http://www.beedyg.co.uk bG's general musings Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:11:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just got back from the Wired Sussex Media Fair. I went to the last one just as I was thinking of taking the plunge to go freelance last year. The people and the sessions were pretty much the same but it's good to get into a room with 100+ other freelancers, ... http://www.beedyg.co.uk/2010/03/wired-sussex-media-fair/ I really love this picture http://www.beedyg.co.uk/2010/03/116/ Innocent, the people who make those lovely smoothies have branched out into veg pots. My favourite one is the Mexican Sweet Potato Chilli which is very very nice, so nice in fact that I decided to make it myself! Here's the recipe I used exactly although the addition of a small ... http://www.beedyg.co.uk/2009/08/mexican-sweet-potato-chilli/ I am a bit conflicted about this post: personally I can't stand fund raising events, my view being that if you want to donate money to charity then you should do so and do so quietly and privately. I think this view comes from my Catholic upbringing, I remember being ... http://www.beedyg.co.uk/2009/06/for-charedy-mate/ As you may have noticed here I was in Japan - well I've made it back in one piece! Japan is a fantastic Country- had a brilliant time, there's some photos up here and when I get a moment I'll be converting the videos and uploading to YouTube (yes they are mostly ... http://www.beedyg.co.uk/2009/04/back-from-japan/ Last month several months' of work finally came to fruition and the Rentokil deBugged Blog finally launched. It's been an interesting experience getting a blog set up for a large corporation, from educating the team from scratch to getting round technical issues. I can't take the credit for the final design ... http://www.beedyg.co.uk/2009/04/blogs-for-corporations/ Hi - as you might have noticed Im in Japan! Havent quite worked out the japanese keyboard, every time i try and do a bit of punctuation it all goes a bit wrong! For updates you can follow me on twitter (http://twitter.com/beedyg) After 2 hour stopover in Helsinki we arrived in Osaka ... http://www.beedyg.co.uk/2009/04/big-in-japan/ With the G20 protests starting today I was reminded of the last time this happened back in 1999. I've had to look it up on wikipedia and it was the J18: Carnival Against Capitalism. I was working in the Financial Services industry back then, but we were based in Hammersmith ... http://www.beedyg.co.uk/2009/03/globalisation-a-view-from-2002/ I watched Slumdog Millionaire and I was very impressed. I don’t watch many films in the cinema (the cheapskate in me usually just files films I like the look of away in the “will rent from Lovefilm later” category) but I’m very glad I was convinced by my friends recommendations ... http://www.beedyg.co.uk/2009/01/slumdog-millionaire/ I've been doing a fair bit of stuff with wordpress at work but most of the plugins and themes I've written haven't been releasable - this is my first plugin which is. Multiple Comment Moderation This is a simple plugin which allows you to set a number of moderated posts a subscriber ... http://www.beedyg.co.uk/2009/01/my-first-public-wordpress-plugin/