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Getting inside a person’s head

I was shown yet another rambling, boring example of someone’s twitterings this morning, and it showed me a lot more than I needed to know about how the author’s mind worked.
What was a lot more interesting was visiting this exhibition at the weekend, where artists have created spaces that evoke what their minds feel like [...]

How much for the parking meter?

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How much for the parking meter?, originally uploaded by harkmopwood.

Spotted near my house. The local charity shop seems to be trying to sell something that isn’t strictly theirs!

Bokodes – invisible bar codes you can read at a distance

MIT has released details of a new bar code technology that can be read from a distance by ordinary cameras or camera phones, yet is almost invisible to the naked eye. We’re all used to bar codes appearing on products, and 3d bar codes that can be read by phones have been around for a [...]

iphones (and everyone else on O2) lose data connection

According to this article (and several frustrated colleagues) O2’s packet data network is down. This means lots of iphone owners are sans-Internet. I’m wondering if they will experience the same lack of direction the Borg felt when they lost contact with each other. Will they have to start making decisions without their iphones? How will [...]

How dangerous are mobile phones?

While I was reading this story earlier about a mother who left her child near an open window for a few seconds while she went to get her mobile phone, it occurred to me that I read a lot of stories nowadays along similar lines. It seems we’re prepared to take all sorts of [...]

The importance of clear objectives

“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”
That was President Kennedy’s mission statement for the NASA missions to the Moon. I’ve used it on project management training courses as an example of [...]

Out and about in Notting Hill

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DSCN1657, originally uploaded by harkmopwood.

These people definitely win the prize for best front garden ornamentation. It’s lifesize and actually quite scary.

Fantastic customer service

Graze are worried about the possible postal strike this week. So they’ve reworked their product offering so it doesn’t go off in the post, and sent this very cool email.
The brown boxes are arriving at our office in huge quantities now: Pod1’s going to need a bigger mailbox soon.

Pod1 gets audited

I’ve just written a post about PCI compliance for the Pod1 blog. You can read it here.

Graze.com – fantastic new snack delivery service

I just received my first delivery from graze.com, a service that delivers healthy (and not healthy) snacks to your home or office regularly. The website’s a great experience (lots of control, rating opportunities, personalised product and some lovely Ajax coding), and the product looks good too. This is the sort of smart innovative new service [...]