Author Archives: Roo

I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the speed, reliability, cost and (worst of all) usage limits on my ADSL service from PlusNet. Last night, following up on some new from a friend about O2, I asked Twitter whether I was mad to be considering switching to O2. With 1000+ Twitter followers (how did that happen?) it’s […]

I received a copy of the ‘Social network marketing, engagement marketing and brands‘ report by Tom Chapman yesterday. You can request your own copy here (I don’t think it will cost you any money. Feel free to say I sent you). If you’re interested in social networking platforms can do for your brand or business, […]

I’ve been twittering madly about my bad back since Thursday. Excuse me while I offload. ‘morning tea‘ by kittykatfish On Thursday night, I was taking off my shoes while sitting on Nick‘s floor. Twisting while simultaneously pulling caused some momentary weirdness at the base of my spine. I barely noticed it at the time but […]

Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Shadow – a parallel story to Ender’s Game, following the background of the ‘Bean’ character. A tiny bit smug and pleased with itself in places (hello, Orson Scott Card) but a lovable book anyway. Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down – I enjoyed the characters (though, as often happens with Hornby, […]

Ray and I were both 30 this week, so we spent a long weekend in Amsterdam with to celebrate our birthdays. Amsterdam doesn’t deserve its seedy reputation. It’s a bit of a cliche to talk about going to Amsterdam for the museums and culture, but no more of a cliche than the assumption that the […]

It’s quite possible that I’m the very last person in the entire world to have heard this song. My wife pointed it out to me yesterday (we had Radio 1 on for a change), and it’s stuck in my head. An earworm or Ohrwurm, if you will. With 9.3+ million views on YouTube of the […]

LA is mostly horrible. Don’t go. I spent a week there for a conference recently, and while the conference was great the city is not somewhere I’ll be rushing back to see again any time soon. For most of the week, it seemed to be that LA’s only redeeming feature (aside from being in California, […]