The Obvious?

My Mum's Dolls' House

 

Not content with making a home for their family my parents kept going and have made a "des res" dolls' house.

grupthink

grupthink could be a really useful tool in corporate environments I reckon. Be sure to read why it is special.

Anonymous comments

Just a note to say that unless a reason is given for the anonymity I delete anonymous (ie using a spoof e-mail address) comments from this blog.

Who says Wikipedia is useless?

An after-dinner attempt to remember how the theme tune to The Banana Spilts went was mercifully cut short thanks to Google and Wikipedia

And the result was ......

More "irrational optimism"

Trust is always broken. But I return again and again to the wisdom of Wallace Stevens, who sees the realist, illusions shattered, nonethless returning to optimism, with "the yes of the realist spoken because he must say yes, because beneath every no lay a yes that had never been broken." The human spirit is a wonderful thing, and the fact that we can build applications that let us cooperate in new ways gives outlet to that spirit.

O'Reilly Radar > Levels of the Game: The Hierarchy of Web 2.0 Applications

My new office

Thanks to my wonderful Nokia N70 I was able to have a very productive day today answering e-mails, surfing the web, and talking to clients, journalists and even a headhunter while sitting at the edge of our local outdoor pool watching my kids have a fantastic day in the sun.

Following on ...

... from my earlier efforts at web design. This from Paolo is classic!

Getting things done - again

I have applied the principles of David Allen's excellent book Getting Things Done a couple of times now and this most recent time have done it thoroughly and stuck with it. If however you have lapsed like I did in the past you might benefit from Mervin Mann's Back to GTD.

Phew!

I decided some time ago that it would be easier to keep my business site up to date using Wordpress than maintaining it as a static site. It was good to have to get my hands dirty and tinker with the available themes and stylesheets but it was a relief that it worked when I turned it on!

The lads have been busy

Ross Mayfield has announced Socialtext Open and Dave Sifry has a shiny new Technorati