Writing
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Seeing the light flicker
Finally discovering the joys of Flickr, months after everyone else, getting annoyed with its information architecture, and revelling in the growing number of small pieces joining loosely.
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Euro Foo Camp: Simon Wardley - 3D Printing
Wardley and his two Canon colleagues aren’t working in this (I think) but have been…
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Euro Foo Camp: Tomas Krag & John Naughton - Digital Divide
A small group for this one… John Naughton: Ndiyo — the Swahili word for yes. (Most…
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Euro Foo Camp: Jo Walsh - Literate Programming
Jo Walsh started a discussion about what literate programming is, how practical it is, what we can…
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Euro Foo Camp: Steve Coast - OpenTextBook & OpenStreetMap
Steve Coast (physics student at UCL) on OpenTextBook and OpenStreetMap both of which could do with…
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Euro Foo Camp: Matt Webb - Brain Hacks
Matt Webb entertains the crowd with his descriptions of experiments on psychology undergraduates.…
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Euro Foo Camp: Ben Hammersley - Better Living Through RSS
Debonair man-about-town Ben Hammersley talking about what he’s been squeezing into RSS.…
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MP3 blogs and the record labels
A roundtable discussion of MP3 bloggers seems remarkably optimistic about the record labels’ stance on people giving away their artists’ music. A flurry of letters from lawyers seems much more likely to me…
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London Review of Books, 5 August 2004
Contents page online here Only one review really grabbed me this issue, which I paraphrase here.…
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The Art of Fiction by David Lodge
I read this when it was a series of columns in the Independent on Sunday. Nice to read it again.…
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Let’s live today, anyway. Change me, change me, change me once again
It’s not often you get a chance to see characters in a film genuinely age ten years. ‘Before Sunrise’ gives you this and much, much more. Magic.
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London Review of Books, 22 July 2004
Contents page online here ‘Stainless Splendour’ by Stefan Collini It’s not just…
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St Pancras Chambers
Yesterday I went on a tour of the elegant building at St Pancras station, currently derelict, soon to be converted into a new hotel and apartments, and took some photos.
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Anyone for a greasy?
Mourning the passing of the New Piccadilly cafe in central London and celebrating other simple caffs.
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London Review of Books, 8 July 2004
Contents page online here ‘Reasons to Be Miserable‘ by James Meek Lengthy quotes, but…
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Big head
Those cheeky chappies at Poke stuck my big face to a wall.
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Disk Inventory X
Playing with the utility that gives you a brighly-coloured treemap (a la Market Map or Newsmap) of your Mac’s drive, showing exactly what’s eating all that precious space.
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Inaccessible Odeon
Odeon has forced Matthew Somerville to shut down his accessible version of their site. All the more amazing when Odeon’s official site is completely invisible in some browsers.
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What webloggers are reading this summer
I asked a bunch of webloggers what they’re reading this summer. Because I was more interested in that than what celebrities are reading this summer.
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Blogloops
Bloglines’ first birthday revamp introduces public blogs, shrinking the incestuous blogging cycle a little further.
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The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo by Saskia Sassen
While the book is undoubtedly oriented around cities, very little of it is about the structure or…
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RCA and CSM degree shows
My highlights of the Royal College of Art degree show and a brief comparison with the Central Saint Martins show.
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Byliner stats
A graph showing the rate of new registrations at Byliner (on the up), and the most popular search requests.
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New and improved Jamie Oliver
This year, when I haven’t been coding TheyWorkForYou.com I’ve been employed at the lovely Poke working on the new Jamie Oliver website, which launched yesterday. Here are a few highlights.
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Beach hut photos
Photos of the brightest beach huts on the Essex coast.