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I'm a consultant working in UK public-sector IT designing, delivering and assuring large systems. I'm also a mobile technology blogger writing about mobile products, services and the people who creates them.

I co-founded the mobile technlogy blog 'The Really Mobile Project', built the @uktrains Twitter service to provide better train-travel alerts and created 'Bloggers in Suits' to gently remind the 'social media experts' that the social web is for all of us.

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Filming U-156 off the coast of Cape Town with a floating U-Boat prop

October 31 2009, 5:27am | Comments

Apparently (with thanks to @alexjs for these two links) this is "U-156" being filmed in conjunction with the BBC. It depicts the 'Laconia Incident' from World War 2 - according to the always-reliable Wikipedia: In late 1942, a German U-Boat sunk the British troopship Laconia carrying 1800 Italian POWs off…

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New Apple iMac: A nice extra detail

October 20 2009, 10:25pm | Comments

The new iMac's also a display via its MiniDisplay port which is an input and an output. A smart feature to hook a few of us laptop owners...

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