7 Jan 2013

Project 52

It’s the time for new year’s resolutions, isn’t it? I know plenty of people who don’t believe in them. But I’m an optimist, so I normally make a few. One I’m making this year is to get back into the The Artist’s Way. This is one of the few “self-help”-style books that’s ever seemed to have actually […]

31 Dec 2012

Favourite Photos of the Month, 2012

On New Year’s Eve, I like to put together a little retrospective view of my year’s worth of Flickr photos. I do this by picking the one photo from each month of the year that I like best. It might not be the most technically brilliant photo of the month — I’m just as likely to pick […]

3 Oct 2012

God, I love this song. The album version’s better, mind, but still…

God, I love this song. The album version’s better, mind, but still…

3 Sep 2012

How to Survive Being a Beginner

I’ve been learning lots of new things recently. Learning Java and the Android API, pretty much from scratch, so I could port Get Running from iPhone to Android, for example. And, since I went freelance, learning lots of things I don’t, in all honesty, care quite as much about as programming, like accountancy and company […]

17 Aug 2012

Why the hell is just “scrolling down the screen” so slow and unresponsive in Google+? And why are the…

Why the hell is just “scrolling down the screen” so slow and unresponsive in Google+? And why are the scrollbars non-standard? Grr.