Time to read: 6 minutes Ok, so I didn’t fix it. I just did something slightly OCD only for me. My friend saw what I’d done, loved it, and encouraged me to tell the story and the vision of what FNO could, some day, have. what is FNO? A few weeks ago was the much-anticipated Vogue’s Fashion Night Out. The […] continue reading »
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business banking: branch, web, phone, or twitter? How @metro_bank won
Time to read: 6 minutes The premise: I got a contracting gig.
The daunting task: I needed a business account to be paid into!
And of course, everything that I could do wrong, I did very very very wrong indeed. […] continue reading »
how disruptive has mobile technology become?
Time to read: 5 minutes Amusingly perhaps, my topic of choice this week is mobiles, how ubiquitous they have become and how we deal with their interruptions. I decided this on Monday. On Tuesday morning, it was announced that Microsoft would be buying nokia’s devices and services. I never expected to be blogging about mobiles and my love of nokia on the week its death sentence was pronounced. But there you go. Serendipitous irony. […] continue reading »
Why I’m hiding out from my blog on Medium
Time to read: 3 minutes This week, I didn’t blog. I have 16 drafts sitting in my “drafts” folder, and I’m unwilling to publish any of them. I’ve come to Medium to make amends. […] continue reading »
how to make introductions and be a good hostess in 140 characters or less
Time to read: 3 minutes I still remember walking around Hursley, following a fellow tweep who wanted to introduce me to some awesome IBMers he knew. What i did not expect, was for him to use my twitter handle, @eurydice13, as part of the introduction. I am grateful, because by finding me on twitter he may have literally saved my […] continue reading »
What is this **/365 #365 thing I do?
Time to read: < 1 minute I’ve been asked a couple of times what this “365” thing I do is. And in short it’s just a “one photo a day” project. I’m not sure when or where I came across it. I think it was on flickr. The original project called for a self-portrait every day, but I couldn’t manage that. […] continue reading »
Twitter tricks: The sneaky old-school ReTweet
Time to read: 2 minutes Once upon a time, twitter didn’t have a RT button. People would copy a tweet, paste it in their status update box, put “RT” in front of it and credit the original writer when sending it out. Now, twitter has a ReTweet button. As do all the other twitter clients out there. This magical button […] continue reading »
Where did the whale go?
Time to read: < 1 minute Twitter is down. And I can’t tweet about it. The shock! The horror! So I’m posting here. There’s a cute robo-monkey though. It’ll all be fine. […] continue reading »
background for your twitter using instagram photos
Time to read: < 1 minute I won’t take the credit for this. I saw someone mentioning it. @themattelliott to be specific. The gist of it is that there is a little website which will take instagram photos (yours, someone else’s, from a tag, etc…) and generate a background image for you which you can stick onto twitter. This is what […] continue reading »
First 2013 picture of Holland Park
Time to read: 2 minutes Holland Park, a beautiful London park, has picked up and broadcast my photo as its first photo of the year! How cool is that? Here’s the photo that earned the “first photo of 2013” accolade, from my instagram. See it on Holland Park’s facebook page. the story On the first day of 2013, I went […] continue reading »