Migrating

With the release of Wordpress 2.5 I have decided to migrate my blog away from Blogger. I've been slightly reluctant simply because I've been using Blogger since 2003.

My new web address is www.jonathanmorgan.org and you can catch all my feeds here.

Fire the Workaholics

"If your start-up can only succeed by being a sweatshop, your idea is simply not good enough. Go back to the drawing board and come up with something better that can be implemented by whole people, not cogs."

~A great post on the 37signals Blog.

Introducing

I'd like to introduce a site I just finished. It's a magazine website that used to be called South of Sweden, but has just been renamed The Scandinavian Insider. It's a Business and Lifestyle magazine focussed on Southern Scandinavia.

One of the biggest challenges was working with Expression Engine, a CMS that I've never used before. I've been very impressed with its ability to handle data, but there have been a few minor issues that took forever to solve.

The Fires of Red Hill

We spent today in Red Hill, a small township not far from where I'm living (in Cape Town) which has been devastated by fires over the weekend. 60 homes were completely destroyed. Our task for today was to clear away the rubble to make space for the new houses.

The task of rebuilding will be £400 per house. If you'd like to contribute, please let me know.

Feeds

At the moment I'm working on how to gather the content of this blog, my Flickr feed, Twitter, and any other places I post things on the web into one place. This would mean that you, dear reader, would be able to keep up to date by visiting just one site, or by subscribing to just one feed.

That will mean that you will be able to see my South African photos without checking Flickr.

The technology is called Tumble Logging, though you don't really need to worry about that.

I think I'll also make subscribing via email possible, so that those who don't have a clue what RSS is don't have to miss out.

Just saying, so you know why things are quiet here...

An interesting clock

Here's a clock that not only tells the time, but also shows stats on population, diseases and deaths (etc.) click here. (via Floyd)

Useful Tech/Design links

• Paul Stamatiou on How to configure your web host for Google Apps ~ paulstamatiou.com
• 37Signals on Processing credit cards ~ 37signals.com
• Smashing Magazine on Best Practices for Bullet Proof Email Delivery ~ smashingmagazine.com
• Darren Hoyt on Developing a magazine layout using Wordpress ~ darrenhoyt.com
• Molly E. Holzschlag on Grid based design ~ alistapart.com