View from the Potting Shed

The antibiotics appear to be beginning to work, although I’m predictably now feeling a little rougher around the edges and more tired. But nothing that a handful of pills and a month in bed won’t fix!
Sadly, that’s not going to happen though.
Job satisfaction
Work is incredibly busy just now. (When is it not?) But […]

A few months back I sent a friend of mine, Peter, was looking for a book about building websites. So I sent him my copy of HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible by Bryan Pfaffenberger et al.
I didn’t really use it very often, relying now on the O’Reilly definitive guides for XHTML and CSS. […]

Photo by ravennce
Sorry about the lack of proper blogging over the last few days. I’ll tell you what I’ve been doing: I’m looking for the right content management software for a website project I’m working on.
So I’m spending the evenings either trawling through web pages of documentation, trawling through pages of books about specific content […]

Information R/evolution: an inspiring video that explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information.
As spotted on The Information Architecture Institute e-mail list.

Amazon Web Services
Day two kicked off with a fascinating presentation by Jeff Barr, who is the Senior Web Services Evangelist for Amazon. While the presentation wasn’t particularly relevant for the kind of work I do, it was very interesting and did remind me that I want to order the new Danzig album from Amazon when […]

Believe it or not, I didn’t do any blogging last week. Oh, I know that blog posts appeared on the site each day but I actually wrote those two Fridays ago, while watching Comic Relief, and scheduled them to appear throughout the week, just so you wouldn’t miss me!
The plan
Last week I was in Selkirk, […]

This morning I finished reading Mr Beck’s Underground Map: A History by Ken Garland. It has been sitting on my bookshelf since March when Hazel recommended it to me.
The London Underground map is truly a work of genius. It maps London’s underground railway lines and connections rather than faithfully recreating a geographically accurate map. […]