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  • How Stephen Fry lost Britain hundreds of man-hours of work

    Around lunchtime today, Stephen Fry, national treasure and Twitter celeb, announced that to celebrate having 50,000 followers, he would hold a challenge: He adds “There’s the competition in a nutshell below. Star it for reference. The prize will be good…

  • WordPress & Akismet: Why It's Important to Mark Spam as Spam

    According to Spamhaus, over 96% of all email is spam. That leaves 2% for Facebook notifications, 1.5% for those forwards your mum sends you that you saw in 2001 anyways & about 0.5% for those nagging emails your boss sends…

  • SocialMediaCamp London: A Look Back At The Many Themes

    Do you ever look back at past achievements and feel yourself swell with pride because, with hindsight, you now realise how well you and others did? This morning, poking around Flickr, I came across Tom’s photo of the schedule board…

  • You Gotta Have Faith: Taming Your Inner Critic

    I came across Tara’s post here about taming her inner critic, where she questions her abilities at live interviews and doubts her own writing skills. I believe we all have moments like this. But some are worse than others… [I’m…

  • 2009 Brings In a New Design

    What better way to kick off a new year than to have a gorgeous fresh design to start it off? We’ve thrown this design together today so it’ll take a while to evolve it to perfection, expect tweaks and changes…

  • A Handful of Tips for the Self-Employed

    Tips for the self-employed have been done to death by every lifehack geek, GTD addict and smart living blogger, but everyone develops their own little system so I thought I’d share mine. Over the years, I’ve tried every GTD app…

  • Kicking off 2009 with a new themeword: Impact

    Nearly a year ago, I wrote about my #themeword for 2008, which was exploration. My objectives were to explore in four key areas; travel, business opportunities, new or unused skills and friendships/ relationships. In reflection, it was a good year.…

  • Happiness at Christmas is…

    Yesterday, I asked fellow Twitter users what Christmas happiness was to them. I got a fun range of answers, so I thought I’d post them uncensored and as-is… sherrilynne: Happiness at Christmas is knowing there are no deadlines for two…

  • Christmas Giving

    The weeks preceding Christmas are bloody awful. I hate going into Cambridge and finding myself attacked by people with a dozen shopping bags in each hand, looking haggard and miles from the supposed Christmas spirit we’re meant to be in.…

  • Where creativity comes from

    It’s Friday, you’ve been giving it the beans all week, working that little brain of yours to the bone (figuratively, let’s hope). You need a boost for that last mile before this evening’s G&T while watching mindless TV (or maybe…