I am going to be returning to blogging this year. It’s gotten a little dusty around here, so I’m cleaning the cobwebs and fixing up the broken things. I’ve removed all the RSS feeds and consolidated them in to one single feed, that will comprise of my articles and notes, I didn’t have a lot of people subscribing, but if you were one of those people (thankyou!) you may need to resubscribe to the…
The Long Year It’s been a tough year. We started 2024 buying our first house since migrating to New Zealand in January. It had been a long wait for our visas to come through due to COVID, coinciding with an unprecedented surge in housing prices through 2023 pricing us out of the market. Thankfully towards the end of 2023 they began to fall to a reasonable price and we were able to once again get…
Creative Creations is a deck of cards I designed to help foster creativity, through bonding, laughter and fun. It can be used as a way to spark creativity, a quick icebreaker, a more formalised training session or just for fun. Play your way, to suit your needs. I’ve been testing the current set of cards with adults and kids of all ages, and after a lengthy testing period in both formal and…
Several years ago I was asked to work on a new government service. This was to be a temporary service stood up for a fixed period and then closed down. It was a unique proposition to consider, often the services I design or contribute towards are intended to run until the need is met, which can be many years. I thought of this as a live events service, it needed to be stood up quickly and with…
Just a quick update on the redesign, while this is happening all my #micropub #syndication and #webmention functions are paused. I won’t be sending or recieveing content for a while as I move the main pillars of the website around. The easiest way to follow my content during this period is to subscribe to my RSS feed .