Sharing with a Kazakhstani

For my final two weeks in London I’ll be sharing my room with a Kazakhstani and fellow designer, whose name I can’t yet pronounce. We call him “Borat” anyway, much to his discontent.

I’m looking forward to sharing stories – for example, he couldn’t believe that we have penguins on our beaches. As a … view full post

Of late…

By now you’re hopefully aware of the G8 REBOOT initiative.

To be honest, I was a little sceptical when fellow saffer Gareth e-mailed me with his ideas for the reboot, given the time … view full post

No display

My notebook of 2 years decided yesterday, without any prior warnings, that it’s display was working too well. So it threw in some random ascii characters and blocks of cyan & magenta on startup, and in Windows it… well, hard to explain. It’s unusable. Needless to say, I’m now feeling quite lost without my address book, calendar, … view full post