Flash will be around for a while yet because of it’s popularity in interactive content production and streaming media.

But this whole birth-of-HTML5 death-of-Flash thing has got me thinking about historical paradigm shifts in web standards…

In the past, I have discussed how well Year Clocks illustrate the calendar, and help visualise and conceptualise long time periods. So I decided to make one.

I was interested to read this article by Mark Boulton about being a designer working in an open source project.

Recently, the question of the practice of good design has once again arisen in the open source community…For a long, long time now, there has been friction between designers and developers.

In my experience, good user experience design is the thing most noticeably missing from open source software – what's needed is designers who understand engineering and engineers who understand design.

Generating utterly spurious, yet vaguely plausible sounding pieces of trivia is something my brain seems to do automatically as a background process most of the time. So I've decided to share it with the world via a new micro-blog on Twitter, @in_actual_fact.

The story so far.

In the spirit of launching early(ish) and iterating later, I've added a bit of polish to this blog so it's ready to do its job. I've also started a tentative switch to HTML 5.

The subsystem's up and running, all that the site needs now is a structure. …Oh yeah, and content. Consider this practice.