The recent write up of Avner Ronan’s chat with Mark Cuban has pushed me to shine up and publish this article. I’m coming at it from the perspective of a frustrated user and ‘consumer’, but my focus is on the equipment used to view the TV & movies that I watch. Obviously there are huge infrastructure and international challenges in the way that TV is currently distributed and that is probably another article, this is more a device ‘wishing’ piece.More

There seems to be a trend to publish a lot of information in video format these days, which is great but it’s by no means the best method to receive information. Watching video cannot be skimmed like text or easily bookmarked, plus it simply takes a lot of time and the functionality of the various flash players can leave a lot to be desired.More

Now I’ll freely admit that as a Web Standards based developer I’m meant to just hate flash. I don’t though. In talented hands it is an incredible tool for exploring human computer interaction and also delivery of rich content.More

I gave a talk at the April 2009 WebSG Meetup Singapore last night. A really great meetup, met lots of interesting people and heard a fascinating talk from Jon Petersen, a self styled location geek who’s new restaurant phone application buUuk seems to be a fascinating project.More

This blog suffers, like many, from periodic abandonment. The latest six-month absence has seen me return to Singapore from Manila, and put in process the formation of a company. As well as get through a shedload of work.More

This refers to a previous design of deepcalm.com, which has now become my business site. An archived image is below the text.

And so, only two months after the start of the New Year, a new version of deepcalm.com. Built on the excellent, but ever so slightly frustrating, ExpressionEngine. It seems there’s a bit of a redesign madness going around, my feed reader reports on Jeff Croft, Jon Hicks, Jared Christiansen and a new site from Greg Wood (which is just lovely, plus he’s opinionated enough to do reviews too).More