Monthly Archives: September 2008

Birthday List

It’s my birthday soon, so I thought I’d talk about some of the things that are around that I think are pretty cool. Incidentally, if you’re someone I know and you’re looking for something to buy me, any of these would be perfect.
Books
- Founders At Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days: This book looks great [...]

How I Got Into The Pixies (A Deconstruction)

For a while now, I’ve been trying to decide whether or not I want to get into (The) Pixies. Given my total love affair with Pavement, The Pixies seemed like a good next move. I’ve been listening to their best-of album, Wave Of Mutilation, on and off for the past few months, and it’s been [...]

Last Year’s Model

So I went into the newsagent’s today and bought a magazine for the first time in ages – October’s T3.

Did I buy it because it was full of big pictures of cool looking gadgets? Or was it Baberaham Lincoln on the cover, holding an iPhone? Irrelevant of the reason (it was both), I had a [...]

Epic Fail, Google

I didn’t think it possible, but it seems Google made quite a blunder. Basically, Google was updating their archives and they put up a 2002 story about United Airlines being close to bankruptcy. Thing is, the story showed up at the top of the news, and people were justifiably freaked out. United’s stock went from [...]