Category Archives: Web/Tech

It’s a whole new internet!

Janice Fraser at Adaptive Path neatly sums up the feeling of excitement in the web development community of late in her essay It’s a Whole New Internet. After the dot-com boom and bomb we are starting to see green shoots … Continue reading

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ourmedia host your media, for free!

Ourmedia.org will host your media, providing free storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches. I am SO there, particularly when I start videoblogging in earnest. Tweet This

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Ajax: a New Approach to Web Applications

Jesse James Garrett over at Adaptive Path has written an great article describing how Asynchronous Javascript in combination with XMLHttpRequest (AJaX, geddit?) is revolutionising what we can do with web applications – making them faster, more responsive, and more like … 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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Bone Conduction Pillow

Toshiba are offering a Bone Conduction Pillow. I SO want one. All we need now is bone conduction stereos for our bikes, as in “Virtual Light” by the ever-prescient Mr Wm. Gibson. Tweet This

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Technical Glass

Speaking of web design, the other day I uploaded the freshly redesigned website for The Technical Glass Company, redesigned according to web standards, natch. Sorting out the last few buglets at the moment, but any comments would be very useful. … Continue reading

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