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I’m a curious, tinkering, cooking, software product manager and leader from Manchester in the UK. I’ve worked solo, founded companies, tried, failed, succeeded, built products, solved problems, led teams, been acquired, and had a lot of fun.
I’m currently looking for my next adventure, if I might be able to help you then please get in touch.
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Hold down F12 for 2 seconds to eject a CD or DVD. Especially useful for those situations where the CD/DVD icon hasn’t appeared on the desktop for some reason.
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Co-ordinate Conversions (Postcode Map)
“A Java package which provides a simple API to allow conversion between OSGB (Ordnance Survey of Great Britain) grid references, UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) references and latitude and longitude.” (More grist for the Arts & Kids events listing.)
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A guide to coordinate systems in Great Britain
“A primer on coordinate system concepts, including full information on GPS and Ordnance Survey coordinate systems.” Useful for converting latitude/longditude into OS co-ordinates (which we’re looking at for an events listing guide for Arts & Kids).
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Web Usability – Source Order, Skip links and Structural labels
Research into the relevance and importance of source order, skip links and structural labels for screen readers: Screen reader users expect the main navigation to be presented before the information content; source order is not relevant to screen readers.
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Feeding WordPress
The first round of enhancing the site is complete: my Last.FM journal articles and del.icio.us bookmarks are now republished here.
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