Archive for the ‘personal’ Category

The South By Southwest session picker has just gone online and I’m not too proud to shamelessly solicit votes for my session: Divorce / Retry / Fail: Keeping Users Infatuated We know all about lust. Our websites pose, preen and seduce, and it works – those users just can’t keep their hands off our bits. [...]

At last I have broadband. Too many stories to relate, but there’s one I’d particularly like to share. While setting up my bedroom basics (alarm clock, airbed – thankfully now usurped by a real bed) I chanced upon a French radio station playing some very listenable French hip-hop. I stuck with it, and over the [...]

So yes, it’s official, the new job is with the lovely Clearleft.

I’m facing a pleasant dilemma. I’m off to All Tomorrow’s Parties next weekend, and it’s without a doubt the finest lineup they’ve ever had. Unfortunately it clashes with the Cup final, which I never in a million years dreamed would matter to me. So while I wait for ticket news, I’ve plotted an elaborate transport [...]

As with most people, when I get busy, blogging suffers. Instead, I’m unwinding by learning to cook. It’s been a long journey, levelling up on the slopes of Mt. Noob and now reaching the stages where I’m at least mildly competent. Lessons learnt thus far: the sheer ubiquity of onions and garlic. What happens if [...]

Sunday’s FA Cup semi being Cardiff’s biggest game for 81 years, it’s also the biggest game I’ll have been to – and it’s dominating my thoughts right now, even though there are a dozen strange and wonderful things going on around me. It’ll also give me a chance to exercise my architectural fetishism re: stadiums [...]

Well, it’s out in the open now, so I should quickly share it here too – I’m leaving uSwitch early next month. I’ve learnt a great deal working there; it’s just that the company is going through a bit of a reshuffle and it strikes me as an appropriate time to move on to some [...]

Having one of those jobs that defies snappy explanation, I spend a while explaining it to others. I came up with this one a few months ago, and so far it seems to be holding up. Formula 1 teams spend millions on tyres. The tyre companies themselves spend millions more. Their extensive R&D programmes pour [...]