Archive for January, 2007

The last two weeks have been dominated by pain. First, the sharp stabbing kind; second, the persistent all-conquering kind. My well-behaved body rebels in unpleasant ways. So I’ve felt elderly. I’ve felt exhausted. Not just the wincing and the grimacing, but also the mental effort required. To be constantly aware of one’s posture, being forced [...]

Decided to put my name down for BarCamp London (or, at least, to sign up for the pre-sign up helper list). It’s a chance to get out of the flat, and spend a weekend discussing geek stuff in a sweaty office. Perfect. 1st Rule: You do talk about Bar Camp. 2nd Rule: You do blog [...]

Very busy recently: travel and long hours. Enjoying it. Some recent links of interest: Secure passwords keep you safer (Wired) – less trivial than the title suggests. It’s inspired me to kickstart the depressingly large task of updating all mine. So you want to be an Interaction Designer 2006? – Dan Saffer updates an important [...]

Cardiff City fans have been banned from attending the Wolves game next week, a move which has been roundly condemned by the FSF and supporters’ groups throughout the country. So, in a lovely gimmick, 30 City fans have decided to hire an airship to hover over the ground, so that they can watch using binoculars. [...]

This did the rounds a couple of weeks back, but I’m passing it on since it’s been invaluable. Set your homepage to about:blank. That’s it. I don’t fire up a browser unless I have a task in mind – per day it’s saved me probably 15 mins of aimless surfing, and freed 15 mins of [...]

Delegates “screamed”. Twitter ground to a halt. The shockwaves of a simultaneous nerdgasm shook the very core of the internet. Yes, it is a lovely phone. My first thoughts are that it looks extremely promising, although like Dan Saffer at Adaptive Path I will reserve judgement until I see exactly how they’ve implemented the OS [...]

Just made my choices for the ATP vs The Fans weekend. Shipping News The Knife Rachel’s Sightings Stereolab Tapes ‘n Tapes Battles Part Chimp Wolf Parade Band Of Horses Likelihood of any of them being chosen: approximately nil. At least I’m being a bit different though: the leaderboard is currently topped by some utterly predictable [...]

It may be one week after the event, but I think I can just about get away with the resolutions post. And yes, I am eating more healthily / getting more exercise and so on, but I don’t consider that a resolution. It’s just something I want to do. So here, instead, are my goals [...]