steve purkiss

I’ve just cancelled my broadband service from Virgin after only one week. Why? Because today I woke up to find my ‘unlimited’ service had been throttled because I apparently used it too much. I’m now getting less-than-dial-up speeds and the service is all but useless to me.
When I phoned up to order, I stated to [...]

I’m on episode 96 of The Lifted Lorax Show!
The show’s always great so do subscribe and listen to my 20 minute rant on life, the universe and seesmic
I was watching some conversations on seesmic the other night when one of my ’seesmates’ Chris posted that they were recording the show and if we [...]

At this very moment there are many people making love. There are also many people being tortured.
We can either dismiss this and live in the world presented before our eyes, or realise that we all, as human beings, owe it to ourselves and each other to at least be educated as to what is [...]

Remember when you were learning how to walk that it was all about balance?
Well, life is like that too - especially when it comes to power, wealth, and all that malarky.
If you’ve forgotten, here’s a refresher:

As you may have previously heard, whenever you look into learning a new programming language it is customary to create a program which outputs “Hello, World!”. For me, starting a blog is very much like learning a new programming language - I had to work out which tools I wanted to use, how to use [...]