Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Yesterday night I had planned to come home and write up some slides on something interesting for todays BarCamp at The Guardian offices. Instead of that I came home, noticed that there was beer in the fridge and decided it would be a good idea to drink them all.
Therefore I have no slides, no idea for an interesting talk and have decided that instead of me talking about stuff that I deem interesting I am going to throw those kind of choices out to you guys instead. In a blatant rip off of talks hosted by Norm! in recent BarCamps I will be taking questions from the audience (assuming I get one) on anything and everything (with hopefully amusing results).
If you didn’t manage to get a ticket but would still like me to answer your questions (I’m hoping that the talks may be recorded or videoed in some way) then please leave questions in the comments below (indeed this could be a good place for anyone at BarCamp or not to leave me their contributions…
Lets see how this one pans out…..
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
One of the ‘cool’ little features I managed to shoe-horn into capitalradio.co.uk London Guide was a nice little jQuery plug-in that I called the “expando of win”. It’s a fairly simple piece of functionality but I’ve done it in a way that I’ve yet to see and is hopefully going to be a bit friendlier on performance by keeping DOM manipulations to a minimum. It can be seen live in a the wild on event pages such as the fairly bizarre sounding Body Worlds and the Mirror of Time held at the o2. Keep reading →
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
One thing that has been annoying me recently is the amount of cash that I seem to be spending on crap; mainly food crap. I’m generally fairly good with money and my standard technique is to take out a woad of cash at the start of the week (Saturday) and not spend anymore than that until the next Saturday (unless it’s been planned). Generally this seemed to work out fairly well - I hardly ever over spent but equally hardly ever had money left over to carry into the next week. As I didn’t plan to carry money over it wasn’t really a problem.
Since starting my new job (and getting a bit of a pay increase) I found that I could give myself a bit of extra spends each week. A few more pints down the pub, an extra side order with a meal out or an excursion somewhere could now all be mine. But as it happens I didn’t actually do or need any of this so the money started burning a whole in my wallet and was spent on crappy lunch meals that I don’t really need; money spending fail if you would.
The plan - to not take money out of the bank and use my cards for my planned spending. Will my urges mean that I buy crap on card? I really hope not but we will see. Equally has the price of living just increased and I actually needed that extra money??
Who knows, but I’ll be interested to see.
Thanks for reading a fairly pointless and uninteresting post (assuming anyone actually has).
