I like Getting Things Done. I really do. But, ever since reading the book and subscribing to the philosophy, I’ve had trouble nailing down a process that entirely works for me. At the core of Allen’s recommendations is this idea of a “trusted system” and it’s that aspect that I have struggled with. I’ve tried… [read more]

2011 was an odd year. I’ve been bouncing back and forth to my hometown for fifteen years, moving away then moving back in ever-decreasing circles, but until last year I’d always stayed in the UK. And yet, to claim that our move to Amsterdam in April was something of a big deal is put to… [read more]

Back at the junction of 2010 and 2011, for whatever reason, I neglected to record a retrospective of the previous year’s music-listening activity – or indeed, any sort of look back at the preceding twelve months. These gaps in recorded history niggle at me; like a lot of anally-retentive computer nerds I am an inveterate… [read more]

60 gigabytes, 28 days, 10,000 songs. My iTunes library is daunting, and yet all too often there is nothing that I want to listen to. Where can you turn to discover new music? Mixest Mixest is a cleanly designed, beautifully simple, single page music player offering a selection of tracks culled from indie music blogs… [read more]

In his first resurrectory post, Rob Weychert references an old (almost pre-historic) Zeldman tweet from late 2007: Blogging. And blogging again. Writing is fun. Writing is fundamental. If you don’t write, you don’t know what you think. Back when I started this site, chipping into other people’s conversations way back in 2004, the act of… [read more]