Writing
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Week 345
Reserving a few weeks to work on my own projects.
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Week 344
Getting stuck into Django by starting a new personal project.
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Pen v keyboard v Newton v Graffiti v Treo v iPhone
I tested the speed of inputting text with pen and paper, full-size keyboard, iPhone, Palm Treo keyboard, Palm Graffiti and Apple Newton MessagePad.
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Learning to quit
I’ve been thinking about how to spend one’s time, particularly with regards to learning new things.
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Pretend Office RSS feed improvements
The feed now includes the full text of emails sent to the mailing list.
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Practical Django Projects source code
I uploaded to Bitbucket the code I ended up with after following James Bennett’s book.
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Week 342
Moving into a new office for the first time.
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Top Tunes 2009
My favourite music of 2009.
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Week 340
Summing up 2009, which, again, has felt too aimless.
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Finishability
BERG’s video about digital magazines mentions the importance of a magazine being finishable, which is also true for news.
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Week 338
Finishing Misfits, learning Django, turning down work.
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Making news easier to read online
The New York Times Skimmer is an improvement over most newspaper websites, but it’s not there yet.
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Is modern web design too like print design?
I’ve been wondering whether we’ve lost the “webness” of web design, whether it’s all too dull and influenced by print design.
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Week 337
Work tailing off, and needing to be firm with myself to Get Things Done.
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A dispiriting blank side
How writers and an artist cope with the blank page.
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Week 336
Moving into the “learning and making things” phase that fills the spaces between work.
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Week 335
Misfits is slowing down and the end is in sight.
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How’s the acting going?
More than a year on, people still keep asking me this. Short answer: “It’s not.” But that’s fine.
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Not too many buttons
The problem with the OpenOfficeMouse isn’t too many buttons. It’s more fundamental.
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Misfits
The “Misfits Online Experience” has just launched, with all code by me for Six To Start.
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New London Review of Books website
I did much of the HTML/CSS for the newly-relaunched LRB website.
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Flickr machine tags for film photos
Creating Flickr machine tags to store information about photos taken on film.
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Haddock Blogs down for a bit
Haddock.org is down for a bit, but the RSS feeds are now back up and running.
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Games have rules
Frustrated by the lack of rules in Foursquare making me feel like a loser.
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The £10,000 playlist
Why do we need a collection of MP3s when we can stream everything? What does that collection mean to us?