Favourite Photo of the Month 2018
What do you mean, am I posting this just so I can say I blogged in 2018? Yeah, okay, it’s a fair cop. And my end-of-year fave photo roundup is something of a tradition… January The stringlights at the Underfall Yard café caught my eye during a wander. February An everyday sight in Bristol, but […]
Photo Project: Cafe Signs
Back in June 2011, I posted the first picture to my Cafe Signs blog. Back then the blog was called Cafe Typography. I was just starting to learn a bit about the web and type design, and the writing on cafe signs had started to interest me. It turned out to be one of those hobbies that stuck. The blog […]
Review Corner: Withings Activité Steel
I’ve had a Withings Activité Steel on my wrist for about five months. The Steel is, in some ways, the smart watch I’d been waiting for. Not as swanky and expensive as the original Activité, and not as cheap and poppy as the Swatch-like Activité Pop. It is by no means perfect, but on balance […]
Kindle Calendar
Mostly photos of my latest project today. I write morning pages, longhand. I like to write the date at the top of the page. This causes me more problems that you might expect, given that I’m ditzy first thing in the morning, and have recently switched from a watch with a date display to one without. My cure for […]
Review Corner: Omaker Reversible Micro USB Cable
There’s an old joke: When the inventor of the USB stick dies they’ll gently lower the coffin, then pull it back up, turn it the other way, then lower it again. There are a couple of billion smartphone users on the planet. Let’s say that, like me, they manage to waste at least a second a […]