November 2010
A new project: Contextify
For the last few days I’ve been sharing an idea that I’ve been working on with my friends on Facebook and Twitter. Now it’s time to share it here as well.
It’s called Contextify.
Over the last few years, as the online news space has exploded, I’ve become increasingly frustrated with the lack of context that’s out there. If I read a story about, say, Barack...
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Weeknotes: 31
It’s been a tumultuous time since my last weeknotes update. Since then we’ve moved continent, country, city, home. I’m getting used to the sudden change, but it’s hard to adjust.
The plan for the Grand Return was simple: spend a week or so getting our affairs in order —the house, the business, the bills and so forth — and then get cracking with work. That’s been...
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Some brief observations upon returning to Britain
In no particular order, and almost certainly more about the differences between Brighton and San Francisco than the UK and the US.
- There are many more old people than I remember. Negotiating the high street on pension day is like that bit in Star Wars when Luke flies down into the Death Star and dodges all the obstacles, except with lots of old people. Many of the pensioners seemed to have...
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That's not yours, it's mine
The confusion started one afternoon last week, with the gentle ping of my phone as a new email came in. Things have been pretty quiet recently — what with moving countries and trying to get our house sorted out — so I quickly opened up my messages to see what had come in.
The mail, it turned out, was from somebody I’d never met. I’ll call him C.
C said he was the vice president of...