Yearly Archives: 2010

Buy this now – it’s awesome

Posted on Friday, June 11th, 2010 at 1:15 pm.

Why Labour lost

Posted on Sunday, May 30th, 2010 at 10:40 am.

Great quote from Andrew Rawnsley on why Labour lost: New Labour was too insolent about civil liberties, too cringeing to high finance, too tolerant of sleaze, insufficiently dynamic about public services and too crabbed about welfare and constitutional reform

Cultural change is free

Posted on Thursday, April 29th, 2010 at 4:22 pm.

One of the best critiques for the modern phenomenon of target driven system design, where outsourcing, rationalisation, target driven methods, standarisation lead not to the intended outcome of increased efficiency and lower costs, by higher costs, demoralisation and customer disatisfaction. The main guy, John Seddon is a brilliant, thought provoking and eloquent speaker that manages [...]

New box model army

Posted on Sunday, April 25th, 2010 at 4:41 pm.

I love the Observer magazine’s new layout design, particularly the use of mixed fonts and bold header styles. It got me thinking web design and how new techniques such as CSS3, HTML5, jQuery and Typekit (or more generically type replacement techniques) are allowing for much richer designs and interfaces to be applied easier and more [...]

I’m back!

Posted on Thursday, April 8th, 2010 at 6:47 pm.

And on a shiney new server! Thanks @shanemarsden for getting all the apache and php stuff sorted on our box so I can install lovely wordpress. It’s been over six years since I started here and at another junction where I try and work out what the purpose of this website is, but seeing as [...]