David Coveney

A personal blog transitioning into an exploration of the intersection of design, technology and ethics

  • Blog “Reboot”

    Hello – here’s the refreshed blog. I’ve decided to revert to a more typical blog format, after many months of soul searching on the issue. I previously had a layout based on a framework we used at interconnect/it for a couple of clients But not only have I opted to switch to a blog layout,…

  • Thinking Digital University (2011)

    Thinking Digital University (2011)

    So, here I am again at Thinking Digital.  Only this time I’m no longer driving the seemingly doomed Golf TDI I had last year that did one of it’s self destruction tricks en-route.  Consequently I’m not missing out on the workshops here. In fact, I’m doing better than that – an additional workshop was added…

  • Homage to Beatrice Warde or a bad idea?

    I recently saw in the book “Just My Type” by Simon Garfield a poster by Beatrice Warde, the famous American born typographer who spent much of her career in the UK*.  There seem to be many variations of typesetting for the poster, so I’ve no idea if she designed one herself or if it was…

  • Baby 2!

    Here it is – the scan you’ve all been waiting for: Everything is perfect, due date is still the beginning of October, and I could tell he was a boy before the operator said anything.  No hiding the fact!

  • Freedom of Information is Abused

    In 2000 in the UK, the Freedom of Information Act gave us all the ‘right to know’ what our public bodies were up to.  We can ask for information about a huge range of items, and it’s a great idea.  Information should, in my view, be as open and transparent as possible. But there’s a…

  • Yummy Yummy!

    All I did was say “yummy yummy” on every mouthful of food, and he started laughing like mad.  By the time I did this video he’d long finished his dinner, so I just carried on…

Why I blog

Thanks for turning up here. I blog because sometimes I need to get ideas and thoughts out without boring the people immediately around me. Feel free to read around, and if you want to know more, there’s an about page.

David Coveney

Easily distracted technologist, writer, publisher, developer and old fart.