I really tried to keep up with the 365 project but I failed massively. I made it to about 42 days which isn't great....11% or something! Anyway instead of having the pressure of taking a photo every day, I've decided just to move the photos I have taken to here and keep it going as a photo blog instead. Enjoy.

Web development is a continue process of learning. I enjoy that process, I suck up knowledge like a hoover, it motivates me and makes me want to try new things, push it and do something exciting.

What I don't enjoy is spending 3 and a half days (including my weekend) trying to solve a problem, approaching it logically, methodically, and spending hours re-reading all about trigonometry, ultimately resulting in nothing. Nothing. Having to re-write from scratch my code 4 times becuase its simply not working. This is something I don't enjoy.

Then having poured my weekend into this problem.....I find a library written by some people much more clever than me that solves the heart of the...

I've had a crazy month, I decided to quit my agency job at the beginning of October to go in search of self earned riches instead of the steady income from the man.

I have spent a decent amount of time attempting to secure some contracts throughout the last couple of months and decided I had got enough to warrant making the jump. Although only 2 clients had actually agreed to work with me I didn't want to keep stalling and waiting for the stuff I had at tender to come in, otherwise I would never commit. So I had my last day in an office exactly one week ago, I've got lots to thank my previous employer for and I will miss working with many of the faces. No regrets though and I'm...

Through the wonders of the interwebs I've just read this fascinating article. It describes how scientists have now discovered a solar system in our galaxy that has a planet capable of harboring life. I find this stuff completely mind boggling, I instantly start thinking of ways I could chyrogenically freeze myself so I can wake up 500 years in the future and do some inter-galatic space travel, however considering I currently don't even own a freezer I may be a little way off my dream.

The planet was discovered by a technique called radial velocity which detects shifts in a planets position due to the gravitational pull of a nearby star. The planet is 20 million light years away -...

As a present for being best man at my friends wedding I recieved a BruBox, that was a couple of weeks ago now, so today I have decided to give it a go.

The instructions are pretty straight forward, the biggest issue I've had so far is that my kettle takes about 4 hours to boil and I need around 4-5 litres of boiling water in the whole process. The box it all comes in does stink but I think thats because the packet that contains the cleaning powder has leaked slightly, not a big issue.

It comes with everything you need, including hops, grain, yeast and a big can of malt extract (mine is a pilsner BruBox), the bag and box to brew it in, and even a thermometer to monitor the temperature....

So it was my friend Tim's wedding at the weekend, I was joint best man with his brother Ben. Being best man I had to do a speech, everything went really well, really well that was until I wished the happy couple a loveless marriage (I actually said "Love Free"). The best bit for me was looking over and seeing my girlfriend holding her head in her hands.

So thanks Jen for this.

I love this recipe, its easy simple and makes an awesome jam / chutney / jutney. I'd like to say it's been passed down over the years through my family but it hasn't, an illustrator friend of mine gave it to me, maybe it was passed down over the years through his family? His name is Dave Doyle and he is a fantastic illustrator, he did me the jam pot sketch in about 2 minutes of me asking for one, look how nice it is.

Anyway the recipe is as follows (feel free to adjust to your taste, it always turns out slightly different each time I make it, but always tasty.

Ingredients

• 1 garlic clove
• 1 small onion
• 2 inches of ginger
• 100 ml white wine vinegar
• 450 grams of sugar
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So I've had the same website for far too long and it hasn't changed much in...well, far too long, probably not since I initially built it actually. I've done so little with it in fact that it took me a lot of digging just to find the FTP user account details to log in so I could upload this, my new website!

Adhering to Boyd's Law of Iteration I've decided to get this site up and iterate on it over time. Too often we (I) spend weeks trying to build a completely perfect website in one hit, when the reality is that it was actually more than suitable weeks ago. With that in mind I've decided to follow in Colonel John Boyd's theory that; speed of iteration beats quality of iteration. He was...