Thoughts, pictures, technology and other such nonsense...
“If I had to say one thing to those who wonder how to make their companies more creative, it would be to hire amazing people. Amazing people are so much more important than ideas, because amazing people are idea factories. And when you find teams of people who can generate good ideas, enjoy working together and are also experts in their craft—and your work is just to support them, help them focus and get problems out of their way—then honestly, you can’t fail.”
— Tom Coates (one of the outstanding presenters at last week’s dConstruct conference)

New album from BT coming soon - here’s a sneak peak that BT has posted of one of the tracks. Sounds awesome - reminds me a bit of ESCM’s Satellite which is one of my all-time favourite BT tracks.

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::: Every Other Way ::: Well friends and loved ones, here is the moment you’ve been waiting for. After 7,222 views in around 48 hours, you have earned about 3 min of music based on our Twitter contest rules (500 views=12 seconds). I am in a generous mood, and well, since the chorus happens almost 5 minutes into the song, here is 6 minutes of Every Other Way. I must say, there are some huge surprises in this track in the second half. You’ll just have to wait for the album to hear them. Thank you all for the kind words and tweets. What a fun 2 days. Consider this Tumblr my official location for album countdown. More to come…soon. Lots more :) B
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
How to be happy in business

How to be happy in business


Best Business Plan. Ever.

Best Business Plan. Ever.


Google App Engine and Groovy apps

Google recently added Java application support to their Google App Engine platform. Getting Grails applications working on this platform also would be truly awesome.

“If there’s a formula to Apple’s success over the past 10 years, that’s it. Start with something simple and build it, grow it, improve it, steadily over time. Evolve it.”
— Daring Fireball piece pretty much nails the iPhone and Apple’s recipe for success.
Röyksopp - Junior Some of the most delicious electronic bleeps and bloops I’ve heard in a very long time. The varied Scandinavian guest vocalists and the sheer quality of production give this album an edge over their previous offerings.

Röyksopp - Junior

Some of the most delicious electronic bleeps and bloops I’ve heard in a very long time. The varied Scandinavian guest vocalists and the sheer quality of production give this album an edge over their previous offerings.


“It’s entirely your responsibility to make your dreams come through.”
— Tough love from DHH
Canonical URL tag

Big 3 search engines have announced support for a new canonical url link tag - the article below is well worth a read for anyone working in this area (even if you’ve only a vague interest in SEO!)