Caution : Optimism ahead

by | Apr 28, 2009 | Technology, zeitgeist

It’s good to be optimistic. And I love people with great drive and belief. But there is, unfortunately, a limit on how far a wave of optimism can take you up the beach before sucking you back into the shark-infested depths.My problem, as has often been pointed...

How to Write Better PowerPoint Presentations

by | Apr 23, 2009 | Technology

Everyone moans about it, but you can’t get away from it. People use PowerPoint a lot. And, for the most part, the issue isn’t with the tool itself. It is far more to do with how people use it. I’ve been suffering this for too many years now, so this...

Floccinaucinihilipilification

by | Apr 8, 2009 | Photography, Technology

Who knew I’d find a valid(ish) reason to use that word. Hopefully I’ve not stretched it too far.*For a good few years now I’ve been giving most of photography away online for free. I now have well over 300K downloads from two sites alone. People...

Personal Google Brand Measures

by | Feb 17, 2009 | Technology

Let’s get one thing clear from the start. I am not a Greek English Lexicon. Although, judging from my web logs and analytics, many accidentally think I am.The fact that I share a name (at least in search index terms) with a book, led me to consider how much...

Finding Google’s Backwaters

by | Feb 2, 2009 | Technology

There are so many ways to get to the good stuff on the Internet. Lists, StumbleUpon, optimised search returns etc but there is a truly enormous long-tail of weird/wonderful/dross.I thought it might be amusing to see some of this randomly, ignoring any notion of...

Luckily It’s All About The Art

by | Feb 1, 2009 | Technology, Writing

When it comes to reward for effort, writing a book has to feature at the very lowest reaches of the league table. Months of effort and toil on The Beatle Man and I get 46p for every copy sold on Amazon (or other sites). I’m not complaining, such is the...