fordie’s blog

When purchasing software online you expect the process to go something like this:

Choose your software
Add to cart
Pay
Download Software

nice and simple & stress free. Unfortunately some companies don’t get it - Tomtom I’m looking at you.
Yesterday I decided to purchase the Tomtom maps of Western Europe in preparation for our holiday next month, so I spent [...]

After threatening to do it for almost a year, I’ve finally got round to changing the theme for this blog. I had planned to create my own theme, but having seen “HemingwayEx 1.0″ in an article by Smashing Magazine I decided that this was so close to what I wanted to achieve it wasn’t worth [...]

I reluctantly caved in and joined Facebook a few weeks back. At the time I really couldn’t see the point, after all - I have my blog and twitter for talking at people, Flickr for my photos, del.icio.us for bookmarks and last.fm for my music. Why would I need anything else?
For the first couple [...]

Back in February I changed jobs; at the time I couldn’t say much about the new job because the project I’ve been working on was being kept secret for commercial reasons.
Now that the website is live there is no reason that I can’t tell you about it. Tesco Property Market is a new site from [...]

This morning I added a box at the top of the blog entitled “what’s fordie up to now?” this takes a feed from Twitter. Twitter is one of the many social network type websites, the idea of this one is that you can let your friends (and complete strangers) know what you’re doing right now.
I [...]