Reprocessed

I’m heading to Berlin for O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo next week. I’ll be speaking on a panel with Leisa Reichelt and Fred Oliveira: Moving from 1.0 to 2.0: Philosophies and...

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Here are the slides from my presentation at BarCamp London a few weekends ago. Sorry for the delay, I was hoping to secure permission to distribute the slides with one...

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I’m freshly arrived home from Barcamp London, which was enormous fun. I’ll be posting up the slides, with notes, from my presentation (Everything I know about programming I learnt from...

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At Oxford Circus tube station, they’ve been trialling a selection of tiles, to see which ones they’ll use on the walls (they’re currently refurbishing the station, and will be for...

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One of the things that was most appealing about my first computer, besides the fact that my mate Mark had one, was the fact that the BBC ‘B’ was the...

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BBC Radio & Music Interactive, the department where I work has some job vacancies. It’s a good place to work, and we’re doing interesting and exciting things. (It’s not without...

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I’ve just finished playing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I bought it six months ago, and it’s lain around waiting for me to finish other games. I remember...

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The St Bride printling library held an exhibition of the typographer Hans Schmoller’s work at Penguin books, where he was the chief designer for most of the latter half of...

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I’ve recently been re-reading (actually, reading from start to finish for the first time) Philip ‘Vermeer’s Camera’ Steadman’s The Evolution of Designs. The book is about biological analogy in design,...

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Amazon were a day late delivering my copy of the long-awaited Halo 2, but I’ve had a chance to spend a couple of hours in its company. I was expecting...

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Some of my colleagues here in BBC Radio & Music Interactive are looking at our (Oh, I like saying that) Radio Player — the BBC Radio internet audio-on-demand controller —...

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I’ve just visited the New City Architecture exhibition, in the City of London (in the middle of this square in Broadgate, which has somehow metamorphosed into a public area, complete...

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I may be an exception, but I listen to my music exclusively by leaving my iPod (and iTunes, for that matter) on random play, set to shuffle by album not...

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I’ve only had an iPod for a few months, but that’s been long enough to realise a few things about it, good and bad. My department’s boss, Dan Hill, wrote...

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This is something I should have done a while ago… I’m very pleased to indulge in a little self-promotion and wave the flag for the second edition of my book:...

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Part two of an ongoing series about how Apple’s music products really annoy me. Everytime I quit iTunes it forgets where it was. If iTunes is paused and I insert...

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Note: When I started writing this I abandoned the list format I was going to use and it rapidly turned into a morass, so I thought it should probably become...

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Nielsen gets an amusing taste of his own medicine in Design by Fire’s Design eye for the usability guy. Nice job, all concerned. [via Airbag]...

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At Reading railway station, in common with many other stations, there are three ways of telling the time: The old mechanical 7-segment digital clocks (good clicking noise), the newer CRT...

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Ben Fry has a little Java Applet for visualising where Zip Codes are. I must confess that I thought his DNA visualisations were not much better than noise, but this...

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I’ve switched comments on for new entries now. The UI still has a ways to go, and I might devote some time to it later on today. Once that’s done...

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The way that CSS’s specificity (how browsers choose which CSS rules to apply) works can be a little baffling, even to old hands. I was writing rules for this site...

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I have a few problems with the way that categorisation works in blogs. The current approach is typified by a filing cabinet approach: things exist in a category, and can...

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I’ve got the basics of this new site working. I’ve got the blog running, but I need to sort out comments (design-wise) and trackbacks (design- and head-wise), plus a good...

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