How to grow potatoes

Newsmash! I've written a *tiny* book about growing potatoes, and Russell has published it. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 9 hours ago

If you want to ask me security questions, I might want to ask you security questions

Those calls you get when THEY ask YOU to prove who YOU are, when YOU don't know for sure who THEY are. Yeah those. This is a rant about those. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 13 days ago

Weeknote: 09 November 2024

notey notey notey NOTE | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 14 days ago

Keep an 'Ask' note

Why and how I keep an "Ask" note, as well as a "Todo" list | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 19 days ago

Weeknote: 19 October 2024

Interesting Do Work Do Links Do Music Do All done | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 month ago

Weeknote: 11 October 2024

Lots of links for your clicky entertainment | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 month ago

Weeknote: 27 September 2024

Only one mention of Aphex Twin this week, sorry about that. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 month ago

The symbol of Siena

Siena has a coat of arms, and its simplicity means it gets used everywhere, in lots of interesting ways. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 2 months ago

Italian skies

A few photos of good clouds | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 2 months ago

Internet inspirations

A short list of inspirational links | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 2 months ago

Know how you'll end your presentation

Whatever you do, don't end with "… so, yeah, um, that's it." Plan a proper ending: and end with it. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 2 months ago

Notes from The Netherlands, inc Rotterdam and Keukenhof

Two actual years after we went there, I've written up a few thoughts and found a few pictures from Leiden. There's also some photos from Rotterdam and Keukenhof. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 2 months ago

Again, notes from Tuscany

We've been to Italy AGAIN so here are some more notes and photos of pretty places. Also: mention of stinky pools. Stinky! | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 2 months ago

Weeknote: 13 September 2024

I've only worked for 2 days this week but STILL I wrote some notes. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 2 months ago

Photos from Giant's Causeway

ROCK PIX | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 2 months ago

Prepare for presentation disasters

A note about preparing for the worst when doing important presentations. The worst probably won't happen, but if it does: well, you'll be prepared. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 2 months ago

Weeknote: 23 August 2024

You may have noticed that it's Friday. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 3 months ago

Clarity hacks

10 (to start with) tips for writing more clearly. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 3 months ago

Notes from Northern Ireland

Some words and pictures from Belfast and Northern Ireland. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 3 months ago

Weeknote: 16 August 2024

No ooo o00000 0000oooo…tes | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 3 months ago

Our pandemic

A short photo story about our family experience of the COVID-19 pandemic | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 3 months ago

Weeknote: 12 August 2024

Working in Kent, getting too many trains home, some linko links | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 3 months ago

Weeknote: 02 August 2024

Notey note notes. Written in haste. While eating some toast. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 3 months ago

Weeknote: 27 July 2024

There has been a week. There is now a note. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 3 months ago

Applauding pixels

Thoughts on the fabbatars at Abba Voyage; but no pictures of the show, because they're (rightly) quite strict on that. s | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 4 months ago

Applauding pixels

Thoughts on the fabbatars at Abba Voyage; but no pictures of the show, because they're (rightly) quite strict on that. s | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 4 months ago

Weeknote: 11th July 2024

Politics, football, work, links. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 4 months ago

Weeknote: 5th July 2024

Yes it's a weeknote. You're going to see some more of these. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 4 months ago

My shoulder will let me type this

Notes about shoulder pain and a swish split keyboard | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 4 months ago

Notes from Tuscany

We went to Tuscany in 2022 and I never wrote it up, so here are some notes that are 2 years out of date. A great trip, apart from the scorpions. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 7 months ago

Work has picked up

Some notes from the last week, and some links to internetty things. This is the sort of stuff you subscribed to the RSS for, I'd imagine. But then I like to think I'm quite imaginative. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 7 months ago

Notes from Canada

A long post with notes and reflections and photos from my recent trip to Toronto and Halifax. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 7 months ago

Frink in Dorchester

A few thoughts about the Elizabeth Frink exhibition at Dorset Museum in Dorchester. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 7 months ago

Why this feed isn't full text (except for this update)

On Mastodon a few days ago, Sophie Koonin asked: "Folks who don't have the full text of a post in your RSS feed: why not?" My answer there - that "mine’s handmade and I can’t work out how, nor be arsed to do it manually" - wasn't terribly informative or helpful to anyone, so here … | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 7 months ago

Presentations as HTML

More raving about how good iA Presenter is, *especially* when you export to HTML and present about the web, using the web. Yes. Yes! | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 8 months ago

Lecturing at UCL

Did a little talk at UCL, advising MA students on tactics for communicating about their work | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 8 months ago

Doing weeknotes

I've made a new website about weeknotes, at doingweeknotes.com | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 8 months ago

Happy 25th birthday, gilest.org

This website is 25 years old, flippin' 'eck | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 8 months ago

How to communicate with busy stakeholders

About a little talk I did at the British Library the other day. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 8 months ago

Palm makes easy web pages

Elliott Cost's Palm app helps people make easy web pages and I think it's inspiring | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 9 months ago

Me talking in BC

Video and audio of me talking to the digital people in British Columbia. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 9 months ago

Corporate training needs content design, not cartoons

A bit of a rant about the state of corporate training tools. I think they need more content design to meet user needs, and fewer terrible, infantilising cartoon characters. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 10 months ago

See my shoebox

I've added a shoebox of old files to this website, and this is a blog post telling you about that. Includes Pretend Office jokes. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 10 months ago

More on the easier indie web

Summing up most of the things people having been saying on Mastodon about yesterday's indie web rant. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 10 months ago

Let's make the indie web easier

A bit of a rant today, on a topic I've been thinking about a lot. TL;DR - we need more self-hosting personal publishing tools that provide a decent alternative to Wordpress. And those tools should NOT need anyone to do anything at all in a terminal to get them set up. They shou … | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 10 months ago

Flooding in Bradford on Avon

Photos of the serious flooding in our town today :( | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 10 months ago

All we can do is type good words in the bad boxes

Go on, click this one, there's a funny image to see. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 10 months ago

Lights in Rome

Stupid thoughts about infrastructure while standing on a chilly side street in Rome. Happens to all of us. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 10 months ago