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So. Today is my fortieth birthday, along with also being Armistice Day (and Remembrance Sunday week) here in the UK. I feel like I should write something thoughtful about age and memory, although it’s...
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Code Club, a talk at Refresh Cambridge
At this month’s Refresh Cambridge event a couple of weeks ago, I gave a short talk about Code Club; what it’s all about, how to get involved, and what it is like to try to teach kids how to code. This...
View ArticleHybridConf, 2014
I’m just back from attending HybridConf, a 2-day web design/development conference in Stockholm. It was my first time in the city, and I found it strangely underwhelming. I don’t know whether spending...
View ArticleTen years
On this day, ten years ago, I published the very first post on The Watchmaker Project. At the time, I wasn’t even using the URL, just a temporary Blogger address, but I wanted to join my voice with...
View ArticleEnvious habits
In a propitious piece of timing, considering last week’s post on forming new habits, I read an article on Medium tonight about ‘The Myth of Creative Inspiration‘, written by habit-transformation guru...
View ArticleThe Habit Trigger
The concept of a habit ‘trigger’ is not a new one. It is mentioned in the Wikipedia definition, as “the cue [...] that causes your habit to come about”, and discussed in articles about how to break or...
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Jag Reehal: Responsive Workflow with Grunt, at Refresh Cambridge
At last night’s Refresh Cambridge meetup, the first of 2014, we were lucky enough to have Jag Reehal come to speak about his experiences with using Grunt — the JavaScript Task Runner — to facilitate...
View ArticleResolutions, 2014
For the last two years, my New Year’s resolutions have been pretty similar. Make more stuff. Write more stuff. Something about fitness. It’s tempting to come up with something completely off the wall...
View ArticleReading List 2013
After skipping a couple of years, in 2012 I once again started to record a summary of the books I had read over the previous twelve months, using my handy Goodreads account (not that I ever use the...
View ArticleWhat I Listened To In 2013
I’ve been writing this yearly overview of what I’ve been listening to for several years. And yet, despite feeling that I am discovering new music every year, the top few bands somehow remain the same....
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Getting ThinkUp installed on MediaTemple (gs)
Via Meri Williams on Twitter I heard about Gina Trapani and Anil Dash’s new app, ThinkUp, a couple of days ago. It calls itself “a social data insights engine” which, as far as I can tell, translates...
View ArticleCoursera – Online Games: Literature, New Media and Narrative
Continuing my ongoing adventures in free online education, this month I embarked on my fifth Coursera course. Online Games: Literature, New Media and Narrative is a six week course run by Nashville’s...
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dConstruct 2013
Summer is over, the rain has returned, and the kids have gone back to school … which means it must be time for another dConstruct conference, in the UK’s alternately sunny and rain-drenched south...
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How to get the most out of Scrivener Composition Mode
It has so many features that it’s hard for anyone to pick their favourite part of Scrivener, the writing software that has been adopted by everyone from amateurs to professional authors. But one...
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How I made a website behave more like a book
I’ve been idly sketching ideas vague ideas for a redesign of my blog this week, and found myself heading down a well-worn route. A blog (I said to myself) is really nothing more than a collection of...
View ArticleLearning to write more proper
This weekend I completed my third online course provided via the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provider, Coursera. After the lengthier Fantasy/Sci-Fi and Film Theory classes I took in the last...
View ArticleHow to fix your screen resolution in Windows on your 27″ iMac
When I installed Windows 7 on my new 27″ iMac, there was one glaring problem. The screen resolution — a glorious 2560 by 1440 on OSX — would only go up to a maximum of 1600 by 1200 on Windows,...
View ArticleGetting ‘Getting Things Done’ things done
At the start of 2012, one of the things I stated I would do was get a handle on my personal time and project management through implementing a definitive GTD process. Twelve months later, I was still...
View ArticleSound and colour in Hollywood, another online course
Today I completed another online course, this time on the development of sound and colour in Hollywood cinema. It was half the duration of my last one, so it seems to have gone by rather fast,...
View ArticleNietzsche on critique
I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage...
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