There’s a fantastic new UK government website called yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk which gives us the chance to tell the government which laws and regulations we think they should get rid of. Please take a minute to vote 5 stars on repealing the digital economy act. Why? What’s so bad about the Digital Economy Act? My objection to [...]
PeoplePerHour (my primary employers) have a new trailer. It’s fun watching webpages I have helped build woosh past a’la star wars. It’s bold and upbeat, I love not doing things by halves:
My brother is doing a 72 hour sponsored fast with some friends to raise money for MS: Three whole days without even a single scrap of food entering our bodies, only having water to keep us going. I’m joining in – it started at 11am: I ate the following a few minutes before 11am: Massive [...]
If you can spot what I find annoying about the following screenshot of an advert I keep seeing whilst browsing around, then you are fabulously geeky (like me): Google is trying to teach me to suck eggs. They obviously know what Operating system I’m using so I thought they would be clever enough to detect [...]
A friend of mine is planning to write 52 songs in a year. It sounds extremely challenging but I love the first three. He’s releasing them under a copyleft license. Go for it Rob!
Yes – I went outside bare foot in the snow. I saw the cat catch a Robin in the garden and rushed to the rescue. The nice thing about working from home is that you don’t need to wear any shoes.
I used to have a neighbour who did photography as a hobby. It was really interesting seeing him set up little things to entice animals so he could get some photographs and I always found it amazing the creatures he could find in and around our houses. There was one particular shot he had been [...]
The sight of a frog makes me feel sick so Kix found it funny that we had to edit a blog post that contained a real frog photo for a client of ours. Good phobia therapy?
Bitvolution is a company I set up to provide freelance web development and consultancy. I have got the website up and running: Let’s see how it goes…
The three peaks challenge involves walking 25 miles while climbing 2940m and driving 466 miles in 24 hours. The 3 peaks are the tallest in Scotland (Ben Nevis), England (Scarfell Pike) and Wales (Snowdon). We did it as a group of 10 including a very kind driver who didn’t walk. My legs have never been [...]
PeoplePerHour.com (and 1s of my head) were on the six o’clock news last night: Unfortunately, the traffic spike generated from the mention on TV and the associated BBC web page brought our server down – so I’m feeling pretty bad about my abilities as a web developer at the moment Hopefully, I’ll be ready for [...]
I’m doing a walk next month with some friends – we want to go up and down the 3 highest mountains in the UK within 24 hours – a serious challenge for someone who’s primary exercise for the last 5 years has been computer programming! We’re trying to raise £1000 for cancer research in the [...]
We get attacked by ants every year but this year we have an extra problem because ants seem to like cat food. Kix put the cat bowl into another bowl and half filled the outer bowl with a moat of water so ants can’t get to it. Anyone know a better solution?
The best April Fools jokes are the subtle ones right? We have pretended to add a dating service to our website. Check it out at peopleperhour.com. We’ve added cheesy dating profiles and fake FAQs such as the following: Will the dating site affect my rating on PPH? No you will have a separate score on [...]
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