Blogging and all that Malarkey

Invasion of the Body Switchers by me and Brothercake is now published over at A List Apart.

Saturday afternoon was spent in pleasant company at Tate Modern, walking the galleries and thumbing through hefty books in the shop. Conversations were often focussed on the arts and there were some very thought provoking works to see.

It’s funny how you build up a mental people before you meet them. So this weekend was going to be interesting as a band of Brit Pack bloggers, accompanied by their roadies and groupies, met up in London for art, beer and a bit of a chin wag.

As Colly referred to earlier, a wild bunch of bad-ass Brit bloggers are meeting up in London this weekend. Now I know what a few of the guys (and gal) look like from occasional blog pictures, but you know how photos can deceive.

Introducing Donny, six days old when this picture was taken and coming to live with us sometime during Christmas.

it made me sit back and wonder if’we’ in the web-standards’community’ have anything left to say about standards. It’s been a short, but busy few years since deploying standards for day-to-day, commercial web ventures became practical.

I’m damn sure that like coffee and cigarettes, blogs contain some chemical that makes them addictive. Just because I felt like it, I’ve been tinkering again with And All That Malarkey, although this time the changes are mostly’under the duvet’.

Referrer logs, we pretend to ignore them but let’s be honest, we take a peek in there once in a while. Personally I love’em, and having a quick rummage has become a bit of a habit.

Photographers commonly use depth-of-field to emphasise certain parts of image by de-focusing others such as backgrounds. Our eyes are naturally drawn to the sharpest part of any image.

We’ve been wanting a chocolate labrador puppy for a while now and got the good news today that a litter that we have been waiting for has just been born in a nearby village.