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Worthing Tweetup
The other day I got chatting to David Rosam on Twitter when we discovered that we lived very close to each other. It occurred to us that there were probably a number of other Twitter users in the area, failing that it seemed likely that there would be lots of freelancers & assorted geeks Worthing… Read note →
Usability testing with Silverback
Back in April I attended Future of Web Design 2008; a two day event with a conference on Thursday and Workshops on Friday. On the Friday afternoon I attended a session on Guerrilla Usability Testing run by Andy Budd from Clear Left. Usability testing is something I’ve been itching to do properly for years; I’ve… Read note →
A quick tip for traveling abroad with gadgets
If you’re anything like me (by which I don’t mean greying & fat) then you’ll probably take more than a couple of gadgets on holiday with you. This can cause issues when trying to charge them all at the end of the day. This year the solution hit me – rather than taking a load… Read note →
dconstruct 08 compo
Those fine fellows at clear left are once again running dconstruct the peerless Brightonian one day web conference. I was there last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Hopefully my boss read his email last week and remembered to book my ticket, but in case he didn’t I decided to enter the competition for a ticket.… Read note →
How not to deliver a good customer experience
When purchasing software online you expect the process to go something like this: Choose your software Add to cart Pay Download Software nice and simple & stress free. Unfortunately some companies don’t get it – Tomtom I’m looking at you. Yesterday I decided to purchase the Tomtom maps of Western Europe in preparation for our… Read note →
FOWD 2008 London – (the conference)
FOWD 2008 got off to a promising start when I met Jeremy Keithgetting off the Tube, we chatted as we waited in the monster queue outside Kensington Town Hall about a wide range of topics from DOM Scripting and Microformats to our new Macs. I had intended to “live blog” throughout the day , but… Read note →
Sky broadband customer? Moving house? Read This!
We’re moving house next Thursday, so last week I phoned Sky to let them know. I booked in installation of Sky TV at our new address and told them that we didn’t want to continue with the sky broadband when we moved. On Monday My wife phoned me at work to tell me that she… Read note →
I Changed my theme
After threatening to do it for almost a year, I’ve finally got round to changing the theme for this blog. I had planned to create my own theme, but having seen “HemingwayEx 1.0″ in an article by Smashing Magazine I decided that this was so close to what I wanted to achieve it wasn’t worth… Read note →
TomTom Go 520T
On Christmas Eve Laura apologised to me because the gift she had ordered for me online over two weeks previously had failed to arrive from Dixons. When she handed me a printout on Christmas morning with a picture and the tec specs of the TomTom Go 520T that was on it’s way for me I… Read note →
fiftytwo o-eight
I’ve started my little photo challenge. For fiftytwo o-eight I’m planning to post a new photo each week to my flickr account. The hope is that this will encourage me to spend a bit more time on my photography this year and who knows maybe even improve my skills. I’m not exactly thrilled with the… Read note →