ponderings and work-related miscellany from sam michel
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For fans of fried chicken, Shepherds Bush (London, W12) is strangely blessed. By my reckoning, there are 12 KFC-alikes along the one mile stretch of the Uxbridge Road from Shepherds Bush Central Line station. Last week the… [read more]
The personal touch. Recommendations. Using your web behaviour to craft a personally tailored experience, resulting in happy customers spending more time and hopefully more money on your website. And then this is what happened when I logged into… [read more]
Impatient? Skip the pre-amble and go straight to the solution. Despite it’s considerable, Drupal has become the main tool used for this blog and at work. Despite the power under the hood, it sill lags behind… [read more]
I blame Twitter. After being sent a link to an intriguing product in the depths of Amazon, I got sucked into a world of bizarro goods and their reviews. Check out ten of the best with a taster… [read more]
It’s staring at me. A contest of wills. One that I can’t possibly win. Who blinks first. Or rather types. Something. Anything. The bigger the document, the blanker the page. A sea of white pixels taunting… [read more]
Believe everything you read? Ever since reading Ben Goldacre‘s book, Bad Science , I’m much less trusting of stories using numbers to illustrate a point, especially when prefixed with “scientists say”. But just how difficult is finding… [read more]
It’s been one of those days, in fact one of those weeks. Knee-deep in unexpected documents that demand total concentration. Six pages of contract terms and conditions. Anyone? No, I thought not. Much to do before… [read more]
Inspired by Peter Hill, writer of pithy, witty and altogether-too-clever headlines, who is too lazy to update his own blog, so I’m posting them corking headlines here. Nope, it’s not faked, it’s actually… [read more]
"Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set And Go Out And Do Something Less Boring Instead?" If you’re a child of a certain age (the show last aired in 1994) that’ll… [read more]
I spend all day glued to a laptop, much of it browser-based. Not many advertisers manage to cut through the clutter with an ad that grabs the eye, holds the attention and gets the message across. And… [read more]
I’ve noticed that since the introduction of a second DVR (why don’t TiVo come back to the UK, sniff) into our household, the amount of TV advertising that I’m exposed to has dropped significantly. Fast… [read more]
Whilst on a Friday afternoon diversion sent to me by a friend who knows I have the attention span of a….ooo, look a shiny piece of paper… My gaze drifted towards this banner advert for Times Online’… [read more]