Three, the phone company, have an amazing deal at the moment. Pay £15 for a PAYG sim card, and you get loads of calls and texts, plus unlimited internet. This is an amazing deal, not matched in Australia and probably anywhere else. This is not a monthly plan, you can pay for just one month […]
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Easyjet ripping off National Express customers
Easyjet have been selling National Express tickets from the London Airports to the City for quite a while now. But since National Express have introduced their £8 deals per trip, Easyjet have been ripping off customers by charging them £10. They got me yesterday when flying back from Nice. Instead of buying the ticket on […]
Oh no, I have to stay in Cannes
I ended up missing my flight from Cannes, back to London. It means I had to stay in beautiful sunny Cannes, rather than flying back to the rain and clouds. Fortunately I had met a friendly girl that let me crash with her. Thanks Florence, you saved me. I also got to see a lot […]
Presenting at MIPCube conference in Cannes
Here I am presenting the two apps that I created for the MIPCube conference in Cannes, France. It was an amazing experience, and I got to see a side of the TV industry that most people do not. You can read more about my apps at Rewired State. Thanks to Rewired state and Midem for […]
Villa Francais
The people at Rewired state and MIPCube have put me up in this hotel for 5 days, how nice of them. Can you believe I never ended up swimming in this pool, the freezing cold water of the beach was just to inviting, at 2 am, 3 seperate times. A trick to going skinny dipping […]
Mohito Yacht, Cannes, France
This is the amazing Yacht that Rewired State and MIPCube are putting us up on for the weekend. Will see how much work we can get done in these beautiful surroundings. The aim is to come up with apps for the TV industry, and helping people stay in touch with their favorite TV shows.
Format String for the iPhone NSDateFormatter
It is quite common to have to display time information in your app, be it the current time, news feed’s creation date, scheduled meeting time or birthday reminders. However, not all of them are displayed the same way and may require different formatting. To do that with Objective-C for iPhone apps, NSDateFormatter is what we […]
Late at Tate, London, UK
A number of Art Galleries and Museums around London open up in the evenings and start serving drinks. A great way to meet interesting people, see Art work in an adult environment, and a fascinating drinks venue. I have only been to the Late at Tate events so far, hoping to make it to a […]
Old description of the future
As a cynic whoose outlook has been validated by events for over forty years, I predict: In ten years, computers will be 128 times “Moore powerful.” However, Microsoft, now involved in world government (now simply called, “gummint”), has continued to develop, and use, higher and higher level languages to write the (only remaining legal) operating […]
Great place for a Wedding Photo
Great place for a wedding photo, shame about all the traffic rushing past. Still, nowhere near as bad as Sydney.