Archives for June 2004

First impressions of Tiger... (June 28, 2004) A few first impressions of Apple's upcoming Operating System: Tiger: Spotlight - basically an Apple native verstion of Launchbar with a few self-evidently nice features (searching Mail). After using Launchbar for a while I can state without question that it...

Developing a URL structure for broadcast radio sites... (June 27, 2004) One of the most common questions I've had about the Radio 3 redesign work that we've been doing has been about the URL structures that we have used to identify individual episodes of individual programmes. I'm really keen to address...

The new Radio 3 site launches! (June 26, 2004) Ladies and Gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to direct your attention towards the new Radio 3 website, which I (along with a great number of other people from every discipline and from all across the BBC) have been working...

Two questions about stress and work... (June 25, 2004) Weird day. Really good bits. Really tiring bits. Feel slightly washed out and exhausted. Can't tell if I'm a big drama queen or not. Met the new Director General of the BBC today. Launched a site and stuff. More on...

So very near... (June 20, 2004) Guess what! Light at the end of the tunnel! Give me a few more days... Just a few more days... Then I can do stuff again! Like write things on my weblog, look after my community, take days off, have...

Anyone for Gmail? (June 14, 2004) So anyway, I signed up for Gmail a while back and basically I don't really use it even though it's pretty well assembled and has some nice features and now I've been given three invitations but everyone who I know...

On representing the backlog caused by an absence of cerebral RAM... (June 12, 2004) That period before a launch is always stressful. This time is no exception. It's occupying my entire head almost 24/7 no matter whether I try and leave work on time or whether I'm there for twelve or fourteen hour days....

Notes from NotCon: Hardware (June 8, 2004) Well, anyway, since I'm up I may as well finish off my coverage of Sunday's NotCon. After the Geolocation panel (my notes), I joined the Hardware panel. Over the entire day I self-consciously avoided all the political panels because they...

A snapshot of my neighbourhood... (June 8, 2004) 6.30am: The Police call around and get me to open the front door. They knock on my neighbour's door and ring the doorbell a couple of dozen times. Looking out the back window, the entire block is surrounded by plain...

Notes from NotCon: Geocoding (June 6, 2004) So the first panel of the day is over and we're not waiting in the over-crowded downstairs for the Matt Jones- hosted "Hardware" panel to get going. My initial reactions to the Geocoding panel were extraordinarily positive - the first...

Notes from NotCon: Introduction (June 6, 2004) So it's Sunday morning at 11.30am and I'm going to start taking notes of the goings-on at NotCon. Probably the best way to describe the feel of the place so far is that it's somewhere between the sensation of being...

What's Tom been up to? (June 4, 2004) So work's still going a bit nuts and I have no time at all. It should all be over soon (couple of weeks max), then I'll be throwing myself back into the world more than ever. In the meantime, a...