Still Breathing

I’ve just read this fantastic article by Richard MacManus and Joshua Porter in which they talk about the “paradigm shift” happening on the web currently to turn it from a series of website islands to a true interconnected world of data. Those connections are brought about through, mainly, XML technologies. And my favourite microformat, RSS,…

I’ve just found this interesting discussion about designing website for larger size monitors. While I can see both good and bad points about both 800 and 1024 pixel-wide websites, I’m sticking with 800 pixels as my base. And for this reason, which Adam Thody said very well: I don?t think the should be a discussion…

I’ve just updated my website to include a Creative Commons licence. This means I’m happy for people to copy my work (music and images) for free, modify them and otherwise distribute them, but not make money off them. Regarding the software I write, that’s a slightly different matter. It will be released under an Open…

You know that summer is really coming when things start to change appearance. The trees turn green, the hedges thicken up, flowers start to bloom and hundreds of websites get redesigned. What? Yes, it’s true – a new site design is one of the harbingers of the summer. So grab a beer, light the barbecue,…

Well, well, well. I wondered a couple of months ago if something like this was possible, and apparently it is. Using the libgmailer library it connects to your GMail account and uses starred emails as posts, and replies to those emails as comments. Very, very clever. And, of course, it opens up lots of possibilities.…