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Monthly Archives: January 2007

Computer History Museum

Friday, January 26, 2007

I was at Grady Booch’s lecture last night, the 2007 BCS / IET Turing Lecture. It was a great event, which I’ll write more on over the weekend, but I wanted to put this link up now. The Computer History Museum is collecting together as complete a set of computers as it can from the [...]

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Snowy London!

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

It snowed last night, so none of the transport was working, but it’s very pretty!

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More Polish advertising in SW18

Monday, January 22, 2007

I was walking home the other day when I spotted this poster. It’s great that the big advertisers and their agencies are starting to communicate in language their potential customers understand (perhaps some of them could try this with their English-speaking markets…) and I am very happy with the Polish influx into London, truly. Daily [...]

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Marketing versus the people – Trip Advisor

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

We almost booked a holiday here, in fact we did put a deposit down. Then we looked at Trip Advisor. Word of mouth has absolutely gone digital. What we saw on the hotel’s website was a beautiful place in a small town in Greece. Lovely rooms, balconies with sea views, somewhere amazing for us to [...]

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I’m a Fonero!

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

I’ve just set up my Fon wi-fi access point. What does this mean? It means that people who have Fon themselves (or have bought a day pass from fon.com) can use a portion of my broadband, and I can use other Fonero’s connections when I’m out and about. There are an increasing number of people [...]

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