Mostly This:

Oil have that one. This is a really neat mobile app, simply text your registration to castrol and they tell you which is the right oil to buy -  a lifesaver. Ultra simple and plain useful.  well done. Helped me out in halfords the other day when my oil light was on and i couldnt remember which oil i needed and theres multiple versions of my car that take different oil.

Reboot11.

I did my talk at reboot 11 was a bit of a panic - as the previous speaker over ran by almost 30 mins - then we couldn’ t hook up my new mac book pro to the projector (i only had a dvi adapter and it was vga only, and a dvi - vga adapter didn’t work as the apple dongle had some dvi pins blocked out!!! )

lessons learnt - plus i wasn’t used to keynote on two screens, so only half my notes were visible - in this situation quite handy!

but I over came and did a massively abridged version in 20 mins ( the previous nights run though was hitting 50 - and I had 40 mins.)  

so it kinda went tits up - but I just summarised heavily - it may appear online at the reboot site, I’m kinda hoping it doesn’t - though from a learning to present aspect its useful to see what i did wrong.

you can see the slides and random notes here

http://www.slideshare.net/maclondon/living-in-a-money-free-world

next time I’ll get the story telling aspect and coherent narrative bit right.

The good thing was there was a good vibrant discussion afterwards with 6 of the poeple who had been there - so as a starting point to get people thinking it worked ok.

I think it got a bit lost in fact presenting and avoided opinion and prediction.  I’ve come out of it with several interesting concepts, one being having a fixed money system - so theres only so  much and no more - and its balanced.

The big issue is hoarding and credit. Maybe money should ‘expire’ as theres no real need for people to have millions in the bank - while 1000’s are 1000’s in debt.  It’s broken.

Reboot was pretty awesome - it’s the first conference I’ve been too - other than game camp. And my first proper public speaking.

I’m really mobile - because I walk, sleep and EAT mobile. Introducing the new Chokia C97, state of the art in Coffee Sponge.  It’s what cakes have become.

Click for unbaking photos.

This is an entry for the really mobile project week of win.

reallymobile weekofwin

For post S&M sessions? The leather band-aid. Actually makes some sence - though not very cost effective. spotted on warren ellis’s website.

War on Regents Street: This friday its round three. Apple launch the iPhone 3G [S] and nokia launch the N97.  These are both third itterations of products. Nokias N-series N95/N96/N97 and Apples erm iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G [S].

Two very different products - but the ‘war’ will still be apparent - expect less queues than this time last year - as all the fan boys are locked into 18 month contracts with apple.  And nokias are available everywhere on every network for (mostly) free within a week from the official sim free launch. Nokia’s own 5800 will give the N97 a run for its money. And the iPhone will sell bucketloads.  Now lets have some more android phone please.

Fake cheese ‘n’ pineapple: Today I decided to make fake cheese ‘n’ pineapple using coloured white chocolate filled with pineapple chocolate ganache. The idea being to fool people that its cheese, a-la heston B.  It was a bit heath robinson, making it up as i went along, and without the proper tools/techniques.  No tempering here, in fact the coloured white chocolate outer coating was decidedly buttery in texture.

Ingredience

I bar of green and blacks white chocolate.

a table spoon or so of double cream.

Some dried pineapple, some chopped very finely.

a knob of butter.

Yellow food colouring.

Cocktail sticks.

I heated the cream and added roughly twice as much chocolate, a knob of butter, finely chopped pineapple and some food colouring. mixing it together to make the ganache.

Then i melted some more chocolate with food colouring and lined a silicon ice tray with the putty like chocolate, and placed it in the freezer to set.  Once solid i filled it with ganache then back in the freezer for a bit.  Then topped off with more melted chocolate. Back to the freezer to set.

A little later I popped it out and chopped into ‘cubes’ putting each one on a cocktail stick with a bit of dried pineapple.

The effect worked surprisingly well. Not perfect but enough to fool anyone that didn’t pick one up.  The taste was pretty good too, the ganache was more chocolately than pineapple tasting - but the dried pineapple made up for that - and prevented it being overpoweing.

If I had silicon cubes I would fill them with a dark chocolate more fruity ganache.

Still not a bad start at confectionary, I don’t think Paul A Young will loose any sleep though.

Disney Wii: It’s interesting to see Disney’s attempt to ‘own’ Wii gaming in the way it rebrands DVD’s as Disney DVD’s.  And is applying the same buy one get one free promotion it uses frequently on DVD’s too. Shame the titles are largely pluto poop.

Autumn Orchard: I was really impressed to see a demographic cross section and choice of male/female trainers in the apple store one-to-one training section. Allowing older / Female customers a trainer they will feel comfortable with is really progressive.  I’d also point out there was a fair percentage over senior shoppers in the apple store too, so its clearly an important market.  And i made it though this entire post without using the term, silv… well you know.

iPod sans wires… Look v3.0 software brings stereo bluetooth to iPod touch (and iPhone) at long long last.