Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • Anker Astro2: the commuters friend

    My life is basically a series of trips on public transport punctuated by occasional other activity (work, social life etc). My current job is responsible for a minimum of 13 hours a week of commuting – the vast majority of that on a train route that has no wifi, minimal 3G connectivity and worst of…

  • Hawaii stynamic

    The new Hawaii.gov website looks amazing but it is under the hood where it is really impressive – not a dissimilar approach to GDS.  It is becoming clear that this kind of in-house development based on a suite of standardised open source tools rather than a big CMS is growing in popularity and certainly seems…

  • Having a hiatus

    After 420 blogposts over five and a bit years I have decided to take an indefinite hiatus from this blog. I’m sure I’ll be back and maybe sooner than I am currently expecting but for now I am going to try something a little different… …though not that different. I’m still going to be blogging – just…

  • 2012 – a self-indulgent review of the year!

    Time for my annual self indulgent review of the year. This is the 4th year I’ve done this – 2009 was pretty horrible then things picked up over 2010 and 2011. Unfortunately at least work wise this year has been a bit of a step back. For the first time since about 2004 I feel…

  • Twitter time travel

    Unlike some of my peers I never bothered making any kind of backup of my Twitter activity. I’ve treated it as something disposable for the most part – with anything with staying power surfacing elsewhere (usually here on this blog.) That said curiosity got the better of me and when Twitter offered the chance to download…