Concerned with Facebook's increasingly abusive privacy terms, I decided to vote with my feet and delete my account. If only it were that simple.
My Blogging Against Disablism Day post for 2010 is about a rather odd incident where a man was not permitted to enter a restaurant with his guide dog.
A slightly belated post for Ada Lovelace Day, highlighting Senator Kate Lundy, Open Government and IT advocate.
Do you consider technology an asset to your business? Are there technologies that you cannot work without? If so, your assets may be exposing you to risk. This article gives a simple guide on how to identify and minimise those risks to help protect your business and that of your clients who rely on it.
New food-related site from Smiffy's friend, Nicolas Steenhout.
When I was a child, we called this type of dish bacon and egg pie. Others might call it quiche. This recipe is gluten-free and low-carbohydrate (unless served with chips.) Can even be meat-free, if that takes your fancy.
The last six years have been a tale of chronic ill-health resulting in varying degrees of incapacity. January/February 2007 was pretty much the nadir of all of this - scarcely able to get out of a chair or work more than 2-3 hours per week. This article is a story of hope - how things have improved since then and what I have done to aid those improvements. A good doctor, weight training and life management have been three of the key factors in getting where I am today.
How many Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) have an extensible system that can allow the creation, maintenance and display of metadata such as Dublin Core? Very few, if any. Now over 2 years in the making, this article explains concepts that may be used to extend CMS to accommodate this.
Smiffy's Twitter avatar gains a blue hat - nothing to do with Nick Heyward, everything to do with web standards and social inclusion.
"We’re all freaking killing ourselves" says Derek Featherstone in a blog post, essential reading for those wrestling with the work/life balance - and losing. This article presents a couple of related lessons that I have learned regarding Quality of Work and Quality of Life.
