Mervyn Spencer Captains Slightly Different Golf Team

The Rotary Club of Perranzabuloe (in deepest darkest Cornwall) recently held its 18th charity AM-AM Open Golf Championship. Slightly Different fielded an all star team, and despite the harrowing weather conditions including gale force winds and horizontal rain, three brave souls representing Slightly Different joined around 40 other teams at Perranporth Golf Club for the [...]

Personalisation – You Are The Context

To anyone who has browsed the Internet in the last ten years, you may have noticed the occasional advertisement appearing from time to time. They might be banner advertisements across the top of the page, or ads positioned vertically down the side also known as skyscraper ads. They could be within a defined area on [...]

Looking Good – Upgrading Your PC’s Display Hardware

I’ve been asked a couple of times recently for some recommendations on what display hardware to buy for a high end gaming PC, and I thought that my response might be useful to other people out there with the same question. And no, I’m not on commission! It is assumed that you’ve got the fastest [...]

Money Makes The World Go Round

While articles in the news now regularly include the word recession, the EuroZone is looking worse by the day, and nobody seems to know what the fallout of this will be to the wider economy, I don’t hear much in the way of good news put out by the media. This is a shame really [...]

Slightly Different’s 2012 World Predictions

As this year is predicted by many to be a year of change, I thought I’d throw some more fuel on the fire and make some of my own predictions as to what I think will happen this year. Hopefully, I won’t precipitate a Conspiracy Theory situation where masked agents abseil through my windows if [...]

Cowslip Workshops on Channel 4

Jo Colwill Helps Kirstie Allsopp Cowslip workshops very own Jo Colwill, is appearing on Kirstie Allsopp’s TV programme, Home for Christmas on Channel 4 tonight at 8pm. Jo is so completely unassuming and so I’m sure she won’t be shouting about this too much, but all the team at SD would like to wish her good luck [...]

Festive Office Fun

You won’t catch us playing any of these games or tracking Santa, or having a laugh at our suppliers dancing! of course, although we’ve had to try them out for you… just to make sure, you understand..

2011 Christmas Office Hours

Office Hours London Office Our London office hours over the holidays are: Closing on Thursday 22nd December at 5pm Re-opening on Tuesday 3rd January at 9am Head Office – Cornwall Our Head Office in Cornwall usually closes between Christmas and New Year, and this year we close at 5pm on Friday 23rd December, then from the 28th [...]

The Science Behind Santa

For those wondering how Santa can find time to do all that he has to do on Christmas Day, this may be of interest to explain how he does it, courtesy of Stanford University. Merry Christmas to you all! 1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms [...]

A Year In London – A Personal Retrospective

As many of our existing clients and friends will know, we also have an office in Central London, not far from Oxford Street. Since October 2010 when we picked up the keys, I have spent more of my working week in London during the last year than I have in Cornwall, typically spending three days [...]

Coping with the Panda

There is one thing that you can guarantee with online marketing – things are always changing! Google constantly changes its algorithms in order to make results more effective, but every now and then it makes some MAJOR changes, as it did recently with the ‘Panda’ update. Google don’t say what they are going to do, [...]