Jasp’s Blog

Well it appears all is not lost and HMV have brought six Fopp stores, which they will continue to run independently under the Fopp brand. Strangely this covers almost every Fopp I’ve visited, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Glasgow. The Tottenham Court Road store is closing however, although another in London (Covent Garden) will be re-opening, but [...]

One of the problems with working in science is explaining what you do. For some people a quick, “I’m a Scientist,” is enough. Science either scares them slightly, or at least confuses them, or perhaps they are just not interested, either way they don’t push the matter any further. However sometimes I find someone whose [...]

I’ve always been attracted by MOO, the flickr buisness card company, but have never had the need for buisness cards. While they are designed for personal use, I would feel slightly self concious handing out a mini-card, even if they are as sexy as the ones MOO make. I’m sure I could find some other [...]

On adding Guitar Hero III to my Amazon wishlist, I noticed that the box in the corner appeared to display the price, a lowly £28.99. Now surely this is wrong, and Amazon just didn’t expect the price to show, there is afterall no add to basket button, but it does make you wonder where they [...]