In my day it was all Denby crockery and electric toasters.
I saw a modern wedding list today, and items on it included:
USB record deck
500GB external hard disk
Energy saving lamps
Solar rock lights
Laser Cosmos mood lighting
Roomba
Lego Millennium Falcon
Bath towels
OK, so I expected the bath towels.
Park bench -
Originally uploaded by gilest
Kate and Charl were deep in conversation on the park bench, while us dads entertained the kiddies.
I made this for my recent presentation about web writing. A lot of it is not new to expert webessionals like you, but to my audience on the day most of it was new. Might even have been interesting. I’m putting it here so I don’t mislay it.
Print writing
Web writing
Adverts come first
Adverts come second
The writer [...]
Noah
Originally uploaded by gilest
So here’s my new little nephew, Noah Kruglianskas Turnbull. Barney and I have just returned from a few days visiting him in Barcelona. He’s a little cutie.
I dunno about you, but I get a little twitchy about installers that expect to have “Unrestricted access” to the rest of my computer’s system.
It’s astonishing how hard it can be to find a small, simple, low-cost, long-battery-life mobile computer. I should know: I’ve been looking for one for ages.
I want something very small and simple, with just a browser and a plain text editor on board. I want to be able to go out all day and just [...]
skillswap 023
Originally uploaded by Pink Pixie
Listen to Laura. She knows.
Getting yourselves an Twitter account and then blindly following everyone you can find is not a way of generating more traffic for your Squidoo lens.
Rather, it is a way of generating anger and hatred from normally-happy and mild-mannered Twitter users who will, as a result of your stupid spammery behaviour, then go out of their [...]
My presentation in dev mode, as post-its on my office wall
So, like I said yesterday, I don’t do a lot of presentations. And, like I said yesterday, after finding a pretty fundamental flaw in Apple’s presentation app Keynote, I didn’t want to use it to display slides in front of a roomful of people. So [...]
I don’t do a lot of presentations. In fact, I don’t like presentations very much. I’ve been subjected to too many boring ones in my time, and have been guilty of delivering boring ones too.
But tomorrow I’m doing a talk in front of 50 or 60 media professionals at a conference in Bath, and [...]
