Blog posts filed under “personal”
- Not much to say about Doctor Who (well, maybe a little bit)
- Supersize Me and a climate of fear
- Getting geekier by the minute
- A bunch of batons
- Probably the last to talk about @media
- 11 days and no updates?
- ebook download security question
- Nizlopi and the JCB Song
- Here, there and everywhere
- To Applecare or not?
- Goodbye SquirrelMail, Hello RoundCube
- Things you may not know about me
- Diving and a bust wrist
- 2005 has been quite a year
- A week with Camino
- That time of year again
- Four Things
- SXSW: Traditional Design and New Technology
- My SXSW
- SXSW: Day one
- SXSW: Six months of prep and now it’s all over
- That was SXSWi 2006
- Talking in Perth
- Upgrading your mobile phone
- What happened to the design?
- Wedding nerves by proxy, by ‘The Wife’
- A week in Perth
- Pimping my brother’s site
- Monica and The Rainforest
- Podcasts and an article
- Atmedia 2006 is just around the corner
- Refurb 20” Intel iMac? Or should I just sit on my hands?
- Bloody penalties again!
- This past month
- Sorting my workflow out
- Slugging it out with backup solutions
- Leaving the BBC and going freelance
- Going it alone: Putting the pieces in place
- OS X theme for a Sony Ericsson k800i
- Pink for October
- Muse: Ridiculously good
- Small is beautiful
- Getting the basics right
- SXSW panels: Take two
- That was 2006
- Whymper’s Mountain
- One Principle to Design By
- SXSW: Third time’s a charm
- Annual Jaunt Across the Pond
- To Coda
- New digs
- Atmedia 2007: Third time’s a charm
- My little secret
- Think Do Think
- Pink is the new black
- Stephen Fry on Fame
- Two iPhones How do you tell the difference between them?
- Typesetting Tables at 24ways
- BBC redesign tellys have rounded corners, right?
- Twitter didn’t eat my blogging, 2007 did
- Sir Edmund Hillary: 1919 - 2008
- Start Your Own Business
- Ten Crimes Against Web Typography (and how to avoid them)
- From Poly to Pole
- Alys Rose Boulton
- Don’t screw with conventions
- Why have a chair when you could have a Sumo
- White Screen Of Death
- The Personal Cost of Designing on Spec
- New Drop Caps
- Back to reading feeds
- Two Thousand and Ten
- Saying No
- Steve Jobs
- Being Together
- White, Yellow, Orange, Red
- Snark
- Ideas Of March
- Doing less
- Dirty Hands
- Work
- Participation
- A New Canon
- Two Thousand and Twelve
- Shorter Long Form
- Change your mind
- I'm not a Craftsman
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Why?
A game I play with my two year old daughter as I try to answer the question 'why?'
- Conference speakers, what are you worth?
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A Purple Princess
In memory of Rebecca Meyer.
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Adventures with Plex
Two years later, I've changed how we watch films and TV in the Boulton household.
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A Child's Phone Contract
Our eldest daughter is soon moving to secondary school a short bus journey away from our house. Many of her friends already own and use phones regularly. For a while, Emma and I have resisted but as she will be making her way to the school independently, for her safety and our piece of mind, we thought a phone would be a good idea.
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That was the year that was
A year end recap. A bit of reflecting on the last decade. Some grumbling about Brexit, but that's the last time, I promise. It's been a while since I wrote an end of year summary post.
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Moving on from EMBL
I'm leaving EMBL in a few weeks. Do you have a project or role in which you'd think I'd be a good fit? Then get in touch!
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Maam as in jam
The day I went to Buckingham Palace, queued for a sandwich and accidentally met the Queen.
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Weeknotes 20
The one where we went to Ynishir, I get over a bad chest infection, and I get my laptop repaired.