Can Google create community?

I have been meaning to blog for ages about a site I use called Goodreads. It is really excellent, I signed up ages ago and cant remember exactly how I found it but I think it might have been a Rails app. Anyway, it is a fairly simple idea, log what books »

Hiatus, Departure, Return

Itโ€™s been ages since I blogged as I have been mad busy in work though a lot has happened recently. I have: Left thebigword Packed up my house Sold/Gave away most of my possessions (keeping only books and my PC, as my friend Ben said โ€œproves you are »

FusionIO ioDrive

Well, I got my hands on one of the fusion-io ioDrives a couple of weeks ago. unfortunately they do not work in the version of VMware ESX that we are using, though they are working on drivers for the 64bit ESX4. I did not have time to set up a physical »

Christmassy Shizzle

Last weekend I went down to London again for a Christmas jolly with some great old uni friends, it was a lovely weekend, good wholesome fun. On the Saturday I went to see the Wallace Collection while some girlies shopped on Kensington Highstreet (where »