Life's about experiences. These are mine.
So we have arrived for what I honestly expect to be our last family holiday in Florida (and yes that sentence has been very carefully worded!) Before writing this post I re-read my day one post from our last visit, how different it was for us this time. Instead of stepping off the plane to …
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As if any more proof were needed that my Doctor Who obsession started early then this is it. What you see here is a drawing I did when I was seven and sent to my Dad who was away during the week on a training course. It shows, very clearly, a Dalek, next to a …
There’s a vote coming soon, are you excited? On May 5th we get the chance to vote on a new voting system. We will be asked whether we want to replace the First Past the Post system that we have now with the Alternative Vote. See, it’s more exciting than you thought, isn’t it! This …
Something that I have been interested in for a while is personalisation in marketing, i.e the ability to target your marketing message on a 1:1 basis. This is something that I have written about in the past and shown some great examples of what could be achieved. Today Google took that to a whole new …
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I don’t know about you but the last thing one tends to expect at a Steve Hackett concert is a man in a dress playing the bass. Ok, so in the end it wasn’t a dress but more of a frock coat but even so it came as a bit of a surprise. What was …
It is not often that I write about my work but occasionally something happens that I think is worth blogging about and this is one of those occasions. The company that I work for, 2LS, are providers of recruitment software and, as I am sure you can imagine, this last year has been particularly tough …
Just in case anyone thinks that I only went to Cardiff to pay homage to Russell T Davies or that there is nothing else there this post is set to put paid to that. Cardiff is a compact city and everywhere is easily walkable which is always a big bonus. There are probably three areas …
Russell T Davis has single handedly made Cardiff into a Mecca for geeks by filming Dr Who in the area and, even more so, by basing the spin-off Torchwood in the city. This weekend we joined them. The Torchwood hub was situated down in Cardiff Bay underneath the Millennium Centre. You could stand in the …
Well who would have thought it? It seems that there is more to see in Pisa than just a poorly built tower. I remember being surprised the last time I was here ten years ago at just how many fine buildings stand alongside the tower. Then we only had an hour here before we were …
Our last full day and we chose to spend it in San Gimignano some two hours away by car. The Italians are, on the whole, awful drivers. Frequently on the phone while driving they drive inches from the back of the car in front before pulling out to over take into oncoming traffic or at …