He’s Just Had Coffee

Two quotes from “Angels In America” that I’m very fond of: “In this world there’s a kind of… painful progress… longing for what we’ve left behind and… dreaming ahead. At least, I think that’s so.” - Harper Pitt, “Angels in America” “The body is the garden of the soul” […]

Those last couple of months seemed madly busy. It’s such a grace to have the time each year to just run away for a couple of weeks over Christmas. I’ve come back to just as long a ToDo list as I left, but with some determination to improve my praxis in a few ways: Make more time […]

Everything seems alright. If your Markdown plugin stops working and you’ve just switched to PHP5 and MySQL5, try upgrading… kind of obvious…

Thanks to various people who let me know that my blog went odd over the Xmas holidays. Our server shifted to PHP5 and it seems to have left one of my Wordpress plugins in poor shape. It’s deactivated while I source an upgrade and find a few minutes out of unpacking from our roadtrip to […]

There’s a lot going on right now. Exactly the kinds of things I should be blogging about. But I’m too busy doing to reflect. Instead, let me tell you about the guy who just left my house. A few weeks ago, I heard a tiny knocking noise in the bannister of our internal stairs. I […]

I’m pretty sure that Frank Visser’s Integral World site has pop-up ads. Every time I go there, I get a pop-up - when I go back or reload, I can’t replicate it, but it seems to keep happening. I’m sympathetic for the need for revenue to keep a big project like that going, or […]

Caution: the following is a little childish. My friend Greg and I were comparing the websites of various religions and we figured we should take a look at the Vatican — who you’d assume would have a reasonable budget for web designers. Now for context, I teach web technology, so I’m a bit of a snob about […]

Tipped off by RockWiz to the following trippy factoid: “At age 47, Bill Wyman began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother’s blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill’s 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy’s mother, age 46. That made Stephen […]

As you’ve no doubt noticed, I’ve been experimenting for a few weeks with the “daily blog posting” feature at del.icio.us. The result is that most of what shows up on my blog is my del.icio.us links. Initially, I liked the increased posting frequency, but I’ve started to feel like I’m cheating and I’d rather give you […]

Something’s up with del.icio.us today. I keep using my usual bookmarklet and getting a redirection page. I tried posting via the “post” link at the main site and found myself looking at this, can you spot what’s amiss, gentle reader? Technorati Tags: del.icio.us

Back about a week ago, I made a few observations about McCloud’s notion of the iconic face and how it related to persona detail when building scenarios for strategic visioning or for usability purposes. I’m not the only design-geek to be fascinated by Scott, Kathy at “Creating Passionate Users” name-checks his notion as well and he […]

Ms Ciccone has a flair for pillaging urban city trends for video ideas (Cade and his commenter Jay document this more thoroughly than I could). The recent video “Jump” features a bunch of guys running le parkour through Tokyo. Parkour is a street art that began in France which has been bubbling along globally for around […]