Archives for Life
A Casual Report from Overwhelmington... (June 24, 2006) Another funny few weeks, another quiet weblog. Various things are going on - friends' weddings and stag parties, projects at Yahoo reaching an end, trying to work out when to take holiday, planning multiple trips to the US, getting in...
Talking at the Apple Store about weblogs... (April 4, 2006) I have a kind of superstition when it comes to public speaking, and the superstition is that I don't write about the fact that I'm going to be doing the speaking on my site until I'm pretty sure I know...
Back to London and Changing Media... (March 30, 2006) Phew! And I'm back in London and this is basically the first opportunity I've had to put my head above water since. I'm ploughing through a backlog of e-mail from stuff I've not had much of a chance to deal...
I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink... (March 26, 2006) Well that's not strictly true - I got an hour of sleep between coming back from the party and having to leave for the airport. Twenty hours awake and one hour of sleep, and currently in Newark airport an hour...
The end is in sight... (March 23, 2006) I'm coming to the end of my month in the US and to be honest I'm absolutely bloody exhausted. I only have one major US leg to go and then Dear God I'll be done and I can sleep in...
Arrival in Austin for SXSW 2006... (March 11, 2006) Right, I'm in Austin now for SXSW and struggling a bit to catch up with all the various things I need to sort out across work and personal projects and life. I've spent most of the afternoon in Halcyon with...
On my significant expeditions... (February 28, 2006) Right then. Where to start? Um. Right. I left the UK on Saturday for San Francisco and I'm going to be travelling around mostly on work business for the next three to four weeks. So there are lots of new...
My first reactions to The Future of Web Apps... (February 9, 2006) Wow. Yesterday's Future of Web Apps summit was completely intense. I'd been worrying about talking for about a month, and puzzling away at what I wanted to say for even longer, which is pretty much why my site has been...
On being on television... (January 14, 2006) Television is such a strange enterprise! I don't really know how else to put it. I get an e-mail in the afternoon from Tim Levell at Sky News saying that they're looking for someone vaguely clued-up to talk about weblogs...
Farewell BBC - and hello Yahoo! (October 16, 2005) Right then! It's time to get everything out in the open and talk about some of the stuff that's been going on behind the scenes over the last few months. First things first - and this will probably come as...
In which I raise a weary hand and wave... (August 11, 2005) You may be wondering why everything's got a bit quiet around here. Unfortunately, the whole flooding situation with my flat is still occupying most of my attention. I only tell you this stuff so that you'll forgive me for not...
In which everything gets wet... (August 6, 2005) I'm having a bit of a sucky day today. I woke up early this morning to get ready for a thing that Mr Hammond was organising, stuck on the washing machine and went back to bed. Forty minutes later, I...
Explosions rock London's infrastructure... (July 7, 2005) I was in a meeting when the bombs went off - which it now looks like was the cause of the explosions that have been going off around buses and tube stations around the capital. At this moment in time,...
Bloggie, bloggie, bloggie, bloggie etc. (January 28, 2005) It's Bloggie Nomination time again and I'm up for two awards this year - Best UK / Irish weblog and - gulp - lifetime achievement. And of course, typically, as soon as lots of people start linking to my site...
###Tom For Sale### (May 14, 2003) As many of you know, UpMyStreet.com - the company where I have worked for the last ten months - put itself up for sale a few weeks ago. Many of my co-workers prudently put their CVs online at that time,...
On the removal of a wisdom tooth... (February 4, 2002) So I end today with one less tooth than I started it with. That's right - the axis of evil that has been building within my mouth-mountain has finally been excised by the pure democratic might of Mr Moselhi -...
Flashbacks and Comic Books... (January 1, 2002) Flashback madness. I'm ten - I'm living in a little village in Norfolk called Belaugh. On Sunday mornings my dad drives to the nearest village (Wroxham) for the Sunday papers. Sunday is the only day of the week that the...
Thirty-six hours... (July 15, 2001) What a strange couple of days. How did I end up four days before my twenty-ninth birthday sitting in my bedroom, while in the kitchen I'm making chicken stock? Thirty-six hours in a nutshell... Saturday 12 midday: Receive, through the...
The Price of Happiness is £1 million... (March 13, 2001) An article in the Sunday times purports to discover the Price of Happiness [via Metafilter]- which is, it appears around £1m. Here in an insight into my current frame of mind on this issue. I have never chosen a job...
In which Tom introduces Max to Peter... (June 11, 2000) Sometimes, when I'm out with people and I'm misbehaving and being mischievous, I really feel like I'm on a roll. But not a good roll. Instead, one of those uncontrollable rolls that aircraft have which subsequently turns into a spin...
On the male competitive arena... (April 16, 2000) So I went out for lunch today with a group of friends and their friends and was disturbed to find myself feeling defensive and edgy which dragged me back about ten years to gawky teenage years of perpetual embarrassment. I've...
Two anecdotes about clubs... (April 1, 2000) In order to maintain the record of the week, I decided that I should go drinking directly after work last night. And (I suppose inevitably) this resulted in a few of us ending up at Popstarz. Which led to: TWO...
