Too cool for school

Reading time: 3 mins Where does that quote come from? Anyone, anyone? (bueller, bueller). I don’t want to go on about this in too much length but, and I think this may be true for others, the reason there is so much noise about the current crop of social web applications (yes yes, Twitter, Facebook yadda yadda yadda), is…

Site News

Reading time: < 1 min If you’ve visited in the past week or so you’ll have noticed that things look a little different here. Well don’t get used to it as it’ll change again soon. I’m “rebranding” slightly, but it’s taking longer than expected (pesky day job). I have two or three new posts ready to go, but I’m going…

Searching for focus

Reading time: 2 mins I’ve hit an unexpected problem with this blog, one which I didn’t think I’d hit for quite a while, if at all. I can’t seem to find a focus. Now, considering that this blog has the breadth of topics that the umbrella of “Technical Communications” covers that really shouldn’t be possible. But that isn’t really…

Where do I fit?

Reading time: 4 mins Isn’t it funny, sang Elton John. And he was right, about many many things. But enough of such modern day philosophy, pop music is not what I want to discuss. Not today at least (although apparently, and somewhat unrelatedly, Crowded House are back together… who knew?). Today I want to revist some of the posts…

37signals needs icons

Reading time: 3 mins Over the past few years, I’ve linked to various new web applications and many of them were created by 37signals (Basecamp, TaDa, BackPack and so on). I still use some of their apps but not as frequently as those offered by that other small web app company, Google. Now I’ve contacted them about this in…

Simple Technology

Reading time: 4 mins Note: This has been sitting around in my drafts for ages, I consider it unfinished but that’s never stopped me from posting something before… A while ago Adrian mused (lusted?) over Apple TV sets and in the comment to that post, he rightly states that “Technology should serve it’s purpose and technology should be as…