Still Breathing

Rather than business is a virtue, which it most certainly is not. I’m ridiculusly busy at the moment, and with the added bonus of a mind that won’t wake up until 3pm, then wants to go back to sleep at 6pm, I’m not getting much done. Isn’t this the way it always is – the…

Right, bear with me, this is going to take some time. As the highlight, some would say pinnacle, of my discussions about web technology I am going to talk about server-side scripting. For several reasons: firstly is is generally not much talked about when discussing web design (especially standards-based design and accessibility), secondly it’s much…

Every now and then something comes along that stuns me into silent, awestruck joy. It happened the day I got my first drum kit, several times with my children, and most recently when Katharine agreed to become my wife. Happy days. Well, the discovery today isn’t as good as all that, but for a piece…

While browsing through my list of feeds I read this article by John Oxton at Joshuaink which laments how the microformats site is, well, too technical. As I discovered a few years ago when first looking into XML, the basic idea is very simple but some people tend to overcomplicate it. As John says, getting…

Spending any time in a garage makes one realise how unmasculine being a computer nerd is. First against the wall come the revolution, that’s me. Oh well.