Apple has released a new version of iTunes, their extremely cool juke box software. The update adds some nice new features like Lossless Encoding, and a funky new Party Shuffle function. Party Shuffle is one of those features that sounds a bit naff until you first start playing about with it, but it has already [...]

I bought my DVD player less than a year ago. It’s not a top quality player, but it’s certainly not a budget model either.

But already it is struggling to keep up with the newest multi-layer discs. I recently bought the Special Edition of Aliens, which uses layers to skip between scenes from the original theatre [...]

Finally, I have found the time to add some of my newer images to my artwork browser. I still have a lot of stuff to add though.

There is now a big gap between the old work that has been online for a dogs age, and the stuff I have been doing most recently.

At least my [...]

You won’t be able to tell, and you certainly won’t care, but I have converted all the files that hold the image and client data (and these blog entries) from plain text to XML.

On a purely technical note, it is far simpler to let the XML parser do all the work encoding and decoding any [...]

I have moved this site to a new web host. The server space (and there is a LOT of it) is now provided by the nice folks at Dreamhost. So far, the transition to the new server has been incredibly painless, and everything has worked "out of the box". The knowledge base and technical help provided [...]

Well, I have finally managed to launch my new site, after several weeks of tinkering with the design in the evenings and at weekends. The whole site has been redone from scratch, and I have completely rewritten all the scripts that provide the image browser functions, making them faster, more flexible and more robust. I have [...]

One of the BBC sites I provided illustrations for has just won a prestigious educational award.

BBC Learning NI is outright winner for the “2004 Learning on Screen Award” for the Interactive Primary Learning category.

The awards were organised by the Society for Screen Based Learning (SSBL) and the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC).

The SSBL [...]