Citizensheep. "Michael Grimes lives in Birmingham (UK). This is his blog about anything that he fancies."

This is a very nice demonstration of what HTML5/CSS3 is capable of, and shows how ready the various browsers are for it. Visit HTML5 Readiness

This is really interesting, because I always assumed that online registration forms were easier to use if their components were separated clearly. This post suggests that in fact a narrative paragraph containing the form fields in-line is more likely to encourage use. Thanks to Martin Black for drawing my attention to this on Twitter. Visit [...]

Jon Bounds just tweeted this, which is just stunning: “GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool which shows about 11,000 tweets collected over a 24 hour period between August 20th and 21st. The tweets were harvested to find people saying ‘good morning’ in English as well as several other languages.” GoodMorning! Full Render #2 from blprnt [...]

A set of very handy lists of online web development tools, neatly and clearly laid out. Covers inspiration and design as well as markup, coding and marketing. Visit Web Design Dashboard

We often make the mistake of assuming that learning how to use a tool will somehow make us good at the job the tool was designed for. I believe our efforts are better spent on first learning the skills and then choosing the tools. Take Quark Xpress, an industrial-strength tool for graphic design professionals. Professionals. In [...]

I find it exceptionally difficult to believe that I have any skills of note, and keep meaning to force myself to try and audit them just to check. So here I’ve spelled out what I do in my day job, and some of the challenges I’ve faced. Although I’m still not sure I know any [...]

I wish Chiltern Trains would either get rid of their ‘quiet’ coaches or do something to make them less appealing to noisy people. There are always those who ignore the rules, which only serves to make other people indignant and angry. And let’s face it, few people are going to ask a hooded youth to [...]

Our friend Karen Strunks has been taking photos of local areas at 4.00 in the morning. Now she's trying to get the rest of us to do the same. Get up at 4am on 4 April and take some photos.

Visit 4am Project

Tweelove is a lovely little service that lets you send nice anonymous greetings to people on Twitter.

This one’s really for Nicky over at Digbeth is Good, but as it could be useful for others it may as well go here. It explains how to use the Postalicious addon to add delicious bookmarks to your WordPress blog as single posts. It presumes a certain degree of experience with these tools. (Example of [...]