August Links

Soggy August has meant more work, the odd rare day of sun and lots of losing at football. That aside, found a few more useful links for avid readers of this blog to enjoy.

First up is SmashingMagazine, a great resource for design stuff and web design ideas. Dan picked it out for the data visualisation examples it provided. Interesting blog here from ASourceOfInspiration, with great links and observations. ON a slightly more tecchie tip, here's xml-sitemaps.com, generating site maps on the fly. Nice timesaver.

This month has also seen investment in new software and PC. Very happy with the custom PC unit built by Kevin for me at Ginger6.com. Undecided for a while about PC or MAC and I wouldve been happy with both. However I went for PC on cost and productivity. Though MAC's have lots of features I really like, I consider myself faster on a PC perhaps due to greater familiarity with the way I've got my head around shortcuts and the like. I bought Office2007 and Adobe CS3 this month and very happy with both. CS3 is awesome in what it can do - challenge for me is stretching myself more into moving image and audio visual projects.

Two final links from YouTube. One a trip down memory lane for anyone that remembers Zena's House in Plymouth. Second link is some random bod getting into some 90s house records sat um, in front of his PC. Most amusing.