Wandering

Reading time: < 1 min A young girl skips by, her entire world reduced to the doll she holds out in front of her. As she passes an old man he breaks into a muted smile, her carefree abandon reflected in shallow water. Struggling with the wheels on the uneven pavement, a young woman graciously declines an offer of help.…

one social network profile

Reading time: < 1 min Do You Want One Social Networking Profile to Rule Them All? No thanks. This will only encourage more of this ‘friending’ nonsense.

Eyes closed

Reading time: 2 mins A soft coating of dust is not an usual sight in my home office. Every now and then it gets sufficiently bad that the naughty words and pictures drawn in it are a little too obvious and it’s time get the dusters and polish out from the cupboard under the sink, and spend a little…

CSS for layout

Reading time: 3 mins … and why you should use it. Separating content from structure and style is a common theory, widely accepted to those of us either using or investigating single source solutions for our documentation. The same theory has been applied to web development and offers similar benefits. CSS-based web design developed in parallel with the growing…

glasgow mac store

Reading time: < 1 min Is it wrong that I’m thinking of attending the opening of the Glasgow Apple Store? Yes, I think it is.

Lost Contacts

Reading time: 2 mins No, not LinkedIn or FaceBook, I’m talking about contacts with phone numbers and addresses and so on, not the pseudo-friends that the current crop of social web apps favour. You see, thanks to my Samsung mobile phone or, more specifically, the crap software that came with it, I’ve lost a lot of contact details. Not…