Category Archives: Other

Whether the island is actually spelt Aegina or not I couldn’t tell – it was spelt differently on every timetable and in every guidebook. But if fits for me. We started off at Piraeus, the port that’s virtually a suburb … Continue reading →

Athens has a strange history of very ancient architecture, a bit of development with the Romans, and then not much for a very long period of time. Most of the city looks very 20th century, and not particularly well done … Continue reading →

Athens is full of old stuff. You can’t help seeing it everywhere, and they can’t help but finding it every time they want to build something. As a result, there are quite a few museums of old stuff, or places … Continue reading →

I’m just back from a long week (if such a thing exists) in Athens. It’s certainly a bustling city, and one that never seems to stop completely. Cafe’s especially were populated at any hour that I was ever likely to … Continue reading →

Microsoft’s Photosynth is pretty amazing, and I just couldn’t wait to take lots of photos of something to try it out. Combined with laziness, I ended up doing my own head. (You’ll need to install the plugin.) Karl’s Head photosynthed

Microsoft have used their MSN network to study the Six Degrees of Separation theory and seem to think the average number is about six after all. Which I could have told them anyway… The good news is my Six Degrees … Continue reading →

I’ve been working on my Six Degrees Facebook application on and off the past couple of weeks, partly as a way to get to know what the new platform is capable of, and it seems to have paid off. For … Continue reading →

I was on the marketing panel at the Social Media Business School last Friday (27th June). In the main, I was there as a Facebook application developer and to talk about how to design and grow an application. The day … Continue reading →

This e-mail from Bill Gates when trying to install Microsoft Movie Maker from 5 years ago is an interesting insight into not only what Gates did at Microsoft, but just how frustrated he seems to be with the usability of … Continue reading →

Mostly funny.