2,000 links and one new colour
For World Refugee Day, I helped launch CARE — a new resource archive on the Careif charity website linking to over 2,000 external resources on refugee mental health. Building it within the existing Squarespace site surfaced some real limitations, particularly around page hierarchy and folder structure, and prompted a new accent colour to distinguish the section. With the launch done, there's still work ahead on rethinking the content model and staying on top of link rot — but for now, I think I've earned a summer break.
Stop opening Outlook just to check your calendar
Away from work, I am a Mac and iPad user. If I want to check my calendar, I open a calendar app. If I want to check my email, I open an email app.
At work though, I’m locked into the standard PC-based, Microsoft environment. So if I only want to see my calendar, I have to open Microsoft Outlook and that runs the risk of me seeing (and subsequently getting distracted by) my email inbox.
In this blog post I show a solution that I came up with to let me easily see just my Outlook calendar without being distracted by my Outlook inbox.
20th century boy
This is a blog post I originally wrote in September 2011 when I lived in Davis, California. It was written shortly after I heard the news that my grandad had died and was written in his memory.
I’ve had the decorators in: new look to website plus accessibility improvements
After many years, I’ve bitten the bullet and made some changes to this website. Some of these are cosmetic and may not be noticed, but there are many underlying changes to the infrastructure including a lot of small, but notable, accessibility improvements.
Keep on blogging
A blog post about the many different blogs that I’ve had over the years and about my desire to hopefully blog more going forwards.
Rekindling the joy of building a website
A short tale of how I unexpectedly ended up creating a website for an artist friend.