So, I’m going to be in New York from later on today, for a week working with a client on an exciting project. If anyone wants to talk software design,...
I’ve been at the BBC for a little over three years, and I’m having a very good time. I’ve learned a phenomenal amount, worked with a slew of really great...
So, the ‘little’ downtime has been most of a week, which kind of serves me right for buggering around with my server so much when I had other things to...
British Gas supply the gas to our lovely new flat (where by ‘lovely’ I mean ‘building site’), via a pre-payment meter. This would be all well and good, except that...
In October 1996 I arrived at Reading University and discovered that I had a URL of my very own (the long defunct http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~shu96mp/). The rest, as they say, is history:...
In a slightly terrifying development, Clare and I have bought a flat. It needs a lot of work (see what I mean), and we’ve been head scratching and drawing and...
So, Google UK are holding a nationwide Doodle 4 Google competition for schoolkids to design a doodle to appear on the Google homepage. The competition is split by region and...
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...
I’ve just returned from an excellent time at Greenbelt, which I’ll post about soon. I’m away again for a couple of days (I’m writing this looking out over the North...
My BT line has been down for 8 days now, and my email server lives in my flat at the end of an ADSL connection (from the lovely bytemark). Therefore...
So, what the hell happened to me… Weeellllll, so, we were in Rome (don’t expect the link to work just yet… I haven’t written that yet), which took up time...
So, reprocessed.org was dead for nearly a week. Whoops. I don’t know exactly what caused it but Apache died last Sunday. The reason it stayed dead for 5 and a...
I've been on holiday, but Geneva Airport's wireless is rubbish
I’ve been to see Matt B for a spot of catching up and falling-over-in-the-snow-with-my-feet-strapped-to-a-plank, aka Snowboarding. It was great, and I was hoping to be able to post pictures, but...
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...
I started writing shortish pieces and publishing them online in reverse-chronological order, back in 1999 (they weren’t called blogs back then, or at least I hadn’t heard of blogs, which...
In which I upload all the photos I’ve been meaning to over the last couple of years but haven’t gotten round to. If you’re one of those people whose weddings...
I was at the dentist. I found out because my dentist’s mother phoned from India to check if my dentist was alright. Clare was evacuated from the tube when they...
So, where were we? Oh yeah, Easter. The first Easter at a new church is always interesting - the variation in what’s on offer and how it’s approached can be...
Congratulations to Matt & Clare Carey on the birth of the first child, Arlo Samuel Carey. He’s beautiful. No doubt he’ll be building his own website soon, and no doubt...
I’ve just finished reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled. The overwhelming sensation I had while reading the book was discomfort: I was torn between wanting to just keep reading, to not...
I lived in Reading for eight years, went to university there (five years, a long story), ran a small (and not particularly successful) business there for three years, met, (married...
En route to Copenhagen 4 Originally uploaded by fidothe. So, we’ve made it to America (via Copenhagen). I’m writing this post from my friend James’ house in Grand Rapids,...
Ah, the joys of being an iPod owner. Lately my iPod has taken to hanging once every couple of days, requiring a menu/play-pause reset to bring it out of its...
Sometimes someone knows something is utterly beyond hope, but they can’t walk away. I think that Swan 1 knew that there weren’t going to be any cygnets. She kept hoping,...
CSS: Separating content from presentation, second edition
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:...
If everything has gone to plan then my good friends James and Kari ought to be married by now! We’ll be joining them for the as-originally-planned (a long story) service...
After a brief period of unpublicised writing activity a few months ago, followed by a period of frenetic back-end new-site coding that, as yet, hasn’t produced a usable new site...
Since my Mac got irredeemably cranky a month ago I’ve been unable to alter the junk mail status of messages (when I try, Mail.app crashes. When I restart Mail, the...
That was the finished Marmalade yesterday morning. We don’t know what it’s like, but a jar has been despatched to a test subject and he’s meant to be having...
Walking to the station, by the riverside. The sky is a beautiful winter blue, with only a few (very pretty) clouds. The river is angry though: the level is high...
Mmmmm. Marmalade. Take some Oranges (Seville), some sugar (preserving) and some water (from the tap), peel, chop, juice, simmer, add sugar, boil and then, in theory, marmalade. Testing: The...
The last entry I posted to this blog’s predecessor was on the morning of 11 September, 2001… I had a job interview that day, at a big corporate design shop...