
This one isn’t rocket science, but will act as reference - How to use WordPress to run a magazine news website.

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Google has written to the Washington Post asking for their name not to be used as a Verb, as in “I Googled him.”
I surprised that this hasn’t happened already. I remember back in 2003 sitting over lunch with some senior people from Google when they were really worried about this happening, way back then. Their […]

I had to turn off my blog comments a couple of years ago because the flow of spam was so high I couldn’t stay on top of deleting it, and the type of comment being posted became too revolting (promoting incest sites, etc).
I hated having to lose the feedback from readers and resented the scum […]

I’m proud to report that one of the Digital-Lifestyles subscribers is with New North Networks. It’s not an ISP that I’d come across, probably for good reason - they service Alaska!
Looking them up on Google maps, I was stunned to see the satellite images look like a geography book, with huge swaths of white.
They’ve got […]

Well done to John Lewis, UK retailing group, for sending out an email giving notice of their sale starting at 9am on 1.July.
The date and time of the email? 2 Jul, 2006 8:50 PM.
Hmmm, and there was me thinking that one of the advantages of email was that it could be quickly dispatched and […]

If you’ve got some time spare, do yourself a favour and watch Dr David Clark talking about how the Internet came about (he was one of its creators) and where it’s going.
Highly recommended.

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It’s amazing that for a service like egg.com that prides itself, indeed promotes itself on being an online service, that they don’t hold all of the data going back to when I opening the account. With storage so cheap, I can’t imaging a reason as to why this could be. How can Google hold […]

Wow I didn’t think I’d see another Historic technology picture as quickly as this, so soon after the Historic technology - Car radio telephone sign.
In the local paper, an advert for a Betamax player, and for only a tenner. I was tempted but within about 10ms realised that I’d _never_ use it. Especially as it […]

Great to be able to help out with the OpenStreetMap posse with their visit to the Isle of Wight last week.
Pleased Andrew Turner, MP for the IoW, could make it along and that the County Press (the IoW paper) sent photographer Georgina to capture the moment. It’s great to see stuff you’ve lined up […]