Thoughts (well, blog)
Negotiating costs: What are you worth?
I find that figuring how much to charge someone is one of the most unsettling things about freelance work. Quote too much, and run the risk of scaring the client off; quote too little and you will feel as though you’re working for nothing and the job will leave a […]
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Figuring out what you want from a website
One of the concerns clients have expressed to me when talking about their web presence is that they have no idea why they need any of it. This in turn makes it difficult to legitimise any updates to a website, including new functionality. I do understand the state of mind; […]
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No idea what you’re doing online? That’s kinda a good thing.
The Internet is Earth from space. No borders or boundaries, encased in a nice little bubble, hovering in a vacuum by means which we still can’t properly explain. It just is. A lone alien looking down on Earth and everything going on on it might ask, ‘Why do I want […]
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Eurovision 2: Buranovskiye Babushki
(Or, the 2012 Eurovision story written by Fifi and gifted to me on my birthday this year) Not sure what this is? You should probably view the first story in the series, Eurovision 1: So Lucky. Min’s non-birthday present 2012 Inspired by Russia – Buranovskiye Babushki – Party For Everybody […]
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Eurovision 1: So Lucky
Each year for my birthday (it’s happened twice; that makes it a tradition!), my friend Fifi writes me a story about that year’s Eurovision (which conveniently, usually happens only a few days before my birthday). I hesitated to show them to anyone else because of a) all the inside jokes, […]
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Catching up: April / May Links of Note
So much fandom I don’t know where to start…so, in no logical order (it’s more fun that way): The final movie in the Cornetto Trilogy (Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright films), ‘The Worlds End’, kicks off in September! Another reason to love R2D2 (if we needed one): he makes coffee! At least […]
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Bytes of Science, Bits of Random
Some amazing and/or odd stuffs: Paris tries out virtual boarding attendants in their airport Massive iPhone case looks like an ear, freaks out everybody An interview with Benjamin Harff, who lovingly created a beautifully illustrated copy of (Tolkien’s) The Silmarillion A device called the Wacom Inkling arrives, transfers anything you draw on […]
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TV Crossover Links (mostly Doctor Who…)
Some recent gems related to the wonder of Doctor Who: All 11 Doctors, as cats, at Doctor Mew You can buy River Song’s spoilery TARDIS journal Watch 10th Doctor regenerate into 11th Doctor – on Facebook A genius sings the Doctor Who theme song, a capella (to which Steven Moffat […]
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For the love of Films (…mostly Star Wars)
It’s been a huge couple of weeks for Star Wars fans worldwide, as it was announced that George Lucas has made more changes to the Star Wars Original Trilogy for the blu-ray release. Once the news was out the responses weren’t that varied, as you can imagine, with the general […]
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