Wireless Technologist and Entrepreneur

29/10/2009 Twitter APIs A brief explanation of the Twitter API and why it may be causing you problems from desktop Twitter applications like Mixero. read more..

15/10/2009 Small Thoughtful Actions I can’t remember when I first learned about the danger that we are in of permanently altering the biosphere of our planet. At primary school I was taught to pick up litter and later the importance of recycling and renewable energy sources. Even now, when I watch films like Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” and read [...] read more..

28/05/2009 A lesson in Entrepreneurship in Seville No two men could be better qualified to teach entrepreneurship than Ken Morse and Bill Aulet. They came to Sevilla from the E-Centre at MIT, to deliver a seminar on “Entrepreneurial Sales and Product Marketing” and they over-delivered. My expectations were exceeded by far, we were given a rich insight into the growth of high-tech [...] read more..

06/05/2009 Web 2.0 talk in Marbella A short review of the Web 2.0 talk entitled "I Encuentro Empresarial en Andalucia en clave 2.0" held in Marbella on the 5th of May 2009 in Marbella read more..

18/10/2007 Infinite Loop read more..

20/07/2007 Land Rover UK Customer CO2 Offsets Land Rover UK are bundling a Customer CO2 Offset into the on-the-road price of all year 2007 models. This means that anyone in the UK who buys a new Land Rover in 2008, will also be paying towards environmental projects (through Climate Care) that reduce CO2 emissions globaly by roughly the same amount that manufacturing [...] read more..

23/06/2007 Kiva.org I was going to write a rambling post about Facebook and social networking sites today, but I found something much more worthwhile to do. I discovered a short video about a site called KIVA through Guy Kawasaki’s blog. Kiva is a P2P micro finance site that connects normal people in developed countries with entrepreneurs and [...] read more..

29/11/2006 PokerLeagueSpain.com The very latest project I’m working on is a joint venture between a pair of professional gamblers and myself. PokerLeagueSpain.com is a pub poker league for the Costa del Sol. Playing poker for points (not cash) has taken UK pubs by storm as an alternative to quiz nights and darts tournaments. The game’s popularity has [...] read more..

14/04/2006 Rural Internet Connectivity It seems the further you move from the hubs of civilisation, the worse your connection to the Net becomes. We’ve moved from a busy seaside town where we were able to connect via 1Meg ADSL at 1Mb/s downstren, 250Kb/s upstream. Had we felt the need we could have got an 8Meg connection (actually about 7.2Mb/s, [...] read more..

24/03/2006 Fon router running Ok, the installation went smoothly apart from the 5 min window the firmware gives you to register. I was setting it up on the back of my Apple AirPort Extreme working as a LAN modem. I did it this way for various reasons (not least of which is the proxy server on my satellite broadband [...] read more..