Am just back from a very chilled out trip to Alpandeire, a small and very pretty Andalusian village high up in the hills above Ronda in Spain. With a population of less than 200 at this time of year, the village was hardly buzzing, but that was exactly what I was looking for, and I [...]

Despite not being particularly interested in cars, one of my favourite annual weekend events in Hebden Bridge is the Vintage Car Rally, which is organised by the local Rotary Club and held every August on Calder Holmes Park. Here’s a handful of Hipstamatic iPhone snaps I took at the event on the Sunday 7th August [...]

It is indeed true that hindsight is always 20-20. And it was amongst the various posts and articles concerning the recent controversy about the world’s news media, phone-hacking, and also the activities of Anonymous and LulzSec etc, that I discovered this Youtube video of President John F. Kennedy. A montage of images, soundtracked by a [...]

Got back this week from a very welcome and relaxing two week break over in Menorca, staying at the lovely Hotel Audax in Cala Galdana. Also took a weekend trip to the wonderful city of Barcelona, staying at a little hotel right on Plaça de Catalunya, within easy reach of all the places I wanted [...]

Google Earth is a truly epic project. Yesterday, I stumbled across a fascinating website which got me thinking about how amazing it really is. Jon Rafman’s 9 Eyes website shows a deeply fascinating selection of images from around the world taken by Google’s fleet of Street View camera vehicles. In their endless quest to photograph [...]

It’s been an extremely busy start to 2011 on the work front, and so little time for blogging. Several exciting new web development projects are underway, including a new constituency website for a well-known ex-cabinet minister, a fairly large website covering the environment and heritage of the South Pennines area, which will be built in [...]

Myself and several of the clients that I work with use the excellent web hosting services of Zen Internet, based nearby in sunny Rochdale. And here’s why they rock.

I thought for my next blog post I’d recount my rather grim experience from earlier this year, a couple of months prior to the UK General Election. It’s a wee bit complicated and there’s quite a lot to tell, but bear with me, I’ll try to keep it short and sweet.

Selection of Hipstamatic enhanced iPhone photos taken during my holiday to Italy last September.