These are my links for August 25th through September 1st: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity First essay of the late Prof Carlo Cipolla.<br /> Law1: Everyone underestimates the stupid population. <br /> Law2: Stupidity is independent of other characteristics.<br /> Law3: A stupid person causes loss to others while deriving no gain or incurring [...]

These are my links for August 7th through August 12th: YUI Compressor – Code Standards | Isobar – Adequately Good – Saner HTML5 History Management – AJAX and restful apps break the browser history model. Some thoughts on how the HTML5 changes could help.

Imagine a scene in the not-too distant future… after a frenzied period of leaks, rumours, claims and counter-claims, interspersed with no-comments, denials, and increasingly reliable and suggestive evidence emerging from component and sub-assembly manufacturers, Apple Inc announce the imminent release of The Perfect Gadget. The mainstream press attend press conferences and briefings where Apple proclaim [...]

I fondly remember a time when I was somewhat shorter than I am today, when a summer afternoon seemed like a lifetime and a five minute cartoon was the pinnacle of non-confectionary based treats. During this time, Bod was one of my favourite cartoons.

Last year, I created a parody “Tesco Value Special Occasion Card“; stuck it up on the web and thought nothing more about it; making it freely available in several formats so that people without black belt computer skills could download it, alter it a bit if necessary and then print it out.

We’re looking for a print that will go in the new kitchen, so I’ve made a short list of Exploding Dog pictures that might be suitable, or which are at least along the right lines in terms of ideas for colour.

This site has switched over to a new look and feel this afternoon, so I hope that you, the reader, find it comfortable to use. I’ll be interested to know if it works, ’cause if it’s all broken for you, I’ll switch back to the old theme and tinker with it a little more. Folks [...]

One nice result of the UK having an Apple store is that we also get a nice union flag button based on the sleek Apple branding, however, there’s no Welsh Apple shop, so until Tiger comes out there’s no Welsh button; and there probably won’t be one when it does, so…

I have to hand it to the R&D folks at apple, they really do create some lovely gadgets. Things that have form as well as function. So my usual respect was taken up a notch today when I saw the advert for this summer’s must have gadget, the iPad.

At last, a sensible, affordable, no-nonsense backdrop.

The Tesco Value Special Occasion Card needs no explanation.

Every year we enter the IBM Summer Volleyball Tournament, hoping for fine weather, long balmy evenings, a few beers, a BBQ and maybe (but only if we have to) a game of volleyball.

A few months back the BBC were running an “albums that never were” feature on one of it’s radio channels.

When Apple launched iSync there were some teething issues with information disappearing.

The cake-person needs a copy of the image we’ve used for invitations, so I thought I’d post it here, along with a proper credit.

I need a spot to put any icons I make for use in worldwind, so this shall be it.

I’ve added a darker theme (called cocoa)

I’ve been asked to come up with a few designs for a logo that can be used for the Grid2005 workshop.

miscellaneous foaf art

ok, slightly off topic this one (isn’t everything?)… totton squash club needed their old logo touching up, so being a kind hearted soul I’ve obliged.

ah, the joy of coming up with ideas for book covers. some time ago mark asked me to come up with an idea for his forthcoming book collaboration.

On our return from Charlie’s stag night in 2003, Jon and I started finding humour in the Aircraft Safety Briefing card.