December 2006

2007 is set to be an exciting year at Ning, with the launch (and continual development) of a product we have spent the last couple of months beavering away on, as well as a host of other improvements to the platform.

All this work requires a large amount of design, almost too much for our small team to handle at times. That’s why we’re now on the look out for a talented designer/web-developer, who can join us full time in sunny Palo Alto, California.

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The first of a few brief film reviews I plan to end the year on, given the fact that I’ve seen a few movies during my three months back in the states (God bless Netflix!). First up, Flags of Our Fathers, I film that I went to see with Tung and Fabricio one night after work a few weeks ago…

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A story about several racially and socially divided individuals living in Los Angeles, that through a number of events over the course of two days, come in contact with each other with predictable and unpredictable results.

Continue reading “Crash”

When I get forced to see movies that I’m not particularly keen on seeing (X-Men, Appocoloypto, Ray) I usually end up enjoying these the most. Children of Men - a vision of the not too distant future (2027 to be precise) where the human race is no longer able to reproduce - is one of those films. Whilst I liked the look of the trailer, I’m not a great fan of Clive Owen who plays the leading role in this film, and imagined that this would be a pretty average affair.

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Seeing as I have not written a single Christmas card this year (pretty unfashionable in the States as it happens), may I take this opportunity to wish all my readers a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous 2007.

Unsurprisingly, I feel compelled to write a review of this last year, which I think I can say with some confidence has been very different from previous years. Having said that it seems like I’ve spent the last five or so months looking back. Some recent posts to this blog are ample proof of the sort of reflective mood I’ve been in lately.

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