I’ve been experimenting with Google Calendar recently in an attempt to keep my appointments up to date on both PC and Mac. I use iCal on the Mac – which is excellent – and synchronise with my PDA using The Missing Sync, the latest version of which is a lot more stable than the old […]

I’ve just completed my first full financial year of self employment – and, like my past anniversaries, I’ve blogged a little business advice. This time it’s job sheets and project folders – the best way for the busy freelancer to organise themselves.

Six months until I’m 30 – that’s a scary thought. An updated list of things to do before that, and a question: where should I become an old man? Holiday ideas gratefully received.

Last night I went along to my first ever poetry slam, in Cambridge, and read a couple of poems – a very old one and quite a new one. Much to my surprise (and probably the chagrin of the far better poets there) I won the audience vote with my incredibly crude old poem! It’s […]

I’ve just completed work on a rare (but nicely distracting) design and build job for a friend – Heather Baker, an actress based in Cambridge. Heather needed a site to carry her portfolio and biographical details to send out for castings – so I’ve built a site with a simple gallery and some YouTube videos.

Find out more about the site here.

One of the first things I did when I started up was buy a DAB digital radio. I love my DAB. I’d like another one, for my room, so I can listen when I wake up or when I read. Why a DAB? Because of the extra stations. One extra station, in fact – 6Music. […]

Thoughts once again turn to aims and ambitions, and the idea of a second degree rears its ugly head again… if I can just find the money.

So here it is – my new website, design finished, content finished, contact form done… and I’m pretty pleased with it. You might see a few little tweaks over the next week or so, but I think it’s now time to leave well alone and take a step back. It’s now time to get in touch with a load of potential clients and let them know what I’m up to.

If you’re interested in how I built the site, click the “read more” link to find out…

There’s about to be a big change on my website – and my blog. I’m going to be moving the blog off blogger (it’s a great system, but I want it all centralised) and to a completely WordPress driven site. There might be a bit of disruption on the site over the weekend but normal service will be resumed as soon as possible…

Yep – I’ve done my first poem in about two or three years. Because of Stephen Fry’s excellent book The Ode Less Travelled (look it up on Amazon, it’s a good read). I’ve not done it using any particular techniques – I very rarely do, I’m a painfully unskilled poet – but I enjoyed writing […]