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The Universal Filing System?

It struck me that the amount of content that we publish about our lives today on the web is simply staggering. We write down our bigger ideas and thoughts in blogs, twitter the random everyday things, link to the things we like, take photos of places and things we see, …

Low impact Link-blogging: Design Reboot (Part 2)

I have always had mixed feelings about linkblogging – on one hand, I read a lot and it seems natural that I would come across interesting articles that other folks might enjoy. In the back of my mind however, I think of linkblogging as slagging off from the more "real" …

Back to the Basics – Design Reboot (part 1)

I think I’ve worked out most of the kinks in moving the blog to it’s new home, so I thought I would spend a little time talking about some of the challenges and ideas behind this shift. But first a little bit of history – I originally started blogging on …

Don’t touch that button!

This post is aimed at the folks who subscribe to my blog via RSS (If you don’t, why not start now? 🙂 ) If you are seeing this, then it means I have managed to flip the switches in the right order and big changes have happened! Come take a …

What we owe to the A-Bomb

As to where I first came across a recommendation for Richard Rhodes’ books on Nuclear bombs, my memory fails me. But few books I have read stretched me like “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” and “Dark Sun” have. For someone who prides himself on being able to read a …

A year of living comfortably – 2007 in photos

It is with a sense of disappointment that I draw the curtain on my collection of photos for 2007. There were a few “a-ha” moments during that time, but more overwhelming is the sense that I didn’t do much in pursuit of this art. A simple look at the numbers …