May 8, 2013

Nexus 7 Giveaway

We’re giving away a Nexus 7 to celebrate the company’s 10 years in business Full details here. Related articles Celebrate 10 Years Of Blacknight & Win A Google Nexus 7! (blacknight.com) Related Posts:Google Local Comes To IrelandBig Companies Trying To Monopolise .blog, .cloud and moreDealing With Cold CallersBypassing Delivery Restrictions With Parcel MotelBank Charges Bite

May 1, 2013

Tongue In Cheek Marketing

James and I throw ideas backwards and forwards a lot. Generally speaking, however, he knows what I’ll like and what I’ll hate. This week he came up with a couple of very nice images for two very different things. One is for a talk I’m giving at a conference later this month. I’ll be talking [...]

May 1, 2013

Posterous Dies – Posts Imported

With Posterous being shut down – supposedly yesterday – I have imported all the posts from my Posterous account into this site. You won’t notice the posts unless you peruse the archives, but they’re there .. They also look a bit odd, but I thought it best to preserve them somehow.. even if it did [...]

April 21, 2013

Dealing With WordPress Hack Attacks

If you follow technology news you’ll know that there’s been a very large attacking ongoing against self-hosted WordPress blogs. While the worst of the attack may have stopped for now it’s still ongoing. Our technical team released some figures that show the scale of the attack. And we’re not that big a hosting provider when [...]

April 19, 2013

.co chopsticks

The guys from .co gave me some chopsticks, which was appropriate since we were in China Related Posts:ICANN 46 Gala BeijingLife On A Plane?Big Companies Trying To Monopolise .blog, .cloud and moreClever Marketing Doesn’t Have To Cost A BombOrganising A Tweetup In Prague During ICANN 44

April 17, 2013

New Zealand Politician Gives Hilarious Speech On Marriage Equality

Marriage equality is being debated in many countries at the moment. It’s a serious topic and it impacts a lot of people. Having said that there’s no reason why all the talk around it has to be boring as this New Zealand politician, Maurice Williamson,  shows: And New Zealand has now legalized same sex marriage [...]

April 15, 2013

Men vs Women

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April 14, 2013

ICANN 46 Gala Beijing

Taken in the “Hall of the People” in Beijing, China Related Posts:.co chopsticksLife On A Plane?Arrived In Sydney!Things To Do In Sydney??ICANN Paris Hangover

April 1, 2013

Wardruna Helvegen

Wardruna are a Norwegian music group that have a rather special sound. They’re featured on the soundtrack of History Channel’s series “The Vikings” starring Gabriel Byrne, which is how I came across them. Related Posts:Marketing Gone Wrong – The TitanicApple’s 1984 Ridley Scott AdvertAudio Dedication To JobsJames Bond Exhibition Imperial War Museum, LondonHow to Find [...]

March 30, 2013

Underwear Model Talks Bluntly About Modelling, Gender and Stereotypes

Cameron Russell has been modelling since she was a teenager. Late last year she gave a TED talk which was very frank and quite surprising. Related Posts:No Related Posts