Off to the deepest darkest corners of England for Christmas. Didn’t even get a chance to post about Twitter, partly because I’m still figuring…

Jakob Nielsen’s clearly in the holiday spirit, since his latest Alertbox is an exposé of the 10 biggest User Interface bloopers in films, which…

In the 14th century, friar William of Occam thought up a maxim that, in my opinion, should be drummed into the public from an early…

Regrettheerror.com have posted a list of the year’s best apologies and corrections in mainstream news. Some highlights:

A headline on page 1 on Saturday…

A few sites that have caught my eye:

• Wingmap – new Flash-based site for finding European flights. They don’t do everything right (date selection…

To celebrate the new design, premature meme banality. Feel free to ignore.

- What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before? Explored.
-…

I’ll be updating the layout of the blog over the next few days, and fixing a few things (such as archives – should now be…

A fun day. A bit of wheeling, a bit of dealing. Listed my old phone on eBay only for it to be ‘bought’ by our…

Just upgraded to a Nokia N73. Very nice it is too. I’ve pretty much come to expect good usability from Nokia – I loved their…

Mick Hucknall makes a fool of himself on Comment Is Free. No need to add my own analysis, the comments suffice rather nicely. Poor…

Interesting article on the BBC site: “Web fuelling crisis in politics“. As a rule, I tend to find any government proclamation on the…

It’s not often I talk about particular albums on here, mostly because I’m fully aware of the pitfalls of sounding like an amateur sixth form…

A simple library error has rocketed Tesco to the top of the Corrupters Of The Nation’s Children league. In short, they classified an adult pole-dancing…

Me + capoeira.
Think about it.
Picture it in your mind. Get a good visual image.
Imagine me at a capoeira event.
Now imagine me,…

All this talk of how the internet is revolutionising mankind gets a bit much sometimes. So recently I’ve been:

- playing with Line…

Reuters, 11 October 2006

In a landmark legal case, a 7 year old Aberystwyth boy won his challenge to a court ruling over his custody.

I wrote something for National Poetry Day last Thursday, based on the idea of “ekphrasis”, as covered by Amy Newman. Some Google detective work…

I don’t like the word seminal. Besides its dual meaning, it’s a lazy, overused shorthand. But I would grudgingly apply it to Scott McCloud’s ‘

Coming home is often the biggest surprise. Not only did I get a chance to relax and visit somewhere new, but I feel my independence…

This has really made my day. TechCrunch reports that Facebook is in acquisition talks – $1bn to Yahoo! Whoopee. Then, they pick out a…

I can’t believe it’s only my third day here, it seems like weeks since I was at home. My feet are sore, so is my…

It’s a boy! My chocobo hatched and…

In which an…

Normally I’m pretty good with money, but this month has left me pretty tight. Cheques I thought were long gone have only just gone, and…

Man, I need to quit with the Vader love. You’ve probably seen it already anyway, since it’s Friday and…

Bristol was prettier this time, but still…

Days like today keep me going. I’ve nearly finished off my big presentation, and very impressive it is too. “The web: how it’s changing, and…

Whoever ‘designed’ qjump.co.uk needs to fall off a very tall building. And then have an anvil land on their head, a la Bugs Bunny.…

Recently I’ve been drowning in data – my company has been asking local entrepreneurs for their opinions on the business environment. I’ll admit that the…

It’s a bit of a shame really. I quite enjoyed the role of the naive native who, at the age of 27, had never even…

I finally got my Noble’s…

You know, I don’t think I’ll be getting round to that last idea, since I’m making the bold anti-hipster move of deleting my MySpace account…

Ooh, ooh, I thought of a great new Web 2.0 mashup idea. World, I give you the completely hypothetical Indierthanthou.com! In short, you enter your…

…is a headline in today’s Nottingham Evening Post (World News, p9). When will the madness of verbless tabloid monstrosities end?

“Cennydd in grammar probe…

Two months ago, a BBC poll that claimed…

ATP was, of course, quite excellent. Indie. So very indie.…

From 101zenstories.com:

Off to All Tomorrow’s Parties in 24 hours, so no posts for a while. Subject to mobile reception, I’ll be uploading pictures to

One pretty and trivial, the other complex and far more potent.

Google Trends: www.google.com/trends

Trends is a logical extension from Zeitgeist, allowing…

While we’re on the subject of filthy lucre, Steve Pavlina has a great article on making money from your blog:

Can most people…

Working in the business support sector gives me a tangential interest in the concept of entrepreneurship and how it can be encouraged in the…

I’ve challenged Tom from Page45 to a contest: compile the twee-est CD you can. I think my entry is pretty strong one, consisting as…

Took a break, as you see. You all survived without me. Anyway, this is going to be a rather personal post: lots of use of…

Microsoft have bought Lionhead. News to make any gamer shudder.

I like Peter Molyneux’s passion for innovation, all too lacking in the games…

I took the Dostoyevsky plunge.

I’m a fan of the modern. Architecture, music, cars, art, whatever. iTunes, not vinyl. City of God, not Casablanca.…

I would say my life is very much like this:

I picked up some very nasty bug over the weekend. Matt and I had planned an inane St Patrick’s Day in the pub – promotional…

If I see another blog tagline that includes the phrase “random musings” I’m going to get angry. If you don’t have the courage to stand…

I love my job, but I do wish it was a little more glamorous sometimes. The A-listers are wagging their 2.0 chins and swinging their…

I find myself going to Cardiff this weekend to watch Wales v Italy. Rugby, sadly, not football. Still, I’ve always wanted to hear Hen Wlad…

I avoid blogging about blogging. It strikes me as depressingly meta, an admission that you’re struggling for real content. Rules are made to be broken…

It looks like the rumours were true: Google have launched…

Quick filler snippet: Jakob Nielsen being absolutely damn right, for once.

The entire concept of watching a broadcast at the mercy of the…

It appears that the Nottingham shooting is approximately 100 metres away from where I used to live. My friends have been bouncing emails around…

Valentine’s Day is swinging…

From PresentationZen: what would Darth Vader’s presentational style be?

The Changing Media Summit 2006 looks fascinating. Some great speakers (Cory Doctorow, Tom Coates, Jon Snow, one of the last.fm…

Enough foreplay, might as well go live with the new design. I hope you like it. I think I do. Some things still aren’t quite…