Category: play

  • Introducing ‘New Street Hell’

    My new job at JISC means I spend alot of time on trains as do many of my colleagues and one thing we all agree on is that Birmingham New Street station is some kind of outpost of hell here on earth.  With this in mind, and because I am prone to do stupid things,…

  • My latest 4iP longshots..

    Today is the last day for the latest tranche of 4iP proposals to be submitted and as the football is dull (boring, boring Chelsea) and there has been a bit of a lull in the cricket I have dusted off a couple of ideas and submitted them. One of the ideas has been around for…

  • Long Goodbye – 20th July 2009

    So my last day at Jiva will be July 20th and as to all intents and purposes this is also the most appropriate time to mark my leaving Bristol (that will happen in stages over the next several months but I certainly won’t be around much Monday to Friday) so I thought I would make…

  • Conference crazy

    Spent a bit of time actually sorting out my calendar yesterday (something I only seem to do about twice a year, depending on a combination of memory and luck the rest of the time!) and I realised that June and July was filling up rapidly with some really interesting events and that I was going…

  • The Cool-er ebook reader

    As is so often the case these days I came across the Cool-er, the latest ebook reader on the block, via a tweet from Jag Gill and as I remain extremely interested in all things ebook I followed the link and was suitably impressed. The website is nice and clean and the reader look, well,…