July 07, 2006
This last month has been a bit crazy. First of all England’s dire performance in the world cup has pretty much consumed me over the last four weeks. I’m honestly not much of a football fan, but international tournaments (especially this one) really get me hooked, so what do we reckon? Italy: 2 France: 1? That’s my prediction.
Then there’s been the work. I’ve got some news, which I can’t talk about just yet, but will in the coming months. It’s all very exciting but it means I’m currently working my ass off, and along with being ill again with the damn colitis, it’s made this past few weeks a pretty difficult time.
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July 01, 2006
Well, there we are again. England lose to Portugal in the quarter finals on penalties. Totally rubbish. I’m not normally a fan of football, I don’t really support any premiership club for example, but I tend to follow my nations team in the major competitions.
This particular world cup held a lot of promise. In fact, this game held a lot of promise, but from the moment Rooney stamped on that Portugese player’s nads and was sent off, I knew a loss was on its way.
Ah well, the good news is Murrey is up a set against Roddick at Wimbledon.
June 25, 2006
Right, here's the thing. I bought my G5 iMac nearly two years ago now and I've been overall very happy with it, but lately there's one thing which has been really beginning to bother me. The damn fan. It's a revision A iMac (the one's with the dodgy fans), so it's a well documented problem which can't be fixed. The problem is, it's been getting much worse over this past year—it's screaming loud right now—and to be honest, it's getting to point when it's even audible over music at full volume.
Well, I've gone and done it. Ordered my new 20" Intel iMac yesterday. After the heat of last week, coupled with the fact I needed to do quite a lot of intensive processor work on the machine, the fan noise was pretty much unbearable. Called Apple, they said it was 'within accepted limits'. I guess if you're only surfing the web and reading email, this might be the case. The new machine should be here on Wednesday. Can't wait.
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June 13, 2006
I’m getting pretty excited abut @media which kicks off in a couple of days.
Over the past few months I’ve been working with the guys at Vivabit to produce the printed material for the conference. It’s been great to get my teeth stuck into some print again, but I’ve forgotten how stressful print deadlines can be. I think printers are like builders, and to be perfectly honest I’ve no idea how some of them remain in business. But if you find a good one, it’s a totally different story.
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June 01, 2006
This is a bit of self publicity, but what the hell.
Firstly, I’ve written an article for those lovely Carsons over at Vitamin.
It’s a piece I originally started thinking around here in my Journal, but have expanded upon for Vitamin (and there’s probably more to come on the subject). It’s about the way designers think and semantics.
Secondly, Podcasts are available for the panel I sat on at SXSW in March called Traditional Design and New Technology. And also for a presentation I gave at Ideas3, an event held by Port80 in Perth, Australia last month, where I talked about typography and craft on the web.
April 24, 2006
After an uneventful overnight flight from Perth, Emma and I arrived bright and early at Cairns airport. There’s nothing to do in most airports, but Cairns is the exception. There is absolutely nothing to do, especially at 4.30am. Even sleeping was out of the question due to the constant beeping of the xray machine as hordes of tourists forgot to remove their belts. Anyway, we waited until 8am then went off to pick up our campervan for our six day trip in the tropical north of Australia.
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April 23, 2006
Just a quick post, now that he has more content up there, to pimp my younger brother’s site.
About six months ago, my younger brother Jon, left his job of six years with Norwich Union with a big fat pay off. So, he’s spending it travelling the world over the next twelve months. He asked me to get a little site together for him, mainly so he can chuck some photos up there and blog about his travels so all his mates can keep up.
It’s built in Expression Engine of course over the course of a couple of days and, yes, it’s black and white. Why? Well, why not - he seems to like it!
So, if you fancy, go and have a look. If you say hi, tell him I sent you!
April 21, 2006
I’m a little bit late posting this. Needless to say, internet access - let alone wifi - is somewhat lacking in the oldest rainforest on the planet. As I’m writing this, Emma and I are sat in our camper van just south of Port Douglas in northern Queensland. Tommorow, we’re driving up to the Daintree and Cape Tribulation which promises to be fantastic, if the weather holds out (but I guess it’s our own fault for coming to Queensland at the tail end of the rainy season, and did it rain today!). But this post isn’t about Queensland, but our week in Perth.
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