Monthly Archives: November 2005

The Lifts at Work

The lifts (elevators for the americans) at work need reprogramming. Their strategy is clearly wrong. We have three lifts at work, they all service the above ground floors, but only two go down to the basement. However, when I press … Continue reading

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Information Architecture

I went to the Nielsen Norman Group User Experience 2005 Conference with Rob on Sunday and Monday, and attended the Information Architecture tutorials given by Peter Morville from Semantic Studios, author of the Polar Bear and Lemur O’reilly books. While … Continue reading

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All your base are…

Via the official Google blog. Google has launched Google Base. Can’t quite get my head around how useful this will be at the moment. Any ideas?

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Google Analytics

Google have launched their free analytics service (following their purchase of Urchin a little while ago). Seems to work similarly to the Webtrends On-Demand service (previously WebTrends live)

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User Experience 2005 Conference

I’ll be at the Nielsen Norman Group User Experience 2005 Conference on Sunday and Monday with Rob, in the Information Architecture 1 & 2 presentations.

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There are some decent people out there

I’ve been getting a few messages here and there via LondonBikers.com about my R1 from people who have seen similar bikes, or suspicious characters etc. Some people have actually gone as far as to take a photo of the bike … Continue reading

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Visual studio express editions – Free!

Microsoft has released the slimmed down versions of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 for free! Go grab your copy from here now! Thanks to Owen for the info! P.S. If you want a full install, not a network … Continue reading

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KTM – First Impressions

So, first impressions after a weekend of KTM ownership. It’s very, er, agricultural. Having always owned japanese, inline four cylinder sports and superbikes this 625cc single seems very lumpy! For me, it definitely lacks something. Having said that, it is … Continue reading

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Digital photo printing

I have always been happy with the on-screen viewing of photos taken with my Nikon D70, but when printing them out on my ‘photo’ printer, my pictures have always been a little grainy, leading me to worry a bit about … Continue reading

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First people photoshoot

I was asked by the BMF to take some photos at the Ace Cafe on Sunday, as they had invited some MEPs from the UKIP to a meeting about some new UK biking laws. The mayor of brent and some … Continue reading

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