Entries by Simon Heyes

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A Load Of Old Blarney – Visiting Blarney Castle, Ireland

One of my New Year’s resolutions this year was to visit more countries and cities that I’ve never been to. It seems odd that with all the work travel I do, that I’ve never been to Ireland. A week previous to the Ireland trip, I was with a lady friend driving through the Scottish Highlands, […]

Left Brain vs. Right Brain

I’ve been looking for this image for weeks, and finally found it. If you’re a Mac owner like me, save this as your desktop for a week – it’ll look fantastic. Continuing my series of creativity posts…

European Plastic Bags

Plastic bags are both mundane and very useful at the same time. If you shop at Tesco, Waitrose or another UK supermarket regularly, you’ll no doubt have a stash of plastic bags under the sink or behind the door, all branded with the supermarkets logo. Quite boring really. Stretch that plastic bag thought to Schuh, […]

13 Items That Show You’re An Early 90’s School Kid

This throwback, nostalgic post was inspired by this post over on BuzzFeed. I thought I’d add more of a UK spin 🙂 Weren’t the 90’s great? Here’s 13 items that you usually saw in the playground, round someones wrist, on someones forehead or at someones desk in the classroom; 1. Panini Football Stickers I remember I […]

The End is Nigh? The Mayan Calendar Countdown

I’m going to deep dive into philosophy and science for this post, stick with me! I often joke (maybe I shouldn’t after you read this post) that something catastrophic will happen on the 21st December 2012. This all stems from an article I read a few years ago, which comprised certain beliefs that a cataclysmic […]

Creativity

I like to think I’m a creative person. This quote was shared with me a few weeks ago by someone who also believes I have creative blood. It’s a big picture thing, and it certainly struck a chord with me, so I thought I’d share it with you :). “Creativity is just connecting things. When […]

The Big Picture

Whenever I have deep and meaningful conversations about life, I always refer to the ‘big picture’. My outlook of life has always been to avoid getting bogged down in the day to day strifes, and focus on the longer term experiences which are yet to come. Every single day, there are many decisions to make […]

My First Infographic!

I’m a ‘learn by doing‘ guy, so I’ve always been curious about creating videos and infographics. As such, I thought it was about time I had a go at creating an infographic. Visual.ly is the infographic site of choice, and the recently launched a new site area which allows users to create their own infographics.Despite […]

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How To Scan A QR Code

I keep seeing QR codes pop up more and more. East London, New York, Cornwall…and even the Lake District. Last Christmas I was in a karaoke bar in Edinburgh with some guys from my football team (of which none of them work in digital, and wouldn’t touch the internet if it wasn’t for Facebook and/or […]