Fanboy alert – A Portable Sega Dreamcast!

I’m a massive Sega fan.  Growing up in the late eighties & early nineties you were either a Sega or Nintendo fan (never both!).  Although I own a PS3 and a Wii I’ll never be as interested as I was during the days of the Sega Dreamcast & I still ocassionally fire it up for [...]

Some alarming news…

I needed a new alarm clock as the old one was a bloody ugly thing, and this fact was accentuated by being some close to my shiny Imac.  So I surfed around and found this Lexon alarm clock on madeindesign.co.uk and it arrived today. No surprises for guessing that I wanted ...


Ever have a song stuck in your head?

I woke up this morning with 'Where I Find My Heaven' by the Gigolo Aunts stuck in my head, but alas didn't have the song on my Ipod. I quickly googled the lyrics on my lovely HTC Hero & found that the first line summed up the morning rather well - ...


2009 showed the power of social networking

2009 has been the year of Twitter.  While lacking Facebook's massive userbase, the influence Twitter exerted on the national news agenda in the UK has been impressive. Graham Linehan's WeLoveTheNHS twitter hashtag marked the beginning of Twitter as a grassroots form of protest, & both the Trafigura & JanMoir hashtags gained ...


Iphone or not…

I'm finally due a phone upgrade this month.  After suffering for the last year with the Windows Mobile based Samsung Omnia,  I can't wait to own a phone that I enjoy using. Problems I've had with the Omnia include a terrible inconsistent UI - sometimes you can scroll through your contacts ...


Are you getting mugged by your affiliates?

I've most probably missed the boat by talking about affiliate marketing as it's no longer the flavour of the month, not a day goes by when I don't get an email suggesting a merchant has closed down their affiliate campaign), but it's still a channel that can generate a worthwhile ...