Category Archives: life in general

Life is never simple and sometimes I just need to vent!

Top ten reasons you should quit Facebook (isn’t this a little paranoid!)

I recently read Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook written by Dan Yoder, and as with all articles I read it thoroughly before passing judgement, though it did feel paranoid and biased even with the little disclaimer at the beginning.  So after taking some time to absorb his opinion I realised mine hadn’t changed, I didn’t [...]

Banner adverts – animated or static?

I was contacted today by a colleague for whome I had recently designed a static banner, she requested that I animate it, when I asked why an advert with one simple message needed animating she told me that during a presentation to her superior she was reprimanded and told it should have been! – I was stunned that a senior member of our [...]

We lost our boy, now just let us mourn!

This is an unusual post for me, on-the-whole I like writing tutorials or web design posts but something recently has affected me on a personal level and I feel I need to vent my frustration.  Six years ago my wife and I lost a son and since then we have tended his plot with tasteful and appropriate items, [...]

Windows 7, i’ve got my copy – now is it any good?

The long awaited release of Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 7 was last month and finally a few days ago my copy arrived, now I can finally upgrade from Vista and hope that Windows has become what Vista was supposed to be.

How and when the media industry started to collapse

I have worked for a local newspaper firm for some years now and when I took my first creative roll it was during high times, things were great, it was a job for life and I thought I had landed on my feet. However, over the last 13 years the industry has become complacent and [...]