We have routines and they are important. They help us to know where we are, maintaining stability, comfort, and the general status quo. However, life is not a constant. It is dynamic, if nothing else. Routines do have a monotonous down side that they can make us too comfortable and we can easily get stuck [...]

Some times the car needs to be parked, and the space is small. In this video the stunt skilled driver displays how it can be done turbo style, with minimal fuss, and no to-ing and fro-ing. Forget parallel parking, this is the time saving method of lateral car parking. See how it’s done after the [...]

OK, so I don’t strictly mean your physical shoe size, but something similar. Your carbon footprint. It is surprising energy saving bulbs are not used more widely than they are currently. To not use them is a false economy. Here’s why…

“There’s a fire burning in your home and you only have time to get out with one thing. What would you take with you?” Apparently this hypothetical question is about showing what is important to you. It was posed to me a number of years ago, but with a change of situation over the years [...]

On an obscure night in 2008 whilst creating a design using pixel buttons (which also go by the names of pixel badges, and antipixel, etc)  I thought “Wouldn’t it be a great idea if no pixels were used? Instead the button (or badge) is composed entirely by Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) code!” Yeah, fantastic! My [...]

Bandwidth. How big is yours? Do you care? Well apparently, we are all demanding more of the stuff with streaming video from the BBC iPlayer and other video casting sites. The pessimists write about how it could break the Internet, how it could change the price of a loaf of bread, and even cause your [...]