Entries filed under 'Musings'
Is it time to re-introduce sound to the web?
Filed under Internet, Musings on 29.04.08
So why can’t web pages have sound effects?
It was probably one of the first things you did when you first started playing with HTML, but background music, and funny sound effects when you clicked buttons, went the way of the spacer gif—web design matured, and web standards took over.
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Deity jokes
Filed under Musings on 13.11.07
As he continues to operate a strict ‘no-comments’ policy on his blog, I am forced to wholeheartedly agree with Jeremy Keith’s comments on religion on here instead.
With such a large proportion of the leading proponents of web standards hailing from the US, there is always the risk that your favourite blog might suddenly drop everything to share their “testimony of Christ”; the current “book stack” meme is also uncovering many books of a decidedly flying spaghetti monster bent. It’s difficult to reconcile the respect one has for an individual’s work and contribution to the community when faced with their faith in something so patently ridiculous (yes, as in ‘worthy of ridicule’) as G*d. It also reminded me of a subject I meant to write about a while ago.
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Degrees of Seperation
Filed under Musings on 2.08.05
So The Big Z posted another of his increasingly infrequent articles today, and made mention of a go-getting young Middle-Eastern agency working with web standards.
“That name looks familiar,” thought I.
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Them and Us
Filed under Musings, Internet on 19.06.05
I have a problem with the 9rules network.
Sure, it’s attracted some big reasonably well-known names – Keith Robinson, Greg Storey, Mike Papageorge, Mark Boulton, Sergio Villarreal – who individually generate some great content on a wide range of subjects (there are other authors in the ‘network’ writing on non-web-related issues; I’m sure they’re writing good stuff too), but it’s the concept of this über-bloggers club that I don’t like.
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Ungoogled
Filed under Internet, Musings on 20.11.04
Like I would imagine many other bloggers, I keep an eye on my site stats. Not very often, only every five minutes or so. Ahem.
Aside from the number of hits and visitors, one of the more interesting bits of captured information (and one that would be of great importance if I was making any money off the site) are the search terms that people use to find the site. And the surprising thing, to me at any rate, is that hardly anybody finds the site by searching for me – that is, by typing my name into their search engine of choice.
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Inspiration
Filed under Musings on 11.08.04
(after D. Keith Robinson’s original post Inspiration)
In no particular order…
Charles Bukowski, Alison Healey, PT Anderson, New York, Alan Moore, Woody Allen, Will Self, Stephen Fry, Guy Gavriel Kay, David Attenborough, Oliver Stone, Robert Heinlein, Ginger Wildheart, William Goldman, Bob Dylan, Alexander the Great, Google, Michael Moore, Kurt Cobain, Muse, London, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Paul Gaugain, Baz Luhrmann, Counting Crows, Christina Dodwell, plus uncountable others whose names I cannot recall.
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On my mind
Filed under Musings on 7.08.04
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
For whatever reason, I have never been very good at talking about other people. Gossip, small talk, call it what you will – I just can’t do it.
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What I should be doing
Filed under Musings on 4.08.04
Today – in between erratic bouts of work and trying to explain web accessibility to colleagues – I have been compiling an occasional list of things I could should be doing instead of moping around the internet.
So far, I have these burning issues:
- Finish any of the numerous screenplays I’ve started over the years (or start a new one)
- Build a content/site framework for the community website project I am considering
- Create the interactive ‘Solution Finder’ widget for my design agency site
- Identify potential portfolio enhancements (i.e. fake sites to build just for portfolio purposes)
- Re-code my agency site to look/run better
- Write up a recent redesign development process for this blog
- Redesign this site (again)
- Develop a number of other ideas for websites
That list isn’t significantly different from how it would have appeared a year ago, with the exception that previously there would have been music-related projects on the go. Since I upgraded/downsized from a desktop to a laptop and relinquished the spare room to the twins, I no longer have the software/hardware to pursue my musical ambitions – a situation I plan to rectify, just as soon as we can afford that five-bedroom house.
A change is far better than a rest
Filed under The Site, Musings on 22.06.04
When I first conceived of this weblog, I had grand ideas and plans for it. The Watchmaker Project would be a staging ground for my experiments in design, art, music, programming – a feast of creativity, all entertainingly narrated by a witty and frequently updated blog.
In actual fact, the reality has been rather deflating – it seemed without a blog that all I could think about were ideas that needed an audience; but now the space to publish is available, my well has run dry – as evidenced by the lengthy absences already evident in a blog a mere couple of months old.
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