Archive for the 'misc' Category

Bredbyn

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Did you ever notice that the bread from Ikea is made in a place called Bredbyn in Sweden? ;)

Analogue watch for the linux geek in your life…

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Nice watches on ebay at Poljot Watches, and if you’re a penguin-bothering type of geek, especially this one, with 24-hour dial and penguins!

Open all hours

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Trying to buy a Wifi connection card last night (or this morning, to be precise) I got a message from Telefonica’s online shop: “Store open between 12:00 and 07:00″! What, the shopkeeper needs some downtime? I’ll refrain from saying “bloody typical”. Oops, just did…

Starting as I mean to go on.

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Uh-oh, a few hours into 2008 and I’m searching for wifi access points in Manchester. I’m not sure if that’s a good omen or a bad one. Anyway, Happy New Year and if you’re a client, as you can see I’m just as connected as usual. (And BTOpenzone… steep! Need to get sorted for Fon ASAP, although […]

‘Tache-tastic!

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

Thanks to Tom for this story on upper lips stiffened by a bit (or a lot) of furniture.

Back to the future with ecorevelado!

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Like the last 10 years never happened: “A new Sales channel: INTERNET.” It goes on: “You’ll have access to our website, like a directory, so that clients can find you…” What will they think of next? Seen at Sonimagfoto, which I have to say was very disappointing, compared to the last time I went, which was […]

Microscope marketing

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

I like this. Nice.

Hmmm, tasty!

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

There’s this little Japanese bar on Muntaner just above Mallorca and I’d always seen it from the bus and thought I really must go there. Well, finally I did. I wish I hadn’t waited so long! The name is Catalan (Una Mica de Japó) but the place is as authentic as I can imagine, taking […]

Talking of CSS…

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

I should really update the theme for this blog!

Inactivity, the bane of the blog…

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Well, as the majority of people who know they have stuff to say on a blog, do I ever get around to posting? Almost never… very poor form having a post about not posting in order to post something, but there you go :|