This is post #101. Yes, I really managed to waffle on for a hundred posts before this one. And as anyone who’s read more than a couple of posts here will attest, I really can waffle when I want to. …
Read moreApple, my Chumby thanks you
In the past few posts I’ve praised my little Chumby and the small but fascinating distractions it provides throughout the day, but although it’s a great device, it’s not perfect. First there’s the price. It’s expensive. $199 to the yanks, …
Read moreChumby: An art gallery on my desktop
I love wandering round art galleries – but I don’t really like the way most of them are organised. Most galleries take the “museum” approach of labelling and categorising. All the Old Masters are over in that wing, separated into …
Read moreMuseum? “Exhibit” or “Gallery” would be more honest
A few years ago I visited the Design Museum, just down from Tower Bridge in London. It was, as you might expect, a museum dedicated to design. It dealt largely with product design, though there was some content about architectural …
Read moreNew Theme
Regular readers of this blog (are there any?) will have noticed that I’ve finally ditched the “green variant on the default WordPress theme” in favour of a “green variant on the default Drupal theme”. I’ve always thought the default Drupal …
Read moreBloody changes
I went to give blood yesterday – something I’ve been doing every 4-6 months for the past few years. During all that time, I don’t think the procedure has remained quite the same for more than a single session. Every …
Read moreAn interesting take on the UK plug
The UK mains plug (also used elsewhere in the world, but best known from the UK) is a large and chunky lump of plastic. That’s not a bad thing – it sits very positively in the socket compared with mains …
Read moreMicrosoft Backs Down
It would seem that Microsoft has backed down on the restrictions in their $10,000 treasure hunt, lifting the limitation that Internet Explorer 8 has to be used, and removing some of the contentious wording used on the site. I do …
Read moreWhere have all the red pandas gone?
A few weeks ago we took a trip to Whipsnade Zoo for my girlfriend’s birthday. Her favourite animal is the red panda, so she was a little disappointed to find a sign on their enclosure saying that they’ve been moved …
Read moreThe Greys
14 years ago a friend and I began work on a sci-fi themed comic strip called “The Greys”, drawn using a free version of CorelDraw 4 from a magazine coverdisc. I’ll skip the intervening 13 years… We’ve now launched “The …
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