Talking of bleak and Torchwood… This is from my friend Toby, over on Facebook, in response to my tweet / status update on how bleak Torchwood was: What was bleak about Touchwood ? We can only dream of a Britain where corrupt evil government officials almost literally do the honourable thing and fall on their swords….rather than th
Spymaster spoofing I’m not really sure I care too much about Spymaster either way. I know a lot of people are enjoying it and others are really angry about it. Probably the closer you are to an early majority or later adopter of Twitter the more likely you are to like it. Anyway, I half signed up… Continue reading Spy
Lending a hand or cutting costs? From time to time I do some business with Birmingham City Council. Today they sent me a cheery letter: “Following the introduction of Birmingham City Council’s new procurement and payments system in October 2007 we bring you some news about developments that may be welcome to you in the present econ
Digest of my Twitter contacts’ budget summaries siwhitehouse@jonhickman We’ve bought the handcart, now in which direction does it need pushing?about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to jonhickman rtunstall@jonhickman In: New cars, environment, innovation, savings Out: high-earners, booze, petrol, fags, growth, public sector, recovery, Lab
#masocialmedia I need to crowdsource a reply to this email: Wow, just got this email: ——————– In these times of redundancy especially in your part of the country you should be ashamed. How about getting a grant to see how some of Brums manufacturing industry can actually weather this storm. Talk about “History Man” this is why academia gets such a bad name.
networking Some thoughts on good meetings I love the fact that “good meeting” is an emergent meme on Twitter: the phrase is seen by a lot of people on Twitter as an empty platitude, the twitter equivalent of saying “er”. We can see it as an example of one of the ways we just keep the conversation going. Perhaps we could even go… Continue re
twitter Brum TwitPic Chain (#brumchain) This game is based on Flickr Chains (e.g. http://www.flickr.com/groups/thelondonchain/): a chain of photos linked by themes (and probably memes knowing you lot). To keep it simple, let’s try a chain where we nominate the next person in the chain. How to play If you receive an @ message on Twitter t
cluedo How to NOT play @cluedo It’s not the first time in my life I’ve been accused of breaking twitter, but I was a little surprised when @dubber told me I’d done it again. The nice thing about twitter is that even when being curmudgeonly, people in the community can be helpful. Dubber shared his own way of not playing @cluedo
cluedo How to play @cluedo @cluedo is a twitter based guessing game. The idea is simple: test your powers of deduction and your knowledge of twitter-folks by working out who is running the @cluedo account. To play you simply need to be on twitter and follow http://twitter.com/cluedo Notes for Guessers I’m a game. Read the a
food Done my christmas baking, four weeks late Ever since I was a baby my Mum has made the most amazing mince pies. They are topped with an almond macaroon type thing, and I have not met a single person who doesn’t think they’re the best thing ever. The last two years we’ve done Christmas up here, so I’ve made my own, but this year… Continue r
bcu a three hour walking tour of Brum, thinking about art, design and creativity in the city I took two groups of our BA students around Birmingham this week. Our mission: to find where the creative industries hang out, and to think about how design lives and breathes in the real world. We spent three hours and covered a lot of ground. Unfortunately we didn’t get as far as Ikon at Brindley…
food Jon’s 5-bean chilli I never made a veg chilli and didn’t have a recipe, but I made this one up as I went along one night and it worked so well I made it again and again and again… Ingredients: Olive oil – a good glug 4 x garlic cloves 2 x medium red onions 2 x stalks of… Continue reading Jon’s 5-bean chilli [https://th
Things I learned this weekend: 10 rules of broadband 1. When offering to help family members set up broadband, don’t assume that the previous owner of their new house had a normal telephone set up. 2. Consider the fact that they may have multiple sockets around the house, properly wired by a BT engineer, not just running out of a
What my mate Gary did on his holiday: created a media storm by photographing his own children in a park Met up with my mate Gary the other day and he told me he’s had an eventful summer. He’s been on TV, and in the national press, plus around the world on the interwebs for taking this picture of his own kids: (for more see: http://is.gd/2Hdr) He used a zoom lens so he was only… Continue reading What m
I think this kind of sums up what we do in the treehouse all day Found this completely randomly (here: http://paulisakson.tumblr.com/post/29302453/via-photos-c-ak-facebook-com) I can’t even remember what sent me off down that route, but I’m glad I did: it sums up what we do at work all day. SHARE THIS: * Share * * Twitter [https://theplan.co.uk/i-think
