I Wouldn’t Start From Here

For some reason, lots of people click on this page. I hope you have as much fun reading this stuff as I did writing it.

Some of my favourites

“Think of 1950s catalogue shopping as the e-commerce of its day, and Kay’s as Amazon.com.” - Temple Works 3.0 Alpha

“They should not feel like GUI tourists gesturing towards the goods in a shop where they don’t speak the language.” - Kids and code: “It’s good because you can boss the computer around”

“Information flowed in only one direction – away from them – leaving them to revel in their own self-importance.” - Erm, excuse me, but I think Everybody was here all along

“Now I offer it wreathed round with hyperlinks, in my own grossly ahistorical London-As-Tokyo-style attempt to make the words of an 18th Century cudgel-proof-hat-wearer fit the world in which we now live.” - One song to the tune of another: the 18th Century prophet of social media revealed

“He thought Leeds in the Industrial Revolution should be equal to the Italian cities in the Rennaissance.” - The history of Leeds: What every geek should know

“Just listen to the sound of the roller transferring ink to the block – gorgeous” - Old / new media mash-up – first impressions

“6. got told off by a monk” - 20 things we did on our trip to Japan

“I expect to require this service for approximately five cubic metres of Lego some time in or after April 2019.” - Forward planning

“Somewhere in the world, sometime soon (if not already) a Dopplr baby will be born” - Dementia and Dopplr – how designing for extreme users benefits us all

“And I’d have ended in an overblown flourish and a bold font: beneath the pixels, the silicon!” - Sous les pavés la plage

Everything since 2001, on and off

Finally

Some timeless ramblings from my happy childhood…

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