The Travel PR Blog

Just as I had decided to move all of my multimedia hosting to Amazon’s S3 service, we discover it is vulnerable after all.
Seems S3 has been out for several hours leaving a whole load of sites crippled and webmasters kicking the ground in frustration.
If you are one, join the crowd.

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They are throwing the ballast out of a rapidly descending balloon. And about time too.
Anybody know if/when this is coming over here?

Starbucks is teaming up with AT&T to give Starbucks Card holders two hours of free wireless access per day beginning this spring. After that, it will cost $3.99 for a two-hour session. (Most Caribou [...]

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Couldn’t help noticing the background of the new Labour YouTube channel is a graduated red, rather than a solid Labour red. A few old boys might be spluttering into their brown ale at that (if they new what the hell YouTube is).

This week, the You Choose ‘08 platform, our hub for American political [...]

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Yesterday I experimented with NetNewsWire. It’s changed a lot since I first looked at it. I liked it - a lot - and had just decided to switch over and pay up when - they made it free!

RSS reader NetNewsWire left beta today with the official 3.1 release and news that the popular [...]

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"just to the south we can see the silver dome of Scotland’s only IMAX cinema, which has a screen larger than a 5-a-side football pitch, and a 12,000-watt digital sound system"
…and swingeing ticket prices. Every time I go it empties my wallet. Google Sightseeing - Discover the world via Google Maps and Google Earth

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I just edited a photo within Flickr for a client using the new Picnik integration. Worked really well. Worth trying.Edit your photos! On Flickr! « Flickr Blog

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About three years ago, I bought MindManager, a mindmapping application, to use with my tablet pc. It worked well, I mapped away with keyboard and ink and made some very good-looking mind maps. It was handy for structured writing, brain storming or particularly for notes if I was putting together a talk. Later I moved [...]

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I am not a Muslim - I don’t think many MacLeans are - but I have always loved the sound of the call to prayers from the local mosque. Sadly, the nearest mosque is probably about 20 miles from where I am sitting and prayers don’t seem to travel that far, even if you really [...]

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Now I know how I would spend the rest of the time on my charter to Australia when the Touch runs out of battery. The only disadvantage of the Kindle over conventional books is that it is not so good for slapping the guy in front when he reclines his seat into your lap two [...]

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You know what would get me travelling again? No, not money, fame or another contract at the Sunday Times. My iPod Touch. I love it so much I would even volunteer to get back on a charter to Sydney (and after going Down Under on a chart three times I thought my legs were permanently [...]

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Ok, this is v. geeky. I am writing this in TextEdit, saving it as a rich text file. Then I use the email to Google Documents function to send it directly into Gdocs.
And there it is.
Now I can use Google documents to post it to this blog.
Of course, if I had access to the internet [...]

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I love the Mac experience but I am sure half the joy of switching this summer came from the fact my tablet pc had about 200 programmes on it and a whole mess of debris from mucking around with MySQL, Apache and - yeh, like I know what I am doing - even Ruby on [...]

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