Gareth Jones » making me smile http://blog.garethj.com Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:35:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Big Blue goes green http://blog.garethj.com/2008/09/big-blue-goes-green/ http://blog.garethj.com/2008/09/big-blue-goes-green/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:57:25 +0000 gareth http://blog.garethj.com/?p=109 Continue reading →]]> I received an IBM Thanks! award recently from Darren for helping out with the Feel Good Inc. Extreme Blue project. One of the choices was a ‘Recycled Office Pack’ which sounded interesting and so I thought I’d go for that:
IBM Recycled Office Pack
All items say things like ‘made from recycled paper and card’, ‘using sustainable timber’ etc.

]]> http://blog.garethj.com/2008/09/big-blue-goes-green/feed/ 0 British Computer Society struggles to use computers http://blog.garethj.com/2008/05/british-computer-society-struggles-to-use-computers/ http://blog.garethj.com/2008/05/british-computer-society-struggles-to-use-computers/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 08:01:28 +0000 gareth http://blog.garethj.com/?p=44 Continue reading →]]> Check out the phone numbersI got my BCS membership renewal yesterday and went through checking my details. It was quite interesting to see my phone numbers represented in the form 4.42E+11. Wow, that would be embarrasing if it was a computing-related society. Oh, hang on…

]]> http://blog.garethj.com/2008/05/british-computer-society-struggles-to-use-computers/feed/ 13 A little something about me… http://blog.garethj.com/2008/01/a-little-something-about-me/ http://blog.garethj.com/2008/01/a-little-something-about-me/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:26:15 +0000 gareth http://blog.garethj.com/2008/01/22/a-little-something-about-me/ Continue reading →]]> I’ve already put this on Flickr but I thought it was worth sharing here:

Apparently some people think I’m a bit anal. So I happen to like to line things up make them look neat – what’s so wrong with that? This is a birthday card I received this year from my friend Matt. He found it 9 months ago and had been hanging onto it specifically for me. I think that says something about how applicable it is…

The LAW of STRAIGHTNESS

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