Thoughts on William Gibson’s Count Zero, and the literature of time and memory.
Thoughts on William Gibson’s Count Zero, and the literature of time and memory.
A Love Supreme made me think about a lot of things, not least how hard jazz can be to get into.
Some sketchy thoughts on America and its mythology in music and pictures.
The wonders of WordPress, including clever code, a clean interface and fantastic functionality.
Flickr and my ineptitude where photography is concerned segues into some impressions of Michael Ormerod’s photographs of America.
Mousepads exemplify a class of often-unnoticed objects, useful without drawing attention to themselves.
Are Moleskines really that great? As always, the issue is much more complex than it first appears.
The new routines I’ve instituted to keep my productivity up, plus a couple of product endorsements.
Architecture needs to be allowed into our lives.
A review of Chandos Deli’s sandwiches, and society’s failure to properly appreciate bread.
A few remarks on trends, tactility and taking the long road.
The Hitchhiker’s movie left me with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side.
The communication between a client and their designer is the most essential part of developing a website.
The physical manifestation of moral corruption is a prediliction of current Hollywood movies.
Why Batman: Year One wouldn’t have worked as a film (despite the comic’s greatness), and why Batman Begins does.
My experiences at the 2005 Glastonbury music festival, day by day in diary format.
The endless metamorphosis of the web points us towards a new design methodology.
Rituals give our lives definition and focus; they are a powerful tool that can put us into the right frame of mind to do whatever needs doing.
Are architects taking a long enough view with regards to the future of their buildings?
If you try to push back the boundaries of what you can do, sometimes you fail. This was one of those times.
Fragments of process help us to understand where buildings come from, and where they might go.
Not to be confused with white space, outer space or non-Euclidean space.
New London architecture and the Guardian redesign.
A sort of review of Carol Grimes live at the Vortex Jazz Club.
A brief introduction to epistemology, the branch of philosophy that deals with knowledge: what it is, and thus, what we can know.
Not-really-a-review of Howl’s Moving Castle, and some meditations on translation and responsibility.
We are speakers and listeners and readers and writers, and that gives language—words—power over us.
Small company websites explaining what the business does and how to get in contact with them are like online business cards.
A brief tribute to the great radio presenter.
HTML needs a wider range of elements if we’re going to make the “semantic web” happen.
Most people who use open source software never give anything back directly to the project; is this a problem?
Developers using images as backgrounds need to remember to set background colours as well, or they hurt usability.
Take the time to do things properly, and make sure that all your work is supported by an appropriate amount of planning and preparation.
Hearing people who obviously don’t know what they’re doing act like professionals pisses me off no end.
Internet Explorer’s incorrect interpretation of the box model means that using negative margins can be extremely problematic.
Many of our physical limitations simply don’t matter, or at any rate matter a good deal less, when we’re communicating online.
My five favourite albums of 2005, chosen from a fairly small field, but a strong list nonetheless.