Steve Workman

Once upon a time, about 6 years ago, the internet had just started to recover from an almightly hangover called the dot com boom. There were only two major browsers out and about at the time, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) and Netscape Navigator (RIP) (I won’t talk about Opera and Safari at this point as their market share is, and always has been, minimal). There were a number of people out on the internet who, with the W3C, were evangelising web standards, but they had a problem: browser support. Read more »

A few weeks ago, the Camden Roundhouse played host to one of Britain’s great underestimated bands. Perhaps to call them undiscovered would be a misrepresentation for Athlete have had 3 top-ten albums and a couple of top-ten singles, but the sell-out crowd would call them one of the country’s most unappreciated bands. The crowd was mostly middle-class 18-30s, a lot of couples and close groups of friends, which is probably one of the biggest indicators of why Athlete have never taken off in the way they should have. They’re not a band that your whole group of friends will like, some people will understand and some won’t. Read more »

Wandering around London today, I found myself in the Apple store on Regents Street, firstly to find out who’s supporting Athlete tonight in Camden (Boy Kill Boy was the answer), but secondly to test a rumour I heard. I’d been told that the iPhones in the store all had working sim cards and you could make and receive calls! I had to find out if it was true.

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Whilst at work today, I, like almost everyone else in the office, was being updated in some way/shape/form on the Macworld keynote speech, in which lord Jobs announced a number of products including the Macbook Air. Possibly the most talked-about piece of hardware since the iPhone, the ultra-portable macbook looks mighty pretty (see picture below) and is incredibly small. I’m writing this on a 3rd generation Macbook with the same 13.3″ screen, but the new Air will be almost as thin as the lid of the macbook! Read more »

Greetings!

I’ve given the design of this blog a much-needed update and have finally made a wordpress theme (comments welcome).
The whole site now fits nicely into the design of steel-software.com and I’m pleased to say the process wasn’t too hard! I followed a guide on Deziner Folio (though don’t copy code directly from the website, all the ’s and “s are HTML encoded and dreamweaver doesn’t like it). I’ve even managed to make the site widget-enabled which works rather well.

So, in summary, I’m pleased with myself.

Steve

Currently Listening to: Bloc Party
Currently Eating: Burgers, 3 in 3 days!
Currently Watching: Blade Runner, not understanding the whole Deckard is a replicant thing
Currently Reading: How to win friends and influence people
Currently Feeling: like a pork pie