On Re-Inventing a Blog
I’ve been writing here now for well over eleven years, and every so often I dig into the guts of one part of it and redesign some element of how it works, which way it’s structured, what I’m writing...
View Article360 Degrees of Churchill Square
I’ve been playing around with some basic jQuery stuff at home and at work these days, looking into new ways of interacting with imagery. A few days ago you might have seen the xkcd comic with the...
View ArticleFuture Histories: Blogging and the Art of the Personal Archive
The history of humanity is a gradient of information. All that remains of what happened to us as people a few thousand years ago is a sparse collection informational noise, a tiny collection of...
View ArticleProject: Maps, Routes and Fun with Vector Art – Part 1
Perhaps it’s a little bit crazy, but I’ve been drawing maps. At the root of it is the same sort of thing that generally happens when I get involved with something: it turns techie. Not always in a bad...
View ArticleFixing the Foobarn: Minor Tweaks & New Ideas
This is a cross-post from some thinking I was doing last night about my other blog… I\’ll admit. I haven\’t actually been doing a good job of keeping that particular blog updated. And it hasn\’t...
View ArticleI, Inkscapist: Three Curves Every Artist Should Know
I hereby declare myself a super-fan of the open source graphics editor, Inkscape. You should be, too. “I, Inkscapist” is a (new) series of articles I’m planning to write about getting your feet wet as...
View ArticleReloaded: Creeping Into Spring Again Edition
A reloaded post is a short-and-sweet collection of the (sometimes-interlinked) randomness from my recent life, universe and everything else in between. They would be more detailed but they tend to be...
View ArticleGet the Business Right First & the Tech Will Follow
As the summer bleeds into some chilly autumn days, and I spend more and more time refocusing on those upcoming long winter days de-crypting work project requests, I’ve been turning my thoughts back to...
View ArticleHackable App(licable) Me
A “Hackable Me” post is a few words on incremental personal self-improvement: a personal hack to better myself. I’m actually very skeptical when it comes to the kind of DIY, fixer-upper,...
View ArticleDesigning Responsively
I’m not a huge fan of responsive design, y’know the kind: when websites wibble-and-wobble around and change their look-and-feel, shape and content depending on how big your browser window happens to...
View ArticleWorking At: Another Big Ol’ Project
What posts in June? Oh, thooooose thirty posts in June… again. It seems that for the fourth year in a row I’ve climbed aboard the daily blogging train and continued that monumental, multi-year writing...
View ArticleHow Not To Launch an App
I’ve been fairly quiet for the last few months on this blog about my information management topics. Work. Projects. Covering for other people’s leaves… that type of thing. It doesn’t spare much time...
View ArticleTouchable Template
With Karin out of town, I was stuck at home with –y’know– dad responsibilities, and so I spent the better part of my evening last night doing some minor tweaks to my blog template. It’s a small thing,...
View ArticleRunning Tech Revisited
Once again I’ll be giving my standard talk on running technology tonight. I was invited by Heather to chat to her clinic group about the uses of tech to enhance training, a talk I’ve given about...
View ArticleResponsively Challenged
Those of you who know where I work may be happy to know that we’re neck-deep here in the challenges of designing a responsive mobile website (in a cost-effective manner, no less!) As such, and since...
View ArticleSaturday Simplification (1) DeFace(book)ed
I feel a little guilty about something. Eight or nine years ago when the internet was still a place of simple, pure, naive ideals, when we still thought information was both power and the great...
View ArticleDeFace(book)ed Check-In
The unsociable among us are the silent protesters of a world gone mad. Logging Off About a month ago I wrote a post about evacuating Facebook. I had long since deleted the app from my phone — actually,...
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