The first line of a self-introduction is by far the hardest to write, so I will keep it short and sweet with: Hi, I’m a Simon Barker too! I’m quite glad Simon has created this “Are You Simon Barker?” section of his site and invited me to write for it, because whenever I do a vanity Google of myself to check nothing onerous has appeared, this is the website I always find. In some ways that is a good thing but, when people are trying to find me, it is definitely an issue.
I was born in 1987 in Clacton on Sea and since then I have migrated, via Sheffield for a spell at boarding school, up to Newcastle Upon Tyne for university. I managed to get a B.Eng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering tucked under my belt by the summer of 2008 and, at the time of the financial melt down, that autumn I was happily starting my PhD in the same topic. I would love to say that it was fantastic foresight of mine to avoid trying to get a job at the start of the recession but, in reality, I love engineering and a PhD had my name written all over it.
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Well I thought it was time for a whole new….or not so new and original look to the Simon Barker dot com…..yeah that’s Simon Barker, not Simon Baker!….most people seem to be able to tell the difference….even if a search engine can’t! ;)
Let me know what you think to this little experiment….
When you get so many emails as I do, especially mass-mailed ones, it’s quite often tough to stand out and get your attention, however Sports Interactive have certainly managed to do that with their latest email about their Football Manager Live game.
It’s an online multiplayer game I played for a few months a couple of years back based on the highly popular Football Manager series, since I left, I’ve had a few emails with offers to come back (as you often do with subscription services you’ve left), but this is the first email that has really caught my attention and made me read the full thing – which is surely the first thing that you want when sending an email…
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Here’s some of the cool webpages and online stuff that I’ve found whilst roaming around the Internet recently and decided to add them to my online Delicious bookmarks between 5th January 2011 and 13th January 2011:
- Star Wars Blu-Ray Boxset Release Date Officially Announced – The time is coming round again…to re-buy the Star Wars films, but this time round in full Blu-Ray HD goodness! As much as the prequels probably don't make much sense, especially the Phantom Menace after I recently saw a video review of it, I'll probably end up getting them all just to have the complete collection. Will you be buying both trilogies or just the originals?
- 20 Technology Websites that we love | Technology Blog – What to keep up to date with all the latest technology news on the Internet, but don't know which sites might be best? Then just take a look at this great selection of technology websites that will mean you never miss any of the big technology news and reviews!
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Here’s some of the cool webpages and online stuff that I’ve found whilst roaming around the Internet recently and decided to add them to my online Delicious bookmarks between 29th December 2010 and 3rd January 2011:
- 5 Best eBook Readers For Winter 2010/11 – In the past couple of years eBook readers have really become quite popular, what with the likes of Amazon Kindle making it so easy to buy and transport your books around with you, it makes for a great gadget gift idea. However, there's plenty of other options on the market including the Apple iPad, but which is the best current ebook reader? Find out here!
- #OneADay 1 – Intro and Retrospective « Yes, I have a lot of blogs – Debbie Timmins, who is a guest blogger over at Zath, has signed up for the #OneADay creative project which involves committing to writing a blog post every day of 2011. This paritcular post is a summary of her 2010, nice to see that she's done some great things since walking away from her job!
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Here’s some of the cool webpages and online stuff that I’ve found whilst roaming around the Internet recently and decided to add them to my online Delicious bookmarks between 20th December 2010 and 27th December 2010:
I have to say that there aren’t that many things that really annoy me in daily life, I mean I try to be a fairly easy going kind of guy most of the time, however if there’s one thing that has the potential to annoy me, it has to be car parking in Hambleton, North Yorkshire, particularly in Thirsk and Northallerton!
Now admittedly I do have a history of sticking to my principles, especially when it comes to car parking, for instance, it’s not unknown of me to drive 15 miles to a local town, get frustrated with not being able to find a car parking space for over 15 minutes and then drive 40 miles in the opposite direction to an ‘out of town’ shopping centre where I know that they’ll be plenty of free parking spaces available.
Perhaps in future people should not try and support their local town and simply go to the out of town shopping centre instead? That being the case, if you were the council responsible for decisions around parking, what would you do to help encourage business into your local rural market towns?
Perhaps replace a free parking system that allowed local people to park for up to 2 hours for free, with a paid one? Hmmm, perhaps not, I wouldn’t do that either, but clearly the people in charge don’t think like this…perhaps it’s the same kind of people who are responsible for North Yorkshire Police Recruitment & Jobs?
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Here’s some of the cool webpages and online stuff that I’ve found whilst roaming around the Internet recently and decided to add them to my online Delicious bookmarks between 29th November 2010 and 13th December 2010:
As a blogger you often get emails asking you to looking at a new online service, review a product or write about the content that someone else has created, in fact I get more emails of this type now than I could ever reply to.
However, today I received an email asking me to promote a new “Best Gadget Blog List” that this site had compiled, nothing particularly new in this as people often do this kind of thing when they include you in a list, however this time when I headed over to the list in question I soon noticed that my gadget blog; Zath wasn’t actually included.
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