coffee web watch
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.10.07
Round-Up Laptops, coffee, muffins and light jazz. The Round-Up will watch with interest, albeit from behind the plate glass windows and Egg McMuffin posters. It's hardly conducive to encouraging a relaxing, web-browsing experience where you can whip out... [12 Oct 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Let the train take the strain
Comment Grab a quick coffee (two minutes), get on train (no security, no hassle). Time, door-to-door (providing GNER doesn't succumb to it's own occasional delays): about five hours and 17 minutes (don't forget that coffee), during which there are at least... [04 Jun 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Glastonbury and lessons in uptime
Comment Drinking coffee, reading the papers, watching the early morning repeat of Match of the Day. In fact, according to web monitoring company Hitwise, the SeeTickets.com website rocketed from the 262nd most popular website on Saturday to 90th on Sunday... [02 Apr 2007]
Will's Web Watch: To eBay or to FreeBay?
Comment I recently bought a fine coffee table on eBay which was an absolute steal at £50. The popularity of eBay continues to soar and January is likely to be a bumper time as unwanted Christmas presents are sold and households make room for new purchases. [02 Jan 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.11.06
Round-Up The two-year study - that's right, it took two years - observed men and women in various public locations including restaurants, bars and coffee shops… You just watch, in a minute or two I'll be surrounded by beautiful people. [17 Nov 2006]
Will's Web Watch: Do firms still know 'squat' about domains?
Comment Starbucks Coffee is one company that has clearly given this some thought. Interesting then that StarbucksSucks - which paints the coffee giant in a bad light and rather neatly rhymes - is available in its .co.uk, .net, .info, .biz and .name... [23 Jul 2004]
What if... everyone always knew where you are?
Comment Tell it you're thirsty and it will overlay the location of nearby coffee shops. It's then fascinating to watch their faces for the next few seconds as penny drops: "So if I can see where all my friends are, does that mean all my friends can see... [03 Apr 2002]
Windows XP: Five reasons to be cheerful
Comment Add that to the Universal Plug and Play feature in XP that supposedly enables auto-discovery and configuration of anything (including the office coffee machine, as long as Microsoft approves) and you have a tempting path to inextricable chaos... [24 Oct 2001]
