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Physicality

10 April, 2025 - 273 words
I said to someone at work today that there's been an entire generation who has only known media consumption and creation through digital means. This isn't a new observation and also it's not quite true. Colouring books, sellotape, straws. Cutting shapes out of paper. Everyone born in the UK will have done these things as a kid. But in 2025, creating and using music, photogr...

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Guestbook beauty

24 May, 2024 - 106 words
Eva Decker has an incredible guestbook. Not only does it look wonderful but she's also

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Google Books inaccessibility

23 November, 2006 - 60 words
I know that the accessibility is somewhat of an old topic, but still: <span class="pseudolink">Full screen</span> ? I mean, thanks a friggin’ lot,

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New design

14 December, 2004 - 89 words
I finally got around to spending ten minutes to create a new design for this site that I might not hate quite as much as the last one. The HTML is slightly better, the CSS is just as bad, and links are painfully non-obvious, which I’ll need to fix. An added bonus is that I’ve broken all the links in my sidebar – hooray for progress! And ...

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Blog design old and new

26 October, 2004 - 436 words
The current ‘design’ is actually just a sample layout I was putting together a year and a half ago and decided to test on my blog. And, as it turned out, that’s the way its stayed. Certainly not the intention! So I need to design. Normally you’d expect people to say “redesign”, but that’s not what I’m actually starting from :). I’m powered by Blogger ...

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Firefox poster

18 September, 2004 - 53 words
This has been in my flickr favourites for ages, but I didn’t realise that it was designed by Steven Garrity of actsofvolition.com/. cool. Posted...

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HTML headings and XHTML

26 July, 2004 - 33 words
Anne cuts the crap and gets to the point: all this stuff about proper hierarchy is just guff. We’re using HTML for something it’s not designed for.

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css magic

14 May, 2004 - 27 words
A nice keyboard, rendered in CSS. Sometimes, you’ve got to think, y’know, just maybe some people have too much time on their hands.

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791

19 January, 2004 - 106 words
wireframe (via CSSVault via Whitespace) is an exceptionally good list of CSS demonstrations, many of which really blew me away (Beehemoth in particular). They demonstrate what the...

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688

15 September, 2003 - 59 words
Refresh your browser Because I’m moving to a new design, and it probably doesn’t work properly yet. Most of the links are probably broken too. Joy! hmmm…on second thought – perhaps the day before I go to Rome for a week isn’t the best time to be doing this. 🙂

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