Still Breathing

After having read a interesting article at molly.com I wondered more about my desire to visit web design conferences. Obviously it would be great to go to Boston, or New York – even London would be good – especially if someone else is paying. But would I learn anything more there than I could just…

Any sharp-eyed reader of The Geek Times will know I am a huge fan of the wondrous Mozilla FireFox web browser, a nifty piece of software that does what it is meant to do, how it is meant to do it, and all for free. So imagine my surprise when a fellow developer sent me…

Good grief. What is the world coming to. I speak, of course, of the nightmare of buying a new mobile phone. Finding the right phone wasn’t a problem, and thanks to Strathclydezero I found the perfect phone for me. I am currently with o2 for my phone, so I went to their website to upgrade…

Having just read the biggest web design mistakes made in 2004 from WebPagesThatSuck.com, I’m wondering whether I have something to confess. In my exuberance to promote web standards I may have been guilty of making an idol out of the technique. While web standards are good, and wholesome, and necessary, and useful they aren’t the…

These days I seem to be spending far too much of my time reading geeky blogs, which of course is a good thing. The problem is that I’m spending so much time reading about what’s happening on the web that I have little time to contribute to it. But then again some things are well…