After using my Kindle for a month, it’s become my primary medium for reading. I’ve written about some of the things that make it such a comfortable experience, as well as some the reasons I still miss a proper book.
While we wait for the iPad to arrive in South Africa, I apply sketchy logic, debatable statistical methods and wild speculation in predicting the price of the iPad when bought locally.
Some thoughts on alternate reality applications, as spoken about at the 27 Dinner
Tweet So we’ve been collecting jeans for the last month or so, and today we handed them over to the Salvation Army. Of course simply loading the jeans into their car would have been way too easy.
Tweet I spent the day at the Cape Town Alt Conference, brainchild of, and run concurrently in Johannesburg by, Paul Jacobson. The lineup of excellent speakers notwithstanding, I think we got the most value out of the discussion and debate that happened during and between the actual sessions. We had a rather well-informed group of people, so it was great [...]
Tweet As part of Saatchi’s worldwide sustainability division Saatchi & Saatchi S, we run an internal program called Saatchi True Blue that encourages everyone in the agency to Do One Thing – some small thing that makes a difference. We also sometimes work together (on this) as an agency and we’re currently running a “Let them into your pants” campaign. [...]
Tweet I was looking through the Google Analytics for this site this evening and saw an interesting correlation in my referral traffic between the level of familiarity of the source and the bounce rate for the traffic from that source. I guess when you think about it, it makes sense – inbound links from twitter will typically be from people [...]
Tweet We currently run a website for our clients that gives each of them their own unique set of private content. The way it’s implemented is through a WordPress MU installation with sub-domains for each client. Works well enough, but there are a few things about it that could be a lot better. Ideally what I want is a single [...]
Tweet One Sunday a while back I trooped off to Wynberg cricket ground with huge enthusiasm to take part in Geek Cricket. The next few days were sheer hell as my body retaliated. Apparently the memory was short lived because a couple of weeks ago Saatchi decided to field a team for action cricket, and I was one of the [...]
Tweet A while ago I applied to use Woopra on this site and this morning received confirmation that my site had been added. For those who haven’t seen it, Woopra provides real time stats on your visitors. The service is still in Beta, so you need to sign up and then wait until your registration is approved. You also need [...]
