Yes We’ve Got a Video!

I met up with my new chum Paul Fabretti whilst I was at FUEL last week. He’d been to the launch of the Flip Video camera the night before and it took little encouragement for Paul to whip it out and show me his. Matron!
Sadly, this involved Paul then filming me with said camera and [...]

You Gotta Love Daring Fireball

You gotta love John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame… In a great post about the iPhone, it’s launch week remember, John pokes fun at some of the iPhone doom mongers in the way only John can.
This piece made me laugh out loud; in which Mr Gruber responds to a quote from an Verizon executive:
Mr. Lanman [...]

I’m Flattered

I’ll preface this post by saying I should probably tag it with “ego” and “ego-centric” but hey…
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had some really nice feedback on davidhughes.org, all of which has meant a lot to me.
First, I had a lovely compliment on my writing.
Then, a compliment of my use of typography in [...]

An Obsession Shared…

For a long time I have enjoyed reading Ink Quest which features the experiences, trials and tribulations of a fellow obsessive’s search for the perfect fountain pen ink. It made me feel so much better to realise that there others out there who are perhaps slightly more obsessive even than I.
However, I feel I [...]

Corporate Blogs

I’ve worked in two companies now where the idea of a blog has been mooted. I think corporate blogs are, on the whole, a terrible idea.
Unless genuinely written by an employee (who says it has to be an executive after all) with ability, charisma and genuine interest in blogging they are going to be shallow [...]

Gapingvoid

I’ve recently found and been enjoying this excellent blog so I thought I’d draw your attention to it.
gapingvoid is the blog of Hugh MacLeod and is centred around his cartoons drawn on the back of a business cards. Hugh has a great introduction to how he arrived at this medium and little history about [...]