Since web year dot, anyone building a site has had the unenviable task to decide which of the 5 or so web fonts they wanted to use.  Should it be the dull boring font, the newer but desperately unfashionable font, or Arial?  This has stifled the look of the web.  Over the years people smarter than me have come up with numerous ways to get other fonts to show on your website.  Usually these were either images, or using SIFR which makes use of Flash, neither very good from an accessible standpoint.

After a hard day, I came home with my phone in my pocket - my shiny, lovely, pretty iPhone 4.  This has my whole life on it.  I'm not sure I could function if I didn't have my phone with me all the time.  Its my phone, calendar, music player, radio, remote access to my computers; basically everything.

So as everyone does at some point, I felt the call of nature.  But before I could answer that call, the worst possible thing happened.  With a loud bang, I looked into the toilet bowl to see my phone under water...  The yelp I screamed out made my wife run to the bathroom thinking i'd injured myself.  I explained that it was worse than that - I had just killed my iPhone!!

The other day I was reading an article about creating new courses on Moodle from a colleague here in the UK.  This got me thinking about how I went about adding courses to our college's installation.  Some of the issues that Suki presents in his posting are valid and i learn alot reading it, but I want to take it a step further on this post and let you know how we accomplish it at The Sheffield College.

Since March this year the I've been working with colleagues to rebuild the Sheffield College VLE to bring it up to a standard that the College can be proud of.  We've been looking at the design and how it functions to hopefully give the class of 2010 a better experience working online.

I'm a big user of Drupal.  I can't tell you how many times it has saved me from hours of coding.  However there is that much to it that when I'm away from my mac, I find it hard to work with on my iPhone screen.  So I've been looking around for a decent iPhone app to use instead of the browser.

Welcome Drupad from Breek.  According to their iTunes page, Drupad is "The best way to manage your Drupal websites on the go!"  Quite a statement, but at £2.99 its one which I was willing to test out.  Is it the best thing since sliced bread, or it is a waste of money.  Well read on...

Well I'm back!!

Yes I know the last blog entry was back in March, but I've been so busy that I haven't had time to blog about what has been happening.  So here is a quick recap on what I've been upto.

As you may have noticed, some of my content is missing.  Well as much as I preach to people to always backup their sites regularly and before they do anything to it, When I upgraded my site this afternoon I managed to kill it.   When I say kill, I mean, in a way that its never coming back in the same way again. 

So I'm slowly rebuilding my blog and you may see some older posts appearing in places that you don't expect them, but please be assured your not suffering from Deja Vu!  

Hey if nothing else, I've found a use for that damn duck hammering a computer.

Up to now, people in this century have been consuming music in a number of ways -  CD, downloading and streaming.  Each of these has its advantage and disadvantage, but I can see in a few years that the CD is going to go the way of the cassette and disappear into our memories as we crave more and more immediacy from our life.  We’ll turn to the Internet to get music there and then, no more going to your local HMV, just fire up your computer, type in what you want to listen to and Boom!!  There it is waiting for you.

So which do I think will be the winner?  I’m not sure but I definatly have my favorite and in this article I’ll be discussing the argument of downloading versus streaming.  What is the difference between the two?  Well, one you have on your computer for ever and the other you rent..  Is this clear enough?