Reading 20 in 2020 In the years prior to 2020, my reading habit had taken a bit of a nose-dive. I'd pick up a book every so often and work through it, but I wasn't reading nearly as much as I wanted to. With 2020 being a nice
Reading The Count of Monte Cristo Last year, I planned to read more and failed miserably. I used to read a lot and the last few years it's tailed off a bit so this year, I
Reading 2018 Reading List 2017 has been a shocking year for my reading. Other than comics, I've not finished reading a single book this year and I'm not at all happy about that. Admittedly, I've been busier drawing commissions than previous years so I've not been completely idle.
Process Staying relevant Last night saw a group of creative types congregate in Huddersfield for another HuddsDigitals meetup. As a change to the usual format (casual meet in a bar over drinks), we saw ourselves involved in a more structured panel/group discussion talking about keeping up-to-date
User Interface Design One click, big difference I've been an avid Kindle user since Luisa first bought me one for Valentine's last year. I started with a 3rd gen model until earlier this year when I broke it. I recently upgraded to a 5th gen model and am back on course
Self-improvement Life after RSS... Back in 2007, I bought my first MacBook. I remember spending an hour or so that morning setting up the apps I needed, dropping some music into iTunes and adding email accounts to Mail. I discovered that here in the Mail app was where
Self-improvement Challenge for August I'm very happy with the progress I've made in the last year, going from reading next to nothing at all to reading something, be it articles or part of a book, every day. As I'm a glutton for punishment and feel I need to
Web Design Releasing the dam Over the last few months, I've been lagging behind in my reading of web related articles and watching of past conference videos. I've been saving many of them up for occasions when I need to kill some time which, until recently, rarely came along.
Self-improvement Marked improvements I've never been much of a reader. I've always liked reading but growing up I had a very illustrative, visual disposition which meant I spent less time working on my reading skills. As a result, when I hit my mid-teens and started to pick
Reading The Road A man and his son struggle to survive whilst preserving their humanity in a world where it has all but disappeared... We join the characters after they've been on the road for some time. Sleeping on the ground under blankets and a tarp. It
Responsive Web Design Responsive Web Design There are some web design books that you pick up knowing that it will change the way you think about designing websites. This is one of those books. After giving a brief introduction to the origins of Responsive Web Design, Ethan Marcotte goes through
Reading Need to read I'm currently sitting in the office of Oli and Chris having just got back from this year's DIBI conference reflecting on the work I do and the drive to learn even more. On the drive down from Newcastle, Mark (aka greenboyroy) and I were
Self-improvement TV is killing my time In November 2009, Luisa and I moved from our flat in the village I grew up in to our first proper house. I can't remember why exactly but due to the TV cabling being set up to receive Virgin Media (and we weren't subscribed
