Posts in category: Other Things

I’m an uncle again!

Posted February 26 by Dan Cryer

I’m a bit late in making this post, as it’s almost week-old news, but I’ve been waiting for the pictures to go up on Facebook before I posted anything.
My sister had her second child on Saturday 20th February, baby Nathan. He weighed in at exactly eight pounds, with blond hair and apparently, big hands and [...]

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Moving on to pastures new

Posted February 19 by Dan Cryer

I got a call a couple of weeks ago about a great opportunity at a small full-package media and marketing agency in Leeds, Media Wow. After a short, successful interview process, I was offered the job on Monday. I’m going to be helping them create a web development department from scratch to compliment their recent addition [...]

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Twitter Profitable in 2009?

Posted December 21 by Dan Cryer

We have a running discussion at work, generally brought up by Ben after a Twitter related story breaks. This is that Twitter’s great and all, but it doesn’t make any money. Our generally agreed assumptions have been that Twitter is free-loading off the back of Venture Capital and will flop as soon as it’s left [...]

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2009 Christmas Number One is… Not The X Factor!

Posted December 21 by Dan Cryer

If you read my blog regularly, which not many people do, you’d know that I wanted to get either Bruce Springsteen’s “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” or Chris Moyles’ “Never Gonna Snow” to number one for Christmas instead of the X Factor winner, which turned out to be Joe McElderry. Of course, this was [...]

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Chris Moyles vs. The X Factor for Christmas Number One?

Posted December 7 by Dan Cryer

Update: The Christmas Number One battle is over, the X Factor lost to Rage Against the Machine. I’ve posted about it here.
Buy the songs:

Rage Against the Machine: Killing In The Name [Explicit]
Joe McElderry: The Climb
Chris Moyles: Never Gonna Snow (At Christmas)

I posted a couple of weeks ago about getting a Christmas song to number one [...]

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