That Danny!

I just found this piece of scaremongering prudent advice in the safety instruction manual of my new Toshiba laptop:
Turn Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Wireless WAN Functionalities off for Cardiac Pacemakers Turn Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Wireless WAN Functionalities off when near a person who may have a cardiac pacemaker implant or other medical electric device. Radio waves [...]

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Video Cameras for Cyclists - Using video to film your cycling journey and protect you from drivers.
There seems to be a new fashion in England for cyclists to wear helmet cameras. My other half cycles to work, and I was intrigued by this trend. From my experience as a car driver in London, cyclists aren’t [...]

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Table manners and etiquette - Rules for Children about how to behave around the formal table.

I came across this charming collection of rules and manners for children from the middle ages - this one is an edition from 1701, reproduced by the V&A in 1983. These sort of courtesy books were used by pages, as [...]

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Fujifilm FinePix F50fd Digital Camera - an Honest (though gushing) Review

This is a review of the Fujifilm FinePix F50fd 12 million pixel camera which, at the time of writing, was selling on Amazon UK - here for almost half price at £129, and on Amazon USA here for $209.99.
This isn’t one of those technical reviews [...]

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IwantGreatCare.org was launched in the UK as a service allowing patients to rate their doctors online. Patients can rate doctors out of 100 on “trust”, “listening” and recommended categories, and then leave comments about the doctors that they have rated.
Every time I consult to website owners about user generated content, one of the first [...]

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I wanted to highlight an excellent article by Charlie Brooker about the impact of SEO requirements and the pressures of web-traffic-oriented journalism on the quality of news.
The article sets out to demonstrate its premise with the first paragraph and then explains it:
“Miley Cyrus, Angelina, Israel vs Palestine, iPhone, 9/11 conspiracy, Facebook, MySpace, and Britney Spears [...]

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I’ve been embedding JavaScript into my WordPress posts the hard way for ages. It means creating a separate file to define a function (that is the JS script) and then calling it into the post itself, as explained by the WordPress guys here.
Then, today, I discovered that there is actually a very easy way [...]

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Enter “VPAMAZON” or “VPAMAZON2” into Google to get these great offers, said the promo slip, that arrived with my Amazon book in the post today. It was advertising premium business cards.
I was intrigued by this marketing tactic. Was the advertiser sure that no one else would muscle in on his preferred search terms? So [...]

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