Logs — 98 entries in category “thoughts”

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  • Slow down

    As this solar revolution gently comes to a close, it’s time to take a breath and reflect on what it was made of for me.

  • Peak Design Roller Pro vs Rimowa Hybrid Cabin

    My Peak Design Roller Pro Kickstarter carry-on landed in my office this week, and although I haven’t had the opportunity to to travel with it, I wanted to compare it to my current carry-on, the Rimowa Hybrid Cabin.

  • Smashing Conference Freiburg 2025

    Smashing Conference is one of my all-time favourite web conferences, along with @media, New Adventures and beyond tellerrand.

  • Rising above

    As this year comes to a close, we felt, maybe more than ever before, the urge to take a breath, to slow down, and take in where we stand, a kind of reality check, take time to enjoy the here and now.

  • Beyond Tellerrand // Berlin 2024

    I just got home from beyond tellerand my eyes sparkling and my heart vibrating with the love and hope I found in Berlin.

  • How The Bear’s non-negociables apply to my trade

    I’ve started season 3 of The Bear, careful not to binge to make it last as long as I can as it’s one of my all time favourites.

  • Time is the moving image of eternity

    Truth is we’re all moving in the same direction, and we don’t stop living, loving and making memories. Change is inevitable, and it’s a good thing.

  • Good enough is the enemy of humanity

    We watched the movie Blackberry over the weekend, and I must admit I thoroughly enjoyed it.

  • Perfect day

    Emma turned 23 today, signalling the beginning of “chocolate cake month”.

  • The Mac turns 40

    I can’t say I’ve used a Mac all my computing life, but I’ve lusted for one close to all my computing life.

  • The day I closed my Basecamp account

    I closed my Basecamp account earlier this month. I have been a customer since April 2004, that’s almost 20 years give or take a few months.

  • A hug is always the right size

    Mum passed away on January 17th, 2023 and below is the eulogy I delivered at her funeral, on Wednesday February 8th, 2023 at Penmount, Truro.

  • Love you Mum

    Love you Mum.

  • Going nearline

    I’ll be taking time off these two upcoming weeks.

  • Preview Safari 15’s new features today

    Jean Simmons in her WWDC 2021 “Design for Safari 15” gave a good presentation of Safari 15 use of the meta element theme-color.

  • Peak Design Everyday Backpack Zip

    I love bags. I’ve used and enjoyed a number of messenger bags and backpacks from Timbuktu and Tom Bihn and I’m always on the lookout for something new.

  • lionelegger.photos

    While this strange year is coming to a close and New Year reflections and resolutions are popping up here and there, I would like to take the time to thank a client who has become a friend, and with whom I share many of my interests, passions and obsessions: Lionel Egger.

  • Subscription is the new black

    I don’t know about you, but I am starting to feel subscription fatigue. There’s a limit to how many I can add to my credit card.

  • Protein Spotlight gets its comic strip

    Last year, Vivienne approached me with the project of adapting a collection of Protein Spotlight articles into comic strips, both in English and French versions. The Geneva-based cartoonist aloys lolo was to create them on a monthly basis and eventually publish a book as well as set of posters. Could these comics be easily adapted into Protein Spotlight’s existing website?

  • That kind of cat

    We chose her name on a pebble beach at Hermance in June 2007. We were on a family outing selecting pebbles to decorate the tiles of our bathroom. The children were 6 and 8, the original iPhone was about to be launched in the US, and I my digital camera was an 8MP Ricoh GRD (I was probably still shooting film).

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