I was prepared. I was confident. I wasn’t particularly nervous. I boarded that train and made way across London, the Teenage Cancer Trust offices where I donned my suit, to the location of the eyeforpharma Mobile Strategies 2011. The crowd was a fair size, maybe 150 people, and the seat were arranged around tables in [...]

After I went self employed one of my “to dos” was to become confident at public speaking. I’m happy to talk for a long time about things I know about, like bikes and the web, to friends but speaking in front of a crowd of people has always filled me with dread. As a practice [...]

This was going to be “one week in”, but you know how things are. First up things are going well. I’m settling into some sort of routine. That is, when I feel like it I do some work. Be that in the middle of the day or the middle of the night. Indeed, it seems [...]

All my work is done, or was done, on an iMac. At home I have a 24″ Core 2 Duo that I got what must be 3 years ago. I’ve only upgraded the RAM to max out at 4 GB and replaced the hard drive with a 1 TB for all my media. At work [...]

I’m entirely self taught. Yes, I did go to uni and study computing, learn a bit of C++ and other stuff, but the course was more of an ‘overview of computing’ rather than really getting into nitty gritty detail. I certainly didn’t do much web development. So self taught is a fairly accurate description. And [...]

I’ve been struggling lately with self employment (SE) and employment. Even though my job is contracted for 4 days a week, the nature of the Internet means there’s never any real downtime, especially at a small company punching above it’s weight. One day a week SE isn’t enough to get any meaningful and dedicated work [...]