The eponymous website
Analyse this
Looking at my site analytics, I tend to find that I end up with more questions than answers.
- Originally published: 14 Jun 2006 in The eponymous website
Blog styles
Briam asked on the forum for the blog software that runs MikePadgett.com about template styles. I had written a brief article before MikePadgett.com was so kindly hacked about the work I’d done on templates. In common with most blog software, the idea is to separate content from presentation, so it’s just a matter of writing …
- Originally published: 19 Mar 2006 in The eponymous website
Cynical hacking
A 21st century irritation: the have-a-go hackers who prey upon bloggers.
- Originally published: 19 Mar 2006 in The eponymous website
Blog upgrade in progress
Source: Wikimedia Commons I’ve got the decorators in (well, myself anyway), so the Blog may have some issues over the next few days. This is an upgrade to a new version and it’s proved a little more painful. One thing I especially don’t like is the querystring stuff for old posts, but it’s either that, …
- Originally published: 13 Mar 2006 in The eponymous website
New look Blog for Winter 2005-6!
Three cheers for (mostly) semantic markup! Today was a classic British autumn day: unpredictable rain showers, short periods of pale sun and cold winds. In honour of that and the general decline in our nation’s weather, I decided to reskin the Blog for winter! Lest it should catch a cold, I’ve decked the Blog in …
- Originally published: 19 Oct 2005 in The eponymous website
The beginning
Well, finally I made it at last and got myself one of these blog things. By Tristan Nitot; source: Wikimedia Commons Actually that’s inaccurate. I’ve had one since March, but my brother and his dj collective had until yesterday hijacked it to organise their next night in September. It was up at the Media Hype …
- Originally published: 26 May 2005 in The eponymous website
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
I am 27 today
Birthdays are a wonderful opportunity to reflect on how much more you have yet to achieve in life.
- Originally published: 26 Jun 2006 in Editorial
With these Rocher, you’re really spoiling us
Smooth and sophisticated, Belgian chocolate is among the finest in the world. But is it a bit much with a cup of tea?
- Originally published: 29 Nov 2009 in Humour
Hardware store rudeness
Whilst passing through a hardware store a while ago, my boss noticed that all was not quite well at the stick-on letters rack display.
- Originally published: 20 Oct 2005 in Personalia
The Apartment
Daring subject matter for a comedy with an unexpectedly dark side.
- Originally published: 15 Jan 2007 in Film
Grand Veymont
A day hike to climb the highest mountain in the Vercors chain, the Grand Veymont at 2,341 metres.
- Originally published: 9 Jul 2010 in Walking
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.