James Doc

Ages ago I remember being told that 'ideas are cheap'.

If you have been following my twitter updates over the last couple of weeks you may have noticed a variety of design related posted.

This weekend managed to have the perfect weather for a bank holiday weekend; hot (but not too hot), dry and cloudless.

One of the notes I scribbled down earlier for this post went something along time lines of 'I could have done without this week'.

Before you think I am writing about women who have lost their husbands, or children without parents I want to stop you there.

A comment that is often made about the British is our love of talking about the weather.

Giving robots emotions is a bad idea.

The weather in Oxford today is incredible, right from the very start at 5am we've had an amazing blue sky (yes I did see 5am).

Last night I put up a C.S.

I've been reading through Tim Keller's book Every Good Endevour and he has just thrown in this challenging quote about pride: "Now what you want to get clear it that Pride is essentially competitive – is competitive by its very nature – while the other vi…

I've been trying to maintain a regular set of posts appearing on this blog for almost the whole of April.

This weekend I picked up a project that I haven't exactly been avoiding, but one I haven't been rushing to pick back up!

For about 10 minutes today it started hailing in Oxford.

Quite often I will sign myself up for early testing of new applications or website.

Last night I visited the Oxford Playhouse to watch the Spanish play La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream).

In an unlikely turn of event I am making my daily scribbling after work, rather than during my lunch break.

This just appeared on my Twitter feed shared by Harry Roberts: Comfort zones are plush lined coffins.

Cooking is fun, I am regularly reminded of this by a couple of people within my church homegroup.

Yesterday I suffered a mistake I had made a while ago.

Spring has finally happened and, as I noted last week, I've got back into cycling.

Yesterday was my sister's birthday, so a surprise for her I took her to see Wicked today.

My Pebble finally arrived at work today.

I attend a local event in Oxford called UXOxford (User Experience), it is run by local folk, for local folk.

In the life of my church in Oxford there is a lot going on.

Today I adjusted my cycle into work in light of the improving weather.

Last Friday Facebook released their most recent project; Home.

Delight.

I find myself replacing pairs of headphones much more often then I would like.

At the moment most of my weekends seemed to be filled with travel.

Yesterday I was wiring a little bit about sharing skills on a small scale, today I have found myself doing it on a much larger scale.

I find myself attempting to squeeze long quotes down into bite-size, tweetable, snippets more often than I care to think about.

Over lunch I've was thinking about miscommunication.

One of the big news items from last few days have been the death of Margaret Thatcher.

Current status: In IFES Monday morning prayer.

I'm just back from the Responsive Day Out organsied by the wonderful folk at Clearleft.

Yesterday I posted briefly about my topic of blogging over lent - Life Life.

Today we prepared for Lent in the IFES office by eating lots of pancakes for lunch, it was tasty!

I'm not sure if you have seen it or not, but recently there has been a list that has gone vital over Twitter and Facebook. 21 Brilliant British People Problems was posted on Buzz Feed on the 18th Dec and has attracted a fair amount of attention because it…

I consume a fairly large amount of text online, news articles, blog posts, reviews, tear downs, guides, pictures of kittens, etc.

"You look like a caveman" - Grandma Always great to see my grandparents…

I had big plans to post something today about the Christian New Media Conference which I attended over the weekend, however as Evernote totally failed to sync the blog that I was drafting I finished off this manipulation that I was working on.

Today I finally got around to making a small, but really important tweak to the design of this site!

Currently on the large white board at work is a big brain storm with the title 'the next update to the IFES website should include...'

My favourite tool I've added to Chrome has got to be the Evernote Clearly plugin.

I've been an Android user for a while, lots of apps have come an gone off my phone over that time.

I've just spent the last week doing very little work, very little checking email and generally avoiding social media.

Some of you may have noticed that in the last couple of weeks I've pushed a fairly major update to my website, version 6 by my reckoning.

One of the things that I have started doing at work is putting together a style guide so we can communicate in a consistant way.

This fantastic quote appeared on my twitter stream earlier today: You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.

I've just read a fantastic article on the Relevant Magazine website about being too plugged in to technology.