I’ve just watched the first episode of Can’t Read Can’t Write a new documentary series on Channel 4. The series follows a group of adults aged between 21 and 58 that can’t as the title says read or write.
I am shocked and disgusted that a person can be allowed to leave school without even elementary [...]

In my post iPhone 2.0 Wishlist I outlined what I hoped for from the new iPhone which Steve Jobs did indeed announce on June 9th - so did I get everything I wished for?
I was lucky enough to receive my iPhone 3G on the July 11 launch day; I say lucky because the launch and the run up [...]

Brilliant cartoon from The Rut.
Via Hicksdesign

Are you a bit of a dab hand with CSS? Can you make IE7 do what you tell it? Then I need your help.
You see in every browser except IE7 my menu links look like his on hover:
But in IE7 the background doesn’t fill the padded area on hover; there’s a background visible but it [...]

Following my recent posts on Yvon Chouinard and Let My People Go Surfing I was contacted by Sara White of Timex Expedition, who are supporting the US Conservation Alliance on a project called Return to the Outdoors which hopes to reconnect Americans “with nature and outdoor activity”.
Now not something I would normally blog about but they have produced an [...]