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Kevin Holdridge's Blog Kevin Holdridge is Managing Director of Kent House - aiming to become the UK's best Web agency. These are wibblings from the forty-something, slightly grumpy, often incredulous, perversely optimistic, Arsenal-supporting edge of reason.

21 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Grandslam weekend roundup

Still in a state of shock after all three of the footie teams in my life won this weekend – a season first! Arsenal were back on form – although still worryingly dependent on the historically fragile Robin van Persie – with a 1-2 victory over plucky Norwich on Saturday. Strange mutterings from le Boss [...]

14 November 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Ante-room of Avarice: Adventures with Esure

[note: this posting prompted a response below from Esure, please read in context] Motor insurance, eh? I made the mistake of ringing Esure today to let them know that I’d be having a courtesy car for the day while mine was in for servicing. For my pains, I earned 15 to 20 minutes on the phone (mostly [...]

09 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Ryan Giggs testimonial banner

I hear that they’ve made up an amended banner at old Trafford for next season.

08 May 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Stoke 3 Arsenal 1, 8 May 2011

I’ve never until today been to an Arsenal away match where the supporters have failed to get behind the team. Hush and occasional booing at the Emirates is one thing, but the away fans are usually highly energetic and supportive (yes, even  for Bendtner). I think that sums up  the state of  feeling. Stubborn failures [...]

18 April 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Arsenal 1 Liverpool 1, 17 Apr 2011

The blessed Arsene complains that “… we conceded the penalty after 11 minutes of stoppage time, when injury time was indicated to be eight minutes”. But, blaming the referee doesn’t wash – this time at least.  I thought referee Marriner had a good game. It was unwelcome and unnecessary, but he was entitled to run [...]

10 February 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Hall of Shame: Royal Mail

I suppose it was only a matter of time before the atrociously managed Royal Mail finally drove me to make a Hall of Shame entry.  This is the organisation that charges enormous fees for us to use “their” postcode database – something that is free in almost every other country because the data is considered [...]

07 December 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Assange arrested

Hard to know whether to be pleased or outraged at the arrest of Julian Assange of WikiLeaks. There is a distinct whiff of set-up from the criminal charges against him, but only time will tell.  Similarly, the recent denial-of-service attacks on WikiLeaks and pressure on Amazon to stop hosting the site look to be state-sponsored. [...]

13 September 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Hall of Shame: Open Directory Project

I recently volunteered to help edit a small category within the Open Directory Project (ODP). The ODP describes itself as “the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors“.  The project is honourable and worth supporting amidst the sea of sharp practice [...]

26 August 2010 ~ 40 Comments

Hall of Shame: Regus

Regus are the first of two entries today in the Hall of Shame.  A few months ago, we took out a virtual office package with them for our new London base. All we needed initially was mail forwarding. Although they are not the  cheapest in the market, Regus had premises in the right part of [...]

24 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Crewe Alexandra 0, Ipswich 1 (24 Aug 2010)

Very exciting evening match at Gresty Road (League Cup round 2). Despite being the underdogs from League 2, Crewe put in a sterling performance. They gave  Ipswich a real run for their money. For most of the game, Crewe looked like the team most likely to win. It was only a goal from a corner [...]