View from the Potting Shed

So there I was, playing with my food at lunch and I appear to have accidentally created the next Turner Prize.
For those who might not know about the Turner Prize:
The Turner Prize is a contemporary art award that was set up in 1984 to celebrate new developments in contemporary art.
The prize is awarded each year […]

Have I shown you my laptop? It’s a Lenovo 3000 C100. Nothing wonderfully spectacular about it.

Until you turn it around:

How cool is that?!
It’s a GelaSkin that I got from Urban Retro. It’s called “Red Robot Leaving The City” by Exploding Dog.
GelaSkins are artistic, protective skins that are easy to both apply (with no […]

Because I’d once bought something online, probably as a gift, from the Marks & Spencerwebsite I now get a regular email newsletter showing me their latest goods.
In the last newsletter I spotted a woman dressed in what looked like … well, what looked like Eddie Van Halen’s Frankenstein™ guitar.

Not sure why I’ve never noticed this before. When assigning a priority to a Task within Microsoft Outlook 2003 you can click on the priority box and select from a fly-out context-menu one of three options: Low, Normal or High.
But why didn’t the developers adopt a kind of natural mapping approach to the location […]

A few months back I sent a friend of mine, Peter, was looking for a book about building websites. So I sent him my copy of HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible by Bryan Pfaffenberger et al.
I didn’t really use it very often, relying now on the O’Reilly definitive guides for XHTML and CSS. […]

This is one of my favourite Web 2.0 sites: Useless Account.
The best ideas are always the most simple.
With Useless Account you sign up, you login … and that’s it!
How many Web 2.0 online services have you signed up to, but have never returned to: have never discovered the full potential of its rounded corners and […]

I knew there was a reason that I liked Nokia and Lenovo so much: they’re greener than almost every other big-name electronics firms out there. But they still have a way to go.
I picked up this story back in April on the PC Pro website: Lenovo out in front in green race. It’s sat in […]