Now this guy Allen Stanford has been arrested I bet World Finance magazine is frantically working on getting the next issue of the magazine out a little quicker than normal.
Entries from February 2009
Allen Stanford on cover of World Finance
February 21st, 2009 · No Comments
Flying woes continue
February 10th, 2009 · No Comments
Just before Christmas I flew to Nice in the south of France for a day’s meeting, on the way down our plan was struck by lightening, a pretty interesting experience. I though that getting hit by lightening was a reasonably common occurrence, but it turns out not to be.
Yesterday morning I was due to leave [...]
Tags: Travel
Will Yammer follow hot on the heels of Twitter?
February 9th, 2009 · No Comments
Use of Twitter, the micro-blogging web-site that allows people to post 140-character updates, has exploded in the UK over the last few months; traffic to the site increased by a staggering 974% over the past year according to Techcrunch UK. The site itself now ranks as the 291st most visited site in the UK, and [...]
Tags: Enterprise · Productivity
E71 has replaced the workhorse (E61i)
February 8th, 2009 · No Comments
I swapped my phones around again last week, I replaced the slow but trustworthy E61i out and replaced it with my E71 which had been sitting idle since I picked up an N95 8GB. The E61i is a great device and I really like the keyboard and it’s great for heavy email use, so I [...]
Tags: life
Google latitude blip – I’m not in Liberia.
February 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments
I was sat in Frankfurt airport late on Friday evening when I fired up Google’s latitude to see where folks were. When I fired the app up, i tend to use the network location feature as opposed to GPS to preserve battery, but I had a bit of a shock when it located me in [...]
Crapberry replaced by N95
February 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment
A while back the wife wanted to her replace her ageing Sony Ericsson with a new phone that could sync her calendar and get emails instantly. I wanted her to have a Nokia but she wasn’t bothered and the only device that could sync emails instantly and sync Google calendar without manual intervention was the [...]
London, Frankfurt and Geneva
February 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments
The next 10 days or so are going to be pretty full on travelling, Tomorrow is down to Slough, then into London for a trip to a restaurant with the CFO of a major UK telco, then back home on Tuesday. Thursday it’s the 7am flight out of Manchester to Frankfurt for two days coming [...]
