Matthew Inman, a former web developer and a man with a scathing, sarcastic and brilliant sense of humor, founded the Oatmeal only a few years ago. The site -- understandably popular for its informative and/or comical styling -- has gained a great deal of viral presence. It's commonplace...

LivingSocial, Groupon and the rest of the group-buying massive have led the charge on some hundreds of millions of dollars of spending. If anything, they came along at the best possible time, pumping a volume of fresh dollars into businesses small and large, a win-win situation...

In the last five years a great deal has changed for me - more than some, less than others - both in my own living arrangements (a jump from London to New York, a career-change from full-time writer to full-time PR-man) and in my own personal demeanor and attitude.

As...

LinkedIn is a very strange beast. Every so often you'll see somebody really weird pop up having looked at your profile - such as having someone from the NBA or Madison Square Garden or even, at one point, the Shake Shack check me out. Which makes sense -...

Before I came to New York, I was ad hoc at its finest. My disorganization was a chaotic river that I waded through every day, somehow coming out the other end dry only due to the comparatively placid pace of being a Londoner.

Enter New York. A city totally...

I'll admit it - Black Friday as a concept scares the living daylights out of me.

People lining up outside a Walmart at 4AM frightens me. People killing people to get deals frightens me. I mean, I've hankered for a great deal, waking up at 3AM to...

As mentioned in an earlier post, I have recently partaken in the aural company of a one Professor Elemental - quite literally the opposite of the rich hiphop community of New York. Trading street slang and baseball caps with the stickers still on them for Pith...

One of the most worrying things about leaving London and moving to New York was the potential to lose one of most people's favorite things about me - my accent. A cockney brogue mixed with a degree of poshness gained from my combined time at a rough public school and...

Recently, upon landing in San Francisco after a flight where a woman literally changed a baby's soiled diaper in front of me, I was running on around four hours of sleep and, frankly, in a little bit of pain. At times like these, one cannot rely on simple coffee to...

So, this just in. Internet people make a lot of assumptions. I know, I know, it's terribly shocking and will knock your socks off, but people are making base assumptions about the web based on their own very vague and temporal understanding of how their lives work.
Ask any...

While my last post consisted primarily of hardware - the way to physically set up your own, personal home office, entertainment and general comfort area in a small space, it's worth knowing that you should take these paragons of organization and apply them to the wider concept of...

I come from a land where people have houses. I come from a land where people are able to stretch out and put whatever they would like wherever. A studio apartment would be considered inhumane. My own (judged as 'spacious' here) modest 680-square-foot flat would be the butt of jokes...

Update: After publishing this post, Delta offered me a $150 voucher. I was not able to check in online on my return trip, and regardless of logging on at 24 hours on the dot, there were no exit row seats available.

Sometimes, I need to get out of the office, but beyond a 5-minute toilet break it was, until recently, rather hard to do.

Fact: You will be found out if you go unprepared. No, I don't mean by the people looking at you weirdly for obviously working from a...

And so, the iPad is launched upon the world, and there were equal parts adulation and gnashing of teeth. Everyone has had to voice their opinion - from the analytical tech press to the equal parts eloquent, intelligent and over-verbose Stephen Fry. Thousands of voices crawled...

One of the benefits in living in New York is knowing for a fact that, regardless of what you're into, there's some kind of congregation for you. Want to learn Argentinean Tango? Go right ahead. Want to make Zoori, a kind of Japanese sandal? There're 34...

In the short bursts of commuting that makes up my nerdy bridge-and-tunneler existence, it takes a rather special book to rise above the tinnitus of 3,000-odd music tracks, thirty or more iPhone games, or however many PSP games I have in my bag.

And, so, you'd imagine my surprise...

This week I had the pleasure of experiencing JetBlue and JFK's Terminal 5 - both of which I had heard great things about. Terminal 5 was a great deal more pleasant than many air terminals, feeling loungeier than the hospital mise en scène of Heathrow (minus their Terminal...

My commute is far from gruesome. I've seen worse - hiking up hills in Aberystwyth or cross-country marching at 8AM to an early-morning class in University Park, PA were far worse.

However, short and sweet as the morning PATH journey is, it lacks the stability of my own two...