Today I came to DC on an invite from Google.org to attend a conference they were organising for NGO’s in the area. It was a great day, if anything just to see all the people I’ve been working with in the sector since I started ADP almost a year ago – NetHope, Ashoka, Red Cross.…
Now I know I’m not the first person to complain about this, I just did a quick Google search and it appears this problem is common. I have noticed that my very good and stable browser Firefox, running on Windows XP, has become less stable as new releases come out. What surprises me is that…
One of my closest friends Phaedra, from Jordan, works as a freelance for the film industry in Jordan and has been involved in many movies that have been shot there, both Hollywood (who film most of the middle east war films there) and local. She just let me know about this really interesting film that…
CNN did an interesting piece this morning on how new graduates are actively looking to join companies that are green and socially responsible. This is great news, as I myself have been a volunteer on Accenture’s Accenture Development Partnerships for the past 10 months, and even better because CNN spent most of the piece talking…
Following on from my previous blog on this issue, today the smoking ban came into force across the UK, and although this is a great thing, unfortunately Shisha was included in the ban as the petition didn’t get anywhere close the number of signatures it needed to get this issue raised (the final count is…
As I mentioned in a previous blog, I’ve been getting caught up in US politics the last couple of months as the primaries go on around me. Yesterday I actually had a chance to see Obama speak live in front of 17,000 people at the Baltimore Arena, 2 blocks away from where I work. The…
When I was working out in Hong Kong last October, I noticed the developer was using a desktop through his browser. I thought it was a remote desktop to his PC back at home, but it turned out that it was an online virtual desktop from Startforce.com. I signed up, and I’ve got to say…
Even though I am a UK citizen (or as I prefer to call myself a citizen of the world!), I, like millions of other people around the world, take an interest in US politics. The reason is pretty obvious, as Bush has shown with his devastating foreign policies, America is the only country in the…
For my work with Accenture Development Partnerships, I did a presentation to my group in the UK to show them life out in Bangkok, where I’ve been working for the past 7 months. The presentation went great, but unfortunately they ran out of time to show the video, so I’ve posted it up on YouTube…
When I was returning from the NetHope summit in Seattle, I had to stopover in Seoul airport for a few hours. After being watching all the Korean couples wearing matching track suits (so 80’s!) and remembering my fantastic experience working there 5 months earlier, I went to have a look in the terminal bookshop and…