Tonight, our family watched Sony’s Daddy Day Camp, a mediocre film, but with enough funny moments to make it worthwhile. I’d give it a 5 out of 10. Anyhow, when the end credits rolled up, out jumped the fantastic Jackson Five classic of all time ‘I Want You Back‘ which my kids had never heard. […]

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If you would like to attend the Mobile Web 2.0 summit on June 11/12, I can offer two guests a 50% discount on the ticket price. I’m on one of the panel sessions and there will be a host of interesting speakers and sessions. It’s an Osney Media event, which means that they operate the […]

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You may have noticed, I recently changed the name of my blog, although the domain remains the same - I’m getting sick and tired of registering domains that I never use for anything useful other than pseudo-branding or self-delusional project aspirations. You know how it goes: have a great idea and go register the domain […]

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Yesterday, I had three client meetings back to back. The first two were onsite and the third was at a hotel. During the second meeting I was given a plot of a 3D drawing for a film set on a project I’m working on. I noticed the figures in the drawing were Google SketchUp art, […]

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Following on from 100 things kids should know, we had a bash at figuring out the basics of project management. Key ideas explored were:
1. Notion of resources
2. Notion of tasks
3. Connectivity of one task to another (output to an input) - sequential tasks
4. The evil of all projects - the critical path!
5. Parallel tasks
Usually I […]

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I haven’t blogged for about a week. I’ve been too engrossed with a spurt of creative activity. I thought that I’d share with you how stunned I continue to be by Mac OS X and the incredible productivity gains of using Apple’s tightly integrated application suites like iWorks and iLife.
For example, just a few days […]

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I could really get used to this - sitting with my laptop and 3UK broadband modem, surfing the web in, of all places, Argos. Waiting for my order and getting some funny looks. Great reception here and the pages are loading quickly enough. So let’s try uploading an 80kb photo from the camera to see […]

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Great article about Mozilla Fennec and taking the browser fight to handhelds.
One has to wonder where the innovation should be in mobile browsers, as opposed to plain performance, which should dominate the initial design criteria. No use putting a slow browser on an already slow phone. Time and again, the mistake is made to assume […]

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The second edition of my book is now out (click on one of the images on the left of this blog). I got the advanced copy today. It’s even thicker than the first one and the cover has my Avatar on it - thanks to the wonderful guys at GoFigure for their help with that! […]

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I just received a HSDPA mobile broadband modem from 3 UK, who asked me to test it and blog about the experience. So far, so good. It plugged into my Mac laptop, installed the drivers smoothly and immediately connected to their network. Real plug-and-play - nice!
A brief play shows promising performance so far. I’ll […]

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My fellow mobilist and Earthling - Mr Enrique Ortiz - gave me a chuckle in his pointer to Marc Andreessen’s posting about the Bionic Woman TV show and its plot inaccuracies.
Sure, we can pick holes in these things all day long, especially from a tech perspective. I mean, doesn’t 24 just bore you to […]

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Interesting announcement from Blogfriends creators about their Facebook app.
At the same time, the way that Blog Friends is currently tied into the Facebook Platform means we have been at the mercy of Facebook’s frequent modifications of their Platform specifications, and that has also been another disabling factor for us.
What is needed is a complete rewrite […]

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LA Times is reporting about the trend to go ‘topless’ in meetings in the valley, which means not bringing laptops to meetings. At first, I thought this was a going green idea - less hot PCs, just more hot air!
But no, it’s an attempt to avoid distractions in meetings. No laptop to look at, […]

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We continue to evolve our list of top 100 things that kids should know. Last week we got around to building websites. I consider this a two-part exercise. Part one is really learning how to ‘program’ in terms of HTML and some simple JavaScript. Part two is learning how to design a site and communicate […]

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Good news for using mobiles on aircraft, except who wants to sit next to someone yapping for the entire flight? BBC NEWS | Technology | Approval for mobiles on aircraft

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