Charging for your time
July 21st, 2010I’ve had an interesting week, and it’s only Wednesday.
I was fully booked in for work this week when I checked my calendar last Friday. It was a well-paid week. I am not taking on any new clients, as I’m technically overbooked. I really love the projects I’m working on right now too. They’re challenging, interesting, [...]
Practical imperfectionism
July 19th, 2010I’ve always been pretty fast at getting things done. My attempts at dress making have resulted in haphazardly created dresses, which got an initial 5 second sketch, and were then redesigned as I went…
Know thyself: the art of choosing projects that are good for YOU
May 27th, 2010Choosing new clients is scary. It’s also completely hit and miss: sometimes the seemingly dull project is the most pleasant to work on because it’s well paid…
Turning off notifications
April 29th, 2010I’m one of those people that wants to know what’s going on. “Tell me what’s happening!” is a sort of secret mantra I’ve built up unknowingly in the past year…
Creativity in context
April 5th, 2010Designing for web has taught me loads about context. I don’t know what the turning point was, but at a certain point I started thinking about ‘my mom’.
Ellen Swallow Richards: The Queen of Clean Water
March 24th, 2010Today is Ada Lovelace day. It’s a day to highlight amazing women in technology. I know some good technologists personally, but I want to focus more on the reasons we were able to go to university, to be seen as capable of doing all that we can do now.
Making a race night record with wordpress
March 22nd, 2010I’ve just completed a website for Pioneer’s Running. They are a great company, who are really passionate about what they do.
Wordpress Table-reloaded
This running website really pushed the boundaries of what I have used wordpress for. Sure, I’ve used some plugins to pull content onto the homepage, for custom sidebars etc, but what I needed was [...]
Why don’t I have time?
March 10th, 2010I’ve recently starting working for myself. I absolutely love it– I love the projects, I love the work environment (right now I’m in my bed, with my cup of tea), the commute is tolerable (at some point I’ll have to migrate over to my desk) and I absolutely love having control over things.
But I thought [...]
Snowy safetygoat
February 24th, 2010It’s been snowing like it’s going out of style here in Canada, and faced with a foot of snow at the cottage in Gatineau, I first made a friend to support me in my shovelling/scooping efforts! Over 2 hours later, the driveway was clear. Unfortunately snowy safetygoat had: 1) lost his head, and 2) been [...]
Canadian Olympics… proud of being modest?
February 21st, 2010I’ve been watching the Olympics these past days. I’m in Canada right now, which really gets me into the spirit of it, as I’m sure British TV focuses on British athletes, and Canadian TV on Canadians. Which it should. I was always excited for the winter Olympics, just because, well, as a nation, Canadians have [...]
