A trip to Providence in August

I’m taking a trip to Providence between August 25th and August 29th.

Twitter doing a Facebook

In the last few days I’ve suddenly noticed a sudden increase in the number of celebs around the world getting on the twitter bandwagon. As soon as you start to follow one you realise there are others and quite a few of them are now using the service. Obviously there are sceptics who [...]

Why does it take an economic recession to get good customer service?

I’ve noticed a strange phenomenon which I put down to the current downturn in the economic client.  We’ve all heard about people just not spending much money and I’m sure you’ve seen shopping centres more empty than normal despite all the sales promising up to 70% off.  So in these times where businesses are really trying to [...]

Is Apple the new Microsoft?

We have a strange phenomenon within the IT industry where companies are at first admired for the innovation they being to the world. But if they start to be become too successful and popular it seems everyone is then out to ‘get’ them. Take for example IBM – there used to be a saying in [...]

iPhone 3G Part II

I decided not to blog about my iPhone as soon as I got it so that I could bring to you a few days of my experience with it.  Considering all the widely publicised issues that were reported about the problems on launch day I have to say that my purchase on Monday of this [...]

Internet everywhere

Now I don’t have an iPhone (yet) but my current Nokia Smartphone has given me the ability to keep in contact with people through email and various social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook etc).  The only problem is that I want to use it wherever I am and I get used to having WiFi access at [...]

Mind numbing

I’m not sure when it started exactly but lately I’ve realised that I hardly ever watch TV these days.  And even when I do I seem to either watch only those programmes that I have recorded on Sky+ or just watch one of several music channels or one of the news channels. 
It’s ironic in a [...]