April 13, 2006
This is ‘The Wife’ guest authoring today as Mark is otherwise engaged (doing nothing actually). We’ve spent around an hour trying to find a cafe with wifi in the centre of Perth (avoiding McDonalds ‘cos it smells of fat food) and when we finally found somewhere, they charged us $14 for an hour. Nice. We’ve got 14 mins left, so I’ll try and be brief despite the fact that I’m Welsh and we tell LONG stories.
April 05, 2006
Like Jon, I’m a little late with this one.
Today is CSS Naked Day, a very cool idea by Dustin Diaz, whereby you remove your CSS to show the lovely semantic XHTML markup beneath.
March 26, 2006
It’s that time of year again. Mobile phone upgrade time.
For the past year I’ve been pretty pleased with my Nokia 6210. Yes, it’s a bit old and clunky and yes, it isn’t supported by iSync, but it’s been good to me. However, I’m feeling the need to become organised again. I’m also getting slightly nervous about replication of data on my various computers (work, home, and laptop) and could do with a phone which *is* supported by iSync to make things slightly easier.
March 21, 2006
Are you in Perth, Australia on the 11th April?
If so, and you fancy an evening of listening to myself and John Allsopp talk about web and type stuff, then pop along to Ideas3 hosted by Port80 at the Melbourne Hotel in the centre of Perth at 7pm. You can get your tickets here.
March 16, 2006
I really don't know where to start writing this post. There's been so much that's happened over the past few days, it's really hard to encapsulate it all in a blog post.
I'll give it a go though.
March 11, 2006
Well, I thought that went pretty well. Khoi, Liz, Toni and Jason and I sat on our panel this morning, following a rather early breakfast.
As Khoi mentioned in his latest post, I'm pretty relieved it's all over and I can now move on and enjoy the rest of SXSW.
March 10, 2006
Yesterday's travelling sucked. Just long and really boring. Almost as bad as the previous day. When travelling to Heathrow, a train in front of mine managed to fall off the rails or trip over a leaf or something. Well, the journey time to London Heathrow from Cardiff ended up being over 6 hours. Rubbish.
The highlights of yesterdays trip was passing the Ice Sheets over Greenland, which was awesome, and passing a very active thunderstorm somewhere over the middle of the US.
I arrived in Austin last night at about 9pm (3am UK time) following a shared mini bus ride with Zach Inglis, who I met at Washington Airport passport queue. When I arrived, needless to say, I was a little jet-lagged but I still managed to unpack and get myself sorted. At about 11pm I finally succumbed only to awake two hours later. Lots of dosing later and at around 5.30 am I thought I may as well get up and begin my first day in Austin.
March 03, 2006
I'm getting pretty excited about SXSW now (and a tad nervous about the panel I'll be sat on). I've already started making those essential lists before going travelling anywhere, you know, all the essentials needed for 10 days away from home: Pants, Coat (although not sure I'll need this, have you seen the temperature in Austin!), Socks, Laptop, Cash etc. etc.
In addition to these lists I've also made a list of what I'm planning on attending during the day. If you happen to be in the same panel, come and say hello—if I'm not too jetlagged, I may even say hello back! Anyway, here's my list…
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I'm a graphic designer from near Cardiff in the UK. I've been a designer for over ten years now and primarily work on the web. I'm still partial to a bit of print every now and then though. I used to work for Agency.com in London as an Art Director before working as a Senior Designer for the BBC in sunny Cardiff. This was all before I took leave of my senses and formed my own design consultancy, Mark Boulton Design Ltd.
I've got a thing about grids and typography and occasionally ramble on about them to anyone who will listen.
If you're after simple, clean and effective web design; let me know.