Blog Standard Stuff

First things first, let’s just say that I’m not a big stadium concert goer. I usually prefer the smaller gigs where you can see the artists and actually feel the speakers shaking a few feet away from you. However, this year I have attended two mega gigs and they offer very good comparisons, because the [...]

Earlier this evening I decided to post something to the local Freecycle list – a mattress that we’ve had kicking around, never used, but is just a bit on the lightweight and (for me at least) not very comfortable side. I used the ‘message maker‘ – a web page that has a form you complete [...]

Now I don’t claim to be – and nor will I ever claim to be – a good logo designer. In fact, you could omit the word ‘good’ from that last sentence and it would still be truthful. But I recently ended up doing some logo work as a favour for family.
Some of Manda’s [...]

‘cos I paid a man to iconize me … and I’ve either aged a few years (e.g. 10) or I really have a false self-perception!

There’s an exellent post over on Joe Clark’s site today entitled Advice for presentations: It happens! In this lengthy piece (well, this is Joe!), Joe imparts some of his knowledge on what makes for a good presentation and how to deal with things when they go a little (or quite badly) wrong.
I’m pleased to report [...]

Well, the crux of this post is right there in the heading, but that’s not all I wanted to write about.
Yesterday was the day that we said our final goodbyes to dad. If you read my previous post on this blog, you’ll know that my relationship with my dad was, like the rest of [...]

I wish I could say that I will miss you. I wish I could pontificate about what a great man you were, how you were an inspiration to us all and how anyone would strive to be half the man you were, but we both know that’s not the case. Sadly – for all of [...]

As spotted in a feed somewhere in my masses of news feeds this morning, the new AOL page – looks quite a bit like Yahoo!, doesn’t it?
Click on the thumbnail to see a comparison (it’s a 2.8mb animated gif).

[Note - I was accessing AOL's site from work and it appears to be missing some content [...]

Well, that’s what I always use to say to people: "You have got to check out the Boost bars in Aus – they are to die for." I’ve oft lamented the fact that back here in the UK we don’t seem to have anything that quite matches up. Sure, there are fruit juice and shakes [...]

To mark the imminent release of Web Standards Creativity – a book that covers a wide range of inventive web techniques, using tricks from the world of DOM scripting, CSS and more, and all with web standards front and centre – the whole posse of authors (well, apart from one notable exception) are going [...]