Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Absence, Priorities, Focus and Reflection

Some of you will have noticed that my presence online, both here and on Twitter, has been significantly sporadic since September last year. This extended absence (for want of a better word) has been a choice. One that was predicated by my need to prioritise specific jobs, projects and interests over others. While I will [...]

Perfect ‘Simple’ Note Making – Revamped

Epistle

nvALT, my preferred text editor, has been the constant tool in my writing and note making setup for more than a year now. There have, however, been a few changes to both the way I write blog posts and the way I create and sync notes with my Android phone. Therefore, I felt a brief [...]

Google+: A Space In-Between

Thin Blue Line

What Google+ is and will become, remains largely speculative. There’s a lot of missing features and functions that need to be addressed. And for some of us, there are a number of arising questions, such as: What does it mean to add another stream of information to my busy life? In it’s early iteration though, I am enjoying [...]

#writewell – A Gifted and Talented Writing Project

#writewell tweet

On Tuesday afternoon when the majority of students were making their way home, 15 dedicated Year 11s remained behind to take part in a project that I am leading with five colleagues from the English department. The short term aim is to improve on these, already, talented writers skills, hopefully helping them to achieve A*s [...]

Redesigning jamesmichie.com(blog) – CSS FTW!

blog 26.02.11

I’ve been tweaking and redesigning aspects of my blog ever since I started it, attempting to balance clean/minimal design while trying to provide visitors with an enjoyable reading experience and straightforward navigation. I feel that I’ve finally achieved this and in doing so learned a lot about CSS. Completing work on my blog resulted in [...]


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