101 things you didn't know about Ewan, and were really afraid to ask

We’ve a lot going on with our new data centre business, DCMI. Part of the range of activities is, of course, a publicity and marketing campaign. On the conference call earlier I said I’d hunt for an article that The Guardian wrote about one of my older companies, Liv4now.com, and send it over to the PR team.

All I could remember from it was that the author — I think it was David Teather — described me as a ‘rangy 21-year-old’. I wasn’t sure what to think. I had to look up the word ‘rangy’. The first definition I found was ‘having long, slender limbs’. Nice. However the second and more prevalent definition was ‘tall, thin, and awkwardly built’. Riiiight. 😉

I just found the article thanks to The Guardian’s rather wicked comprehensive archive. If you’re bored and would like to read a wee article from Wednesday October 6, 1999, here we go: The Hard Work Behind Taking It Easy.

Update: Just found another one. Geez. Heady days.

What were you doing in October 1999, besides enjoying the huge dotcom surge? ADSL was a glint in the milkman’s eye at that point. I don’t think I even used text messaging much. I know my girlfriend at the time was texting like no tomorrow. Even when you were sat trying to eat a meal with her. But I didn’t text much back then. I THINK I was walking about with a Motorola v90 (the mini version of the popular Startac?)