The keyword geek

I used to fettle dictionary web sites. Now I chase dreams.

Friday, 23 December 2011

I call it stealing

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    I have a friend who receives Disability Living Allowance. She can walk for about fifty yards, then she has to sit down, such are her med...
Monday, 21 November 2011

Android vs. iOS apps: it's a matter of status

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So my mission has been to research a category of smartphone apps. I've been to the iPhone App Store, the Android Market, the Windows P...
Thursday, 13 October 2011

FAILBlog #fail

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    My life is complete. A piece of software I wrote for the Oxford Words Blog , an online Shakespearean vocabulary checker , has been fea...
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Friday, 2 September 2011

How smart does a smartphone have to be?

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    It started with an argument I heard last year at an event for mobile application developers. On my left, a developer, on my right a mobi...
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Friday, 12 August 2011

Precomputing for fun and profit

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    Last year I wrote a post about my keyword analysis tool . I wrote this piece of software in the years before I started working for OUP, ...
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The annoyance of writing stupid things

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   It is with some surprise that I notice six months have passed since I last published anything here. It's not that I haven't writt...
Tuesday, 15 February 2011

My travels over four decades

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  While planning a holiday with my wife a few weeks ago I was left wondering where in the UK I had yet to see. She doesn't hail from the...
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Friday, 14 January 2011

A dictionary search box for your website or blog

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The Oxford Dictionaries Online search box widget I mentioned in a previous post has now gone live and is available for you to put on your ...
Thursday, 6 January 2011

Yet another set of browser stats

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    It's worth posting these graphs of browser market share over the second half of 2010 generated from real-world Urchin traffic figure...
Monday, 3 January 2011

2010 as viewed through Daily Express headlines

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    A couple of years ago I was working in a small business centre in Oxfordshire, a building that was home to several small tech companies....
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