According to Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere Report 2008, that’s all I need to do. Take my readership numbers up from about 100-200 visitors a month to 100K and I can make some money off this drivel that I write. To the tune of $75K+ per year.
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Just round the corner is the LG Voyager. Will it make you smarter? Is it going to be a competitor for the iPhone? I’d say without a doubt it’s going to be. It’s a bit plastic looking and like all the imitators since the iPhone just isn’t going to be as slick and apple like. Is it!?
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What’s in a name? Not sure to be honest! I guess that’s where the “something” bit comes in. What I do know is that last night heralded the coming of a new movement. One that is trying to unite the various “geek” (I use the term “geek” with affection as I am myself just such a person) user groups of the North East of England.
The name given to such a gathering – “Super Monday Something”; Super – because unlike Bob Geldof we do like Monday’s, Monday because that’s the day of the gathering, and Something because that’s as clearly as we could define the goings on.
OK so what’s there to get excited about? Well I’m a resident of the NE of England, and I’m heavily into the tech scene, and like many others I look across the pond and down the country to London and marvel at their vibrant tech communities. Then I look inward and well… It’s all a bit quiet to be honest. Various fragmented groups huddled together in the dark – well perhaps not always in the dark, but all doing their own thing, and that’s fine. But I want to meet other interesting people, I want cross polination to occur, and from it spring something that the NE tech scene could really do with.
Is Super Monday Something it? Well why not? Why not come along to the next gathering (it’ll be SUPER) bring a friend or even some stranger you pass in the street. Anybody and all are welcome!
Next meeting “The Beehive” (Old Library) Newcastle University - Monday October 27th
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Disclaimer: I work, my parents work, and before them their parents worked and for many generations my family have worked. And I’m also a Newcastle United fan.
I had planned on this post being partly about the working class, but in fact I’ve found that it’s not going to be. Spurred on by this scathing attack of the people of Newcastle, I’ve jumped into action and with my trusty keyboard I’m wholeheartedly agreeing with the article.
Newcastle United, are a club in turmoil, a club that in recent weeks has become the laughing stock of English football. It all started when Kevin Keegan, a man heralded as the “Messiah” in these parts turned his back on the club which I have no doubt he loves, citing an unworkable system that was thrust upon him. Was he right to walk? If it wasn’t as promised then I’d say YES!
So the public get wind of this unrest and the whole drama is played out in public, and yet there is no official coherent voice coming out of St James (Newcastle United headquarters). So the fans are unsure. Has he left? Has he been sacked? Nada!
During this whole debacle a significant number of Geordies have managed to get time off, from sponging off the government, and have arranged for their state handouts to be delivered directly on-mass to Shearers bar (if only they’d know this earlier they could have saved themselves years of queuing) where they plan on spending the foreseeable future insulting “cockneys”, and not taking the time out to check that their grasp of “English” is sufficient to stop them looking like complete pillocks!
All in all it’s not been a great time for the region. The club is in disarray, and the governments education department have a great advert for what happens when you don’t attend school.
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That’s what I’ve got. I guess I already knew that but this weekend brought it home that I had more than a nifty little gadget for checking my emails, reading my feeds and surfing the internet.
It came about when we had a little issue with one of the web sites that we have developed and support. No matter. I had with me in my iPhone all of the tools that I needed to fix the problem whilst doing a spot of shopping. Well almost I was missing one little app which I now have (touchterm).
One last thing i’ve written this little post using the wordpress app on my iPhone.
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