Archive For 2008

It’s that time of year, time for another of those unoriginal and I’m sure largely unread review posts. So without further ado, I give you my 2008 review of my favourite books and music. Books Since I stopped commuting by train, my reading time has reduced markedly; I try to read at night but invariably… Continue Reading ›

A few days ago, I upgraded davidhughes.org to the newly released and latest version of WordPress 2.7. When I saw the first shots of the new dashboard and IA for WordPress 2.7, I was concerned that the changes were too great and perhaps not being done for the right reasons: change for change’s sake. But having… Continue Reading ›

You may have seen the news that Google has added a tasks application to its Gmail email service. Well, the even better news is that since they recently added Google Labs to Google Apps email, I get to play with it also. I’ve tried a number of task apps over the years and not found… Continue Reading ›

Jon Hicks has just launched Helvetireader a wonderfully minimalist yet superbly usable theme for Google Reader. I use Google Reader as my RSS application of choice despite it’s rather cluttered and ugly interface; I mean what is it with Google and pale blue? I’ve tried the Better GReader plug-in and a few other themes, but… Continue Reading ›

Seth Godin has another great post on his blog today entitled How to Answer the Phone in which he states: The only reason to answer the phone when a customer calls is to make the customer happy. He goes on to say If you’re not doing this or you are unable to do this, do… Continue Reading ›

I mentioned in my earlier post A Quick Chat About Netbooks that I had had problems with both my Eee PC and a new MacBook ; so here, as promised, are the details of my circular journey from netbook to netbook. When Jas interviewed me at FOWA I as using an Eee PC 901 and… Continue Reading ›