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Catching the running bug

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

Last year much of my exercise took place cycling too and from work along a 6.2mi distance. With the winter being particularly cold this year with a number of snow flurries, plus my lights gave up the ghost, I have been forced to catch the train. Outside of the winter months I also regularly mountain bike both locally at Cannock Chase in Staffordshire and further afield in a number of the centres in Wales. So with the poor weather in the winter, I have been craving some outlet to exercise to stay fit and maintain my stamina for a return to mountain biking when the warmer months return.

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Tags: birminghamuk, Bob Anderson, Cannock Chase, Midlands Lung Run, mountain biking, running, running shoe advice, stretching
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Digital Web and PR, The Lines Blur

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

The landscape has changed when it comes to both Web and Public Relations (PR) professionals. PR cannot exist without social media, social networking, social bookmarking, tagging, RSS, E-Zines, Blogging, Vlogging, Podcast’s, SEO and Micro Blogging. If you’re in PR and you are not familiar with these terms you are antiquated. It is as clear cut as that. Journalists that you rely upon to get your story out have all adapted to these formats commonly referred to as Web 2.0. Clients demand web presence and not just a presence but a lively existence Online. Non adoption of the techniques required to make the clients voice heard will result in lacklustre success. This is nothing short of new information, PR 2.0—the term coined by Brian Solis—has been around since the 90’s.

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Tags: birminghamuk, digital web, PR2.0, Web design, Web development
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Working smarter: Learning a programming language

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

From my experience, web designers fall into three distinct camps. The first is the graphic designer turned web designer. They have the fundamentals of page layout, an eye for detail and a strong grasp of design consistency and typographical techniques. The graphical web designer will more than likely be able to build a website in HTML, will have an intermediate knowledge of Flash animation and will get around this format using the timeline and visual tweening. Some will have a clear grasp of using style sheets and producing HTML markup which is both semantic and standards compliant. This is the camp I grew up in.

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Tags: birminghamuk, c#, object orientated programming, oop, Web design, working smarter
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