April 2010
28 posts
Just seen Sutra, #idfb2010. Amazing. Had no idea you could get so much drama, excitement and comedy out of a bunch of boxes.
What is Rational Scrum | Hyrax International LLC →
Can’t believe I just got my virtual PA to reschedule my real-life wife. Wonder what sort of reception I should be expecting this evening.
Smooth as butter.
greeeen.
We have two new defcons. Blue and Purple. Sure to make all the difference.
At mission control, Birmingham. Getting ready to deal with some proper traffic.
OMG. All Made Media’s sites look *awesome* on the iPad. As if they were custom designed for it. Web design is going to go portrait-shaped.
HTML5 presentation →
Prepping contracts. My least favourite part of the job. Have never once had a client resort to contract, yet we still do it. Smacks of FUD.
“Verdana is a font that looks gorgeous at 11px in a non-antialiased environment,...”
– Verdana Pro (and Con) – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
RT @sebemina: I wonder if the cloud of toxic volcanic ash is Earth’s response to the televised debates
I know I owe a lot of emails to a lot of people. If you’re one, I’m sorry. I’ll get there, just starting to catch up now.
Watching Saxon hoard programme on C4. Jana has an irrational hatred of Tony Robinson, so sustaining much muttering and grumbling.
Britain’s top ten theatres of dreams - Times... →
Be a Made Guy (or Gal) →
We’re looking for new recruits to the family, for three positions in our Birmingham hideout: 1. Freelance Drupal Expert
We have a new project kicking off this summer using the Drupal…
Please RT: Made are recruiting. Great dev & design positions in our Birmingham Office for people with potential. http://bit.ly/cVFoAU
Huddled upstairs watching Embarrassing Bodies special on portable TV. Eating cottage pie. Drinking Bathams best bitter. Good times.
“Many consumers can surely afford to sit this initial release out until the costs...”
– Alex Payne — The Moderate’s Position on iPad Openness
“In an earlier piece, I said it was terrible that all data had to flow onto the...”
– Is iPad a game-changer? (Scripting News)
“For Eastside and Digbeth to really take off, we need to develop the area’s...”
– Putting the Flatpack film festival on the map | Film | guardian.co.uk
It’s a shame that overall, this article came out as having quite a negative vibe. That’s nothing to do with Flatpack, and everything to do with a cold, hard reality check about the state of Digbeth and...
Was just celebrating the wonders that a spot of T-Cut could work on a few minor scratches, when @carltimms reversed into me in the car-park.
Please RT: Made are looking for passionate Opera fans of all ages for usability study next Wed 14 April. Incentives. hello@mademedia.co.uk
Now eating dinner under the auspices of several stuffed animals including - if I’m not mistaken - a mongoose.
Sipping G&T wirh Jana in private members club on the Isle of Wight. Definite occult/SM vibe in the bedroom upstairs. Ella seems OK with it.
Dig for Shakespeare →
There’s something going on under a house in Stratford this spring. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust are organising an archeological dig, underneath New Place, Shakespeare’s final home….
BBC News - Today - Was Shakespeare French? →
New evidence unearthed at the site of his Stratford home suggests that the mother of England’s most famous son was French.