Tag archive for ‘FOWA’
The Great Switch – Part 1 – The MacBook Anniversary [Apple]
I just had my first anniversary.
Last November, I switched from PC to Mac.
Violent MSFT dissent. XP no more. So long, spyware. Etcetera.
Best. Day. Ever.
After a few months of consistent and dedicated whinging, I’d managed to persuade my tech lead that I needed a MacBook Pro to edit video on (and you can see the eventual [...]
FOWA #1 – Where’s the .net community at?
Me and most of the London tech collective attended the Future of Web Apps conference in a cold and desolate part of docklands this week. I’m going to post a series of thoughts on it over the next week or so.
On the way from crappy hotel to Excel on Friday morning, I shared a bacon [...]
FOWA ToDo List
Future of Web Apps starts next week. Exciting.
Probably my favourite event of the year, and in 2007 it was partly responsible for helping our team really push forward. Just like a really great conference should.
So here’s my (unashamedly honest) FOWA todo list.
Talk to Kevin Rose without coming across as a babbling fanboy
Steal a Microsoft bean [...]
about this blog
Back in the wet disappointment that was August 2008, Sophie and I were talking about work stuff over email.
We’d just discovered Ryan Carson’s (of Carsonified and FOWA and wearing-hats fame) fundraising page on Justgiving.
The following exchange happened:
From: Simon Doggett
Sent: 11 August 2008 15:30
To: Sophie De Albuquerque
Shall we make a fuss over Ryan carsons pfp? Could [...]