Category: Writing

This has been around for a little while, but I had to giggle about this when I saw it this morning. I have the same thoughts about the Earth’s Core ever since reading a book about it in 1996, although I remember also reading that the Earth’s Core was as hot as the Sun. Temperature… Continue reading XKCD The Core

Today I made some changes to the West Ham United Season Results Prediction to include a football pitch as a background image to the tabled data. I wanted to download a vector image to include rather than recreate one, but everywhere I looked I was presented with “please pay”. This is the internet though, and… Continue reading EPS Vector Soccer Football Pitch

I have just purchased IA Writer for Mac through the Mac Store. $21.99 for a writing program so it had better be worth the money! It was only released a few hours ago, and I was excited to see if the app that people went crazy over for the iPad was going to live up… Continue reading IA Writer for Mac

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have a new iPad! To get more use than just flicking through FlipBoard, trawling through Twitter or playing FIFA 2011, I’ve made the big step and forked over the money for OmniFocus. This has taken my OmniFocus purchases up to 3. OmniFocus for the Mac OmniFocus for… Continue reading OmniFocus for the iPad

A few days ago I received an email from an old work colleague. “This is a bit of a random, out-of-the-blue question, but I was wondering if there were any words of wisdom you had on being a team leader? Back in the UK, you always seemed to maintain control of your projects and keep… Continue reading How to manage a team

OmniGraffle is a tool used to produce wireframes. It is powerful due to the popularity of the product and number of stencils that are contributed by the community. Stencils Stencils can be found (Window – Stencils) or by pressing (Apple + 0). You will notice that you are presentend with a list of stencils you… Continue reading Tips for using Omni Graffle

I’m making a few changes to this site to improve how it appears through Flipboard. I’ve added an extra RSS feed that makes better use of the page content and includes images where required, add this site of Flipboard if you want to see how it changes. In my quest to improve I came across… Continue reading treesaver.js

name bench is a great little application that has been by one of the 20% Google Development projects. What is a 20% project? It’s time that google employees are given to prototype new ideas. The ideas are then taken up by other employees as part of their own 20% of time and voila, something like… Continue reading name bench – google dns performance tool