Posts from 2007

Can’t help feeling all the mock outrage about hacked iPhones being bricked by Apple’s latest update is a little unnecessary. It’s simple: you fucked with your phone, and you knew you were invalidating the warranty. Deal with it. I get that people want to use third party apps and generally I do support devices being [...]

Back from a deserved break in Prague; was starting to feel a little tetchy. And a lovely city it is too, with jarring juxtapositions of Iron Curtain housing blocks and red-roofed historical buildings, and wonderfully specific museums. And again with the impressive knowledge of English – a particularly good thing for the casual weekend traveller; [...]

These have already done the rounds, but hey, I think they’re cute. Can you spot the hidden images in the two logos? No? You sure?

Nice Facebook analogy from Iain Tait: Facebook is an all-in-one stereo system – fine for beginners but ultimately a bit limiting and of mediocre quality (web 2.0 is separates, natch). See also Wired’s article Slap In The Facebook. This was also one of the recurring themes at BarCamp Brighton, particularly with such a strong Microformats [...]

Slides from my short presentation at BarCamp Brighton: May not make much sense without the audio (but then if your slides don’t need a speaker why are you bothering to present?). Also please forgive typographic quirks introduced by SlideShare. Been a fascinating weekend so far, and I’ve finally lost my Werewolf virginity. My theory that [...]

Dear Reader, I am currently packing my gadgetry for a weekend of unabashed geekery: dConstruct and BarCamp Brighton. If you need to get hold of me this weekend, I will likely prove unavailable, unless you can teach me some tricks on how to integrate User-Centred Design into an Agile development environment. Next week’s blog activity [...]

Bugger.