Funeral Parlour question By Nic Price on 10 December 2006 — 1 min read Why are funeral parlours so often on street corners? My folks were discussing this recently and have a theory about access/parking of hearses, which used to be horse-drawn. Enough to drive you round the bend 😉 More
WordPress upgrade By Nic Price on 11 November 2006 — 1 min read Finally caught up and upgraded the software behind this blog to WordPress version 2.0.5 It’s very straightforward – I’d thoroughly recommend WordPress to anyone considering setting up their own blog – and it’s free too – you have the option to have it hosted by wordpress or to host it yourself. More
Creating Passionate Users: Dilbert and the zone of mediocrity By Nic Price on 21 October 2006 — 1 min read Just read this brilliant and incredibly timely (for me anyway!) post from the always passionate Kathy Sierra. To avoid the Zone of Mediocrity, you must suspend disbelief. You must be willing and able to turn off (temporarily) The Voice inside that says, “We’ll never get away with this. People will hate it.” That doesn’t necessarily... More
Another reason why junk mail is bad for business By Nic Price on 21 October 2006 — 1 min read Apparently junk mail subsidises the cost of sending a bona fide letter, the price we have to pay, like Google Ads for snail mail (though less intelligently targetted of course). Every week I receive an inordinate amount of junk mail offering discounts, credit cards with huge credit limits, loans – presumably to pay back the... More
How to find the IMEI number on a mobile phone By Nic Price on 15 October 2006 — 1 min read Key in *#06# Turn off your handset. Turn it on again. Allow the handset to load completely. Press the following keys one by one: * # 0 6 # Read the screen. As you press on the last #, a number will appear with the title IMEI number […] If your mobile phone is stolen,... More
A case for more cycle lanes… if anyone can be bothered… By Nic Price on 12 October 2006 — 2 mins read On Tuesday morning at precisely 8 o’clock I crashed in to the back of a moped on my bicycle. And it hurt. The moped had just overtaken me and then braked sharply in front of me to turn left at the junction of the Old Kent Road – in the direction of Elephant & Castle... More
IBF Live conference blog By Nic Price on 4 October 2006 — 1 min read David Lucas and Louise Ferguson are blogging the IBF Live conference at the Barbican Centre in London today and tomorrow. If you have an intranet check out what folk like Luke Tredinnick, James Robertson and Toby Ward are saying about where the world of intranets is at and where it’s heading… Oh and here’s a... More
All change at the local By Nic Price on 21 September 2006 — 1 min read The Herne Tavern in East Dulwich has just been ‘palmerstoned’ – good food if a bit pricey. The garden has been landscaped in to teletubbyland. Actually it looks pretty stunning. And it’s 100% child-friendly – the play area’s still there. More
Howies – enormous talking frog story By Nic Price on 12 September 2006 — 1 min read “I get it!” said the Wealthy Industrialist. “We tell all the fish and frogs to live upstream!” “Not exactly,” said the Frog. “We pass a Law to make you take your fresh water from downstream of the factory, so you become responsible for cleaning up the water after you’ve used it.” “Won’t that involve me... More
East Dulwich blogs like buses on Lordship Lane By Nic Price on 19 August 2006 — 1 min read You wait for ages and then two come along at once! Via my bloglines subscription to a Technorati search for “East Dulwich” I’ve juts found a couple of new blogs. se22man (“living it up in SE22, east dulwich stylee, centre of the universe”) and east dulwich life (which led me also to camberwellonline which is... More