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Surprisingly, Friday  was my last day in the Yahoo! office. After 6.5 years I walked out in the afternoon with nothing more than a plastic bag full of my stuff. And even though I had been preparing for this moment for months (some would say years) it felt really, really weird.
It happened suddenly because I […]

The recent launch of Google Earth for Mac OS X made me play with the application some more and fall in love all over again.
When I first saw Google Earth I was absolutely blown away. For the first time in years here was a new product that made me sit at my desk for over […]

Alex Tew manages to stay in the news, against the odds. Now, as the BBC reports, some cowboys are trying to blackmail him by running a DOS attack on his site unless he pays them $5,000. I can understand that some people are jealous and annoyed that they didn’t come up with his stunningly simple […]

Watch any Reality TV show these days and there will regularly be a point where contestants or participants are being voted off, lose or win, move to the next round etc. It usually starts with a presenter saying words like “The housemate to leave the Big Brother house tonight is…” - right. At this point […]

Checked my log files again today to see how my ad is doing. It’s hard to say because I really don’t have that much data yet. In December there have been a total of 484 requests from Alex Tew’s page. In January I have had 555 so far. This really does not say much, but […]

I spent most of Sunday going through all my cables, gadget and computer accessories. With some interesting results.
This was partly inspired by Russ’ posting about using zip-lock bags to store gadget accessories but also driven by the need to free up some space for a dedicated “Digital Photography” drawer and my new Nikon D50.
(I cannot […]

I have decided that TypePad really is not good enough anymore for what I want to do with this blog in the future. I really would need to upgrade to a Pro account to have the flexibility I think I need and at $14.95 that is a lot more expensive than getting a basic hosting […]

We had a pretty full house here at Yahoo! last night for the third Mobile Monday in London, or, as it is know affectionately by insiders “MOMOLondon“.
Despite the tube strike over 100 people made it to the event. But at the same time because of the tube strike we had over 40 No-Shows. Which means […]

Took the plunge at lunch today and bought myslef a digital SLR. I had to do it today, spontaneously, to have it ready for the weekend and also to annoy Lloyd, who seems to be held back with his purchase.
For me this comes after an unusually short period of deliberation as to what model […]

Along with everybody else here at Yahoo! I spent hours today organising tickets for the world cup and following up with the relevant travel arrangements. It rocks to work for an official sponsor :)
I will be going to two matches in Berlin: Brazil vs. Croatia on June 13 and Sweden vs. Paraguay on June 15. […]