Chris Owens

My girlfriend has just taken delivery of a brand new 15′ Apple G4 PowerBook… Bitch!

Nick has released FeedDemon 1.5 Beta 1 to registered customers and has added some amazing new features… Rather than try and explain this myself, I’ll let Nick do it…
“Starting with version 1.5, FeedDemon users can create a Bloglines Channel Group from their Bloglines subscriptions. When viewing a Bloglines Channel Group, items you read in Bloglines [...]

I’ve decided to set up a football blog especially for my football related posts, so that I can keep this blog purely aimed at web development, design and technology. So keep your eyes peeled for that.
Anyway, here are this weeks Premiership predictions.

Saturday’s Fixtures
Middlesbrough 1 v 3 Chelsea
Aston Villa 3 v 0 Crystal Palace
Fulham 2 v [...]

An article over at MP3.com covers the “secrets” behind the iPod’s scroll-wheel. It covers all generations of iPod and documents the improvements and changes made throughout the years.
Although there are no real secrets in the article, its an informative way to spend 5 minutes of your time.

The first link has been doing the rounds lately, but I thought I’d introduce a few more.

UI Patterns and Techniques
Patterns for personal websites
Web Design Patterns
GUI Design Patterns
Mobile UI Design Patterns
HCI Patterns

Be sure to follow the links on the listed sites above to find more excellent pattern resources.

My “to blog” bookmarks have piled up over the past month or so, so I’ve decided its time to post some of my favourites.
First up are several bookmarks to favicon galleries.

Delta Tango Bravo’s Favourite Favicons
Makiko Itoh’s favicon gallery.
MpP Favicon Gallery

Plenty of address bar eye candy to remind me that I need to come up [...]

I can’t help but jump up and down and dance every time the iTunes video comes on the TV… which is rather annoying. :-)

Recently I’ve found myself listening to more and more audio-blogs and thought I’d share some of my favourites.

Trade Secrets RadioAdam Curry & Dave Winer talk about everything from politics to technology.
Live From the Formosa Tea House
Lots of interesting stuff here from the guys over at SilverOrange!
Daily Source CodeAdam Curry… damn this guy is good!
Evil Genius [...]

40 days since I quit and I’m still going strong! Each day I find it gets easier and easier, and the constant urge to smoke is no longer a burden on day to day life.
Sleeping is a lot easier than it was during the first few weeks and football (soccer) training is becoming easier [...]

Another relatively quiet week on the Premiership football front, with no real transfer news other than Fadiga joining Bolton.
Some tasty fixtures again this week, with Arsenal taking on Bolton, Chelsea taking on local rivals Tottenham and Manchester United taking on Liverpool. After Bolton’s last few fixtures (a win vs Liverpool, draw vs Man United) I’m [...]