I read yesterday that Transport for London are throwing at least £6.5 billion at the transport infrastructure in and around London for the 2012 Olympics, and that there’s generally some worry that it’s not going to be enough. That is, it’s still going to be gridlock; so much so that there’s talk about asking companies [...]
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Fag Packet Solution to the 2012 Olympics Transport Worries
Posted: 16th November 2011 by boboshady in General ContentComments Off
Why no one cares that the Kindle is unreliable
Posted: 9th October 2011 by boboshady in Digital Commentary, General Content, I Like MoaningComments Off
The wife mopped into the living room recently; Kindle in hand, downtrodden look on her face, the Kindle screen showing all the telltale signs of an LCD screen that has recently come second in a fight with a foot. Yes – the worst had happened. the Kindle had been stood on and now is was [...]
HP Touchpad – the best marketing ploy ever seen?
Posted: 31st August 2011 by boboshady in Development, Digital Commentary, General Content, ProfessionalComments Off
Last week, I had an argument with a friend about HP’s decision to drop out of the hardware market and their attempts to shift warehouses full of unwanted HP Touchpad stock at the firesale price of £89 (or $99 in the US). I put forward the notion that, with the Touchpad launching with such tepid [...]
Presence Overload
Posted: 14th August 2011 by boboshady in Digital Commentary, General Content, I Like MoaningComments Off
I am one again reviewing my online presence – this blog was originally intended to be the first step in bringing everything together, and yet I find myself using it less and living more on twitter and, more recently, tumblr. Well, I say I live more on those services…I’m actually using them less than I [...]
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My laptop suddenly stopped registering left mouse clicks today. I feared the worst – a broken trackpad. I tried everything; rebooting, plugging in external mice, shutting down all applications that might be causing a conflict. 20 mins or so of googling later, it seemed that there was nothing but a trip to an Apple store [...]
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Do you remember when we were all impressed if you could get 2 hours out of a laptop battery? I do – it wasn’t all that long ago…maybe 8 years. Nowadays, we pull our faces at 6-8 hours. This laptop is telling me I currently have only 2hrs 40mins left, and I’ve been using it [...]
Your children will be DBA’s
Posted: 5th June 2011 by boboshady in Digital Commentary, General ContentComments Off
I had a brief but very interesting and thought-provoking discussion with the missus this weekend about how our generation will ‘remember’ their lives in fundamentally different ways to any before it. It was provoked by Google’s latest advert for Chrome, where a ‘dad’ is emailing his new born daughter the daily goings-on of her life [...]
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It has been just over 24 hours since I was officially announced as Managing Director for Reading Room Manchester. First point of business – a new website! Exciting times lie ahead, most likely with a fair amount of stress and gin. And Greggs.
The downfall of Android?
Posted: 16th May 2011 by boboshady in Apple, Digital Commentary, General ContentComments Off
Ask anyone I know with a smartphone and they’ll confirm that I’m a big advocate of iOS and a general naysayer of anything else. Mostly, it’s done in jest – I do actually like Android and PalmOS (and I’m about to find out what WinMob 7 is all about), but I do honestly believe that [...]
Second Layer Insight – Concept Launch
Posted: 22nd November 2011 by boboshady in Digital Commentary, General Content, ProfessionalI won’t put the full post here, but it’s worth a cross-link – Today I launch the name of something you’re all going to care about in the future. http://boboshady.tumblr.com/post/13156694331/second-layer-insight