The ramblings of a veteran of 15 years in web design, and 7 console generations.

There's a lot that can be said about web design and development, much of it is written with more eloquence by other people. Here's my stab at it.

Gaming gets you places

I can't remember not playing games. That may not seem unusual for anyone reading this born after about 1990, but for this grizzled 31 year old, my generation were one of the first to be born in to a world engrossed in new entertainment forms and dominated by Atari. I can distinctly remember playing…

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Management time vs Designer / Developer time

If you work for an agency, or even for yourself, you might have come across the difference in expectation and practice between what you can book in to your 8 hour day, and what you can actually get done. As a designer/developer/wizard it's always a struggle to fit everything in to a day it seems…

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Barclays are twats

Ever wonder why small businesses get pissed off with banks? No, me either, until I heard of Matt's (my flatmate) conversation with them, at which point I realised that if/when I ever start my own business, I'm going to have to keep my money under my mattress, and only pay for things in warm,…

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Dear Pro Evo, it's not you, it's me.

I'm sorry, but I can't do it anymore. I can't pretend that I'm in love with you anymore, I'm just not. I've fallen for your younger cousin, who, when we first started our relationship was an ugly, akward thing, full of odd habits and stupid decisions - but now she's grown into a beautiful thing.…

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