Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • My Twitter Olympics

    I wasn’t particularly excited about the Olympics. It seemed so London-centric and the insane concessions to sponsors pretty much disgusted me. While I am a fan of a fair few sports the Olympics has never really been something I engaged with so I fully expected to give it a bit of a wide berth and…

  • Three of a kind

    Three things I came across this week and found interesting enough to share 🙂 Guess – there are services like BuiltWith and extensions like Chrome Sniffer that will tell you the frameworks, libraries etc that make up a website but Guess is particularly focused on identifying what, if any, content management system is publishing the…

  • Nexus nirvana? Not quite!

    So after all my tribulations with Google over my Nexus7 a replacement arrived at 7.30am Friday morning. Luckily I was just heading out to work so was able to sign for it myself this time rather than risk the TNT neighbour lottery! After a quick check to make sure this one worked (yay!) I plugged…

  • Nexus7 nightmare

    I ordered my Nexus7 within minutes of them being available in the UK and was quite publicly counting the days til it showed up. I love a gadget and I’ve held off replacing my iPad v1 as I was keen to rely less on Apple for my toys and I liked the look of the…

  • Iron Blogger Bristol

    A couple of weeks ago I can across the idea of Iron Blogger via Michelle Thorne (not that one!) on Twitter and I have to say a ‘beer and blogging’ club seemed like a good idea to me. You can learn more about the idea from Mako who kickstarted this most recent ‘remix’ but the…