Archive for the ‘miscellaneous’ Category
Designers squabbling over praise
There’s a curious sense of detachment that comes with observing a spat between a group of people you’ve no involvement with. This afternoon I’ve been enjoying Brendan Dawes’ rant against sycophancy in UK web design circles. Here it is. Read the rest of this entry »
St David’s 2: a new patron saint for Wales?
Two weeks ago my wife and I moved to a small village just outside Cardiff, Wales’ capital, after many years of city-dwelling. Out of curiosity and (more pressingly) in need of a new watch battery, I ventured back into the city on Saturday.
Although I’m English, I’ve lived in Cardiff for 14 years, since I was 19. I stuck around after graduating from the uni because of work and relationships (in no particular order). In that time it’s changed a fair bit, although not always for the better. Read the rest of this entry »
Thoughts on buying and selling houses – part two
Earlier I wrote about the difficulty of supply and demand when buying or selling a house, caused by an unwillingness or inability to accept a market value for a property. But I wanted to write about one thing that struck me repeatedly when searching for a house to move to – the craziness of the UK’s offer system. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: housing
Thoughts on buying and selling houses – part one
Moving house in a recession isn’t easy unless you’re at the bottom of a chain, and have a decent deposit to buy somewhere. And the lack of first-time buyers is exactly what’s hampering the UK housing market right now. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: housing
One year on…
Oh my. I began this blog to note down some thoughts as I developed the Beatles Bible website. I thought it would be helpful – to me, and anyone else who happened to search for relevant terms – to keep a record of findings in case they came up elsewhere. Read the rest of this entry »
Choosing and registering a domain name
What’s in a name? Quite a bit, as it happens.
While many of the “users” of this ’site’ come via a search engine, enough times I’ve had to verbally tell people the name of it. It helps if it has a domain name that’s memorable, easy to spell, and is unlikely to be confused with another. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: domain names