Skip to main content

Comments I've posted on other sites

  1. You reach for the stars, I go to the flicks | Brief letters | Global | The Guardian

    Just off London’s City Road there used to be a “Britannia College of Excellence”, whose motto was…

  2. On the market: Contemporary art deco-inspired property in Frinton-On-Sea, Essex « WowHaus

    It’s an odd one this - I *think* it’s actually a converted more conventional house, rather than a…

  3. Surprise post (Noisy Decent Graphics)

    I hope it’s a design for a website for chatting to friends called FACEBOOKS

  4. Berlin Wall to be Rebuilt With Glowing White Helium Balloons for 25th Anniversary of Fall

    @philgyford I was wrong!

  5. Improvements to smart answers | Inside GOV.UK

    Having recently built a quick demo version of something similar to a Smart Answer at Citizens…

  6. Berlin Wall to be Rebuilt With Glowing White Helium Balloons for 25th Anniversary of Fall

    They’re not “helium” balloons. If they were they wouldn’t have lights inside them, and wouldn’t…

  7. How designers prototype at GDS | GDS design notes

    Thanks for writing this - I’m fascinated by the idea of designers who design in code, because I’ve…

  8. Reviewing, Digital Style | Historically Us

    Thanks for the review - I’m glad you like the site. Regarding “Older versions of the site also…

  9. Who are the longest running UK bloggers? | troubled diva

    “although the Haddock Directory closed in February 2007, and there don’t appear to be any archives”…

  10. The Ben Jonson House Group Blog: External Redecorations: Week 3

    In the interests of keeping a record… On Monday a polite man sanded and undercoated our roof…

  11. The Online Photographer: The Morning Coffee 8/12/14

    I’ve been using Feedbin since Google Reader closed, and love it. So many RSS-following people makes…

  12. Cool Tools - Feedly RSS reader

    It would be useful to know why you consider Feedly to be better than other similar services you’ve…

  13. Crossword blog: are super-solvers born, not made? | Crosswords | theguardian.com

    We’ve been trying to solve one a week (Monday’s, so usually Rufus) over lunchtimes at work, usually…

  14. Sherlock Phone-Box Shrine Desecrated | Londonist

    I’m not sure why this is news - the phone box is cleaned up quite often, only to have the post-its…

  15. Shorter films (Noisy Decent Graphics)

    How about trailers for movies, or the “Previously, on…” summaries at the start of TV episodes, as…

  16. Boat Race protester Trenton Oldfield ordered to leave UK | World news | The Guardian

    This is outrageous. I can’t believe things could go this wrong in this day and age. “…he wrote a…

  17. Letters: Peerless Wigan | From the Guardian | The Guardian

    Catherine Shoard describes Col Needham as the man who “created the Internet Movie Database” (G2, 13…

  18. Six degrees of IMDb founder Col Needham | Film | The Guardian

    Catherine Shoard fails to even mention the huge number of volunteers who contributed the data which…

  19. Best aids for learning acting? - Ask Cool Tools

    Like Tim Donahue said, you can’t learn how to act from a book. But they can give you some ideas to…

  20. Our Incredible Journey | MetaFilter

    Thanks all for the interest. And, yes, I was aware of the irony of hosting the thing on Tumblr, but…

  21. The Online Photographer: Open Mike: Editions

    I’ve been intrigued by the idea of The Best Books on any one (or all!) subject(s) for a while. Some…

  22. TROUBLESHOOT US? « Soul-Sides.com

    I had a brainwave… I went to Facebook and logged out, then tried Soul Sides again and it loaded…

  23. TROUBLESHOOT US? « Soul-Sides.com

    I’ve found the site really slow to load - to the point of not loading at all - for weeks, using…

  24. Said the Gramophone: Best Songs Of 2012

    Thanks, as ever, for this Sean. So, so much I missed. That Pat Jordache track sounds very, very…

  25. 8 reasons you should give talks | Final Bullet

    On the negative side… while it’s great for the speaker, for all the reasons you cite, the idea that…