Monday, February 04, 2008
I have set up a few forums and blogs with commenting and I have had some thoughts and issues about what should be private and what should be public. This can often lead to confusion. Why should things need to be kept private and how do you manage different levels of privilege?
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
What is the difference between a page and a leaf?
I was thinking of the word leaf and how it is not often used in relation to books and metaphors that we use in screen-media.
The page of a book is the surface on which words and pictures are presented. The leaf refers to the actual sheet. A leaf will have two pages - one on each side. We say in the English idiom:
Turn a new leaf
To mean, starting again in a positive way. Of course, this means turning two pages. Screens are only one sided but there are a variety of ebook systems that simulate the turning of a page. I wrote an article about this a while ago, so I make a link to it here.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Our holiday in Greece this summer got off to a bad start. We found ourselves at Heathrow at 8am, in the middle of the security alert that was widely reported.
Queuing at the check-in desk we were told to put all hand luggage into the hold, so we had to stuff our suitcases with all the things that we expected to be able to carry-on. Are we OK to take a book each? - I asked. That should be alright, said an airline worker.
Friday, June 09, 2006
Does this mark the end of making photographs using photographic paper and chemicals in the darkroom? This item seen on the NY Times may lead us towards that conclusion.
Friday, December 23, 2005
I am very impressed and enthralled by ‘Make’. The quarterly magazine, published by O’Reilly, shows us how to make wonderfully useful things.
Rummaging through my father’s old magazines, I found a big bunch of early issues of ‘Practical Mechanics’. Here is a cover from one dated march 1937. So you see this is not a new idea, just that we have much more technology available to us in this century.
The cover story in this 1937 issue of ‘Practical Mechanics’ was Profitable Printing at Home. The article is, in part, a review of a small printing press invented by Donald Aspinall. I quote:
In 1922 he built his first machine, found it satisfactory, and put it on the market. It was named the "Adana" -an anagram of the initial letters of the inventor’s name ....
This web site is a kind of depository for all the things about getting stuff onto the web.
Tech From an E-booker’s Viewpoint:
Anti-Spam Email Links - Web Site Design - Andrew Gregory’s Web Pages: A good way to obfuscate email addresses.
CSS Round Corners | Gran Yosler | A blog about Yosle, web development, and some other stuff: A good way to get rounded corners with NO images…
Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows.: capture screens for ScreenCasts ...
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