I read last week that we’ll run out of IPv4 addresses sometime next year. That means there are approaching 4 billion devices connected to the Internet which, of course, means that there are rather a lot of web sites in the world. Against that backdrop, it occurred to me that I didn’t really visit all that many of these and, in fact, I actually stuck to a...

I was helping my daughter with her homework tonight. We did some reading and some very simple sums. In both cases, I noted that if she didn’t know something, there was a method of working it out. In the case of reading, she can use phonics and letter/sound recognition to work out a word. With sums, she could use a number line (or her fingers). In essence, there...

Blogger announced tonight via email the end of their support of FTP. I started this blog way back in August 2006 and have been happily FTP’ing to this domain a fairly constant stream of drivel ever since. From 26th March I won’t be able to do this any more. Now, Blogger are offering me free hosting on a custom domain. I suppose I could redirect to that...

I‘ve been watching all the iPad chat with only a passing interest. I’ve only recently got an iMac (which I love) but I don’t have an iPod/iPhone or any other Apple kit. I can, however, see why people like them so much. I’m not going to add much to the glut of ongoing iPad debate other than to make one observation. When I first watched the...

I watched Kevin McCloud’s excellent two-part documentary of his stay in the Mumbai slum of Dharavi last week. I’m a huge fan of Mumbai but this opened my eyes even further to parts fo the city I hadn’t seen. Kevin was at his honest and frank best and reflected the balance of the good and bad of Dharavi very well. Clearly, in many ways, life in...

While preparing a presentation on Social Media last night, I thought I should update my Social Media Map to see what, if anything, had changed from the original version from the start of the year. Surprisingly, it hasn’t changed all that much. There are a few additions but nothing that has dropped off. I don’t use blip.fm all that much these days and...

I‘ve always been a hoarder. Obviously, I refer to this particular prediliction as collector but, the fact remains, chucking stuff out is not in my make up. Aside for the ubiquitous big box of wires, I still have the postcard collection of my youth, all my coins, books I’ve read and won’t read again, books I’ve never read and, crucially, all...

They might come? The world of Internet traffic generation has changed a lot since the days when I were thin. Used to be that you were worried about SEO, meta-tags blah-di-blah-di-page-rank-bobbinstm and, while much of this is still relevant to some degree, there are many more fun ways than the painful wait for your site to appear on page 10 of Google. Yesterday, I...

An interesting night was had on Twitter last night. @canongatebooks and @davesimps0n organised a “world’s first” Twitter based interview with former band members of The Fall to promote Dave’s book The Fallen. It started slowly but got into something of a swing. The idea was to use the hashtag #TheFallen to control the ebb and flow of...

Ok, so you’re all gonna say, “should have got an iPhone“. Maybe so, but I couldn’t be arsed changing provider and, for the most part, my HTC Touch HD is a very capable phone. It does everything I need. I’m used to Windows Mobile so the messaging, emailing is good, web browsing is really nice and the camera is great. OK, so I can’t...