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Google’s 10^100 (how many can you help?)
I have begun to see that we may be entering a new age of polymaths, and I'm happy to be involved in a part of the business world which seems to sustain some of the best brains on the planet. I remember reading about the beginners of industry—the pioneers of technology...
WordPress
Some of my long-term readers (hi, Mum) might remember that my original blog was a Drupal install, and that my less-than-lovely ISP dropped my connection as I was uploading some new files—therefore borking the CSS. If you don't follow, that's OK. The point is that my...
sleepstorm
I've always had a love/hate relationship with sleep. I can remember being so upset I couldn't sleep because I had to go to bed. Maybe this has bled into the present. The funny part of it all, is I'd much rather not be asleep most of the time. My wife has always...
Future of Web Apps
I'm planning to attend this year's Future of Web Apps conference in London. Their list of speakers sounds fantastic, and I'm really looking forward to meeting some folks in real life. I'm particularly interested in this conference for its stated focus on the web...
New BBC iPlayer Layout: What were they thinking?
Quick note: This blog post is old. It was published as a complaint in 2008. Move along, folk. Sometimes I come across a site and have to wonder what the designers, consultants, marketers, management teams and everyone else involved were thinking when they signed off...
Organising the Workspace
Having been inspired by Lifehacker's workspace show and tell, I've decided to organise my workspace a bit. I have a quite deep, wooden desk with drawers which tend to fill with clutter. I've decided to feed a powerstrip through the back of one of the drawers so I can...
Kiva, revisited
It's been a few months since I last spoke about Kiva.org, and I wanted to bring it up again. Since writing, I've tried out the lending scheme, and am blown away with the ability to make a difference to places where it's seriously needed. Not only has Kiva created an...
Aesthetics and Applications
Image by . SantiMB . (too busy) via Flickr I grew up in a Mac family. My dad used to programme accounts recievable applications on an old, black and white Macintosh, and that was my first encounter with any sort of GUI. Since then, I've used both Mac's and PC's and...
Zemanta
Image via Wikipedia I'm trying out a Zemanta blog post. What it does, apparently, is to suggest ideas for the article you're currently writing. It's a semantic blog suggestion feature, and it's manifested in this instance as a firefox plugin that adds a write widget...