Monthly Archives: October 2004

Feedburner and Flickr

Flickr is great. So is Feedburner, which allows you to turbocharge your RSS feeds with all sorts of cool features. It has allowed me to integrate my recent Flickr photos with my RSS feed. Point your RSS reader at http://feeds.feedburner.com/rikabel, … Continue reading

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Phlirtz.com

My most recent design project has now gone live at www.phlirtz.com, which is an online dating/flirting website. The client’s brief included the plea “make it orange”. So I did. Front-end design and coding (and logo) by moi, backend clever making-it-work … Continue reading

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Colonial Fetish, moi?

I’ve been somewhat disappointed (okay, more than somewhat) at the meagre number of comments about my ‘British’ accent, thus far. I was reliably informed by various people that the denizens of Canada would love my accent, but until yesterday I … Continue reading

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Michael Mayer “Touch”

Ooh, ooh! Consider me extremely excited. At long last, superstar German DJ and Kompakt head-honcho Michael Mayer has seen fit to record his first album of original material, Touch, available on pre-order now from the very lovely boomkat.com. Wunderbar. Tweet … Continue reading

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What’s The Big Idea?

Getty Images’ Big Idea invited a group of film-makers and ‘motion graphics’ designers to create 1 minute movies using the footage available on the Getty Images website. The results are fairly impressive. I particularly like Koichiro Tsujikawa’s Eyes, which uses … Continue reading

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Slovenia and Croatia photos

Hola. I’ve just uploaded some photos from our summer hols in Slovenia and Croatia (see sidebar). Slovenia is the most beautiful country I have ever visited and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Any country where the most popular beer … Continue reading

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Zoom Quilt

The Zoom Quilt is an amazing piece of collaborative art. I won’t spoil the surprise by describing it. [Flash Required] Tweet This

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Sad Apple Geek

CIMG1532.JPG Originally uploaded by Rik Abel. By way of test-driving my new Flickr account, here is a photo of myself genuflecting before Apple HQ at 1 Infinite Loop. Like you do. If you are very, very sad. Tweet This

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Bose SoundDock

I just had the opportunity to listen to the new Bose SoundDock ‘digital music system’ for iPods, and I have to say I am hugely impressed! For a small unit it has freakishly powerful, crisp bass response and a great … Continue reading

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