Hello, it's been a while. There's a new links page on gilest.org, where I shall be posting links for the time being. Bluesky's nice and all that, but an archive with some attached RSS (like wot you're reading now) will be a better choice. Since I last troubled your RSS reader, th … | Continue reading
We spent our wedding anniversary in Paris and it was nice and here are some pics | Continue reading
A list of BBC Sounds things I have listened to over the festive break. It's quite a long list. | Continue reading
'Tis but a year note my lord. Ye can ignore it should ye wish; mind, 'tis full of good links, they say. | Continue reading
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeknote in which I point at the things that have been occupying my brain, and you click on them. | Continue reading
Newsmash! I've written a *tiny* book about growing potatoes, and Russell has published it. | Continue reading
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
Why and how I keep an "Ask" note, as well as a "Todo" list | Continue reading
Interesting Do Work Do Links Do Music Do All done | Continue reading
Lots of links for your clicky entertainment | Continue reading
Only one mention of Aphex Twin this week, sorry about that. | Continue reading
Siena has a coat of arms, and its simplicity means it gets used everywhere, in lots of interesting ways. | Continue reading
A short list of inspirational links | Continue reading
Whatever you do, don't end with "… so, yeah, um, that's it." Plan a proper ending: and end with it. | Continue reading
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
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
I've only worked for 2 days this week but STILL I wrote some notes. | Continue reading
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
You may have noticed that it's Friday. | Continue reading
10 (to start with) tips for writing more clearly. | Continue reading
Some words and pictures from Belfast and Northern Ireland. | Continue reading
A short photo story about our family experience of the COVID-19 pandemic | Continue reading
Working in Kent, getting too many trains home, some linko links | Continue reading
Notey note notes. Written in haste. While eating some toast. | Continue reading
There has been a week. There is now a note. | Continue reading
Thoughts on the fabbatars at Abba Voyage; but no pictures of the show, because they're (rightly) quite strict on that. s | Continue reading
Thoughts on the fabbatars at Abba Voyage; but no pictures of the show, because they're (rightly) quite strict on that. s | Continue reading
Politics, football, work, links. | Continue reading
Yes it's a weeknote. You're going to see some more of these. | Continue reading
Notes about shoulder pain and a swish split keyboard | Continue reading
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
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
A long post with notes and reflections and photos from my recent trip to Toronto and Halifax. | Continue reading
A few thoughts about the Elizabeth Frink exhibition at Dorset Museum in Dorchester. | Continue reading
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
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
Did a little talk at UCL, advising MA students on tactics for communicating about their work | Continue reading
I've made a new website about weeknotes, at doingweeknotes.com | Continue reading
This website is 25 years old, flippin' 'eck | Continue reading
About a little talk I did at the British Library the other day. | Continue reading
Elliott Cost's Palm app helps people make easy web pages and I think it's inspiring | Continue reading
Video and audio of me talking to the digital people in British Columbia. | Continue reading
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
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