December 2010
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Dec 30th
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A Very Merry Geeky Christmas
Spending a couple of weeks away from work has allowed me the time to indulge in my geeky obsessions, which have fallen by the wayside as work took over. I am thoroughly enjoying the new expansion to Warcraft and am completely head-over-heels in love with the Worgen’s story. I have dusted off my old Japanese textbooks, and am addicted to Firefly (always gutted it got cancelled…) I have...
Dec 28th
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Dec 24th
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Latest Work: Brain Pickings
Many of you have likely visited Brain Pickings online. It’s a treasure trove of curated excellence, and last week I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to visualise the top 10 Brain Pickings articles of 2010 along with a number of other designers and illustrators.  I focused on the views per article, which ones were most popular and most discussed on Twitter and Facebook. I...
Dec 23rd
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Dec 17th
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My SEO blonde moment!
I was checking the Google ranking of my website this morning and wondered why my site had pretty much disappeared from the front-page. It took me about 30 minutes to figure it out… After moving my site over to Tumblr I had selected (for some reason I can’t remember…) to not have my Tumblr indexed in Google and other search engines. Therefore when Google tried to index my site, as...
Dec 13th
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Dec 10th
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Chai
I love nothing more in the winter than the smell of a chai tea in the morning. It’s so uplifting and warming. There’s nothing better for getting me into the festive spirit. Scrumptious!
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Latest Work: Girl Talk's "All Day" Visualised
Check out my latest graphic! I worked with FastCompany on this one and it visualises the mashup artist Girl Talk’s most recent album.  Here’s a little about the man behind Girl Talk: Gregg Gillis quit his job as a biomedical engineer two years ago to become a full-time mashup artist known as Girl Talk. He still approaches his music like a scientist, though, combining the DNA of...
Dec 8th
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Tumblr's Downtime
Apologies to anyone who tried to access my site yesterday. Tumblr (the platform which my site runs on) had a major meltdown: Yesterday afternoon, during planned maintenance that was not intended to interrupt service, an issue arose that took down a critical database cluster. This brought down our entire network while our engineers worked feverishly to restore these databases and bring your blogs...
Dec 7th
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Dec 1st
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“Happily ever after is so once upon a time”
– Threadless T-shirt by Laura Brightwood
Dec 1st
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