As it’s Friday, here’s a little chuckle to welcome in the weekend: Remember the heady days of the 90s, when everyone suddenly jumped onto this new-fangled internet thing, and created multi-coloured, flashing, clashing web pages that would make your grandmother’s eyeballs fall out? Wish you could relive those days now? Well the good news is [...] Read More
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, and I have joined the pledge to write about a woman in technology whom I admire. Having written about someone whom I have admired from afar last year (Lynda Weinman), this year I decided to write about someone anear (is that a word?) – the woman who started Ada Lovelace [...] Read More
Well someone did: This is my personal favourite intranet secret. You see, those lovely peeps at ThoughtFarmer have created a new blog called Intranet Secrets, where you can anonymously post your deepest, darkest secrets about your company’s intranet. I have posted one of my own… but I’m not telling you which one is mine! If [...] Read More
Just a quick post to say that I will be offline until I get back from my driving tour of the American Southwest. We are currently in Santa Fe, about 1/3 of the way on our epic trip from Dallas to San Francisco. We have internet connection here, but as we head off the beaten [...] Read More
Last week marked the launch of my latest client sites, philbourne.com and e-motionimages.co.uk – 2 photography websites created on Squarespace. The client wanted to be able to easily update the websites with content, both in terms of text and also in the photo galleries, as well as having the option of a private client login [...] Read More
In honour of Ada Lovelace Day, I want to share my admiration and awe for a woman who clearly shares my deepest passions – design, computers, teaching and humour: Lynda Weinman. I first encountered Lynda way back in 1996, when I was learning how to code HTML to create these new-fangled things called web pages. [...] Read More
I have just signed up to the Ada Lovelace Day pledge: on March 24, I pledge to write a blog post about a woman in technology. The concept is simple: get as many people as possible to blog about a woman they admire who works in technology; the more, the merrier. The idea was hatched [...] Read More
Despite appearances, I have not fallen off the face of the earth. I have just had an incredibly busy few months, juggling web consulting projects while at the same time working on getting my photography career back up & running after a 12-year hiatus. I’ve also published a book! Before I knew it, months had [...] Read More
Well, I’m back after spending the best part of a month entirely offline (visiting family & travelling in Japan). I thought it would be a real struggle, but surprisingly I didn’t feel the withdrawal and in fact it was a refreshing change – though I think that was mainly because I was busy doing other [...] Read More
A little comment I wrote on the NESTA blogs about the constant stream of mixed and confusing messages we are bombarded with these days: Two stories which resonated with me this morning… 1) A colleague forwarded this nugget from popb*tch: An avatar in Second Life has a larger carbon footprint than the average Brazilian 2) [...] Read More