I’ve been going for a few jobs recently and I’ve come across a wide range of interviewing / sifting techniques. I basically want to have a bit of rant about some of the techniques which go on. I recently applied to Data Connection and was rejected after the first stage due to lack of ability [...]
I thought this was great. Good action, funny moments - naked man in our barn - and very sexy. I am not sure what else would be expected. Some people have said that some of his sarcasm has gone from the X films, this could perhaps be true, it was there a little but certainly [...]
This was brilliant. Genuinely worth seeing. It is smart and fast, well acted and exciting. It is nice to see Ben Affleck showing some talent again, on screen. Russell Crowe was as amazing as ever and Helen Mirren was the same. I am not sure how it could have gone wrong with that cast but [...]
I have gone from thinking Zac Efron was cute to being in love with him. I really enjoyed this, another one where you essentially get what you would expect. I was very impressed with Efron’s acting abilities, I am not saying oscar winning but you really could imagine that he had all of the later [...]
This didnt get great reviews, I dont really know what more you could expect though. I thought it was wicked! Had lost of cars and fast driving and all that should be in a film of this franchise. I dont really know what else to say, it is what you would expect!
Well it’s another long weekend with the bank holiday Monday! But, what is there to do in and around Coventry?
Tonight I shall be going to the Open Arms which is my local pub. It’s a great local to have and the Brew XI can’t be beaten for price or taste.
Then over the weekend I’m not [...]
Today, BeerMap was released to the App Store! You can download it here, and please do because we need as many people using it as possible so that reviews get into the system.
We’re planning to keep improving the app over the coming weeks on both the back end website and the iPhone application. So please [...]
We submitted version 1.0 to the App Store today, so it’s just fingers crossed now as to when it will hit the store.
For all you lucky people who download it within the first week, it will be FREE! It’ll also only be available in the UK for a while, we didn’t want people in USA [...]
For the last week I have been staying in Nerja (Spain) with my family and have returned in time for Easter day.
I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect, as my previous experience comes only from a hot, dusty and long drive across central Spain from Portugal to reach a horribly remote airport. However I’ve also read a fair amount about [...]
Well this was not hysterical, but that is not to say it wasnt funny. Definatly too long. I think that the first half happened twice then we came to the ending. There were some very funny bits and I personally thought that the ending was fantastic. Im not convinced its worth seeing in the cinema [...]
Well, the sun has finally started to come out this year and spring time is upon us. It’s been great seeing Coventry in the sun and, well, seeing sun generally because I’ve missed summers due to my travels around the world and timing it so that it was winter everywhere. (Although Australia was still hot!).
Last [...]
This is the first time I have majorly disagreed with Empire. For over thirties?? For George Clooney? No chemistry? Nonsense. Ha ha. Rhetorical much. Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Good dialogue, fun twist and Clive Owen. Who could ask for more?!
If you like soppy period dramas a go go go! Otherwise I wouldnt bother! I think Rupert Friend is one to watch, although it would appear him and Keira Knightley will be the best period acting couple ever who cant do much else! Anyway, its not desperatley historically accurate. Basically, actually the only reason to [...]
It has been a long while since I saw this cos I have not been so good with the whole updating the blog. Anyway, I enjoyed it a lot, visually it was fantastic. There were times where I noticed the amount of time that was passing and thought hurry up, but generally it was fabulous! [...]
Paul and I decided it was time to road test BeerMap for the first time last night. Well, someone had to try it out didn’t they? We headed to a local area where there are a lot of pubs within a small area so we could really get a feel for how the application worked [...]
We’re are one of the few lucky people who have access to both Tactile CRM and the beta of Reslove RM which is a support ticketing system. Combining the two applications allowed us to very easily manage the beta because contacts are shared between the two.
When you send a beta request to us, Resolve RM [...]
Well, we’re almost at the stage where we will be ready to release a working copy of BeerMap! The problem is that we need people to test BeerMap and start reviewing beers. For these reasons, we have decided to open up a public beta which will be ready shortly.
If you would like to take part [...]
Isn’t it annoying when you’re visiting an unfamiliar town or city and you know you want beer, you just don’t know which one! Rows of colourful logos are attached to the pumps along the bar, but you don’t recognise any of them or even the breweries! What can you do?!
Well that’s exactly why we are [...]
BeerMap is an iPhone app currently being developed by Matt Galloway and Paul Bain.
BeerMap aims to allow you easy access to information about beer, to share reviews, photos and to see what’s going down well around you.
We have had hundreds of ideas about how it might work, and it should be awesome when done! If [...]
So I have not been updating this as much as I should! This is the last of my recent watchings. I love Clive Owen. He is so much fun to watch. However, this was really quite dissapointing. I dont know what was wrong, I think it is that it doesnt really seem to feel resolved [...]
Everyone should see this film. It was unbelievable. If this really is Clint Eastwoods final acting bow then it is something spectacular to go out with. In places it is really very very funny, but also moving and sad and beautifully made. It is a gentle but violent film that works so well. I was [...]
I was so excited about seeing this as I have been waiting months since the Sundance festival when it did so well. I think the anticipation didnt help. That is not to say it wasnt good. It was, it just wasnt amazing. The basic idea is fantastic and there is huge hope for a sequel [...]
I was really expecting to hate this which I think helped in my enjoyment! I found it certainly informative, and by all accounts it is relatively historically accurate except that they exagerated how close they came to success. My big problem with it was how unbelievably american Tom Cruise is. For all that I say [...]
I was exhausted when I saw this and it is incredibly long so it was perhaps not the best film to see then. I did enjoy it however. It is very beautifully done, stylish and very well acted. It has a lovely pace but you really need to be very relaxed and happy to sit [...]
I’ve ordered my first Moo cards today! I chose to upload my own photos and I used 8 photos from my world tour. I hope they turn out good, although I’m sure that they will - here are the photos I used:
My new personal business cards arrived last week from Moo and I think they look quite good! Thanks Moo!
I did some work recently for a client at work who were having issues with their Trixbox system. This involved going on site and deciphering the problem with their network and figuring out exactly what was going wrong. It turned out that all the problems were related to a Trixbox misconfiguration in the sip_nat.conf file [...]
I have been developing a new version of my iPhone application, Subnet Calc for a few weeks now. I decided to call the new version Subnet Calc Pro as it’s essentially an advanced version of the free one.
In order to sell applications on the App Store for money you have to complete the banking and [...]
Having watched the last two of these recently I was fully expecting a very shitty mildly entertaining fun film. It was actually much better than I expected. I was thoroughly entertaining, still crappy but not mild. I think if you enjoyed the other two you definatly will enjoy this. Better than the second by far, [...]