JUSTIN FLEMING'S
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'The complete website of freelance web designer, Justin Fleming.
Speaking as a father...'
Freelance UK webdesign & marketing, ideas man and muse to the industry, cyberpunk & gadget fanatic, Photography (flickr) & game enthusiast. Blogger & father
A possible rival to FriendFeed, Swurl.com mimics the FriendFeed service of aggregating various social networks, but possibly does better by giving your pooled services their own, custom url eg. justinfleming.swurl.com whilst seemingly borrowing some design tips from socialthing.com.
Since I joined FriendFeed, I’ve always said that the design and presentation cripple the usability. What could be [...]
I’ve been a twitter user for a little while now, and yes, it is addictive. You get used to posting all kinds of stuff as often as possible.
It’s especially addictive when people you have never spoken to start following you for no good reason! It’s the best, so thank you, all my followers.
What quietly bugs [...]
On Saturday, we got our 4yr old son, Rohan, his first bike. A proper pedal bike with Dad-fitted stabilisers, and a ‘Cars’ helmet.
On Sunday, the boy and me went out in the afternoon with him on his bike and me on my longboard (skateboard). It was a real afternoon to remember because suddenly we are [...]
Last week I took my son Rohan (4yrs) out to collect the now abundant Elderflower which is found almost everywhere at the moment. Elderflower is an odd smelling, white blooming flower head bigger that your hand, made of lots of tiny flowers.
The beauty of Elderflowers is that they can be easily collected and made very [...]
I’ve keenly started watching the new series of Hugh Fearnley–Whittingstall’s River Cottage - Spring. I’m very interested in growing my own food and also want to make sure my kids grow up with an awareness of ‘real’ food, both wild and home-grown. So far, we haven’t gotten much further that a few herbs grown [...]
I’m heading off tomorrow in anticipation of Saturday’s Bath to Bristol Charity Skate.
For me, the event starts tomorrow morning when I make my way to Bath the day before (via London) for an overnight camp out, ready for the skate at 10am on Saturday.
I’m really looking forward to the approx 15 mile longboard trek, but [...]
When are there ever any shortcut or quick routes to fitness? Getting or keeping fit takes time and effort.
It’s inevitable that a fair amount of wii fit’s would sell on the hope that fitness would come without a price (excluding the £70) but alas, all those hopefuls will be disappointed and will probably account [...]
I’ve spent almost 3 days pondering the hideous minefield that is mobile phone technology looking for a decent UK solution to being able to blog and social network on the move.
I can only speak for the UK, but mobile data tariffs are terrible. The best I have come across ironically belongs to one of the [...]
Everyone’s going on about it. Here’s my bit.
Wii Fit is fantastic. I was worried that it would rely to heavily on the ‘fun’ side of things rather than the ‘Fit’ but it achieves an amazing balance between the two.
Since it arriving, I have played the Fit non-stop and really felt the benefits. Of course the [...]
I thought I’d blog this question to get more feedback.
I currently have a Macbook and a basically unlimited data plan on my bottom-of-the-range mobile. What I want is the ability to blog on the move using my mobile as a bluetooth modem.
Currently I have looked at the Nokia N810 internet tablet and that’s about as [...]
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