Archive for February, 2007

links for 2007-02-28
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

A List Apart: Articles: Where Our Standards Went Wrong
Ethan has an interesting article on the practicalities of standards. Personally, growing older meant that I validate others’ code less, mainly so that I am not disappointed.
(tags: standards web design html)

swfIR: swf Image Replacement
This degrades nicely and is really quite sweet! - with everything going on recently [...]

Oxford Geek Night 2 call for proposals
Monday, February 26th, 2007

As there are limited places available for microslots and demos at the forthcoming Oxford Geek Night in April, I have set up a wufoo form (I really love wufoo!) to manage talk submissions.
If you have a talk proposal please fill it out the form below or go to the wufoo form:
Fill out my Wufoo form!
Powered [...]

Oxford’s Botanical gardens
Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Here is an idea for some weekend fun, how about visiting the Botanical gardens in Oxford. Simon and I are endeavouring to go adventuring at least once a week, where adventuring is defined as going somewhere fun and unusual.
Last week we went down the Emergency stairs at Totenham court road tube station to get [...]

Oxford Geeks hit the media!
Sunday, February 25th, 2007

It looks like the last of the Oxford Geek Nights has caused quite a stir in the media recently. I'm not entirely sure how the Oxford Mail initially came across the story but it got half a page of coverage in last Wednesday's edition (see online version or archived online version) As a result of this [...]

An excitable BarCamp
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

This week has just been all go! Fresh from a successful project launch I dived straight into BarCamp. BT were generous in their provision of the great venue we used for the weekend. There were over 160 people attending, roughly 70 of whom stayed overnight we think!

Co-organising BarCamp with Ian and Jason was a lot [...]

links for 2007-02-15
Thursday, February 15th, 2007

InXile - The Official Home of Line Rider
omg, I could spend so so many hours playing with this!
(tags: design games web community art)

links for 2007-02-13
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Ludicrous › Firefox Search Plugin: Post Updates to Twitter right from your Firefox Search Bar!
Twitter from firefox! Control+K to post to twitter, awesome!
(tags: firefox twitter web social)

Stu Nicholls | CSSplay | Mini tabbed pages
Cute, but I really dont like this type of user interface, where hoverover has an action that prompts a large change in [...]

links for 2007-02-11
Sunday, February 11th, 2007

This’n’That magic trick
Totally awesome magic trick from Nice Paul
(tags: magic)

links for 2007-02-10
Saturday, February 10th, 2007

snailspacevii
not often you find a dedicated snail blog in your referals, awesome!
(tags: snail)

Monthly Knuckles » TipNut.com
Ever have problems remembering which months have 30 or 31 days? use your knuckles! I use the little rhyme, but this method seams much less prone to error!
(tags: lifehacks memory dyslexic)

Twitter: Use it Productively - lifehack.org
Using Twitter productively
(tags: twitter web2.0 [...]

First Oxford Geek Night a success!
Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Thanks to everyone who came last night. I really hope everyone had a fantastic evening, we had some interesting talks and some cool demos. It was pretty tricky to judge numbers from where I was sat, but I have been told that we had over 100 people at one point, which is great!
The running order [...]