Using an eBay Auction Sniper

I’ve got my eyes on a set of 4 Alloy wheels which I need for my new car (don’t ask ). The problem is that at the time the auction ends tomorrow, I’ll be in a strategic meeting at work. After googling ‘ebay sniper‘ for a bit (but only getting useless paid results at [...]

Developing a Personal Brand

I’ve been thinking about my ‘personal brand’ and whether/how I should develop it. I’m plagued forever by the private/public dichotomy, in that I’m very guarded about my online identity and don’t really want to push my real name out into the ‘web 2.0 sphere’.
However, I realise that I have to do something for my horizontal [...]

The Blink Tag

Yesterday I was reminiscing with someone about the ‘blink’ tag. When I was first on the Internet, I used to write html code in notepad, saving it as *.html. It then turned into a webpage (obviously). That’s how I created my very first ‘homepage’ on geocities!
Favourite annoying ‘effect’ (we didn’t have CSS then) was [...]

5 Seconds on Google Lively

I’ve just installed Google Lively and want to try it out (it was launched yesterday, and still in Beta of course, but I didn’t have Internet access).
The problem is that I now have to choose my handle. lenina is already taken (unfortunately), so is leninacrowne, and one option they’re offering me is firstname.surname. I don’t [...]

lenina on the Radio tomorrow

I will be radio interviewed tomorrow. w00t. It’s quite cool. I can’t tell you more about it I’m afraid. What I’m going to do though is stream it live and record it to my harddrive via mp3mymp3 (daft name). If I make a fool of myself (it’s live radio), I’m just gonna delete the file [...]

Arnisdale (Scotland) doesn’t have Broadband

There are communities in the UK that don’t have broadband access yet. One story was on BBC News tonight of a guy that sails across a loch (Loch Hourn and Corran) to go online wirelessly
Check out the clip featuring Loch Hourn on the BBC site here - it’s beautiful!
/me must go there

Back in London

I’m back in London now and the first thing I’m doing is downloading the shows via iPlayer that I missed while out in Italy.
I tried DLing them while there, but to no avail (it only works in the UK! How could one get around that… hiding IP?)
So now I’ve got on download:

The Apprentice - Episode [...]

The End of Viral Marketing?

Image via Wikipedia

Yes, I’m still in Italy and on holidays. However, I’ve come across this little piece of news in my feeds that I need to flag up.
On Monday 26th, a new law comes into effect in the UK (Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 200 to protect consumers from ‘stealth marketing‘ - i.e. underhand [...]

lenina grasps SEO (= steal source code)

I think I’ve finally understood SEO. I’ve always known the importance of SEO and especially, natural search (e.g. importance of title tag, always provide meta description and keywords), but in practice have never really had to bother with stuff in the header tag, or felt it necessary (e.g. I have a website relating to my [...]

28 Questions

I’ve only once participated in an answer questions-thingy, and normally I don’t do them. But tomorrow I’m off work and nothing’s on the telly, so I might as well
1. Last movie you saw in a theater?
The Other Boleyn Girl (bonding with my friend J.)
2. What book are you reading?
Fiction: Sarah Waters‘ Fingersmith
Educational: onlinemarketing: [...]