London Blasts

I heard this morning that there have been several bomb blasts on the London underground and a London Bus.There are some reports out there that Al Quaeda are claiming responsibility. So far everyone seems pretty calm about it, and the emergency service's reponse appears to have been…

Google Earth Launches

Google Earth [http://earth.google.com/] is a free download (for windows) that enables you to view the earth as a 3D object that you can zoom in and fly around. You can adjust the tilt and see buildings in 3D, fly to locations, it really is quite amazing. Imagine…

Classes on the body tag

In Doug Bowman's [http://www.stopdesign.com] second @media presentation he mentioned utilising classes on the body element to be able to affect the layout of the entire page. This simple technique uses descendant selectors in such a way that an entire page layout can be altered by…

@Media Day Two and where we go from here

Day two was looking to be exactly what I was looking for from the whole experience of @Media2005. Doug Bowman [http://www.stopdesign.com] kicked off with an in-depth presentation discussing the re-design of Blogger, from the processes to actual techniques used. There was a particularly great example of using…

@Media Day One

Well, day one of @Media is over already so here is a brief summary: Jeffrey Zeldman [http://www.zeldman.com] kicked off the proceedings with a historical look at the early days of web standards through to what standards mean today and where they might be going in the future.…

@Media coming up

I'm really looking forward to going to the @media [http://www.atmedia2005.co.uk] conference, Thursday and Friday of this week. It's going to be great to put faces to all of the names of people that are such a big part of the industry. Tim…

Azulejos Backgrounds

Whilst we were on holiday in Portugal I took a few pictures of Azulejos, or hand-painted tiles. These are sometimes used to decorate the fronts of houses, and the look often hints at the Moorish past of Portugal. The beauty of these designs is that they all make perfect repeating…

Back to a leafy, green and damp England

We are back from our little holiday to sunny Portugal. It was nice to see Sandra's family and spend some time taking in the sights. We were based at Sandra's parents home in Moura, in the Alentejo region which is about 3 hours from Lisbon. The…