When someone dies what does the family left behind do with their loved ones former digital footprint? Do they retain the information posted for posteritys sake or are the online reminders too painful to bear and require removal? Regardless of which path a family may opt to take for many the pressing problem can simply be gaining access to their loved ones former online accounts. I felt compelled to blog about this after two recent experiences relating to this theme that [...]

What a day it’s been as all over New Zealand your average Kiwi got up out of bed, got dressed and wore the colours of red and black to show their sympathy and solidarity with Cantabrians. I started my working day by filming a bunch of people making just that sort of statement in Dunedin at 9am on a slightly overcast Friday morning. It was a great experience, everyone got in to the spirit of [...]

Today I’ve started to make further changes to my sites design and content. For the last few weeks I’ve been working on porting an andreasviklund.com inspired design across to the WordPress CMS that I’m now using to generate the nice standards compliant code on this site. This has not been without its challenges but it’s been fun to get this far so quickly. For now I’m going to drop quite a bit of my site [...]