Don't expect me to do something "because". When our letting agent called me up tonight and informed me that she was being "as fair as she could" and that our rent woul...

I put a lot of effort in to this, I took a risk and trusted you, followed you down your path, away from the crowd. I thought you were trying to help me. You've let ...

I'd be either... The Strokes - Is This It The Maccabees - Colour It In Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend...

Connecting individuals together and sharing emotions. In the fear of sounding like a hippy, this is the device I want the most, one that two or more people can join to...

There are at least 10 distinct Ross's that I'm aware of. Work Ross Silly Ross Comfortable Ross Serious Ross Single Ross Infatuated Ross Sentimental Ross Ranty...

There's nothing worse than the regret of a missed opportunity. Do it....

Science doesn't care if you don't believe it, science doesn't care if you ignore it, go ahead, it doesn't bother science. Ignoring scientific fact because "you feel li...

The internet is built on the foundation of insightful, helpful, thought provoking information, how much of it did you contribute? I know I can do better, make better c...

Too often we spend too much time talking about doing things and not enough time doing them. When it comes to quitting smoking or losing weight, there are definite ways...

The Paradox Of Choice has never been more prevalent. In a sentence, it's when having too many choices leads to anxiety and as a result, you do nothing because you are afr...

The technology industry, that I am a part of, is so hung up on the latest and greatest. The industry focuses on the latest language, the latest fad, we've completely miss...

Everyone's been stuck in traffic at some point, whether it's cars on a road or a queue in a shop. Traffic's no good for your mental state, no good for the economy, no ...

I was speaking to someone today that had suggested their business invest in a communal seating area for their office. They cited that a few very successful companies had ...

Shoot the Hippo is an interactive HTML5 game. Tom Bowden (@TomBowdenCRO) of Shoot The Hippo fame recently asked me if I could create him a simple game for his Conversi...

Recently I've been attracted to the more eccentric household items, and due to a lack of lamps in our house, and my keen fondness for the table lamp, I decided to design ...

As many of you know I started doing the 365 Project way back in 2006. It started with the intention of taking more photos and documenting my life, whilst also as a way of...

I was fortunate enough to be asked by Dave Chatting to speak at the East Anglia based Dorkbot event back in November 2010. Dorkbot is a worldwide collection of people ...

Throughout 3 months at the start of 2009 I thought it might be fun to log many of the day to day routine activities I do in my life. Inspired by Feltron's annual summarie...

The weekend of the 1st - 3rd October 2010 saw the Time Show, held by the Curiosity Collective in St Mary's Church Ipswich. As part of the Curiosity Collective, I exhib...

I've wrote in the past about the benefits of just getting your project done and out there. When I watched the Facebook Live video featuring Laurent Desegur from Zynga ...

BBC Look East were kind enough to feature 365 Project on the evening news last week. View the full video and story over on the 365 Project blog... 365 Project - As See...

Just a quickie... Today Rachel and I were walking around Kings Park in Perth, imagine the scene for a minute, blue skies, birds singing, temperature at 35 degrees plus...

So for everybody back home I should probably fill you in on what I'm up to over the next few months. We've been lucky enough to find a nice little apartment in East P...

So Rachel and I have given up with the whole house-sitting thing for a while, moving around so much is a bit of a pain now Rachel is working full time. After many hours o...

Apologies for not updating my blog in aaaaages but I'm too lazy. We're in this house in Perth for about 4 weeks until the house owners come back. We have no idea what ...

Ok so here are a few moments from our time in Adelaide... We spent 2 months looking after Jill and Ians house, we were put in touch with them via Rachels family in Ade...

We arrived in Airlie beach at some unknown hour of the morning, We had a little brekkey then went to check-in for our sail the next day, we were sailing on a Catamaran ca...

We arrived in Agnes just after 6pm and made our way to Beachside Backpackers hostel, it's about 200m from the beach and is a brand new hostel built by some people that ow...

Our self drive tour to Fraser island was our next point of call and we headed up the coast to Hervey Bay for a night where you get organized into your groups and go shopp...

After a short bus ride to Surfers paradise we met Rachels friend Andrea, she took us back to her place in Coomera Springs, she and her family moved out here about a year ...

Arg, that bus journey sucked. 13 hours up from Sydney, luckily we managed to get a few hours sleep. When we arrived in Byron it was like stepping back in time, it's a sma...

Yup we've finally made it to Australia, we had a short 9 hour flight from Bangkok and arrived in Sydney airport just after 6am. We caught a minibus to a hostel called Wak...

So we finished our stay oh Phi Phi and made our way via ferry to Phuket, we had no idea where on Phuket we wanted to go so picked somewhere from the lonely planet guide. ...

After our amazingly fun catamaran trip from Koh Tao to Chumporn (they didn't show the end of high school musical, what happens?) - we jumped on a bus, then another bus, t...

So I should probably fill you guys in on what we have been doing the last week or so. Well from Chiang Mai we took the overnight train to Bangkok, had a 12 hour wait t...

Today we have been to our Thai cooking lesson, the head cook and owner of "The best Thai cooking school" came and picked everyone up, we all squeezed in his van and drove...

Today we booked ourselves in to a very touristy tour to Doi Inthanon national park, we got picked up about 8.30 and started out on a 2 hour drive south of Chiang Mai. ...

Wow, last night was mental! The thunder storm lasted through to the early hours, the sky was lit up with lighning and loudest cracks of thunder I have ever heard, i...

We got up early this morning thinking we were infor a gentle trek and some nice scenery, never expecting to have such a crazy day. We got picked up at 9 by our guid...

It's been a busy day already, we arrived at the station 3 hours late and hopped into a tuk tuk, our hostel was a bit of a shock to begin with, it's like a student house...

It's nearly 7pm and we have made it on to our train, currently "speeding" our way to Chiang Mai. So far it has been incredibly bumpy and noisy, thankfully the iPod keyb...

Today we've walked a marathon and more. We started off by heading to the train station and what looked like a 10 minute walk on the map turned out to take us over an ho...

We finally landed in Bangkok after our 10 hour flight, it was nothing special but we both managed to get some sleep. I think we were both so nervous about coming away f...

Hi y'all. Sorry I've not posted in a while, I should probably explain why... I've been working my little geeky fingers to the bone getting my new website up and run...

From a young age I've been afraid of podcasts, one night I came home and caught a podcast... well it doesn't matter what I caught the podcast doing, it still hurts to thi...

Hello All, A new year and what a treat I have for you today, last night vast quantities of alcohol were consumed and as usual at a new years party the good old Singsta...

Hey, Just a quick update, noticed that people have been searching for a Tania Holden on my website, uh?? So to you guys searching for that... here is an entry, hope yo...

Today I am announcing the launch of my 2009 project, the Life Log. After being inspired by Feltron and his annual reports, I have decided that next year will be the fi...

So like most bloggers out there in the wilds of the interweb, I have become more and more obsessed with tracking my website statistics, on a daily basis I find myself scr...

Now before you all have a go.. yes I am well aware of the sometimes ignorant and general stupidity of my words, but alas this is my blog and it should represent me... rea...

It's 4:30am... yes, in the morning and I am once again forced to get out of the comfort of bed and haul myself and a giant suitcase to the outskirts of London, yup, anoth...

Woo, so finally had a chance to blog about FOWA, the last few days have been pretty crazy. FOWA was brilliant, big thanks to all the guys at Carsonified, I'll be there ne...

Over the weekend I took some photos of my friends and there new born baby Joshua. It was the first photography "shoot" I'd done outside of my own immediate family, and wi...

So I've now been developing large scale web applications for a few years now, and I thought i'd share a few points I believe every coder needs to think about. If you'r...

So the last few days I've been seriously stressing about the implications of XSS (Cross site scripting) in a project that I've been working on. If you don't know what XSS...

I'm an avid listener of the "Answer me this podcast" http://answermethispodcast.com, they've recently had a challenge for listeners to post a video and ask them a questio...

--- Start Rant --- Ok ok, this might not JUST be with women drivers but I've only ever experienced it with women ;-) and by all means don't think that this is the only...

So Recently I've been delving into the marvelous world of Pushing data to web browsers. Ok, before I get flamed, what I mean by pushing (for now) is the browser reques...

"Aaaargh" It's 5 to midnight and I'm still yet to take an interesting photo of the day for my 365 gallery, when I say an interesting photo, I mean it in the sense of s...

So for anybody that has ever used Trac to look at your SVN repo's you'll know that there is a cool diff tool they use that shows the differences between change sets. ...

Hey All! So it would seem that I've finally got so annoyed with wordpress that I've written my own blogging software. It's taken a few weeks off and on and I've just f...

So thought i'd put together a compilation of my 365 project so far.. and here it is! ...

W00p! So i've finally had the opportunity to re-vamp my personal site, it's reminded me how hard designing and trying to be creative actually is. Anyway, you can fi...

So today I needed to force a file to download in a web browser where the browser would normally just output the file. It will also work in IE6 over a secure (HTTPS) conne...

A really good, touching British Movie, set mostly in the 70's this is about Joe Scott a failing Hollywood actor played by Daniel Craig who "sees the light" (so cliche), b...

pr($array) Yes, I know wht you're thinking, how can Scrivna have written the ultimate time saving function? Well to be honest... I haven't... someone else did it and I'v...

So having got frustrated with their being no Official UK Top 40 Singles or Album chart RSS feeds I decided i'd make my own... Singles Chart or Album Chart It's curr...

Yes people, it's true! So you put your hamster in the microwave, turn the dial to 2 minutes, full power, hit start... 2 minutes later... *Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep ...

Do not watch this video under any circumstances! http://www.morningstarr.co.uk/forum/underworld/5714-2-girls-1-cup.html Having seen it i am scarred forever....

Hey ho, All over the web i'm seeing sites such as facebook with textareas that vertically expand automagically (and from what I hear FF3 has this functionality built i...

So went to see Son of Rambow tonight, it's a British film and lives up to all classic British film requirements; its a nice story about 2 friends growing up in ...

So the time may come when you have code for embedding a youtube video into a webpage but need that video to be automagically resized and looping and putting the kettle on...

Just stumbled upon this method of storing hierarchal data in a flat database and all I can say is its bloomin genius, it will change my life forever; no more crappy ineff...

Oh yeah! oh yeah! it's my birthday, oh yeah!.... ok well its not my birthday, but this photo has got to number 92! in Flickr's explore... my highest entry to date. Lets...

Woo! Another photo in Fickr's explore, it's currently sitting at position #291 which is amazing, i'm so happy! Now both pictures I've had in explore contain some as...

Thought i'd have a play with iMovie today so made this: It's all my photos from my portrait 365 gallery. My 365 Projects started about 16 months ago, and have well...

So, as you may or may not know, I've been trying to calculate the shortest distance to travel between a number of points (aka The Travelling Salesman Problem) While i com...

Found this legend bit of code that if you go to a point on a google map then put this into the URL bar it'll pop up the longitude and latitude for you. javascript:void...

Ok, so recently i've been making all my web pages support unicode character sets, one of the tasks is ensuring all output is encoded in utf-8. Anyway to make a long story...

Never again! Fuck me, seriously, why would you do that? My chest was burning, my legs are killing me. With my regular swim that takes about 45 minutes i'd lose about 5...

So today i came across the need to include a file in php with limited access to data and not output it to the browser... Basically all this does is buffer the output t...

Wow, so I experienced my first earthquake last night, it was all very exciting... or not, i just kinda rocked in bed a bit. To be honest i assumed i was drunk and the roo...

So alot has happened since my last post. I celebrated my 21st birthday with the guys and Rachel, went into town for a drunken night out. (Photos available on Galleri...

Wow! This photo is my first to be featured on Flickr's daily Explore page, basically they work out the 500 most interesting photos of that day and you can browse them o...

Seriously, i just cant stop buying stuff on ebay, i'm bidding on this one thing at the moment and it has 28 minutes left and I just cant concentrate on anything else, i'm...

Things 2 think about - Part 1 If God did exist would he be financially rich? I imagine he has had numerous poorly planned business opportunities but all have faile...

Those of you that have the great fortune of putting up with my random ideas will know that of late i've been playing around with a washing up bowl, various items of tup...

Just recently i've been trying to put together a folder on my computer as a reference for portrait poses and what not as a library for ideas when i'm out shooting, howeve...

Again people amaze me with just how thick they can be. Basically I want to create a random string 8 characters long, a bit of google bashing gives me functions that are l...

Woo! I'm back from France. Skiing was good fun, take a look at all the pictures on Gallericious. Our Apartment in Maison d.. suttin french, was ok, quite dated but it ...

Woohoo! Marky and I and a load of random uni people are off Skiing in France for a week! Its going to be crazy! We're setting off tonight at about 6pm and driving all the...

Woohoo! My new flash finally arrived today. I bought the Canon Speedlite 430EX off of Amazon for £160 in the end, what can i say... it's fab! Glad i spent the extra...

Wordpress users of the mod_rewrite feature will notice that post titles are adjusted to make them look / work nicer. As I plan to attack my gallery with this kind of f...

Another year, another load of random resolutions. Last years were much about self improvement and being happy, this year, instead of things I want to do i've made a list ...

Went out for a lil wander yesterday with the camera, mostly around Felixstowe way. This shot was taken in Ravenswood however.. I got very lost in that estate, took m...

So the other day i figured that I need to start thinking about putting a photography portfolio together. The problem I wanted it to be available from my website bu...