And I am so relieved. For the past 18 months or so, helping create a new website for Custom PC has been something of an obsession for me. I’ve talked endlessly about it on flights, in bars, in many, many meetings and bored the Jesteress to tears with all my ideas and frustrations. I’ve scribbledContinue reading “It’s finally here: the new CustomPC.co.uk”
Category Archives: In My Life
On jetlag and moving generally
I wonder what it is that causes jetlag – the distance? the effort and energy of the travelling? the fact you pass from the real world into the strangeness of airports and planes and duty free shopping at midnight? being separated, so viscerally, from home and all its rhythms? or is it just all toContinue reading “On jetlag and moving generally”
At Computex 2007
Amazingly, this traffic guy is there every morning, and hasn’t been totalled by a scooter rush. As ever, everything in Taipei seems to have a slight edge of madness to it, especially during the show, when we’, the observers of said mad things, are also running around like mad. See post below for a linkContinue reading “At Computex 2007”
Computex 2007: Every bag tells a story
Tomorrow I’m off to Taiwan for the Computex trade show; while Spring’s Cebit is physically bigger and CES is shinier, Computex is the one that really matters for Custom PC; its main focus is on PC components, and it’s in the hometown of the big kit manufacturers. As well as being a lot warmer thanContinue reading “Computex 2007: Every bag tells a story”
My Big Mouth and what my PC wants to do to help me
I think it is the dream – or has been the dream, at one point – of nearly everyone in the media to work for the BBC. For me, that dream may now be over. I was on the radio this evening, on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Drive show. Someone who freelances for Custom PCContinue reading “My Big Mouth and what my PC wants to do to help me”
New Pillows
I have bought some new pillows, and have had strange dreams-cum-nightmares. My significant other tells me this is entirely to be expected. Common knowledge. At least in her country. All of a sudden, shopping for home furnishings has become something to dread. It’s certainly made me a little reluctant to look at getting a newContinue reading “New Pillows”
All In All Is All We Are
Very strange being on the tube yesterday, after all this. Even when the tube is packed, there’s normally a very careful sense of space around each person; a preserved isolation. People don’t make a lot of eye contact on the tube and a lot of the time they don’t chat to each other on theContinue reading “All In All Is All We Are”
A Pinch and a Punch for the First of the Month
It’s the 1st, which means my bandwidth quota gets re-set. Last month I was nearly 40% over, and all because I had lots of people looking at my photos. Now, I like people looking at the photos, but not when I get hundreds of e-mails from BlogHarbor about bandwidth. So I’m moving photo hosting toContinue reading “A Pinch and a Punch for the First of the Month”
I’m back
I am now safely back in England, and my body clock is following a little more slowly behind me. Lots to write about – whilst I do like the web, the white screen isn’t quite as nice as this, picture below. It’s a shot of rolls of Washi, traditional, hand-made Japanese paper, in a shopContinue reading “I’m back”
The Only Cubist Lampost In The World(TM)
Having problems getting hold of a camera at the moment (deceitful internet sites claiming to have stock and then turning out to be mistaken…) So I’ve been sorting through some slightly older photos. I took this when I went to Prague in the spring. It is exactly what the title suggests. There are some more,Continue reading “The Only Cubist Lampost In The World(TM)”
The Wired Jester 