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An evening at the Kitchen
The lovely Niamh from Trusted Places invited me along with a bunch of other bloggers to an interesting cooking event at The Kitchen in Parsons Green last night. I was terribly excited at the thought of being treated to a nice meal, but quickly realised that the Kitchen is a different kind of fish (so [...]
Bathroom Blogfest ’08 – Cleaning Up Forgotten Spaces Around
It’s time to get the Bathroom Blogfest 2008 going! The Bathroom Blogfest is a week long blog celebration addressing the topic of ‘cleaning up forgotten spaces around us’ and how this affects the customer experience, starting from October 26 through to November 1, 2008. The first ever Blogfest took place in 2006, and I’ll be [...]
The London Meme
Memes are fun because they always provide nuggets of insight about the person blogging behind the screen. Besides, there’s no harm in indulging in a little easy blogging now and again! Gary tagged me in the latest meme going around the London blogosphere. Here are the three questions 1. Top-three non work websites: That’s a [...]
a Twitter poll with Polldaddy
Automatic, the company behind WordPress acquired Irish startup, Polldaddy today; it’s now dead easy to incorporate polls into blog posts, something that wasn’t possible before as Wodpress.com does not support java (grrr) I recently re-installed TweetDeck on my laptop, and I’d like to use this as an opportunity to find out more about your fav [...]
Blog Action Day – poverty must end!
Today is Blog Action Day. 10,369 (at time of writing) bloggers, podcasters and videocasters around the world have decided to address today the same topic, poverty, to raise awareness and trigger a discussion. I live London, one of the coolest cities in the world, but cool has a hefty price-tag… We’ve all complained about Tube [...]
Blogtillyoudrop says: Find Me
George Bernard Shaw’s observation that the US and the UK are “two nations divided by a common language’ became reality when I logged onto my Facebook account this morning (see below) According to my calculations, 51.5001 of Brits would prefer to spell words such as favor or color without the letter ‘U’ as this makes [...]
Diesel ‘Dirty Thirty’
Diesel Dirty Thirty – Covent Garden Store Originally uploaded by Life in LDN Diesel turned 30 today, and generated a lot of buzz with the launch of their limited edition ‘Dirty Thirty’ denims. Just 30,000 pairs were produced worldwide to be distributed between 160 Diesel stores, and sold for the dirty price of £30 in [...]
The origins of Twitter?
I got thinking about Twitter today (hat tip to Simon D.) and started doing some research about its origins – I came across both this interview and this photo by Jack Dorsey. Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple [...]
Le roi du pain d’epice!
Just found this old French advertisement on YouTube for Vandamme Pain d’epice… nostalgia, nostalgia! I bet all Frenchies are singing behind their computer screen! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhMYgC8H08Y] Prosper sadly vanished from our screens years ago, but still remains the ultimate 1980s 4 o’clock snack (as we call it in France!)
Social networks are lost in translation…
The Brits are notoriously bad at foreign languages. I have met so many people in the UK, including Brits, Kiwis, Ozzies, Saffas and Americans, who wished they could speak another language. There seems to be a common misconception that learning a foreign language is easy. My dear friends, you couldn’t be more wrong – learning [...]
Flickr is now conversational
Observing the organic evolution of online communities is simply fascinating. I’ve always loved taking photos, which probably explains why I am obsessed with Flickr! Despite my lack of interaction with other Flickr users, I tend check my photo stream many times a day… there is something strangely addicting about Flickr! It seems that everybody’s doing [...]
The New York Lolly Cocktail card has arrived!
So I got my Blog cocktail card this morning courtesy Splendid Communications, and I’ll be having a go at making the ‘New York Lolly cocktail’ at the week-end I think Splendid Communications did a brilliant job at establishing relationship with the 50 or so bloggers who attended the Bloggers Meet Up on Tuesday, but they [...]
