July 08, 2005
Following yesterday's atrocities, just a quick note to say Emma and I are fine. Fortunately neither of us had meetings in London yesterday and all of our friends and colleagues and alive and well.
It was surreal watching it all unfold yesterday as I used to work just around the corner from Kings Cross and would be stepping off the tube about that time, it's all very odd. Like a lot of people have said, the UK public have endured terrorist attacks for years but it doesn't make it any easier to swallow. I was unfortunate enough to be in Manchester at the time of the IRA bomb several years ago and if there's one thing that amazed me was the public's strength in coping with an attack such as that, a feeling of determination in the face of terrorism. That was very evident yesterday.
July 02, 2005
It's amazing how productive an afternoon watching a gig can be.
Following Joe Clark's excellent presentation at @media and his equally excellent article at A List Apart, I thought it's about time I did something to address the accessibility options on this site.
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June 30, 2005
Normally this sort of abuse goes straight from my inbox and into the trash without even touching the sides. On this occasion however it kind of pissed me off.
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June 24, 2005
Normally I don’t write about personal stuff on this site - kind of makes me feel weird. But on this occasion I’ll let that little rule slip, just this once.
I feel pretty crappy. Not only for not posting stuff recently (in all honesty, I’ve got loads of things to write but simply can’t be bothered.) but also I’ve been quite ill and following hospital visits, weight loss and chronic tiredness I now have a diagnosis and am on shit loads of drugs to kick it into touch.
So, normal service will be resumed shortly with next in the “Simple Steps” series - Grid Design.
Keep tuned.
June 20, 2005
After a couple of weeks the offending company has removed the CSS from their servers and they gave me a call with the usual 'there was this guy who did this, but he no longer works here...' thing. Do I believe them? Not at all.
But, in the interests of fair play, I've removed the comments from the previous post and hopefully they've suffered enough bad publicity not to do this again.
Am I going soft on them? Probably.
June 12, 2005
Been rather busy since I got back from London - up to my eyeballs in Persona's and Application flows... But here goes the very short review.
Simon and I headed up to London on Wednesday afternoon and checked into the hotel. It was a relaxing journey right to the hotel door before we headed out for a pint and some scran before crashing early for the somewhat early start the next morning.
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June 08, 2005
In two hours time I’m hopping on a train for two hours (that’s taking a train, not hopping on a train - that would be silly) for the trip down to London for the @media conference on Thursday and Friday.
I’m really looking forward to the conference and finally getting round to meeting people who I’ve only emailed or posted on their sites.
If you feel like saying hi, please do. I’ll be the freckly, shaved headed northern bloke with the slight Welsh twang to a rather cultured Mancunian accent. Strange? Me? I don’t think so.
May 27, 2005
Update - I've tried to get this to work with the plugin but it just wasn't happening so I've used the original open source javascript with this and hacked away at it to play ball with EE. I've also managed to get an indication of if a search is taking place (a spinny thing). Next, I've got to sort out the styling and make sure the results functionality is working ok.
I've been trying to improve the search function on this site for a while now and after many a sketch I've now come to a conclusion and I thought I'd open it up for ridicule constructive feedback.
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