Category Archives: birminghamuk

Introducing Tweetlet - twitter for pregnancy

5th
Dec. × ’08

Wouldn’t it be great if you could use Twitter to keep up to date with how your baby is developing during pregnancy?
Well I thought so anyway, so here’s a cute little application I’ve built that does just that.
It’s called Tweetlet.
It’s easily set up - just put in your due date (when the baby is going [...]

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Declaring Inbox Victory!

10th
Jul. × ’08

I declare inbox victory! With the help of the Andrew Dubber method, I have successfully recovered from ‘inbox death‘ and now have a joyously empty screen in front of me where once sat some 28478 items, 14514 of which were unread, with 1446 ’starred’ to reply to. It was bad. Broken bad.
But now, when I [...]

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Introducing Odadeo - a new site for dads

17th
Jun. × ’08

For Fathers’ Day 2008 I have launched the ‘private beta’ of new site that I’ve been working very hard on for the last three months.
It’s called Odadeo and is a site that aims to answer the question “how am I going to be a better dad?”
I broke the news with a comment on Mashable, who [...]

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Why “Power or Powerless”?

9th
Jun. × ’08

I woke up this morning in New York - I’m here for the Webby Awards this evening, and to start the day I tuned into a debate that was happening courtesy of the Birmingham Post, back home in the UK.
The subject was “Power or Powerless” in terms of how digital media is changing and affecting [...]

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Common Purpose are the seven-foot-high lizards who really run Birmingham

18th
May. × ’08

(Iguana by Sean McGrath on Flickr)
According to Member of the European Parliament Roger Helmer and friends including self-proclaimed submarine warfare advisor to Thatcher, Brian Gerrish, there is a conspiracy happening across Europe to bring about a “New World Order” where a group of all-powerful seven-foot-high lizards will seize power of all that we hold dear, [...]

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