Read any online forum such as WebmasterWorld and you’ll see no end of web developers complaining that their clients won’t pay up. Why? because they didn’t bother with a contract. As I’ve already mentioned here in Managing Web Projects #5, the contract is a very important (and yet often missed) part of the development process: […] … Read More »

Here’s this weeks “Weekly Wallpaper”, and I think it’s very relevant this time of year! You can click on the image below, or right click here to save it. … Read More »

The social medium of the internet, and blogging specifically, always makes me smile. You get to have conversations with people whom you necessarily  wouldn’t interact with in the “real” world. One person I have met in the “Real World” is Wayne Turmel (although now I know his name isn’t really Wayne ;)) from “The Cranky […] … Read More »

There’s a saying “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”, and it’s definitley one to follow from now on! I had my domain registered with my hosting company so of course, if you forget to pay them (whoops), your website goes down and you can’t simply point the domain somewhere else such as a […] … Read More »

There’s an article over at “Smashing Magazine” about preventing spam by hiding your email address. You can check out the full article here. I’ve had an email address visible on this blog for a while just to see what would happen and…. nothing. No Spam. Nada. I’ve encrypted it now all the same, but I […] … Read More »

Hmmm, not sure I can wait that long! Found via the Register. I mean, I know there are a few “issues” but really? Looks like I’ll be installing Ubuntu afterall. … Read More »

There’s enough talk about Google buying YouTube at the moment so I won’t clog the blogosphere further. Except to comment that if they were considering buying YouTube (which they would have been for a while now), why the heck bother with Google Video in the first place? Oh, hang on, I remember when I first […] … Read More »

From “The Register“ Sony’s quarterly profits plunged 94 per cent following fall-out from its exploding battery woes…. Profit figures included a 51.2bn yen ($432m 340.9m (Euro)) provision for charges linked to the recall of nearly 10 million faulty laptop batteries Sony supplied to several manufacturers, including Dell, Lenovo and Apple. Sony had initially estimated a […] … Read More »

It’s not often that I write about myself personally; I guess I find it a little embarrassing. However I have recently been taking an inward look at myself (which is something I don’t do nearly often enough) and I thought I’d write about what I’ve discovered. I’ve just retaken an online version on the MBTI […] … Read More »

There’s a free Webinar from the “Man” himself on the 10th October at 10am PDT. In it, he talks about mindmapping (and more specifically MindManager) and “Getting Things Done” Registration is free – I’m thinking of signing up but I have a nasty feeling that 10am PDT is about 3am in the UK (Can anyone […] … Read More »