June 2010
22 posts
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Jun 28th
“The beauty of responsive web design becomes obvious when you see your site in...”
– Responsive design is the new black – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report Some lovely stuff here, and perhaps the way Web design should be. Unfortunately there’s a small voice nagging at me that because this approach relies on ‘craft’ as opposed to ‘product’ or...
Jun 28th
Got my life back.
Jun 28th
“Tindal Street is to join Atlantic Books in the Independent Alliance – a...”
– Tindal Street Press forges new partnership with leading independent publisher | Tindal St Press
Jun 28th
Came back with renewed enthusiasm and drive after seven sun-drenched days in Dubrovnik. 273 emails later, feeling knackered & despondent…
Jun 21st
Two #goodmeetings today. That’s at least one more than I was expecting.
Jun 10th
Standing virgin train back to Brum. Attendant: ‘it’s’s because it’s the first off-peak train’. Me: ‘so entirely predictable then’ +2 coaches
Jun 10th
“But the weirdest stuff is in section 12.1 on “Design”. The “design” of the...”
– Weird, but entirely typical of websites that are procured via IT requirements documents. You wouldn’t believe how common this misconception is amongst people who procure websites and content management systems. From a comment on The report on birmingham.gov.uk is published | Podnosh
Jun 4th
“After speaking to more than 60 local authority officials, the authors of the...”
– Birmingham Post - News - West Midlands News - ‘Not good enough’, concludes report into Birmingham City Council website
Jun 4th
“English National Opera’s website has crashed due to the high volume of people...”
– The Stage / News / Punchdrunk’s Malfi crashes ENO website Another Opera website bites the dust due to high booking demand. Should’ve gone to Made Media.
Jun 4th
Google Maps API Styled Map Wizard →
Jun 4th
Having fun scrutinising some travel sites. So much easier to be a smartarse when your team’s not responsible for corralling the architecture
Jun 4th
“Yes, I know you’re a master of the web, that you’ve visited every...”
– Seth’s Blog: But what have you shipped?
Jun 4th
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“I hold a particular view of the “recession”; it was patchy, not universal. Its...”
– Your Financial Business Support  » Blog Archive  » What is your Plan B?
Jun 4th
Too hot for Red Kites I fear.
Jun 3rd
Need to get 3G working before I can ditch the laptop completely though. Can’t get much useful work done on this train journey.
Jun 3rd
iPad worked well for creds meetings today, very chilled navigation, even if video scrubbing is a bit duff.
Jun 3rd
House prices for location lead me to believe that Banbury must be a shithole. Am I right?
Jun 3rd
Covent Garden. Sunshine. Gap in schedule. Might just stop for a bite and some WiFi.
Jun 3rd
“Medium-to-high level caffeine users, however, did not become any more anxious...”
– Drinking coffee doesn’t make you more alert, caffeine study reveals. Ringing a few bells this.
Jun 2nd
Domains for sale
From a brilliant Made Media offshoot project we never had time to finish, back before Google earned total dominance in the webmail market. The domain names spambloq.com and spambloq.net are now available to the highest bidder. Contact Made.
Jun 1st
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