Author Archives: Frances

20xCustard

On Saturday I got to go on a trip to Oxford. I’ve only been there once before, and that was at night for a work function so I didn’t really get to see it. It’s a pretty place. Steve and I went along to a little lunch at “The Big Bang” that […]

Developing for others

As if by magic, Jeffery Zeldman yesterday published an article about print style sheets, which just happened to be what I was tangentally ranting about in the car on the way to work the other morning. Most of us support printers about as badly as we support screen readers, and I don’t think the […]

(19 + me) x 2

20×2 is an ongoing project that exists to showcase the creativity that lurks in each of us. Writers, musicians, filmmakers, web geeks and other bon vivants are asked to take two minutes each to answer the question of the day. The results can be as varied as the emotions and reactions they evoke.

20×2 is coming […]

vEvent Reminder

p>Just a quicky reminder.
This Saturday (30th) is Drew and I’s Microformat vEvent social in London. You can find all the details and who else is stopping by at the upcoming.org event page.
As I said before - it’s just a low-key social for those in the Microformats loop. So no specific plans […]

Women and geek events

“I would feel like I had something to prove, and that I’d have to know something really well and expect a grilling on it” was the response I got from Fiona, my housemate and fellow “girl geek” who works in software compliancy for Betfair, when I asked her “Why don’t you go to events like […]

dConstruct 2006

Thursday
On Thursday night I headed down to Brighton after work for the d.Construct web conference. I’ve been looking forward to it for ages, so I can’t say I wasn’t buzzing a bit. Met up with Dave when I arrived, and also Adam Bardsley who I’d met at the WSG event back in July. […]

Adding XFN

I recently readded XFN tags back into my links (read: blogroll), which are another Microformat open standard. As with most microformats it’s very simple, and some blogs will do it for you by default. What it basically means is you add rel=”relationship” to the link of the person to give the link some […]

Microformats London social

Drew Mclellan (developer of the awesome hKit) and I have discussed a Microformats Social here in the UK for a while but never got anywhere with it, but now we’ve named a date and want to see levels of interest.
We’ve gone for a Saturday - 30th September. So, it’s a little breather […]