A few words from Rob Mansfield

Building built from thousands of books – WOW!

rob — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:09:50 +0000

via inhabitat.com Coming just a few days after comedian Stewart Lee described how he ditched all his shelves of books, this is surely something to make him reconsider, although you might have a job living as a family inside. Matej Kren has created a gigantic tunnel of books and, if you happen to be in [...]

Joy of Tech: A boy named LOL.

rob — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:11:52 +0000

via geekculture.com Spotted this today in my Pulse news feed and had to share… I did tweet earlier, but felt it deserved a wider audience. Favourite bit is the post-script about his brother LMAO Posted via email from Rob’s stream of web Blog this on Blogger Subscribe to the comments for [...]

How PDAs have moved on

rob — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:33:07 +0000

I was clearing out some drawers and came across this old Compaq IPAQ Pocket PC, something I haven’t used for around 5 years. At the time – summer 2002 – it was the height of sophistication and technology. Not only did it sync with your PC, but it has Bluetooth, mapping software, plus basic Word even Excel [...]

Cycle hire is here in London – what it looks like

rob — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:31:47 +0000

via twitpic.com So the long-awaited Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme has finally launched today in London, promising to bring convenient and cheap cycling to anyone who wants it. It just so happens that one of the Cycle Hire points is just opposite our office, so I trundled over there this morning before I started work to [...]

Howard Webb is our very own Kim Milton Nielsen

rob — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:52:17 +0000

via thisislondon.co.uk Look beyond the Spanish celebrations, after winning Sunday’s World Cup against the Netherlands, and the big story was the number of yellow cards English referee Howard Webb showed, during the match – 14 in all. Both Arjen Robben and the Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk criticised Howard Webb for his handling of [...]