View from the Potting Shed

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. […]

An Information Architecture report displayed in Lower Parliament Hall, St Andrews.
It’s been a busy old week, as we’ve been working on the Information Architecture report by American firm Dynamic Diagrams, hence the noticable lack of blogging action; yesterday was an 11 hour working day, Thursday was over 12. As tiring as it has been, it […]