Adam Bird - Where The Internet And Telecoms Meet
Blog URL http://www.adambird.com
Located Nottingham, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom
Tags sms, cycling, triathlon, esendex, internet, messaging, mms, telecoms
I spend my days immersed in the world of online SMS, MMS and Voice messaging services with Esendex. I'm also a technology addict, cyclist and triathlete. Welcome to my world.
Latest Blog Posts
- Sake-fuelled cultural insensitivity on Nov 17, 2009 in Video Stuff
Mrs B and I were lucky enough to go to the Eat Japan Sushi Awards over the weekend. We had a great time, ate some amazing, truly world-class, food and made good use of the complimentary sake and beer. There were seven chefs from seven different c...
- Ride like you feel, just occasionaly on Nov 15, 2009 in Beeston CC Cycling
Currently in the midst of base-training which for cycling means lot's of long rides at a pace within yourself to lay the platform for the real improvements later on. On these rides you're constantly monitoring your heart rate, power output or pace...
- Autumn Epic 09 on Nov 13, 2009 in Video Cycling
Finally got round to getting this up on YouTube. Unfortunately I ended up with the obvious use of ELO, Mr Blue Sky as Super Furry Animals, Hello Sunshine wasn't allowed because its WMG copyright. Vimeo doesn't have that kind of restriction so here...
- HOWTO: Source Control for VMWare Hosted Visual Studio on OSX on Nov 12, 2009 in Development
I've been wrestling with how to get some notion of backed-up source control for my Visual Studio projects that don't warrant going into the Esendex Team Foundation Server. Didn't want them to be open source so code.google.com, codeplex.com, etc we...
- Blue Ocean Strategy on Oct 14, 2009 in Entrepreneur Business Book
I bought this book a while ago after a reference on a blog somewhere. I never got round to reading it but it was referred to during a course Julian and I were on at the University of Nottingham as part of the EMDA High Growth Program. I steeled mys...
- Business Link - I might be about to change my view on Jun 4, 2009 in Entrepreneur Business Nottingham Esendex
As many of you will know, I've been pretty down on my experiences with Business Link. Well, this may be about to be consigned to history. As part of our acceptance on the EMDA High Growth programme, we had a business review which prompted Julian an...
- The Internet is a cess-pool on May 29, 2009 in Beeston CC
Running the web site for Beeston Cycling Club has been a real eye-opener as to the crap that stands in the way of legitimate use of the Internet. We run the site with a Wordpress blog at it's heart. Allowing our members to post and comment on rides...
