I work from home for a number of clients, and whilst it does have a lot of drawbacks, there are a couple of things I’ve become quite fond of in recent months. Perhaps surprisingly, for somebody who isn’t really much of a morning person, my morning breakfast routine has become perhaps the best overall part [...]
I’m sorry to report that a dear friend that had become an integral part of my life has very recently departed. This has left me feeling somewhat at a loss for a few days, although I seem to have found a way of coping with this most unexpected of exits. This is probably the reason [...]
I’ve just stumbled on a new and important philosophical problem: In a fight, which would win? Gadgets or coffee? I give you: The Year of Coffee, including a nice little remix interlude. You may also be interested in this flickr set. For the gadget side, control panels? Or anything from his steviness perhaps? So. To the point. Which would [...]
For the last year or so I’d been using the loft as an office. However, it was getting problematic for a number of reasons: It was cold and silly to heat; It was a long way up those loft stairs in your socks; It was a long way away from the coffee machine. Most importantly [...]
There’s an article over at Ars Technica about the supposed “Coffee Wars” and “fightback” of coffee shop owners to the invasion of lurkers making use of their free WiFi access, which is designed to lure in more customers. If only that were the case here. Here in the UK it’s nigh on impossible to find anywhere [...]
I’ve previously been very critical at the exorbitant wireless internet (WiFi) tarrifs in hotspots, such as those frequently encountered in coffee shops. It’s partly driven by a selfish view I hold that I’m actually the target audience for these tariffs. I run my own small business, I’ve no children, I have a WiFi equipped laptop, and [...]
With the kitchen now ‘complete’, we’re now looking forward to getting on with our lives after the unnecessary hassles we experienced due to the wrong damn kitchen being installed. Whilst the doors may be the wrong ones (matt white not the high gloss white we specified), everything else is actually looking pretty damn peachy. Folk up [...]
I’ve previously complained about internet tarrif’s in coffee shops (and here and here), but I think Caffe Nero may have cracked it. We’re over in Edinburgh for the day, as Frances makes one last attempt to secure further funding for the project she is on. This time at The Royal Society of Edinburgh, who offer scholarships [...]
I’ve spent a bit more time than I usually do in coffee shops here in Glasgow over the last few weeks. Mainly because I like coffee, but also because I like the environment for getting work done when I’m away in town. Something has begun to puzzle me though. What time does a purchase of [...]
I really hate it when I go to a coffee shop and get a poor cup of coffee. It’s much like a bad pint of beer (invariably because not enough people are drinking it to get decent turnover of barrels). But coffee doesn’t go off as such, it just takes a bit of effort. So we [...]
