Liesl Barrell

For those of you wondering (and there are fewer of you each day, Google tells me), I have not been blackmailed into silence by the Interacting with Print secret society. And the less said about my absence, the better (the interwebs are brimming with ‘Oh blog, how I neglected thee!’ posts.) Suffice it to say that: […]

Today (March 24) the blogosphere honours Ada Lovelace, considered the first ever computer programmer (and daughter of poofy-shirted poet Byron, no less). Charles Babbage nicknamed her The Enchantress of Numbers, and she kicked algorithmic ass for his Analytical Engine back in the pre-natal days of computing. A Web of One’s Own But what’s really neat […]

You may have noticed my posts have dwindled to once a week as of late. Of course you noticed, it makes you angrier than a piechart missing recovered profits… Well, there is a reason for the cruel halving of my post time, and the reason is actually rather awesome: it’s First Person Digital. Thatchers Abound […]

Well, the Angry Piechart takes the cake this iStock Comedy round, with 43% of the votes. Hope you all had a wonderful Valentine’s Day, preferably chock full of Recovered Profits, Cross-dressing Dads and Naked Astronauts.