Better late than never.

Way back when this blog was built with Hexo, I used the convenient Scaffolds feature as a way of bringing some consistency to blog posts.

After 20 years of on-again, off-again blogging, it's become clear that writing essay-length posts while trying to focus on work is hard. I can blame the…

Mmm, that's a a bit of a mouthful.

I've moved this blog from Ghost to Hexo.

A couple of weeks ago I moved this blog from Tumblr to Ghost. I'd wanted to do so since Yahoo acquired Tumblr. I don't have any trust left in Yahoo after…

The Atlas of True Names

I've been thinking about how much the process of building websites has changed since I laid down my first crappy `frameset` nearly fifteen years ago, so…

MunrOverground Map

Some basic issue tracking concepts and tips, aimed mainly at project and account managers who may not have much experience in this area.

Aha. The story behind the landlord hat. Putting a Landlord Hat on the Landlord | The Chopping Block

Update 2015-08-21

The end of scoping and planning is nigh. Good-oh. We’ll be setting up tools over the next few weeks so I should be in a position to donate to…

I’ve been slightly concerned about my rather lax security habits for a year or so. My state escalated from ‘slightly concerned’ to ‘mildly freaked out’…

A timely article from Smashing, Publish What You Learn:

I had hoped to avoid blog-related busywork until I’d been posting for a few months but a few minor things were annoying me, so I thought them worth fixing.

I’ve been thinking a bit too much about paying for things.

I’ve found that attempting to use new tools and techniques during real production doesn’t really work for me. I get tied up in doing the work and find it…

Right, blogging again. This time it’s vaguely technical.

(via Architizer Blog » Bonsai Architectures and Pebble-Infrastructures)

Paul Russell: Charity, Bournemouth

Shard 2012 – Nick Wood, Hayes Davidson – Home – Millennium Footbridge

The hand carved Marbelous table has spiraled supports and a simple maze carved into the legs. There is even a little shelf at the base for the marble box.

A postcard of Edinburgh Castle in winter, from Postcards to Chris.

November was a quiet month and most of the things I did can’t be talked about publicly right now, so this monthnote should be mercifully brief.

I tend to lose track of things I’ve managed to get done, so have been thinking about keeping weeknotes for a while. I reckon monthnotes might be a better…

LBS SEO Recruiter Spam

Checking in on Saturn – Boston.com

Real World Web

via oldcomputers.net

SEO copywriters

Portfolio Jochem Faudet – Grow Your Own

My blog just turned 3.

Space Shuttle Endeavour silhouetted against Earth’s atmosphere, via headlessness and NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Mars rising over Haleakala Crater Moonbow

Welcome to the Milky Way Transit Authority

Edward Burntyksky – Alberta Oil Sands #6

The Ultimate Uncluttered Tube Map – Londonist

(the teeming void): Weather Bracelet – 3D Printed Data-Jewelry

Famille Summerbelle: London Paper Cut Map

Creative Review – Rubik’s Cube Type Stamp

100% LED Watch

ThinkGeek :: Tauntaun Sleeping Bag

20×200 : think-make-think

via Off The Meatrack

High as a Kite by Slinkachu.

Riding a Wave with Dustin Humphrey – Shoot The Blog

So if McDonald’s wanted a TLD… …then ICANN has .chzbrgr?

code_swarm - Flickr SVN, a visualization of flickr's SVN repository created using code_swarm.

“Of course, we couldn’t resist setting ourselves a technical challenge with the design to try and do something particularly ‘dopplresque’ with them.”

Artist Admits He Didn’t Actually Use GPS, DHL to Create ‘Biggest Drawing in the World’ | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

The Telectroscope – 22 May-15 June 2008. London and New York.

Tubbypaws, via Nick and Jess.

Paul: I reckon the only thing to do is get in there and give it a crack

SHIFT | PEOPLE | NON-FORMAT

Lawrence Yang – Growth | GelaSkins

Cup Of Tea by David Shrigley.

Bad usability calendar via roamin.

Glitch Browser

“Since Turrell bought the 400,000-year-old, 2-mile-wide crater in 1979 and began moving tons of earth to carve out different kinds of viewing chambers and…

Posterwhore: A visual blog of poster art from artists, illustrators, designers, ad agencies, etc.

Fazal: its amazing how out of sync teh web actually is

Creating a distributed tag-based radio using Last.fm.

Time passes. Things happen. Beer is drunk. No functionality is added (to the weblog, at least). Re-design? Don’t even go there. Just get that twig out of…

William Gibson has an official web presence to complement the launch of his new novel, Pattern Recognition. There’s even a shiny new weblog and forum to…

Aw, look: the first edition of O’Reilly’s 1996 Web Master in a Nutshell in handy searchable HTML! Comes as part of the complete Web Developer’s Library.

Yahoo’s LAUNCHcast service is surprisingly well done (but unsurprisingly seems to choke when using Mozilla or Phoenix). There is, of course, an entirely…

Poorly publicised I Monster website, featuring a comprehensive discography and mp3s of unreleased tracks.

While discussing a New York Times article on L33T speak invading schools, one slashdotter ends up reworking The Lord’s Prayer with modern idioms:

A virtual tour of Keele University.

The Right to Know from the Information Commissioner purports to “give information on how to access files and records held on you by people and…

One last thing; Whelk (the best of Upsideclown).

iCandy reviews Six Feet Under at Screenburn. Related: official Six Feet Under website.

WaiWai is “a section of the Mainichi Daily News that brings articles from Japan’s weekly tabloids to foreign readers”. Cheeky, punning nonsense.…

Random Word Generator. Favourites so far include wagenegle, framelechable, scrudicturns, bylarlous, lubbses, sistral, bitwences, tection, lovememons and…

Coldcut have updated the website for their excellent Solid Steel radio show. It now includes all the playlists since 1998 and archives of some shows.

Stolen from the inestimable Mr Beach.

“Happily attached small anime girl seeks internet weirdo“. Apparently. Apply within.

Google announces Web APIs (will hopefully lead to people making good use of the things that they find). Related: slightly obsessive (in a good way) Google…

Another weblog. Just what the world needs.