Happy birthday Hugh who reaches the sobering age of 23 today. Also, congratulations to Shay who’s just gotten himself a new job.
Been extremely busy at work lately. Lots to say but no time to say it. Will post soon.

NME and Uncut magazine are looking for a ‘Web savvy music fan’ to run their music websites. What a fantastic and challenging role it would be!
The ad is here:Wanted - Online Music Editor - NME.COM

Here’s this month’s digest of all the important web design related stuff I’ve harvested from blogs around the world.

Opera, IBM voice (High)
Opera is to get a built in screanreader The browser will continue to be freely available (sponsored by advertisers). This raises the possibility of the browser becoming choice for people with visual impairments [...]

The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) helps you to make sure your telephone number is no longer available to organisations who may telephone you with offers and information you do not wish to receive.
Praise the lord for this service. Bye bye Anglian Windows!
A “Please note” message from their site:
Please note that it will take up to [...]

Web album Generator looks like a pretty good piece of useful software. I’ve just downloaded it and will test it out on the photo gallery for The Warm website. The reason I like the idea of this is that it supports web standards: XHTML and CSS. The templates spew out valid code. This could be [...]

Just putting the finishing touches to a site for my good friends Matt and Stu. It’s for their band “The Warm” and uses standards-compliant XHTML, CSS and makes some use of accessibility features. I’ve not tested it in everything yet and it’s been a bit thrown together so far but the foundations are there for [...]

We spent the Easter break visiting my mum up in Perth. It’s a beautiful city full of Scottish character and charm with plenty of rolling hills to ramble upon. It was good to chillout away from the immediate hassles of relentless emails and ongoing website projects. Part of me wishes I didn’t have to [...]

Is email really any good? I mean most of the stuff sent from computer to computer is spam and junk and useless guff. But every now and again you might want to communicate meaningfully with someone. But you find that their server is down (as it frequently is) and thus you’ll have to resort to [...]