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Writing

  1. ‘Cognitive Surplus’ by Clay Shirky

    My notes from reading the book.

  2. SuperMe

    The site I’ve been working on at Somethin’ Else has launched.

  3. Week 368

    Getting on top of things.

  4. Publishing with old dates in Movable Type

    What I did to make the Pepys’ Diary website work with 343-year-old dates in Movable Type.

  5. Pirate economics

    The pay differentials of 18th century pirates.

  6. 30 tons of baggage

    A description of a Victorian journey into Africa and the huge amount of resources required.

  7. A pint bottle full of HeLa

    The story of Henrietta Lacks and her cells that went on to be used in medicine without her family knowing.

  8. Making a web page fit an iPhone screen

    I had problems making a web page fit and fill the iPhone screen width-wise in both Safari and when opened from the Home Screen.

  9. Cool down, little girl

    Some examples of little details that bring to live much larger issues.

  10. More than a million

    Some bits from a review of a book about Henry Wellcome’s huge collection of objects.

  11. Week 367

    A busy week, work and socially.

  12. Sieve filters

    My Sieve email filters, an example.

  13. Week 366

    Still struggling with animation and swiping on Today’s Guardian.

  14. Week 365

    Fiddling with Today’s Guardian on iPhone/iPad, moving photos, and Pepys.

  15. Today’s Guardian feature requests

    The three most common feature requests for the Today’s Guardian website.

  16. Week 364

    Today’s Guardian, work with BERG, and more Pepys.

  17. Today’s Guardian

    The thinking behind my new Today’s Guardian website.

  18. Week 363

    A bit of work and too many other things to make much progress on the news project.

  19. DIY Design

    My notes from the St Bride Library conference 2010.

  20. Week 362

    Work on a personal news-related project and the St Bride Library conference.

  21. Nothing else to do

    Sunday’s aren’t what they used to be, but Tony Hancock’s ‘A Sunday Afternoon At Home’ reminds us what they were.

  22. What have we today?

    Some clippings from the New Statesman’s ‘This England’ column from the early 1990s.

  23. Week 361

    Catching up on weeknotes after a holiday and procrastination.

  24. Twenty-four small drawers

    Re-organised and labelled for the first time in more than twenty years.

  25. Foods I craved

    Food I wanted when on holiday in Morocco with stomach trouble