Writing
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Mind Hacks by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb
Finally got round to reading it and wasn’t disappointed. Very dense with interesting nuggets.…
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Vote for me and Jamie Oliver!
JamieOliver.com, which I built with Poke, is up for a Webby award. So go and vote for it!
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HTML wot I wrote
I spent a lot of time doing the HTML/CSS templates for a new version of Wood Mackenzie’s site (although you’ve, justifiably, probably never heard of them).
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With great audiences…
At what point does an amateur weblog become professional? And what responsibilities does that entail? In sticking to its amateur style, I feel Boing Boing may be shirking some responsibility.
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I don’t understand
MG Rover’s directors and the profitable but crap Thameslink train service confuse me entirely.
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Flickr article for BBC News
I wrote an article about Flickr for BBC News Online last week, and it reminded me how different writing professionally is to all this personal publishing stuff.
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Guardian Review, 19 March 2005
Ian McEwan on how one person taking someone else’s boots leads to the collapse of society (well, almost).
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London Review of Books, 5 March 2005
Science should reconcile first and third person accounts of the universe, and novels written in free indirect style do just that.
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American passports and Mexican food
Two old posts of mine that have generated disproportionate quantities of coomments via Google.
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Moving virtual house
A week ago my sites moved to a new server. There are a couple of outstanding problems, but it mostly went OK. Here’s my exhaustive task list for ensuring a smooth move.
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Server moving…
Gyford.com (and Byliner, Overmorgen and Pepys’ Diary) is moving to a new server… so there may be some broken things around over the next few days. Sorry about that.
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May the Government be damned for it
An awesome, possibly final, speech from Brian Sedgemore in yesterday’s Prevention of Terrorism Bill debate. Why are people like him the exception rather than the rule among Labour MPs?
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Contextual signage
Two newish things I like, which together are worth a post, a new sign at the Barbican and one of the new Channel 4 idents.
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Top Tunes of 2004
Making a CD of your favourite music and giving it to friends is naughty and illegal and the cause of global terrorism. But if I was, perhaps, to make one of my favourite music of 2004, then it would look like…
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Ten years on
I’ve been online exactly ten years. It’s been amazing, but I don’t know where I’m going from here.
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1970s UK TV Fictional Celebrity Big Brother
Create your own fantasy Big Brother cast list. The craze that’s sweeping the nation.
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Direct diet marketing
A handy diet and exercise-tracking site that’s actually run by a direct-marketing company.
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Getting Things Done by David Allen
Toward the end of last year I felt the need to take stock of everything I was doing (or, more…
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Barbican: Penthouse Over the City by David Heathcote
Most of the book is a detailed look at the various stages of planning the Barbican went through…
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Combining RSS feeds into one feed and page
After tinkering for a few weeks I’ve written a script that combines my writing, notes, links and Flickr photos into a single RSS feed and creates a single chronological front page for my site. Feel free to nab my script.
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Combining things into one RSS feed
Sucking up four RSS feeds and spitting them out in one combined feed. But it doesn’t quite seem to work in some feed readers. Help appreciated.
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Posting links from del.icio.us to Movable Type
I wrote some perl to transfer del.icio.us links — both today’s and old dusty ones from the past — to appropriately dated Movable Type entries.
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More del.icio.us fiddling
A couple of changes to what I’m doing with del.icio.us - if you bookmarked my page or feed you may want to change it slightly…
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My links have moved to del.icio.us
Migrating to del.icio.us was made easier with a handy guide, but I’m still having problems getting things to work.
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Haddock Blogs working better
Like a toilet unblocking, a big flush of blog posts erupts…