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About
I am Technical Director at NOWWASHYOURHANDS. I love the Web and make nice things to put on it. I have made stuff for clients such as MTV Europe, the BBC, Dennis Publishing and many others. I'm currently playing with Virb and am known to post the odd thing or three to Pixelsurgeon.
My blog can be found over at http://blog.andrewskinner.name. It's a bit of a overgrown mess.
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Feb 9, 2009
James Dyson on invention and engineering
The Guardian this weekend featured and article and an essay by the great James Dyson. In his essay Mr Dyson discusses the poor state of the UK engineering industry and focuses on how we as a nation rejoice at design excellence, but ignore the feats of engineering and …
Feb 4, 2009
Co-op use chip and pin to poll their customers
I was in my local Co-op store a couple of days back and when I came to pay for my shopping with my credit card I was surprised to see the chip and pin machine asking me if I thought they should charge for plastic carrier bags or not. Apparently it was done on purpose as …
Feb 2, 2009
Maybe the Internet's not a robust as people think
Yesterday all my mag.nolia bookmarks were gone when something went wrong and all users data was wiped from the web - they're now trying to get peoples data back. This morning a little bit of Snow managed to down the websites of Transport for London, National Rail and
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Movies
The Matrix, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Wallace and Gromit - The Wrong Trousers, Predator, X-Men, Star Wars, Waynes World, The Itallian Job, Lost in Translation, Alien, Battle Royale, House of Flyer Daggers, Batman Begins, Solaris
Music
Zero 7, The Killers, Tracey Thorn, BT, The Lemonheads, Underworld, Moloko
Television
River Cottage, Heroes, 24, CSI, CSI New York, Doctor Who, Waking the Dead, Peter Kay, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Battlestar Gallactica, Babylon5
Books
Terry Pratchet, Young James Bond, Harry Potter, Fight Club, The Da Vinci Code, A Scanner Darkly
Interests
Computers, Programming, Internet, Gardening, Growing Veg, Border Terriers, TV, Cinema, Music, XBox360, Dogs, Cars, Gadgets
Magazines
Wired Magazine, GamesTM, .Net, Computer Arts, The Economist, New Scientist
R.fm, May 6, 2009:
Hi,
our new site is up and running now, check it and let us know what you think.
Love from R.fm crew
onehugeeye, Apr 22, 2007:
killer banner!
No Star, Apr 2, 2007:
make smile happen.
K E L L Y, Apr 1, 2007:
hi friend!
elese, Mar 31, 2007:
of course!!!!
how are you?
Tiffany, Mar 30, 2007:
aren't dogs great? :)