Archive for September, 2006

Predictive text and strange headlines

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

There’s an article on the BBC with the headline “Billionaires rule US richest list”. Well duh! Isn’t that kind of obvious? You would expect billionaires to top a rich list because, well, they have the most money
And finally, why is it that the predicitive text feature on my mobile phone doesn’t recognise the […]

An interview with Carmen Maura

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

On Saturday evening I attended “An interview with Carmen Maura” at the Institut Francais. Carmen Maura is one of Spain’s most famous actresses - she has appeared in several of Pedro Almodovar’s film. She’s the one in the middle of the photograph below.

The interview was part of the Spanish film festival that has just recently […]

I never thought I’d say this but …

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

… Aeron chairs really aren’t that great! When I used to work for Arsdigita, Aeron chairs came as standard and I remember thinking how great they were - it was a long time ago. A few years ago I was looking around to buy a decent chair for myself. I went to several “specialist” shops […]