Want a colour named after you? There’s a site for that. Myhexcolour allows you to buy choose any colour you wish and buy it. You buy it for a dollar, name it, link it and its yours. This is cool and yet utterly pointless, which is clearly why I have been drawn to it.

This site could be the next milliondolllarhomepage just because it is simple and ‘cheap’ (yes, if you consider paying one dollar for effectively nothing) but they have been suspended from taking any more money by PayPal. Looks like I’ve saved a dollar.

Title Song: What’s Your Favourite Colour? Living Colour [Spotify]

Spezify is one of those websites that you marvel at for all of five seconds. Simply enter your name and it will pull in random content related to the words, in my case “jamie riddell”. Naturally there is a lot of my content appearing as well as other references, including the Riddell football helmet. I can’t see any purpose after that but its good for a quick play

With thanks to @henweb and @stuartwitts for sharing this on Twitter.

I debated on posting this. I left the agency at the end of March 2009. After 10 years building the business from nothing to something, I felt it was time to go and focus on the other side of my life, like learning to play music and generally enjoying life. I was succesful in selling the business and I have a great life, house, family. So why do I have bouts of feeling absoloutely miserable? Last week was a prime example, I had a few days of feeling miserable with no reason at all.

Maybe I am missing the camaraderie of working with a great bunch of people? Funny, I didn’t expect that.

A desk is a desk, right? You plop your computer on it, work away and occasionally clean it. I thought so, but as I was dismantling my old desk for a shiny new one, I thought that it deserved more credit than that. The desk in question was actually Katherine’s (my wife & business partner) kitchen table before I met her.

The table in question

The kitchen table, as it was in 1999 was our boardroom table. It was where, with a bottle of wine we discussed the idea of forming an agency. The idea for calling it Cheeze came on a flight to France. It then became my first desk when we started the agency in the back room, where I sat on December 8th 1999 and started trading as Cheeze. The desk stayed home when we moved into ever larger premises but was always used when working at home or at weekends. The desk moved with us from home to home and has been used as my desk continually until today.

If you have read ‘Get Big Fast‘ – the story of Jeff Bezos and Amazon you will know that Jeff’s first desk was a door nailed to a pile of bricks. That desk was eventually auctioned and probably now resides with some online casino company. Whilst our desk may not be as famous, it is still worthy of praise. It was there when we started and was still being used when the agency was aquired so it should have more than sentimental value.

But fear not, it will be sanded down and repainted, shortly to reappear as a table somewhere in the house…