Websites are a mystery to the average person – they know that they need one for their business but they have little idea of the process involved and little idea of the potential cost. Sensationalist numbers are banded around in the media but the question “how much is a website” is never answered. Often times [...]

I’ve been recently in a situation where I felt the website I was working on was being a little dishonest in the way it requested information from the end user. I have strong principles and with this experience it has made me realise that they lie very closely with the end user, that is – [...]

I love efficiency and I’m always on the lookout to be more efficient – especially when it comes to computers. I started to realise I needed a strategy after listening to the excellent Back to Work Podcast which led me on to Inbox Zero. Merlin Mann is behind all these and he has an excellent [...]

You know I work for jimmyteens.tv – that’s a cancer support website you know. I’ve worked for them since waaaay back in 2005 and although I’ve read the news and appeared on the odd film here and there I never actually had a film about me. But now I do, and here it is in [...]

ICE, or In Case of Emergency, is the idea that you have on your phone, under ICE, a person the paramedics can contact should you find yourself in a less than ideal situation. I always lock my phone, and I also have a passcode in place. With these new fangled mobile computers there’s a whole [...]

I often have a lot of things that occur to me while I’m coding, or browsing the web, or listening to music – just any time I’m using my computer really. And I think “yeah, I’ll remember that”. I very rarely remember that. A while ago I read on Brett Terpstra Logging with Day One [...]