Digital by Default

Category: play

  • Exploring the Storyverse – Checking out Small Demons

    I followed a link from Twitter (via @danbri I think) at some point over the weekend to a new website – pretty much just based on the ‘strapline’; Welcome to the Storyverse. Small Demons is an interesting (and very beautiful) website that aims pull out all those ‘real world’ details from your favourite novels and…

  • WordPress Woo(hoo!)

    I think it is pretty well established at this point that I am a fan of WordPress. It has become my go to solution for all manner of projects in the last couple of years and while a number of my illustrious developer & designer associates have rather fallen out with it I’ll admit that…

  • [WP.com automated] 2010 in review

    The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 8,800 times in 2010. That’s about 21 full 747s.  …

  • Late to the (ipad) party

    So some time after the hoopla has died down and seeing an iPad at a conference or on a train has become a common occurrence I have joined the owners club. I have got the ‘budget’ option (as if anything from Apple is ever budget!) There are two main reasons for this 1) it was…

  • Trying out Ubuntu..

    A few weeks ago I reclaimed my parents old 15″ Sony Vaio from its quiet retirement in a corner of their back room and decided to try and bring it back to life using the restorative power of open source! I haven’t had much success with the various flavours of Ubuntu in the past –…