Online Advertising and the New Business Model, Revenue Model Paradigm Thingy
I enjoyed this column by Bill Thompson on the BBC News web-site because it questions, and begins to through a bit of light on something with which I’ve been puzzling for some time. If increasingly clever on-line advertising is going to fund so much of the web and software in general in the future […]
A-Wooooooo
It was lunch-time and there I was, walking through the streets of Soho in the rain. So what was to be done but go looking for the place called Lee Ho Fooks … where I got a big dish of Beef Chow Mein. No little old ladies reported mutilated…though perhaps the chef should have been. […]
Creativity, The Life Path and the "Sex & Cash Theory"
By a mightily circuitous route, via the Blue Monster and the Blue Monster’s champion … …I’ve just discovered the Blue Monster’s progenitor, Hugh MacLeod. Gapingvoid.com is a blog of off-the-wall cartoons – as drawn on the back of business cards – combined with insightful thoughts and bloggingness. I loved his most read piece, "How to […]
Creativity, The Life Path and the “Sex & Cash Theory”
By a mightily circuitous route, via the Blue Monster and the Blue Monster’s champion … …I’ve just discovered the Blue Monster’s progenitor, Hugh MacLeod. Gapingvoid.com is a blog of off-the-wall cartoons – as drawn on the back of business cards – combined with insightful thoughts and bloggingness. I loved his most read piece, "How to […]
Commercial Break…
Not – as you might have thought – a cunning link to Roy Harper’s lost album (the one Harvest refused to release) but a genuine "For Sale" ad for my much-loved but recently forsaken blue Stratocaster. It’s a great guitar but I seem to have four strats now so I’m selling this to fund my […]
Stormcock
I stumbled across the very tasty re-issue of Roy Harper’s Stormcock the other day. What a fine album. Just four tracks (well, it was 1971) but a fantastic showcase of Harper’s considered, flowing lyrics and unique, acoustic guitar playing. This was one of my first Roy Harper albums which I bought back around 1980. It’s […]
New Toy
…and not a guitar for a change. Needs must and, having returned my enormous Toshiba Brick Portege Tablet (M5? M7?) when I left Microsoft, I have finally invested in a new laptop, one of Sony’s new NR series from their Vaio range. The Vaio was always top of my wish list driven largely by their […]