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Connecting digital communities
For the past 11 years I have run events in Worthing for what you could loosely call the digital community. Many other people have helped along the way, but for the past couple of years it’s been John and I running WorthingDigital. WorthingDigital has grown to a meetup.com group with 528 members. This growth is down to… Read note →
Book recommendation: Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
On my dog walks over the past few weeks, interspersed between my usual mixture of podcasts and 90’s techno I’ve been listening to Ken Kocienda read his book “Creative Selection – Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs” on Audible. I enjoyed Ken describing his personal journey through the ranks at Apple, but… Read note →
Wayback Machine saved my skin
A while back I did a very silly thing. Well, actually I did a series of things that all seemed perfectly sensible at the time but the upshot was a bit of a disaster. I started this blog way back in 2006 and over the years I accumulated over 100 posts, which is not a… Read note →
Where are we with wearables?
Part one – what’s on my wrist? I do love my gadgets, and one type of gadet I’m especially excited about at the moment is wearables. I’ve tried a few different wearables and use a couple every day – I thought it might be interesting to talk about what I use, what else is available… Read note →
Back in the saddle
In the last few years my enthusiasm for blogging had dwindled to the point where I’ve only posted twice in four years. I’m hoping that’s about to change. Last week I was at Full Frontal in Brighton a one day conference for JavaScript Developers. It’s a great event which is now in its sixth year,… Read note →
I’m sorry iPhone, I’ve been playing around with another…
I’ve liked Nokia phones ever since I got my first mobile, an analogue Nokia 1000 back in 1993. I stuck with them for over a decade, while my other half flirted with Motorola and Samsung. At the time nothing beat Nokia’s build quality or the ease of use of the Symbian operating system. But I wanted… Read note →
Let’s agree to never speak of this again
I don’t think I’m a naturally grumpy person, but there are somethings that I just don’t understand that bring out my inner curmudgeon. My feelings about sport pretty much match the way I feel about religion: Practice it & enjoy it if you want (though for the life of me I don’t understand why you would),… Read note →
Phone App Developers, lend me your ears!
iOS developers are enabling users to get more and more out of their iPhones & iPads. But I think developers are missing one important thing that could make life easier for thousands of users. I’m not exaggerating. I have a particular bee in my bonnet when it comes to accessibility, my wife is registered blind… Read note →
And another thing…
I’ve blogged about books in the past, but these have usually been work related books that I’ve read. This is a work of fiction that, as yet I haven’t read. I have been a fan of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy “trilogy” since I was about 12. I remember lying in bed… Read note →