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 [...]

That may be a bit of a dramatic title but for years our typed language has been Americanised due to the spell check defaulting to US English on every bit of software. I always do my best to set it as UK English, or failing that deal with the red lines under the words as [...]

Google+ was applauded for its easy sharing settings, and facebook soon followed suit making it easy to decide who, or what, will see the content you post. It’s great, and I applaud it myself. What I’m now struggling with is how to classify the people I know. When placing people into ‘circles’ I find myself [...]

We’re having some work done at our house and yesterday the new drains were dug. See what’s wrong there? The drain pipe isn’t connected yet but when it is it will skew off diagonally into the drain. 3 builders were here and I said that the drain should be moved to directly underneath the drain [...]

But they will interpretate every notice on a website in a way that you didn’t mean. You’ll then end up shouting some profanity, or something less severe (depending on your mood and surroundings) when you realise… But the fact is that the user (customer) is right. And that annoyance is actually aimed at yourself. They [...]