How to be a Geek

BBC 6music: the station John Peel would have made

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:14:18 +0000

BBC 6music: the station John Peel would have made:

I’m not just an insufurably grumpy geek, I’m not just the guy complaining about everything in the corner of the office – I’m also the annoying one passing on CDs of new music all the time and raving…

Banknote launch invite: Invite to the launch of the new Jersey...

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:07:44 +0000

Banknote launch invite:

Invite to the launch of the new Jersey bank notes

What to do....

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:13:54 +0000

The domain for this Tumblog is howtobeageek.net and I’ve long held high hopes and ambitions for what do use it for - but that’s never actually come to anything so ideas welcome - please!

Chocolate, the internet and the BBC engage

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:06:51 +0000

Chocolate, the internet and the BBC engage:

I get sent a lot of press releases and I ignore almost all of them. Especially the ones that send me a top ten list and talk of a new groundbreaking methodology behind their results.

But I couldn’t…

SeeSaw TV on demand now in CI and Isle of Man

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:06:51 +0000

SeeSaw TV on demand now in CI and Isle of Man:

I wrote a blog post two weeks ago about SeeSaw, the new television on demand service – mainly for archive content.

This service, currently in a limited invite only beta, is born out of the…

And more than a quarter of the top 200 podcasts (in the UK) are from the BBC.

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:18:23 +0000

And more than a quarter of the top 200 podcasts (in the UK) are from the BBC.

10 of the current top 20 podcasts are from the BBC - nice to see History of the World and In Our...

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:18:23 +0000

10 of the current top 20 podcasts are from the BBC - nice to see History of the World and In Our Time in the top 20 though Top 2 are Radio 4

Just had an e-mail from SeeSaw telling me they’ve not aquired the rights to operate in the...

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:18:23 +0000

Just had an e-mail from SeeSaw telling me they’ve not aquired the rights to operate in the islands. Which is nice. http://bit.ly/4dE04k

Thinking about the Apple iPad with ‘man maths’

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:41:05 +0000

Thinking about the Apple iPad with ‘man maths’:

I’m not going to write a review of the Apple iPad, that would be completely pointless as the most I’ve seen of it is a couple of hands on videos and a few photos.

However, based on that and the…

Love the fact that Google has google.me just wish they’d drop the profiles from the profile...