Archives for February 2008

Video: How Difficult Can It Get?

With various digital media building up on my little hard drive, I thought I’d get one of those media streaming boxes so that I can watch or listen it all in my living room downstairs. TED talks, podcasts of various kinds, camcoder movies – ah lovely. I knew video formats were going to be a [...]

22 February 2008 | Living, Technology | No Comments

Serves Me Right

Regular readers will know that I had a free mobile phone last year, thanks to a 100% cashback deal. This year however, I’ve not been so lucky. After hearing nothing from Phones 2 U Direct.Co.Uk Ltd after my first cashback claim in September, I served them a court order to get a response. They replied [...]

21 February 2008 | Living | 3 Comments

Administrivia: Site Move

Webtorque will be moving servers soon (maybe this week… maybe next). I’d be delighted if anyone actually notices, but we may be down for a day or so while I get the web server back up. There’s a chance I might delete everything in the process – indeed sometimes I want to do that anyway, [...]

12 February 2008 | Living | 1 Comment

Another Gear Shift in the Cross-Country Rally of Life

Travel broadens the mind, and so it is that today I leave LBi to start work with Expedia. In my case I shall be joining hotels.com as an interaction designer. Expedia makes a lot of sense. Having worked for about ten months on First Choice Holidays while at Wheel last year (although my work has [...]

8 February 2008 | Living | 1 Comment

 

 

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