I was asked to blog about how life is going since I went Freelance at the beginning of April (2012, for legacy), so here goes. Life as a freelancer is just fucking awesome! I get to wake up when I want, work when I want and only accept the work that interests me. That’s the meat of this post to be honest, but I want to talk about a few things too. Note that this is not a guide to freelancing. I’ve probably done everything wrong. Time keeping I am my own worst enemy… Continue reading

Let’s jump right in. My friend and all round nice guy Stephen Fulljames decided to go, so we flew out together and were pretty much glued together for the couple days we were in Warsaw. We stayed in a nice hotel, which turned out to be where the speakers were staying, which I’ll come back to later. I’ve been to many conferences before, but this was my first international conference. I have many preconceived thoughts about what it would be like. One of those, was that a lot of the people there would… Continue reading

This is more a rant than an informative piece. You have been warned. I read earlier that Opera are going to adopt the Webkit prefix to combat the potential monoculture created by Webkit not being shit and designers loving the direction it’s going in. This, as I’m sure you already know is absolutely fucking stupid. All this means is designers will use the -webkit- prefix even more as it’s now used in more browsers, thus making the monoculture even worse. Even more stupid is unless Opera supports and renders stuff in exactly the… Continue reading