2006
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2006 in Review
Unsurprisingly, I feel compelled to write a review of this last year which I think I can say with some confidence has been very different from previous years.
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Children of Men
Children of Men is a vision of the not too distant future (2027 to be precise) where the human race is no longer able to reproduce.
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Crash
A story about several racially and socially divided individuals living in Los Angeles, that through a number of events over the course of two days, come in contact with each other with predictable and unpredictable results.
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Flags Of Our Fathers
The first of a few brief film reviews I plan to end the year on, having seen a few movies during my three months back in the states.
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Work With Me!
2007 is set to be an exciting year at Ning, with the launch (and continual development) of a product we have spent the last couple of months beavering away on, as well as a host of other improvements to the platform.
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Problems & Attitudes
This year has been eventful. To be more precise, 2006 has been a complete and utter write-off.
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Moblogging: Results
My trip to New York earlier this week was a good opportunity to try out the ‘Blog This’ feature of my new Sony Ericsson K800i.
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Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan
Thoughts on both the film and the experience of watching it in a US cinema.
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Moblogging in New York
Last week I upgraded my phone to the lastest Sony Ericsson—the K800i.
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One Year Stories
A lot has happened in the last year, and October seems to be a month for celebrating anniversaries.
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Monkey Business
Sunday evening finally saw the launch of a completely rewritten version of LloydyWeb, and the seventh incarnation of this site.
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Palo Alto 94301
A quick blog entry to thank everybody for their good wishes over the last week, and to say that I’m enjoying being back in California.
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Tribute
As soon as my feet touch the ground at SFO it almost feels as if the next era of my life is set to begin. So as the final hours tick away on this one, I want to pay tribute to three people who have become very important to me over the last four or five years.
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The One to Watch
BBC One has revealed a new set of idents and on-screen branding.
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Running Kind
I won’t be participating in this years Great North Run. However two friends of mine will be.
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The Last Six Months…
If it wasn’t for the three months I spent in Palo Alto at the beginning of the year this year could be considered a complete write-off.
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Twenty-Six
A couple of days ago I turned 26. The jump from 25 to 26 seems much larger than the one digit increase would have you believe.
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A Weekend in ‘LA’
This last weekend me, Ellen, Nash, Hannah and Charis joined Jon on a visit south to Littlehampton where we spent two days with his girlfriend Katie and her mates, at a house she was looking after.
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Welcome to Wherever You Are
In little over 8 weeks time (and pending a successful visa interview) I will be heading back to the United States.
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When Geeks Come Out to Play
Organised by Trevor Morris and presented by the Multipack, next month (August 27th) sees the first annual Geek in the Park.
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One Man and His Dog
At the weekend, my mum told me a story about my brother from when we were younger, that I have absolutely no recollection of what-so-ever.
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When in Rome
A couple of weeks ago, in a rare break away from my computer monitor, I spent a week in Rome with my friend Nancy and her sister.
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Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
If ever there was a reason to return to the States as quickly as possible, it would be to see the new Aaron Sorkin drama series ‘Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip’.
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Enough of the Plodding, Time for Some Blogging!
I often hear from fellow bloggers how they have a folder on their desktop full of half written posts intended for their blogs. For me, that folder of files seems to get stuffed in the deepest darkest parts of my brain.
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@media 2006
At the end of last week I attended the @media conference in London, the premier web-standards conference held in the UK.
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Busy (and Fun) Month Ahead
Although June is already pretty much done and dusted, there is still a little bit of fun to come.
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What Respect Agenda?
Whilst making my way down New Street in the centre of Birmingham, late this Thursday afternoon, I became a victim of the vile ‘happy slapping’ phenomenon.
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Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Over the last few weeks I have been going over in my mind the reasons why I should support the national team at this years World Cup.
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Great Manchester Run 2006
Last weekend I completed the 4th Great Manchester Run.
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Local Hero
I just read about a fantastic new sculpture that has appeared in the town where I went to school.
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Yanked!
Thanking the team at Ning who made my three month stay in Palo Alto perhaps the most exciting and enjoyable period of my life to date.
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Signature Tune
To make up for the lack of ‘life commentary’ on this blog these last few weeks, let me allow you to explore my musical taste.
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(Do You Know the Way to) San José
Last Saturday I took myself on a little tour of San José, the self-proclaimed capital of Silicon Valley.
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I Feel So Naked!
For today only, I’m letting you see under my CSS clothes and peak at my muscular (semantic) physique.
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Unbelievable
There’s an irritating advert that is currently running on US television.
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These Old Shoes
After 3 years of loyal service my trainers are going into retirement.
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.com
Further to my post earlier this month about a possible name change for this site in it’s upcoming redesign, it soon became obvious through the comments and talking to friends that there is quite a bit of affection for the name ‘LloydyWeb’.
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War on Peace
Only at an anti Iraq war demo in Palo Alto could a fight break out.
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Such Great Heights
So here I am, sitting at home in California.
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Attack of the Clones
So there I was passively watching a special edition of the Conan O’Brian show in which he visits Finland.
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Paul’s Blog Still 1.0
Reasons why ‘lloydyweb.org’ may not make the flight back home.
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2006 Charity Running Programme
As summer fast approaches, it’s time to kick of the fund raising efforts for the two charity running events I’ve signed up for this year.
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Observations From Across the Pond
A list of things I’ve noticed whilst living in the States.
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That Ning Thing
Last week saw the long awaited launch of a redesigned Ning.
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Living in America
Just a quick post to let you all know I’m safe and well in hot and sunny California.
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The Movies of Ken Korda
Being a massive fan of ‘The Adam & Joe Show’, it was a happy day when I discovered Adam Buxton’s blog. Better still, over the last few weeks he has been uploading some short interviews he made with Ken Korda for ‘The Last Word’ on More4.
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Four Things
Show me a bandwagon and I’ll jump on it! Sadly I haven’t been tagged, but as I’ve seen enough blogs that seemingly tag me by mere sight of them, here goes.
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The Journey So Far
As of this week I am no longer an employee of Orange Vision Ltd, but working for Ning, Inc. where I am now Senior Designer.
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Simone
Today I attended the funeral for a wonderfully bright and brave woman I’ve had the pleasure of knowing these last few years.