Nic Wise

Nic Wise

you don't need to scale as big as facebook - really

Chris Sells [http://twitter.com/csells] posted this recently on twitter: Pingdom: Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site [http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/06/18/the-software-behind-facebook/]. It's

Paywalls - The Times starts charging

So, The Times (the UK one) has started charging for its content [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10480666.stm] - the great paywall debate/debacle. To be honest, I dont

Only in Japan

Only in Japan would you find extendable, disposable chopsticks. Or in Amsterdam. Seriously. Useful and work well, but surely all-wood ones would be as good? [https://fastchicken.co.nz/content/images/uploads/old/

buying music - there HAS to be a better way

Leonie and I headed up to the Camden Green Fair [http://www.camdengreenfair.org.uk/] on sunday, which was lovely. Nice and warm, nice people, interesting stuff, great music, yummy food. We bought

ipad? thanks, but no

I finally got my hands on an iPad for a little while, after fighting a few other people off them at the Regent St Apple Store. Now, I realise I'm not