Hacky holidays on the iPod Touch
Jailbreaking.
Journal archive: 2007
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Hacky holidays on OS X
Lessons learned from installing Leopard.
Christmas trip
Flying away for yuletide.
Year zero
Smashing the CSS clock.
Beeb
Burrowing into the BBC beta.
Embedded
Watch this place.
Facebooked up
So icky.
Quiz
Who is the nerdiest of them all?
Back to school
Speaking to our future overlords.
Dripping
Oozing liquid goodness.
Brighton, mapped
Celebrating OpenStreetMap Brighton 1.0
Legrid
Lego as a design tool.
BarCamp ends
Another great event wraps up.
BarCamp continues
Night of the werewolf.
BarCamp begins
The geeks do their thing.
Return to London town
BarCamp London 3: this time it’s personal.
Thatmedia Ajax
A brain-bending conference wraps up.
Local activity
Brighton to London.
Cascading calendars
Take my style sheet. Please.
Delusion
Agreement and disagreement.
Design doing
The opposite of design thinking.
1918-11-11T11:00:00
Long day’s journey into Brighton
Back from Berlin.
Berlin, day 4
Less expo, more Berlin.
Berlin, day 3
My speaking duties are fulfilled.
Berlin, day 2
A panel, a presentation and two minutes of Roy Orbison wrapped in clingfilm.
Berlin, day 1
Touristische sachen.
Berlin schedule
oh hai. i maded u a skejyool. kthxbai.
Open?
Can OpenSocial enable portable social networks?
Silent witness
Pattern recognition in the films of Ridley Scott.
The crawling dead
Fresh blood on Halloween.
Return from San Francisco
I had a blast… as always.
Voices that natter
Presentation: done. Conference: done.
Tiki connection
Life imitating Web.
Closed open data
When is an hCard not an hCard?
Neighbourhood watch
Crimefightin’ ‘n Bright’n.
Week away
In San Francisco.
Ignorance and inspiration
Banishing the moaners and whingers with a healthy dose of amazing videos.
Semantic brevity
Make microformats work with your writing style.
The password anti-pattern
It’s time we took a stand: let’s stop teaching people how to be phished.
Irritation
Read it in the voice of the comic book guy from The Simpsons.
Community service
Reporting on some vibrant communities in Spain, in Brighton and on the Web.
Lock up your data
It’s 10pm. Do you know where your data is?
Web Fundamentals
Speaking and listening at Fundamentos Web 2007.
España
Next stop: Asturias.
Microsoft in London
A morning of otherworldly presentations from Steve Balmer and others.
Kung Shui
Ajax and accessibility; a presentation transcribed.
MicroformatID
Progressive disclosure with hCard and OpenID.
adactumblr
There’s something about Tumblr I like.
Amazapple
MP3 - DRM = good for you and good for me.
Weak signal
A street sign vindicates my hatred of badly-designed pedestrian crossings.
Wii: The Opera
The operatic saga of the Wii cycle.
Parroting Pareto
Where the 80/20 principle breaks down.
Breaking boxes with Brian
Cardboard box demolition.
Brighton daze
dConstruct plus BarCamp.
D minus one
24 hours to dConstruct 2007.
dConstructivism
I am dConsiderably nervous and excited.
She car go
A great conference in a great city.
Illinois apart
I’m going across the Atlantic again.
Location, location, location
Information wants to be geostamped.
Pick’n’choose
What looks good on the menu for South By Southwest 2008?
Hot topics transcribed
For your reading and/or listening pleasure.
Wireframework
Frameworks have their place… but that place probably isn’t on the Web.
Commentary
Backing up my position on blog comments with some quotes.
Reflection
Balancing my time between activism and just being me makes me a complacent zealot.
Apple doesn’t get the Web
The double meaning is deliberate.
Portability
Brian Oberkirch is working overtime.
Wordage
Go forth and coin.
Röntgen
A new bookmarklet for inspecting your DOM.
Big time
I get back from New York and Google makes a big microformats announcement.
Macback
I got my laptop back just in the nick of time.
Stickiness
Moo stickers are here.
Mashed
OpenID and microformats, two great flavours that taste great together.
Ticked off with Apple
My Macbook sounds like a timebomb.
Grab your place at dConstruct
Tickets are about to go on sale.
Typing up
Calculating vertical rhythm and horizontal alignment.
Charlie Romeo Alpha Zebra Yankee
Never a dull moment.
Call and response
A brief email exchange.
Pownce
Not Twitter.
Mashing up microformats
Embedding one little thing inside another little thing.
Brighton R0x0r
A new website highlights why I love this town.
Feed reading
Trying to find the sweet spot for RSS.
Social networking
Let me count the ways.
Talking with the BBC about microformats
Sounds like a Billy Bragg album.
The final frontier
Watch the skies.
Hackfight
How a vague idea turned into reality thanks to an amazing team of hackers.
Hacked and slain
Hackday London is over.
Hacktime
The hackclock is ticking.
Hacknight
Hackery, Werewolf and The Doctor.
Hackweather
Thunder and lightning, very very frightening me, Galileo.
Herding Hackcats
Hackday London is underway.
Help me at Hackday
Coming to Hackday this weekend? Here’s my plan.
Bedrolling
Some people’s names lie on the lesser side of the 80/20 ratio.
That media
Wrapping up the London leg of @media.
Settling down
Another day, another conference… but this one’s close to home.
Copenhagen
Reboot 9.0 is Soylent Green.
Reboot slides
If it’s Thursday, it must be Copenhagen.
@media San Francisco 2007
Raising the standard for talking about standards.
South Parking
In which I spend a day in the epicentre of geekdom.
Sliding away
Before I head off for my next presentation, here are some slides I prepared earlier.
Microformats 1:01—Exporting microformats via bluetooth
A microformats video lasting one minute and one second.
XTech 2007, day three
Short but very sweet.
Further reading on the nanotechnology of the semantic web
Docs, books, people and technologies.
XTech 2007, day one
My presentation is done.
XTech 2007, day zero
If it’s Tuesday, it must be Paris.
Redesigns a go-go
Suddenly everybody is spring cleaning their websites.
The good book
One laptop lid closes, another lid opens.
POSH Patterns
Not everything has to be a microformat.
The Dunbar number of the beast
My invisible friend has a bigger Dunbar number than your invisible friend.
Identity and authority
Trust is not an algorithm.
Web 2.0 Expover
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Hyperdrive
Last night in San Francisco.
Hybrid Design and the Beauty of Standards
Hypertext footnotes from my appearances at the Web 2.0 Expo.
Fake tales of San Francisco
The biggest small town in the West.
Fogbound
I’m going to San Francisco.
Victoriartifact
A gift from another time and place.
Conceptual and photographic art in Brighton
An SMS-based adventure game plus an exhibition by our local Flickrstar.
Machine Tags of Loving Grace
Revish sets the tagging machinery in motion.
Further flung reading
Links from a keynote.
Flung and refreshed
I’m back from Edinburgh.
Ghost in the Machine Tags
You can now associate Flickr pics with my posts.
You take the high road…
I’m going over Hadrian’s wall.
Reckoning
Shock and anger.
Twitter… again
Even if you don’t like it, let us have our fun.
Typography at South by Southwest
Type sets the tone.
Socialising at South by Southwest
The best bit.
Speaking at South by Southwest
Cheekiness and gravitas in equal amounts.
Storytelling at South by Southwest
Never mind the technology, it’s all about people.
Southby
It’s that time of year again: South by Southwest is almost upon us.
Watching the stream
This life stream idea has legs. Also: why Yahoo Pipes and Ning won’t be duking it out.
The diversity division
The diversity debate is back.
Casting about
I’ve been contributing to a few podcasts.
Print matters
Things to have and to hold.
The Future of Web Apps, day two
A running commentary of the fun at FOWA.
The Future of Web Apps, day one
I’m back in London for a conference that means business.
Wrapping up BarCamp London 2
Day two of the unconference.
Night of the werewolf
A good day at BarCamp descends into a night of slaughter.
BarCamp London 2: The Schedule
Get the line-up in hCalendar.
BarCamping
BarCamp London 2: electric boogaloo.
Buddy icons
I’m a portrait taker, twisted portrait taker.
Helvetica
The film of the typeface.
YouTubing
Clearleft has a YouTube star.
I’d twit that
Love it or hate it but you’ve got to have an opinion on Twitter.
Gillian McKeith is not a doctor
Bless the Bad Science column.
Après Web Directions North
A great conference with the best post-conference activities ev-ah!
Web Directions North, day two
What a conference!
Web Directions North, day one
Good talks, good people.
Web Directions North, day zero
I’m acclimatising to the time zone.
Vancouver mover
I’m off to Canada for Web Directions North.
Fun with type
Juvenile high-jinks in the Clearleft office.
The Web 2.0 show
Take the test.
The tyranny of mouseover
Those bloody previews need to die a snappy death.
Do the right semantic thing
A new site looks like a golden opportunity for vote-links.
Map games
Look to the skies.
Whither Twitter?
Why bother? What’s the point?
Explaining Ajax, transcribed
Bringing it all back home
Brighton will be the location for a Salter Cane concert and an Ajax workshop.
Announcing Bulletproof Ajax
Begin the countdown to the book launch.
The Best Songs I Acquired in 2006 Ever
Following Richard’s lead.
Five things you may not know about Jeremy Keith
Let’s see if I’ve got the hang of this meme.
iPhone, uPhone, we all scream for iPhone
Linkage to other people’s thoughts on Apple’s latest gadget.
New Year’s Resolution
Liquid layouts… no, wait, come back!
A brief word
Abbreviations are written, not spoken.
Time and motion
My movements in a year.