Archive for April, 2008


Let My People Go Surfing

A tweet from Ryan Carson yesterday, led me to Howies about page; a page which Ryan described as “inspiring” and I can see why.
There are two sections of Howies our beliefs page that I think are fantastic:
The rocking chair test
Every product we make has passed the ‘rocking chair test’. This is something we use to [...]

Treat Your Staff Like Adults and See What Happens to Your Business

I’m attending the Carsonified seminar Future of Web Design later this week and popped over to their (lovely) site to check some details; I noticed “We’re hiring!” on the homepage and thought I’d have a look.
Now I knew that Carsonified has a four day work week, but was hugely impressed by the other benefits [...]

Net Neutrality Is “a Load of Bollocks”

I was amazed to see this item over at Boing Boing just now.
Virgin Media, a UK ISP, have a new CEO Neil Berkett, who in an interview with the Royal Television Society’s Television magazine attacked the net neutrality and went as far as to state
“This net neutrality thing is a load of bollocks,” [...]

Great Online Interfaces

I’ve been asked to present at a “brown bag” lunch with the subject of: What’s new in online interfaces?
I’ll cover the obvious areas of AJAX, Flash, Silverlight etc. but I’d really like to share examples of those little interface details that make as much difference as the glitzy technology - like the way you can [...]

Severely Dissapointed

My wife and I were due to take our little girl to see the Terracotta Warriors exhibition at the British Museum tomorrow but upon checking the museum’s website tonight we found that the exhibition is closed tomorrow for “security reasons”.
Tomorrow is the last day of the exhibition (yes I know we should have gone earlier [...]

Have You Got Your Train Ticket?

Albert Einstein was on a train. He couldn’t find his ticket after searching through his all his pockets and bags. The conductor approached him and said “Dr. Einstein, everyone knows who you are; I’m sure that Princeton can afford to buy you another ticket.”
To which Einstein replied “I’m not worried about the money, I need [...]